
True story. Several years ago, I had a dream. In this dream, there was a large crusade tent. I was standing outside the tent. People were in this large tent, and their attention was drawn to what was happening at the other end of the tent. I was on the outside looking in. I had a desire, a longing, if you will, to be a part of that large gathering under the tent. But I stood there as an outsider.
Then, something caught my attention to my left. A large brown parchment-type scroll unrolled before me from the sky to the ground. It was an enormous scroll. Then, like an invisible hand with an ink pen, words began appearing on the scroll, starting at the top and filling the scroll to the bottom. It was my life, and my sins were written in dark, bold letters.
As I saw this, I fell to my hands and knees and began to weep. I was weeping because of my sins. I felt such agonizing despair! I was guilty! The record was true! While sobbing and weeping over my sins, I heard a noise from the scroll and looked towards it. I watched as a red translucent liquid began washing down the scroll. When it washed over my sins, the dark, bold letters illuminated into a bright white light, and the words of my sins became sparkling points of light that grew and then burst into a million points of light.
As the red translucent liquid subsided, I noticed that every place where my sins used to be was now blank. This red translucent wave had washed all my sins away. At this point, I was still on my hands and knees, and then I began sobbing even more. I wasn’t weeping over my sins but in awe of God’s great mercy, grace, and forgiveness. I was overwhelmed by His love for me. I was weeping because the blood of Jesus had washed my sins away, and they were gone forever!
Even now, when I ponder that dream, tears begin to well up. I am forever grateful for the blood of Jesus. There is power in the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. Yet, my sins are no greater or lesser than anyone else’s. The large crusade tent represents the Kingdom of God. Those in the tent are the redeemed, those whose sins have been washed away. I was an outsider because of my sins. I couldn’t be among them because my sins had separated me from God. My sins kept me out of the Kingdom of God. My weeping over my sins was godly sorrow and the acknowledgment that I was 100% guilty of all my sins. The red translucent liquid was the blood of Jesus. The scene of what happened when the blood came in contact with my sins is what the blood of Jesus does to our sins. The blood of Jesus doesn’t cover our sins; it washes them away. My weeping from seeing my sins washed away is a humble, grateful heart. I pray I will always have a humble and grateful heart.
Although not in the dream, when I repented of my sins, and the blood of Jesus washed my sins away, I am now one of the redeemed. This wonderful gift is available to anyone who will humbly repent. The blood of Jesus will wash away all your sins, and you will be redeemed.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. [1 Corinthians 6:11 NKJV]
…To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, [Revelation 1:5 NKJV]
…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, [Titus 3:5 NKJV]
As far as the east is from the west, [So] far has He removed our transgressions from us. [Psalm 103:12 NKJV]
“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” [Jeremiah 31:34 NKJV]
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