February 13, 2024 … From Red to White

February 13, 2024 … From Red to White   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from The Maranatha Singers singing … White As Snow …  poignantly, and yet powerfully, singing of how we Christians are cleansed from our sin and made white as snow by the red blood, shed by Jesus on the cross.  

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 1:18 [NLT] … 

18 “Come now, let’s settle this,”  says the Lord.   “Though your sins are like scarlet,  I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.     

… The Prophet Isaiah prophesies of a coming Messiah who blood would run red to cleanse the sins of mankind and make the white like snow.     

Highlight Passage (in context) … Isaiah 1:15-20 … USE THIS LINK … 

… Isaiah shows that God desired to settle the sin debt of mankind with the blood of The Messiah Who would come to shed His blood and make the sins of man to be white as snow.  

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Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1 [NLT] …  

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him.  

… The Apostle Paul pleads with fellow Christians to surrender our lives to be living sacrifices so that the blood of Christ can - and will - cleanse us of our sins.    

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] …  

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.  

… The Apostle Paul declares that His faith in Christ’s shed blood allows him (and fellow Christians) to live a Christlike life. 

Reference Passage: … Titus 3:5 [NLT] …  </b>

5  He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.  

… Paul again shows fellow Christians how they (we) are saved and made clean by God’s Spirit.   

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:7-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… John declares that anyone can - and will - be cleansed of our sins if we’re willing to confess and repent of our sins, … being made clean by God’s Spirit.    

       

Reference Passage: … Revelation 1:5b [NLT] …   

5   …All glory to Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding Hs blood for us.  

…The Apostle John share His revelation, giving all glory to Jesus,  our Lord and Savior, … Who shed His blood to cleanse us from our sins.       

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author , Kenneth Peterson -  AT THIS LINK -   writes of the Aztecs discovering that crushing a little white beetle could produce a red dye that could be used as a red dye to color many things in our world.  

And Kenneth Peterson goes on, in his ODB entry today, telling of the color red being used in the Bible to depict  Christ’s royalty, but also the scarlet shame of mankind’s sin.  And then anyone, expressed in the Scriptures above, can - and will - be made white as snow by our saving faith in Christ’s shed blood to cover our scarlet sinfulness - see photo. 

And … oh how I pray for you, my fellow readers here today, … as we take in the linked song and meditate on the Scriptures above, … that we join to share a robust ”HALLELUJAH”, gratefully remembering how Jesus’ blood ran red on the cross so that our faith in that blood can make us white as snow.  Again, say it with me …”HALLELUJAH!!”<

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for shedding Your red blood to cleanse me of my sin thru my faith in You, Lord. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to praise God for Your red blood, Lord, shed on the cross for our sin.   Amen  

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