Pleading the Blood of Jesus is not begging, it is a legal term.
REVELATION 12:10-11 NKJ
10 . . . the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
The devil is our accuser. The only successful plea is the Blood of Jesus. Pleading our innocence, our merits, or our good works, will fail. Only relying on the shed Blood of our substitute sacrifice, the Lamb of God, will win our case before God the Judge.
However the enemy comes, he can be overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. We have victory over every evil because of Jesus' shed Blood.
Our lives must also be fully committed to God: we must trust Him. We must have faith in what God has done and what He is doing.
Passover
God gave instructions to the Israelites so they could escape the judgment that was to befall the Egyptians.
EXODUS 12:7,13 NKJ
7 `And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
13 `Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
The Egyptians had no protection from the destroyer, but the people of Israel who put the blood of a lamb on their dwellings were safe.
EXODUS 12:21-23 NKJ
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
22 "And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
23 "For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
The blood represented the Blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (
Rev. 13:8). Judgment was legally avoided because of it.
The blood applied stopped the destroyer. Action was required not just belief in the blood.
PSALM 105:37 NKJ
37 He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes.
Christ Our Passover
Christ was our passover. Can we not expect Him to provide us as much protection and deliverance as the lamb did for the children of Israel in Egypt?
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7 NKJ
7 . . . For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
HEBREWS 8:6 NKJ
6 . . . He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
LUKE 22:20 NKJ
20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
New Covenant believers have the right to draw a faith Blood line the devil cannot cross. By speaking words of faith we apply the Blood over the "doorposts" of our lives the outer edges of all that belongs to us.
Wherever we have authority we should apply the Blood and never leave the protection the Blood provides.
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