(DAGO) RHEMA WORLD: THE 7 KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN PT 2

THE 7 KEYS OF THE KINGDOM F HEAVEN 2 THE KEYS 3. THE BLOOD COVENANT “And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. And he said unto them, this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many” Mark 14:23-24 The blood covenant is the third key of the kingdom of heaven in the list. Your application of the knowledge of the blood covenant is what would open the gates of the kingdom of heaven for you. This very passage is the origin of the practice of Holy Communion in the body of Christ. Get my book “the mystery and the power of the Holy Communion” There is a covenant between us and God in Christianity. There is also a personal covenant between God and each individual Christian, and God responds and relates to us base on this covenant. Your covenant with God is evident in the manner God approach and deal with you. It is quite unfortunate, that many do not know their individual covenant with God. Your relationship with God and your kind of calling or ministry depends on your covenant with him, and that clearly shows your covenant with God. God relates to us base on the individual covenant with him, at the same time relates to us as church or as a body of Christ base on his covenant with the church. Your knowledge of the covenant is the key in your hand to unlock your heaven. The reason most Christians are been terrorized by the devils and they run from one prayer mountain removal and demon destroyer ministries is because, they don’t know their covenant with God. What you do not know you cannot have until you know it. Hence, because they do not know it they do not have the key to individually unlock their needs in heaven. Everyone born into this world has a covenant with God, your life starts to have a meaning and have a positive and direction, when you discover it and start functioning in it. God walk and work with you, on you and in you base on the covenant. He saves, preserves, deliver, promote, protect, defend, prospers and speaks base and the on the platform of the covenant with individual and with the church. Before God starts a walk with a man he first enters into covenant with him. Because our walk with him is not sole enterprise, it is a partnership or joint venture, which requires a solid agreement sealed, signed and witnessed. One thing you must note is this: God is deeply committed to a covenant. Covenant is what binds a man to God and commits God to his life affairs. Covenant is a more serious affair than you can imagine. If you can fathom the extent God values Covenant then you will understand why he enters into covenant with any man he works with. What is a Covenant? The word covenant is taken from the Hebrew word berit, which is used for agreement (to be in accord and joining together), league (in association with and belong to the same reasoning and purpose) between two people. God’s idea of him walking with man is the aspect of entering into union, partnership with him, thereby bring him over to the same reasoning (way of thinking or mindset) with him, in order to share the same purpose of the Godhead with him, therefore having him in accord with God in his divine will and purpose in order to make him a blessing. “Come now, and let us reason together (share the same mindset and way of thinking), saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” Isaiah 1:18 In Genesis 6:18 when God was about destroying the ancient world he told Noah “But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee” (ASV) God was telling him, I am about destroying the world I made, but I will start a new world with you. I am about starting a new walk and work with you. However, I will need enter into covenant with you first. Why? Because you need me to succeed in this walk and work. “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me” John 15:4 I will be starting a new race with you on earth, and I have interest in it, because you will be commencing a race in whose loin is the Christ. And for that to be achieved you would have to enter into covenant (verbal agreement and league with me” Every covenant comes with a proof. The proof of this very covenant was the rainbow in Genesis 9:12-13. “And God said, this is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth” What of Abraham, the father of the faith? Abraham was called to be the father of all nations, the father of the faith we share, the father of the earthly family of God, the church. The church is born into faith and the word, to live by them, and without which you cannot operate or meet God. “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” Hebrews 11:6 “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” John 3:5 The word of God signified as water with faith are the elements that gave birth to our new life in Christ, and the necessary factors that births our spiritual growth and operation as Christians, in our work with the Holy Spirit. Abraham was not a Christian but he operated based on promise, which is the word of God and faith with God. “Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring — not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed — the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.” Romans 4:16-17 New International Versions He was the first non-Christian to walk with God on the Christian platform, which is, faith and the word. For that, he is the father and patriarch of our faith. “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer, will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between you and me. