The Five Confessions: What the Blood of Jesus Already Settled

Sermon outline

The Passover lamb pointed to the blood of Jesus, which redeems, forgives, cleanses, justifies and sanctifies, so believers going into the new year confess what the blood has done, plead it over their households and stop living with one foot in the world.

1. No man could pay the price, so one man paid it for all

   The blood is not separate from your salvation but a key part of it. God asked Israel whether His arm was too short to ransom them, and Isaiah said all we like sheep have gone astray and the Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Job asked how a mortal could be righteous before God, and the psalmist said the ransom for a life is too costly for any man to pay. As the curse came through one man, God required one man, Jesus, to break it, so those who receive grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life.

   “Our human nature will always have the question, but our godly nature will always bring us back to the word.”

   • John 10:11
   • Psalm 23:4
   • Isaiah 50:2
   • Isaiah 53:6
   • Job 7:21
   • Psalm 49:7-8
   • Romans 5:17-19

2. You cannot be of two opinions or live two lifestyles

   We can only be of one opinion: I am justified by the blood of the Lamb, and not judged by the mistakes of the past. Nor can we live half our life in the world and half in the church, serving God half-heartedly and expecting the blessing wholeheartedly. There must be a distinction, so that people sense the presence of the Lord when you walk into a room.

   Illustration: Two people who met at a house party or the movies and dislike the church still want a pastor the minute they want to marry, and want their child christened. That is a double standard.

   “I cannot serve God half-heartedly and expect wholeheartedly the blessing of the Lord.”

3. The Passover: the blood on the doorpost

   At the Passover God told Israel that this month would be the first of their year, a change of identity after more than four hundred years in Egypt under the same curse as the Egyptians. The spirit of death was told to pass over every house with the blood of the lamb on its doorframe, and nobody was to go out until morning, so where you go matters if you want to stay under the protection. Pharaoh's position did not protect his firstborn; only the blood did. Just as the Passover divided Israel's history, the cross divided the world's history into before and after Christ.

   “The only control that the enemy has over you is the control that you give him.”

   • Exodus 12:2
   • Exodus 12:21-23
   • Malachi 3:11
   • Psalm 91:1

4. Men, plead the blood over your household

   The father of the family applied the blood to the doorframe. A husband has spiritual authority over his house, not to manipulate, abuse or curse, but to make sure the household carries God's vision, and where there is no husband the mother carries that voice. Every morning, whether or not you are fighting with your wife, plead the blood over each member of the household from the roots of their hair to the soles of their feet. Disbelief is the playground of the enemy.

   “You have a responsibility to plead the blood of the lamb over your family each and every day.”

5. 1. Through the blood of Jesus I have been redeemed from the power of the enemy

   In Him we have redemption through the blood, which freed us from the dominion of Satan, so we are no longer victims but victors. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and there is no testimony without a test. Plead, declare, rebuke and take authority through the blood, and then tell people your testimony so they can trust God through their own test.

   “We have no testimony if there wasn't a test.”

   • Ephesians 1:7
   • Revelation 12:3
   • Revelation 12:11

6. 2. Through the blood of Jesus all my sins have been forgiven

   We are forgiven by grace, not by a price we paid. Repentance is getting out of your own way: give the smoking, the drinking or the pornography to the Lord rather than beating yourself up, because there is no purgatory. One of the enemy's strategies is to make us believe some of our sins are not yet forgiven. Do not cover up your iniquity or excuse it; confess it, and He is faithful and just to forgive. Paul did the things he did not want to do, cried out "wretched man that I am", and in the same breath gave thanks through Jesus Christ, and then wrote that there is no condemnation for those in Christ.

   Illustration: At a family gathering the whisky comes out over a heated game of cards, and the words fly out before you can catch them. That is the struggle Paul describes.

   “One of the enemy's strategies is to make us believe that some of our sins have not yet been forgiven. That is a lie of the devil.”

   • Psalm 32:5
   • Psalm 51:7
   • 1 John 1:9
   • Romans 7:15
   • Romans 7:24-25
   • Romans 8:1

7. 3. The blood of Jesus cleanses me now and continually from all sin

   Fellowship with other believers is not imposed but necessary, so be in a cell and function within the church. The only perfect church is one with no people in it. Like a family with the loud uncle and the auntie with an opinion on everyone, the household of faith is still a family, and what binds it is the blood of the Lamb. If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship and the blood keeps cleansing us, and we love the unlovable as well as the lovable. Our navigation is in the Word, not on YouTube or TikTok. Where brothers dwell in unity, the anointing runs down from the head and there the Lord commands the blessing.

   “We may not be blood, but let me tell you, the thing that binds us together is the blood of the Lamb.”

   • 1 John 1:7
   • Psalm 119:105
   • Matthew 4:16-17
   • Psalm 133:1-3

8. 4. Through the blood of Jesus I have been justified, and God sees me as if I had never sinned

   Having been justified by His blood, we are saved by His life. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God: the great exchange. Confessing what the blood has done rebukes the accusing spirits of guilt and condemnation, and because you are already forgiven it becomes easy to say sorry, make amends and walk free.

   “Jesus took all of the bad that we were, and in exchange, He gave us all the good that He is.”

   • Romans 5:9-10
   • 2 Corinthians 5:21

9. 5. Through the blood of Jesus I am sanctified, set apart for God

   Jesus suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through His own blood, and holy means the absence of evil. The enemy's counterfeit always demands blood, in witchcraft, the sangoma and every ritual, but Christ's blood was one price for all. You cannot sit in church and go to the witch doctor, the tarot cards or the signs, and whatever was done to you as a child you now have authority to break. You were bought with a price, so your body and your family are holy: a man cannot hit his wife, nor a woman her husband, and parents are stewards of children who must be trained in the way they should go. God is not done with you yet.

   “Today is the beginning of your new story because Christ paid the price.”

   • Hebrews 13:12
   • 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
   • Proverbs 22:6
   • Matthew 6:33

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