Satan cannot access us through the blood of Jesus.  First Corinthians 6:20 says we were bought with that price, the precious blood of Jesus.  Titus 2:14 says we are redeemed from all iniquity.  How many of you are glad that your past sins have been forgiven?  We need to rejoice with just as great, if not even more, anticipation and excitement the fact that even your future sins have been forgiven.  Sins you haven’t even committed yet have been forgiven, praise God!  As God, by His grace, enables you to come to those places of repentance and recognize that it’s by faith through His grace that you’re enabled to believe in this great finished work and the effectualness of that death, the shedding of that blood on your behalf. 

Hebrews 9:12 says it this way, that your redemption is made effectual only by the blood of Jesus Christ.  Keep in your mind, see somehow, if you can, just picture it, a transaction taking place.  You were held under the power of sin.  You were held under the dominion of Satan.  To keep the justice of God intact–because God is just.  He couldn’t just come in by force and take us away from Satan.  There was a transgression.  There was sin.  There was justice that needed to effect itself.  It’s very similar to when David wanted the threshing floor from Araunah there.  He went and Araunah said, “I’ll just give it to you so it can be offered up to the Lord.”  David said, “No, I will not offer anything that has not cost me.”  Amen?  God, in His justice, knew there was a debt that had to be paid.  He stepped up and paid on your behalf.

I don’t know how much you think you’re worth.  Some of us ping-pong back and forth, thinking we’re worth a lot, then we’re thinking we’re worth nothing.  God felt that you were worth paying it in full, once for all, through our substitute, Jesus dying on our behalf.  He not only was made sin with our sin, but conferred on us His righteousness while we were yet sinners.  We’re a blessed people.

As we begin to see the whole process that goes on into our freedom from Satan, look at these verses.  In Acts 26:18, our freedom from Satan.  Romans 6:7, 12 our freedom from sin.  Colossians 1:13-14, our ability to walk in dominion over the powers of darkness through the blood of Jesus Christ.  Ephesians 4:30, sealed by the Holy Ghost in the day of redemption.  You’re not your own; amen?  Paul, in that great fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, reminds the Corinthians of the gospel that he brought them, reminding them of what it cost God to justify them freely by grace, Romans 3 says.

Father, we thank You tonight for Your presence, Your love.  Just help us to take some time to meditate on the effectualness of that sinless, spotless Lamb offered up on our behalf, chosen from before the foundation of the world for us but also for that person that we need to approach tomorrow, as we share freely that unspeakable gift.  We thank You for that opportunity, Father.  We’ll be careful to give You all the glory and all the praise for what You’ve done on our behalf.  Free and free indeed.  Hallelujah!  Amen.