Bury Your Past In The Blood Of Jesus!

By David J. Stewart | July 2013

Revelation 7:14, “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

John 8:11, “She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.”

       Everyone sins! Even the greatest of the saints commit sin. The adulterous woman in John 8:1-14 was caught in the very act of sin. The religious hypocrites, internet accusers and manure-spreading newsmedia condemned her, dragging her before the Lord to be stoned. But the loving Lord Jesus Christ did not condemn her. Jesus forgave her, knowing her heart, and told her to GO, AND SIN NO MORE! The Lord didn't mean sinless perfection; but rather, forsaking the deliberate intentional dwelling in the wickedness of sin and the cesspool of iniquity.

As long as we are in this old flesh, we will falter and sin; but we don't have to choose to remain in sin as the wicked world does. Proverbs 24:16, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.” That is to say, the righteous (Christian) man stumbles in sin, but he hates it, so he repents and gets back up; but the wicked (unsaved) man deliberately lives in sin and stays there because he loves sin. John 3:20 says that the unsaved person refuses to come to the light to be converted, because of the love for sin... “LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED” (John 3:20).

Romans 3:23 declares all men as woeful sinners who've come short of God's glory. Whatever horrible evils you have done in the past, God will forgive you if you'll come for forgiveness by way of the cross of Jesus Christ. As far as east is from west, the Bible PROMISES that God will separate us from our sins. Psalms 103:12, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” Did you know that you can get on an airplane and go west forever, but you'll never find west. East and west don't meet. You can only travel so far north and then you'll be going south again (and vise versa). But you cannot go east to find west, nor west to find east. It is impossible! Isn't God a good God, full of mercy and abundant in love and kindness!!! Yes, yes, yes!!! Praise the Lord!

Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

In the preceding Scriptures in Isaiah 1:18, the word “crimson” in Hebrew refers to a clothing dye made from grinding up a particular worm. God is saying that even though our life has seemingly been permanently stained by sin after sin, the precious blood of Jesus reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Amen! Whew! Glory to God!!!

1st Peter 1:18-19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

Hebrews 10:19, “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.”

Thank God for the literal, physical, blood of Jesus which Jesus applied to the mercy seat in the heavenly holy place for our sins to be washed away (Hebrews 9:12,24).


Go, And Sin No More

I am a woeful sinner, and so are you. We ought not boast in our sinfulness; but rather, we ought to confess (i.e., to admit the same thing as God). Jesus says the same thing to you and me that He said to the adulterous woman in John 8:14... GO, AND SIN NO MORE!!! The past is forever gone, water under the bridge. Yesterday is a cashed check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. But today we have cash to spend. The way we spend it is up to us! We cannot undo a cashed check from yesterday. We cannot undo past sins and mistakes. Our words are like bullets in a gun, which once the trigger is pulled we cannot take them back. What's done is done. What's said is said. What is, it is! All we can do is bury our past sins in the sin-cleansing blood of Jesus!

The moment that we receive the gospel (Christ's death, burial and resurrection) as full payment for our sins, we are born-again and forever secured in God's promise of eternal life. Our salvation is not dependent upon the way we live; but rather, our salvation is safe and secure in the PROMISE of God, Who in His love sent His only begotten Son into the world to pay a debt of sin that He did not owe, because we owed a debt of sin that we could not pay. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”

Here's a wonderful gospel medley of “I Am Ready To Do Thy Perfect Will” and “Through It All” ...

The following is the last chorus from the song, THROUGH IT ALL...

I thank God for the mountains,
and I thank Him for the valleys,
I thank Him for the storms He brought me through.
For if I'd never had a problem,
I wouldn't know God could solve them,
I'd never know what faith in God could do

I love those last three sentences...

