They
overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. (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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