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner — those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant." Genesis 17:1-14 New International Versions The agreement on the aspect of covenant between God and Abraham is that God will make father of many nations, make him fruitful and nations of kings, but he will be his God and that of his descendants. Every covenant has this aspect attached to it. God will promise what he will do for you, but you must worship him as the only God in your life. And it comes with proof. The proof of Abraham’s covenant with God is the circumcision. Note that from the era of the fall of man that is the dispensation of conscience, to the era of Abraham, the dispensation of faith and promise. The utmost essence of the covenant had been the emergence of the Christ. The beautiful thing about the circumcision is that, it is an indication of the new birth in Christ. Circumcision is the removal or putting off the foreskin which is a symbol of the old self for the emergence of a fresh layer which is the new self. “For neither is circumcision [now] of any importance, nor uncircumcision, but [only] a new creation [the result of a new birth and a new nature in Christ Jesus, the Messiah]” Galatians 5:16 Amplified Bible A true seed of Abraham is one who partakes in the same faith with Abraham that result to the new birth which is the spiritual circumcision. “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God” Romans 2:29 Circumcision as a proof of the covenant is a sign of the relationship between God and Abraham. The relationship there entails Abraham’s league, union and partnership with God that earned him the recognition of being God’s friend. However, all this is an indication of our relationship with God, which comes when we are born anew, in Christ. Being born again is a sign or proof of your new relationship and covenant with God. Did you know that Isaac was a type of Christ? He was a promise made flesh. Isaac was a promise just as Christ was, and a promise is simply words spoken, but in this aspect God made the promise, which made the promise the spoken word of God. “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him” Genesis 17:19 New International Versions It was faith in that promise that made it flesh. The bible says, “It is not that God failed to keep his promise to them. But only some of the people of Israel are truly God's people, and only some of Abraham'sN descendants are true children of Abraham. But God said to Abraham: "The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac” This means that not all of Abraham's descendants are God's true children. Abraham's true children are those who become God's children because of the promise God made to Abraham. God's promise to Abraham was this: "At the right time I will return, and Sarah will have a son." Romans 9:6-9 New Century Versions Here the bible makes it clear, that the true descendants of Isaac were not the natural children. God positioned Isaac as a type of Christ. Hence, the true descendants of Isaac are the children of promise who are born in the same way with Isaac. These descendants are products of faith in Christ- the word of God. Imperatively, it makes them the word or the promise in flesh. They are not natural but spiritual children, born of the promise-the word. This is simply talking of those who are born again by faith in the word of God. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” 1 peter 1:23 Remember in Genesis 17:9 it says, that God would establish his covenant with Isaac and his descendants. God’s covenant is with every one of these descendants. If you are born again, according to the promise you are a descendant of Isaac and Abraham, and you have a covenant with God. “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise” Galatians 3:29 THEN THE BLOOD COVENANT Blood covenant is the life of every covenant and the power backing it up Every covenant involves the shedding of blood. Prior to the old covenant blood was shed to activate and enforce it. Noah and Abraham shed blood of animals to enter into covenant with God. Under the covenant, blood was involve,”And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words” Exodus 24:8 Likewise in the new covenant, blood was as well shed, “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied” 1 peter 1:2 Because the blood is the life and power of the covenant, and the blood speaks for the covenant. A covenant is never in effect, unless there is bloodshed. Every covenant has the life of the blood making it active and living, this is why covenants works and live for thousands of generations. Every blood carries a level of potency and life, and when it is applied to a covenant, it makes it potent and unbreakable. Blood speaks, and what it speaks are the very agreements of the covenant between two parties. “And he said, what hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground” Genesis 4:10 “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 You wonder why so many are yet battling with ancestral covenants, because of the bloodshed involve The blood attracts certain spirits to oversee its implementations. This is why you hear so many folks pray against ancestral spirits. Ancestral spirits are the demonic spirits overseeing the covenant and works to enforce the negative aspect of it, While the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of covenant with God. How much more the blood