26/12/2023
*The Apostolic Church Nigeria, Estate Assembly, Nung Oku Ibesikpo District Invites you to her 2 Days District end of the year Christmas Carol tagged THE BLOOD OF JESUS, SPEAK FOR ME*
*Date* : Thursday 28 to Friday 29 December, 2023.
*Venue* : Church Auditorium.
*Time* : Thursday… 6pm to 9pm.
Friday… 8pm till dawn (All Night).
JESUS’ BLOOD SPEAKS ‘BETTER THINGS’: MERCY.
HEBREWS 12:24, NEW KING JAMES VERSION
…TO JESUS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND TO THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS THAN THAT OF ABEL.
Genesis 4:10,
New International Version
The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
Cain was jealous when God rejected his offering and accepted his brother’s, so he killed his brother. The day that Cain murdered Abel, he did not just kill one man but crushed an entire generation of families.
The blood of Abel was screaming before the throne of God to be avenged, because the generations confined within Abel would never see the light of day once he died. So why does the Bible say that Jesus blood speaks better than Abel’s?
Jesus came, like Abel, offering a better sacrifice than ‘His brother’. The Pharisees and Sadducees (like Cain) were jealous of Jesus and, together with the Romans and other Jews, they sentenced Him to death.
When Jesus was brought before Herod, he knew their accusations were grounded in jealousy.
The same jealousy in Cain transferred through the bloodline. When Jesus (the embodiment of Abel), stepped into the land, the same spirit of Cain came after Him.
The difference between the death of Abel and Jesus is that when they killed Jesus, the blood that went before the throne of God did not cry for vengeance or anger, it cried for mercy: ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do’ (Luke 23:34, NKJV).
Instead of taking upon Himself the spirit of vengeance, Jesus took upon Himself the Spirit of mercy. And mercy overrides judgement.
