It’s good to be with you again, sharing with you on our vitally important theme this week: How To Overcome Evil.

We’ve been studying together the weapons through which God has made it possible for us to gain total victory over Satan - and they’re summed up in that one key verse of Revelation, chapter 12, verse 11:

“They overcame him [that is, the Believers overcame Satan, direct person to person conflict; we have to emphasize that continually]. They [the Believers] overcame him [Satan. Now here are the weapons] by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.” (NIV)

The three weapons there are the blood of the lamb, the Word of God, and our personal testimony. When we know how to use those three weapons together, we overcome Satan. And I’ve explained it this way, and I’m going to say it again today. We overcome Satan when we testify personally to what the Word of God says that the blood of Jesus does for us. There are the three weapons; the blood, the Word, and our testimony. I’ll repeat that again. We overcome Satan when we testify personally to what the Word of God says, that the blood of Jesus does for us.

In my previous talks this week, we’ve looked at three main provisions of the blood of Jesus, first, redemption; second, forgiveness; and third, cleansing from sin. We found these primarily in two verses of the New Testament. In Ephesians 1:7 we have this:

“In him [Jesus] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.” (NIV)

There you see the two provisions, redemption, being bought back out of the hand of the devil, and the forgiveness of sins. And then, in 1st John 1:7:

“But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” (NASB)

There the provision is cleansing, and I’ve pointed out it’s an ongoing tense. The blood of Jesus continually cleanses us, continually keeps us clean. We live in a sin polluted, demon oppressed world, but we can walk this world in purity if we are being continually cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

And then I explained how we can testify about these three provisions. I’ll just go through that briefly again.

First of all, through the blood of Jesus all my sins are forgiven. Secondly, through the blood of Jesus, I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil. Third, as I walk in the light, the blood of Jesus cleanses me now and continually from all sin.

Today we’re going to look at another provision of the blood of Jesus and that is: justification.

This is stated for us in Romans, chapter 5, verses 8 and 9:

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” (NIV)

Notice the key phrase there, “We have been justified by his blood,” by the

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