of Jesus Christ which speaks better things than the blood of Abel. Because the blood covenant in this title is all about the covenant of the blood of Christ. Every child of God has a covenant with the blood of Jesus Christ. We are baptized into and covenanted with it. The blood has redeemed us back to God, and back man’s fallen position, in and with God. 1 peter 1:18 Everything the blood has done for us it as well covenant us with God, and the Spirit seals it with the blood to make it active, working, eternal, powerful, forceful and speaking better things. It thus speaks better things, because it is a higher level of blood, it has the unequal potency, spotless and most powerful, the redemption blood. And of it, the Lord said, presenting to us a better kind of blood for the new covenant. The blood is the reason why the new covenant is better than the old. It gives a better ministry, testimony and promises than the old. “And he said unto them, this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many” Mark 14:23 The word “shed for many” denotes redeems or purchase back for many” every blessings needed in your health, business, marriage, ministry, academic, career etc lost by man. He made a new covenant with you base on these blessings. Your covenant with God is put into effect by the blood of Jesus Christ , and what it speaks are the everything Jesus has done and purchased in your life, through his blood of redemption. The blood is the purchasing power like money that purchase salvation for you. In that salvation, you have life, deliverance, Healing, sound health, protection, promotion, success, favor, prosperity, financial blessings, holiness, righteousness, a place at the right hand of God, the fellowship and partnership with the Holy Spirit etc. God covenanted with you base on these blessings of salvation purchased by the blood. They are the covenants of life, healing, sound health, prosperity, success, promotion, peace, finance etc. Jesus by his blood purchased back these for you and by his death and resurrection; he restored them into your life. Yes, man lost all these to sin, but Jesus’ blood was shed to purchase them back into our lives. Like the blood of the Passover lamb in exodus, 12:13 being the type of the Christ’s blood speaks the covenant over your life, at the same time wages war against every enemy of your covenant with God. “The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt” New International Version The blood is a symbol of God’s protection over your entire life, family, business etc Your covenant with God is sealed with the blood of Jesus. That simply implies that, the blood of Jesus is the potent power of the covenant that enforces the redemption benefits and fruits in your life. There are so many other things the blood has redeemed you from and redeemed into your life. Holiness: it has made you Holy. Hebrews 12:13 Eternal covenant: it makes your covenant with God eternal. It can pass on from you to your generation; there is no end to it. It will speak for your children and their own children and children’s children. Hebrews 13:20 Peace: an all round comfort. It has brought all round comfort and complete well-being into your whole life. Hebrews 13:20 Obedience and grace: it has given you the Spirit of obedience so that you would live in obedience to God. It has also given you grace to function in all things. 1 peter 1:2, 22 Priceless: it has made you invaluable. Your life is as priceless as the life of the blood that redeemed you. The worth of every product is the price it is bought. Likewise, the worth of your life and soul is the costliest and blameless blood of Christ. The blood places you at the same place of value and authority with Christ. 1 peter 1:18, Ephesians 1:20-23 The moment you became born again, you entered into this new covenant with God sealed with the blood of Jesus. But it is your knowledge of this covenant and the redemption the blood, has brought into your life (the blessings of salvation it bought back into your life), your confession of the covenant and blessings of the salvation the blood purchased into your life ( as written in his word of this covenant ), and your living in obedience to God’s specific command to you which is your own part to keep Your functioning of the knowledge OF this covenant is what opens the treasure house of the kingdom of heaven for you, because that blood covenant is the key to it. Whenever you function in this knowledge here on earth, the blood speaks for you, and the heavens will open for you, because heaven hear and obeys the voice and speaking of the blood. Moreover, the blood secured us access to heaven’s treasure house and commands its showers on us. When you understand the covenant of the blood of Jesus Christ and apply its knowledge in your life. The blood will then speak for you into the ears of heaven, open its floodgates to you and shower abundant blessings on you. I want to believe you are blessed by this part of the topic. We will soon get across the part three of it to you soon. However, remember that the covenant of God is only with the children of God, who are regarded as the children of promise. Until you are born again you do not have any relationship or covenant with God. If you want to be born again just say with me. Lord Jesus have mercy on me. I come to you as a sinner. Come into my life. I believe you died and rose for me. Wash me with your blood and save me. I accept you as my Lord and savior. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name.