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The Blood of the gods
CHAPTER TWO
I hope it is beginning to be clear to you that the gospel is founded on
suffering. The Church was founded in blood and it will end in blood.
Our blood is a token of the living sacrifice of our bodies. It is the
manifestation of the power of the gods. A god (son) can give his body to
be martyred while his inner-man is renewed.
Our suffering is a testimony of our righteousness and the evidence of
judgement unto those who persecute us. It is therefore evident that we
must have the same awareness He had. Jesus was always conscious of
the fact that His blood was going to be spilt. Likewise, we must anticipate
the spilling of our blood for the gospel’s sake.
The spilling of our blood may be by weapons that are able to physically
harm us. However, the blood relatives of Christ also undergo persecution
in the form of situations, circumstances and relationships. However,
it is written, if you do not suffer with Christ, you cannot reign with
Him. For this cause you remain in this world. You are appointed as a
spectacle unto the world. Your flesh must be utterly destroyed to reveal
the glorious treasure that lies within it. Your suffering will bear witness
that you are the sons of God.
Therefore, we are encouraged in the scriptures… And in nothing terrified
by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but
to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the
behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake
(Philippians 1:28-29).
THE WITNESS OF THE BLOOD
1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three agree in one.
The blood, or rather the fellowship of the blood serves as a witness or
as the evidence of the record of Christ. And this is the record, that God
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The life of Christ
is being witnessed in the saints of God. Those who were once sinners are
now suffering because of righteousness. The sons/gods to this world
are not violent, they do not retaliate and they are able to forgive
those who despitefully use and abuse them. This is a manifestation of
Christ that cannot be understood by the natural man. The fellowship in
the sufferings of Christ, bear witness that indeed we are in Him and He
is in us.