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The Church Bought With His Own Blood

(Ac20:28-31)

God is the Owner (Ps100:3).

By His word He made all things and is their Owner (He11:3), and

With His blood He bought souls and is their eternal Owner (Rev5:9).

In the history of mankind

The One who paid the highest price to purchase was God and

Those who were sold at the highest price are souls.

Faith is acknowledging that one's soul belongs to Him, and

The life of this faith is putting effort to keep watch over the souls and the church (Ac20:28).

Although Adam belonged to God,

Deceived by the devil he sinned and became his slave (2Pe2:19).

This did not, however, cause a loss to God's possession.

Rather, it was according to His will from the beginning to make men His eternal possession.

Though the Israelites had been slaves of the pharaoh for 430 years,

They were paid for with the blood of the passover lamb and became God's people, which was

Established as the Law to shed the blood of one-year-old sacrifice (Ex12:5, 14; He10:1) and

Confirm that they were God's people (Ex19:5).

The sanctuary where the stone tablets were placed inside the ark and

The blood was shed reminded them this for generations.

Yeshua said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days" (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would become the eternal Owner of the souls of men for

He is the Word in the beginning who became flesh and blood (Jn1:1, 14),

The passover lamb (Jn1:29; 1Co5:7).

As He died shedding His blood, He said, "It is finished" (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Fulfilled the Father's plan established before the creation (Eph1:4);
2) Condemned the thief who stole Adam from God (Ge3:4; Jn10:8, 10; He2:14-15); and
3) With His precious, eternal blood purchased men and offered them to the Father (1Pe1:18-19;
Rev5:9), for there is no spiritual element in the blood of animals (He10:4).

He resurrected and ascended to the heavenly throne, and

Became the Lord of all.

The Holy Spirit comes to those who

Believe that they have been redeemed through the blood of Yeshua (Eph1:7; 1Pe1:18-19) and

Thus knows that his soul and body were sold at the price of the blood (1Co6:19).

The church is the body of Christ (Col1:24),

Christ is the Head (Eph4:15, 5:23) and

Saints are the members (Eph5:30).

It is the gathering of souls bought at the highest price, His own blood (Ac20:28),

Watched over by the greatest overseer, the Holy Spirit.

The man of the Spirit is he who

Edifies the church which God cherishes like His one and only Son (Eph4:12) and

Puts every effort to protect the sheep so that

They are not pulled out of the sheep pen and devoured by wolves.

O Lord,

Though we have confessed that we love You,

Many times we had been indifferent to Your body, the church.

At times we have caused pain for the church which You bought with Your own blood.

Let my tongue never be used as the wolf's teeth.

But let my body be spent to protect Your church! Amen.