For if I'd never had a problem,
I wouldn't know God could solve them,
I'd never know what faith in God could do

Amen! What problems are you facing my brother or sister? What heartaches bear heavy upon your soul? What deep pain in your soul desperately desires for the healing hand of the Savior to reach down and comfort your heart, as only God can do! What are your burdens? If you never had any problems, then you would never know that God can solve them. You would never know what faith could do! PRAY to God, getting Him involved, then claim the sweet peace that passeth all understanding in Philippians 4:6-7, knowing that you've placed your trust in God through prayer. If we pray and God doesn't seem to answer, know in your heart that God usually works in unseen (mysterious) ways. God's hand is seen, not in months or even years, but in decades!!! The Bible bears this truth out clearly in many instances; such as, the life of Joseph and Abraham.

Psalms 119:67 and 71, “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. ... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” Thank God for trials, troubles and tribulations that test our faith, because unshakable faith comes only from having our faith shaken!

Christ bore the entire weight of our truckload of sins upon Himself. Beware of any false plan of salvation that places the burden of sin upon the sinner, requiring reformation, change, turning over a new leaf or full surrender to Christ to be saved. You can do all those things and never have believed the gospel at all. We are saved by believing the gospel, and nothing else! (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Salvation is received, not achieved. It's not what you're doing that gets you to Heaven; but rather, it's where you're looking. LOOK TO JESUS!!!

1st Peter 2:2 teaches that a new believer is a spiritual babe and needs the MILK OF THE WORD to grow thereby. It is just as ridiculous to expect a person to consecrate their life to Christ, make a full surrender and declare “Jesus is Lord” to be saved, as it would be to demand for a fetus in the womb to run a marathon in order to be born. You don't make Jesus Lord, He is Lord! Romans 10:9-10 teaches for sinners to confess “THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,” not say “Jesus is Lord” as the corrupted and perverted New International Version (NIV) of the Bible does. Satan blinds men's MINDS (2nd Corinthians 4:4); but salvation happens in the HEART...

Romans 10:9-10, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Most churchgoers have adopted some philosophy of Christianity in their MIND, but they have never trusted upon the Lord in their HEART, believing that He raised up from the dead. Catholics foolishly trust in their Catholic church organization to save them. Christianity began as a new birth, a spiritual birth. When it went to Greece it became a philosophy. When it came to Rome it turned into an organization. In Europe Christianity became a culture. And tragically in America it has become a business. It is a new birth my friend. Have you been born from above by the Spirit of God?

All modern Bible versions have been tampered with and corrupted by the Devil. The gospel is easily damaged, corrupted and changed into a lie. That's why the apostle Paul warned us in 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4 about ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER GOSPEL and ANOTHER SPIRIT. Corrupt any one of those three and you've got false religion. Obviously there are thousands of ways for Satan to introduce ANOTHER plan of salvation.

There have been numerous documentary programs and reality shows on television glorifying the wicked lives of murderous mobsters, drug kingpins and psychotic criminal sickos of the worst sort. You'll never find anything decent, good or encouraging on TV that glorifies the godly preachers in America who've spent their lives helping others, building lives and making our nation a better place to live. We're a rotten nation of spoiled brats and ingrates, that's what we are! I'll stand for Jesus, let the world go by! Amen! Jesus suffered for us until death, and He appeals unto us to share in His suffering by forsaking the world and living for God ...

1st Peter 4:1-4, “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.”

Your friends, neighbors and family will think you've lost your mind if you get serious for God, but that's ok, Heaven's just a heartbeat away for every Christian!!! It's all very real my friend, and every day is one less opportunity to reach lost sinners for Jesus with the gospel. Every day spent is one less opportunity to live righteously by faith to express our love for our wondrous Savior. Our time is short! We ought to be redeeming the time! There is no God like unto our God, Who spoke the universe into existence, Who created the earth and the moon, Who makes the sun to shine and causes the tornado to destroy. Blessed by the name of the Lord!!!

I believe we are entering into the end times as prophesied in the Bible. Did you know that 29% of the King James Bible is prophecy? Yes, it's true! God is amazing! Satan's greatest strength and man's greatest weakness is that people always fail to recognize the Devil. Satan has infiltrated every area of American culture: music, movies, art, politics, business, financial and especially our schools and churches. Satan has infiltrated nearly every organization, every group and every home. The reason why is because we have not submitted to God. James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” By throwing God's Word out of our schools since 1963, our nation has invited the Devil to move in. If you give the Devil an inch, he'll take a foot and become A RULER.

“Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.” —2nd Corinthians 3:17

Our nation has gone totally insane! Commercials on TV advertise pure 100% meat for our dogs and cats, while our precious children are eating junk food saturated with artificial fillers, chemicals and preservatives. I heard in the news today about a 6-year-old boy in Colorado who thinks he's a girl and wants to use the girl's bathroom. The school superintended said, “No,” so the boy's parents sued the school and won the court case. The little boy legally can now go into the girl's bathroom. Oh how creepy our nation has become without God! Without Jesus Christ people become monsters! The reason why our world is falling apart is because they won't let Jesus keep it together!
 

God Never Commands Us To Figure Everything Out In Life

When you go where God tells you to go, and you do what God tells you to do, the rest is up to Him. It's not our place to figure everything out in life or understand all things. Isn't it great that our God knows all (omniscient), and is all-powerful (omnipotent) and sees all (omnipresent)? I rejoice that God is a righteous God, omnipotent and in control of the universe. God doesn't expect us to figure it all out. The Bible even speaks of obtaining sweet peace through prayer that “PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING” (Philippians 4:6-7). It's normal not to understand God's ways. The Lord never asked us to understand Him, thank God. No, rather, the Lord simply expects us to TRUST HIM. In fact, we read the sweet and precious words of Proverbs 3:5-7 that tells us NOT TO LEAN upon our own understanding. Amen and amen!

Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”

We study the Scriptures to understand as much as God intends for us to understand, but then we trust the Lord for everything that we do not. NO ONE has it all figured out! No one! At best, even the most knowledgeable and saintly believers have to blindly trust the Lord in all the areas that they do not understand. I cannot explain why God gives life to careless parents to have them senselessly aborted, while other parents who are childless and desperately desire to have biological children of their own remain barren. But I do know that everything God does is right! As we just read in Proverbs 3:5, the Bible commands us not to lean upon our OWN UNDERSTANDING. The most dangerous thing in the world is an opinion that disagrees with God. The word “heresy” even means “an opinion.” The only opinion that matters is God's opinion. I am going to side with the Lord, and then I can have the sweet peace that passes all understanding, knowing that God sees and knows everything that I do not.

I am just a speck of dust in an endless universe of God's glorious works, power and wonder. I am so glad that the Lord doesn't expect us to solve a puzzle, figure out how to be saved or fear perhaps that we are following a wrong path. God gave us concrete answers in the Bible, making the way of salvation so clear, simple and free in every way. What an awesome Creator, King, God, Friend and Savior! I feared like you wouldn't believe as a teenager, not knowing if I was really saved. I was indeed saved, but I believed the Bible so much that it scared me to tears, worry and concern. WHAT IF? WHAT IF I miss Heaven? What if I am missing something? What if I go to Hell forever? What If I Am Not Saved? (My testimony and 7-year battle with the assurance of salvation). I haven't feared, doubted or given a second thought about my salvation now for over 25-years.

Thank God for the assurance that He has given me. I was just ignorant of the Bible as a teenager, having many questions that needed answers, and thankfully when it comes to salvation the Bible provides all the answers. I also used to be afraid to work on my car, uncertain of safety issues or causing more damage since I wasn't sure what to do. Once I learned about automotive repair and how cars are made, the fear went away I successfully rebuilt several engines. When it comes to salvation, the most important thing to know is that God does the saving, and not man. We are saved by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, that is, Christ's righteousness which God imputes to every believer at the time of salvation. Our faith + the gospel = eternal life! (Hebrews 4:2).

Jesus is the light of the world. John 9:5, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When Jesus departed into Heaven, His disciples became the light of the world. That light within every believer is Jesus Christ. Jesus said in Matthew 5:14, “Ye are the light of the world.” We are living in a world of night-walkers! We are the light of the world and it's our fault as Christians that the world has become so dark. Men and women love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. John 3:19, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” People live and die watching the idiot-box (television), being indoctrinated by the Devil, beholding sin.
 

