The Power of the Blood

Brother Cecil J. duCille

Printed in the 1974 Omega Message
(Reprinted in Keeping in Touch May 9, 2004)

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The time has come for the revelation of the Blood of Jesus Christ to be made known to the sons of God.

Those who dwell in the twilight of God’s will and purposes will attack the teaching on the Blood as gory and barbaric without the slightest understanding of what the Blood actually is and why it has been thus described and demonstrated in the Scriptures.

There are three dimensions to the Blood of Jesus, and in order to understand this, one must understand that the Word of God has height, depth, length and width. Depth and height are of course relative to the position you occupy. A person can be both below and above at the same time – below some and above others. It just depends on where the persons speaking are.

The three dimensions of the blood are as follows:

(1) The Blood of the Pre-existent Christ shed from the foundation of the world, Revelation 13:8.

(2) The Blood of Calvary, John 19:34.

(3) The Blood of the New Covenant, Luke 22:20.

Revelation 13:8, And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. This verse says that the Blood of Jesus was shed from before He became a human being. If then blood is only possessed by physical creatures, and if the angels and those who dwell in the heavens do not have blood, how could it be accurately reported by the prophet that Jesus had shed His Blood before He was born?

The correctness of the statement by the prophet John is borne out by scripture. If this was not so, then the blood of goats and sheep and bulls would not have been efficacious in the deliverance of Israel in Egypt (Exodus 12:13) or in the sacrifices of the Tabernacle.

Actually, the blood of these animals shed for the preservation of life and the forgiveness of sins, was a type of the real blood of the real LAMB, Jesus Christ the Lord.

Because there was no natural blood in heaven, and the Blood of Jesus Christ was shed before He became a human, then we can clearly see that the human blood is only a container for the real blood which could not be just plasma but some LIFE ENERGY which we know very little about and cannot see with our carnal vision.

The first murder was committed. The blood of the victim had fallen to the earth and God came down to speak to the murderer: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground (Genesis 4:10). This is a most amazing utterance by God. He clearly speaks of Abel’s blood as having an intelligence of its own and having the ability to communicate with God in an intercession for justice against Cain.

Some people defeat themselves and rob themselves of truth by saying that this is only a figure of speech. Let us see if this is substantiated elsewhere in the scriptures. Brother Paul, making reference to this incident, spoke by the Holy Ghost that the blood of Abel did indeed speak. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh (Hebrews 11:4).

There is further evidence, however, that not only the blood of Abel spoke, but that the Blood of Jesus spoke and is still speaking. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel (Hebrews 12:24).

The Blood of Jesus speaks redemption from a lost condition; freedom from continued sin and sickness; sustenance, maintenance, power to overcome the devil and all his hosts, death and hell, eventual victory and GLORIFICATION, which is coming forth in the very likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord.

The evidence becomes abundant when we consider that not only Abel’s blood speaks, but Jesus’ and also all the saints which are slain by mankind: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Revelation 6:10).

The principle of blood as stated by God is that the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). This being so, we see another divine principle coming into play – each brings forth after its own kind (Genesis 1:11-12,21,24-25).

From our knowledge of this we know that the sire gives his blood to his offspring, and there is no way any plant or animal or creature can break through the genetic barriers set by God. A mule is at the border-line of breeding, being the offspring of a jack-ass and a mare. This animal is barren and cannot produce anything.

God was the Father of Jesus in the same way you father your son, therefore the Blood of God was in the Son, Jesus Christ. Even as my blood is my life, so also is God’s life His Blood. This LIFE FORCE which entered the world in the veins of Jesus Christ is the subject of this message.

When we talk about the Blood of Jesus, therefore, we are talking about an INEXHAUSTIBLE SOURCE of energy and resurrection power which lies at the door of our faith for immediate use any time of day or night, no matter what condition we are in, if you can believe all things are possible to you. The reader is expected to understand that God is a Spirit and cannot have natural blood, therefore the ENERGY OF GOD’S LIFE which was incorporated in the human veins of Jesus brought to the earth a new concept of man being incorporated with God and His power. The man Jesus, therefore, became the divine transporter and the connecting link between Heaven and Earth, as shown in the following scripture: Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us (Luke 1:78).

