They overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as
to shrink from death. Revelation 12:11
There are so many of the Lord's
people today over whom Satan is lording it; lording it along the line of
accusation, bringing them under a sense of condemnation and judgment, robbing
them of their peace, of their assurance, rest, hope; and you will find these
people are everlastingly talking about their own short-comings, their
sinfulness; they are forever circling round themselves, all that they are that
they would not be, all that they are not that they would be. Their deliverance
from Satan is that they should have a fresh apprehension of the absolute
satisfaction of the Father in His Son on their behalf, and that they find their
standing before the Father in acceptance. That is the way of deliverance, the
way of the Adversary's casting out. This is the way of overcoming him as the
Accuser. Yes, the ground of the Blood is sufficient for this full-orbed,
many-sided, all-round victory. "They overcame him because of the blood of
the Lamb," and the first and supreme factor in the virtue of that Blood in
all these directions, is its untainted sinlessness, the nature of the Lord
Jesus. There has never been another who was such.
Oh, I am so glad that it was God that came in Christ, GOD that
came in Christ. Can you charge God with sin? Can you lay sin to God's charge,
to God's account? It was God in Christ, the absolutely and altogether holy One
in whom there was no sin, who came in incarnation; and in virtue of that Divine
nature in its perfection Satan in his authority is defeated - on that ground.
Blessed be God! We receive by faith the virtue of that precious Blood; that is,
the perfection of the Lord Jesus can be put to our account. That is grace - the
wonder of the Gospel. If we were to begin to analyze ourselves and take stock
of ourselves, that would be a terrible business, a wretched business, and it
would be endless - think of it, beloved, with all that we know of ourselves,
all that God knows about us - "The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart. I try the
reins...." Though all that be a fact, you and I can stand now in the
presence of God as sinlessly perfect, not in ourselves, but in Christ, as
having absolute sinless perfection put to our account by God.
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