The Devil Always Pays With Counterfeit Money

The Devil confuses people, turning good into bad, and bad into good. What a shame... little boys dressing, acting and thinking that they're female. Here's a few bizarre news stories revealing the moral meltdown of the United States...

God doesn't make mistakes folks. No one is born a homosexual. Sin is a choice. Children are very impressionable. Only a child who's been raised in a Godless environment without hearing the Word of God professes to be transgendered at age 6. That's insane! You didn't hear about crazy stuff like that a century ago in America. The worst decision our U.S. Supreme Court ever made was to ban the Bible from our nation's classrooms since 1963. Sadly, our wicked society went along, and we've paid the price brothers and sisters... we've paid the price as a country! We haven't seen anything yet! All hell is breaking loose in this wicked society!

Shameful celebrity Miley Cyrus was in the news today, looking like a sleazy prostitute on a recent television appearance with a miniskirt up to her crotch. Her hair was spiked, looking like a punk and she clearly resembled a lesbian dyke. What's really sad is that Miley blasphemes the Lord and the Bible by claiming to love Jesus. Anyone woman who dresses slutty is no friend of God. Job 20:5, “That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?” Ecclesiastes 8:13 “But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.”

Miley Cyrus is on top of the world now, filthy rich with money and fame, but her eternal future is very bleak, grim and horrifying if she doesn't repent and get saved. I wouldn't want to be in her shoes for all the fame and fortune Satan has to offer. It's no secret that the singers who do the most bizarre, irreverent and insane things become the most popular. That's the power of Satan! Each singer has to do something more shocking than the previous to impress the Devil's crowd. God will forgive the vilest sinner, no matter what they have done; but Jesus warned that unless a person becomes a born again Christian they cannot enter into the kingdom of God. All the religious devotion, sacrifice and good works in the world cannot save a person's soul from the lake of Fire.

God declares all men sinners! To “confess” means to agree with God, “Yes, Lord, I am a sinner!” Romans 3:19 teaches that God's Law was given to silence every mouth, that all the world might become “GUILTY BEFORE GOD” and then point us to the precious Savior for redemption and cleansing by His literal blood. Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” The apostle Paul said in Romans 7:13 that God's Law made his sins exceeding sinful. Jesus is the answer!

Galatians 3:24-26, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

The Bible says that we are calling God a liar if we say we have not sinned. 1st John 1:8 and 10, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ... If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” Oh, but 1st John 1:9 wonderfully promises, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

You can have your joy and peace and integrity restored back to you in the blood of Jesus my friend. I don't care how deep you've gone into the depths of sin and Satan, there is room at the cross for you. It matters not how deep the stain of sin may have gone, Christ's blood reaches deeper than the deepest stain.

Whatever sins are in your past, bury them in the blood of Jesus, and just get up and live for God. Read these awesome Scriptures that tell us the proper mindset which we should have daily toward life as a redeemed Christian...

Colossians 3:1: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.”

That's good stuff!!! Whew, glory to God! We ought to set our thoughts and affections upon the THINGS ABOVE, that is, THE THINGS OF JESUS CHRIST (Philippians 2:20-21). Sin robs people of their happiness, family and life. Everyday in the news we hear about drug deaths, divorce, murder and disturbing tragedies amongst family member across America. Our nation is falling apart without Jesus. Oh how we as Christians need to let the light of Jesus shine through us. Jesus is the light that shines from within us. The world cannot see the Holy Spirit, but we see Him. 2nd Corinthians 4:3, “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.”

Don't ever let anyone discourage you concerning past mistakes, sin or faults. Jesus died because He knew you'd mess-up and need a Savior. Romans 5:8 says that Christ died KNOWING that we are horrible sinners. The Lord fully knew how rotten, sinful and horrible we would all be. Nothing is hidden from the eyes of God (Hebrews 4:13). Whatever mistakes, failures and sins you have done, bury them in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 10:19 says to sprinkle our guilty conscious with the blood of Jesus. Claim the Bible passages that teach us about Jesus' cleansing blood. Learn 1st John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Jesus is that light. If we walk in the Lord, then we will fellowship one with another in the Lord. Oh how the world needs Jesus!

Isaiah 9:2, “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”