He who visited us in the person and body of Jesus Christ was the very SOURCE OF LIFE, the immortal, the eternal and invisible Almighty God.

The principle underlying blood, therefore, is that the blood of one being could pay for the sins of another. Hebrews 9:22 states that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. The blood of the animal was shed for the sins of the people, but it never stopped the people from sinning again. This law, therefore, was God’s provision for an easement to humanity until the Blood of Christ should be shed to take away not only the sin and its penalty, BUT THE DESIRE TO SIN.

For this purpose, the high priest would take the blood of the sin offering into the Holiest of All, once every year on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). He would make an offering for himself and then for the people. This symbolized THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST who is the Anointed One entering into the HIGHEST HEAVEN before the presence of God, the Judge, with the Blood of the LAMB, Jesus. First, God would judge Jesus to be sinless, then accept the offering of His body and soul for us, and then humanity was set free.

Even as the high priest would return from the Holy of Holies to the Outer Court where all the people were waiting, with the good news of their deliverance, so the SPIRIT OF CHRIST brought back Jesus from the grave, giving us the good news of our salvation. The scripture clearly states this: And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself (Hebrews 9:22-26).

This second dimension, the Blood of Calvary, is a historic fact: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water (John 19:34). The natural Blood of Jesus Christ was shed and drained from his body to the earth, thus fulfilling absolutely the role of the Passover Lamb – without spot or blemish, not a bone broken.

By man came death to the human race. Every child born of Adam therefore, was born subject to the law of sin and death. Because sin was inherent, every man bringing forth after his kind, then it was necessary for the work to be done on the inside of man – in his innermost being or soul. The same law which allowed sin to reach into the soul of man by submitting to its dictates also allowed righteousness (the nature of God) to reach to our soul by submitting to it.

When we fell, what we lost was THE LIFE GIVING FORCE OR ENERGY of God. The power to have dominion over all things and to rule nature and our own destiny was lost and our enemy, the devil, became proportionately strong because of it. THEREFORE, WHAT WE NEEDED WAS LIFE – and this is what God sent in the veins of Jesus Christ to us.

This was an absolutely marvelous and magnificent plan. There was no fairness in the cowardly attack of Satan upon Eve. She was trusting and innocent of good or evil and was really an easy prey for one as Satan. God stood by and allowed this, for it was this very thing that would give man the incentive to meet this foe, the devil, and defeat him and abolish sin, its consequence, and the incidence of evil from our realm FOREVER. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:20-21).

God, therefore, became a member of the human family by the simple process of being a father to a human being. The laws of life were simply activated to make Jesus a unique human being with an ENERGY of LIFE in His Blood which could REJUVINATE the whole creation. THE BEAUTY OF THE PLAN IS HERE REVEALED. Through the submission to the devil we were robbed of this LIFE, therefore by the submission and faith in the Son of God we were given the same life that is in the Blood of Christ.

THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST IS THE DIVINE MEANS OF TRANSPORTING LIFE INTO OUR WORLD AND BY THIS WEAPON OF POWER WE SHALL OVERCOME AND retrieve our kingdom. We can therefore see why it was very necessary for this Blood to be shed and for Jesus to be hanged upon the cross in such a position that His Blood could drain out of His veins – A LIFE FOR MANY LIVES.

The third Dimension or the BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT: We notice that in the first two dimensions of the blood, it was represented as a natural substance. Both the blood of the lamb under the Levitical priesthood and the fulfillment of such type, Jesus Himself, were on the natural plane. If the type and its fulfillment stopped there, then we would not be able to relate to its efficacy today. We, however, are witnesses of this living force, which we use as a weapon both offensively and defensively, as also the very source of our life.

The Blood of Jesus Christ is the power which the Spirit uses in the soul to bring it to life, being dead in Adam. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1).

Every devil in hell is afraid of the Blood of Jesus Christ. When we are locked in battle with satanic forces, whether it be for our healing, deliverance, or survival, we need this supernatural life force in order to have victory. No matter what we call it, its proper name is the Blood of Jesus. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (Revelation 12:11).

When we accept the BLOOD OF JESUS as efficacious to redeem us, sustain us, keep us healthy and give us victory over the world, the flesh and the devil, we have entered into a new contract, testament or covenant with God in Jesus Christ. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you (Luke 22:20).

This new contract with God is an agreement between two parties, you and God, wherein you agree to partake of the BLOOD OR LIFE of Jesus Christ, and wherein God promises you that if you do this you will not only have abundant life there, but life everlasting.

This third dimension far supersedes the sitting at the communion table and eating bread and drinking wine. This is the REAL THING, while the bread and the wine is the type of the body and blood. Jesus enjoins us to eat His flesh and drink His blood, not just in type but in reality. We drink the Blood of Jesus by absorbing the power which He gives to believers. Unbelief destroys this power. Faith and belief in God gives us power. Consciousness of the abiding power and staunch reliance upon its power to deliver is good proof of its presence.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty (II Corinthians 10:4). All weaponry, whether it is natural or physical, in order to be effective against the enemy, must be operated by some force or skill. In this sense, the Blood of Jesus is no different. He teacheth my hands to war (Psalm 18:34). Practice becomes perfect and one must practice faith and belief in the power of the Blood and it will work for you, whether it be a common cold, broken bones or the attack of the evil one.

To illustrate this, I will give you part of a story which is too long for this short article. Some years ago, I was in a fierce battle with a man who was reputed to be the greatest sorcerer in all the land of Jamaica. He had sworn to kill me, and I never believed a word of it, but was soon made a believer by the circumstances.

I had gone home from service that night pretty late, and had just dressed for bed, when I noticed that I was looking clean through the stone wall at the bright moonlight outside and at the banana and coffee trees glinting back the light of the moon from their shimmering leaves. At this phenomenon, I abandoned the thought of sleep and perched myself on the foot of the bed to wonder what spiritual spectacle I was about to behold.

It was not long before I saw a man, which seemed nine feet tall, walk into the yard. I jumped to my feet to rebuke him in the name of Jesus. Like greased lightening, he came through the wall even before I could utter a syllable, with such a force that he knocked me over onto the bed and was on top of me.

My impulse was to struggle, which was natural, BUT at that moment Jesus dropped down in the bed beside me, and I saw those magnificent eyes which defy description. “Don’t struggle,” He said, “It is not natural, it is spiritual.”

The comfort of His presence was all I needed, and although it seemed tons were sitting on my limbs and head and throat, I relaxed. Presently I saw the cross and Jesus on it with blood dripping from the right hand, then the left. The third drop fell in my face and a great convulsive shout issued from my lips – J E S U S!!!

The thing was thrown clean off me and I rebuked him in the power of the Spirit – the victory was won. The evil thing was overcome by the Blood of Jesus.

Human blood seems to be the food of the devils. In Genesis 3:14, we see God telling the devil that dust or humanity would be his food. Since he robbed Adam and caused Cain to kill Abel Satan has been drawing his energy from the life that is within our blood and our realm. He makes man to kill man, and now that Vietnam is over he will surely get his men to start another war so that he might have power to bring off his great final push in these last days.

He knows that his time is short and that the time is now when we shall take the kingdom from him and chain him in a realm of starvation from which he will not be able to reach humanity to feed on us.

Even as every man’s blood is in his body, so also is the Blood of Jesus Christ in the Body of Christ. Even as the blood functions in the natural body to nourish it, heal it, keep it alive, rejuvenate the cells, make it one, and destroy germs in the body, so also does the BLOOD, the power and the life flowing from you to me and me to you in the BODY OF CHRIST, which body we are, sustain us.

I therefore give to you this life from the throne of God – use it – do not abuse it, and WE SHALL BE ONE IN HIM.