Part 3
REPENTANCE AND THE BLOOD OF YAHSHUA
All souls have not the benefit of Yahshua’s blood until they repent and apply His blood to their lives by faith. But to know that Yahshua is the Son of Eloheem and to believe that His blood suffices to the salvation of our soul is not enough to save us if we don’t love Him and if we willfully continue in sin without remorse. Yahshua is looking for faith in His blood which is mingled with self-surrender and godly sorrow - a willingness to forsake sin. When it is so that wicked stirrings of pride, lust, envy, gluttony, criticism etc., arise in our hearts we must resist and strive against them, by being disappointed at them, so that we don’t willfully give in to them. If through weakness we sin against our own will and grieve and pain over it we must immediately apply Yahshua’s blood and believe in His forgiveness. Having done what lays in our power to resist sin we must believe that we have been forgiven. At that point we open the door for the secret work of the Holy Ghost to destroy the root of sin via the baptism of fire.
A soul that does not believe in Yahshua is so fully taken up with the love of the world, and so much over laid with the liking of his flesh in all his sensuality, that he chooses it as a full rest of his heart. Such a sinful soul is so weak and impotent, for lack of grace, that he can neither move hand nor foot to do any good deed, nor to resist (by displeasing of will) the least motion of sin, when it comes but falls down to it, just like a beast upon carrion. But a soul who believes in Yahshua and has faith in His blood, though he use his fleshly senses and feels fleshly stirrings, yet he loathes them in his heart, for he would not for any good rest in them fully, but flees any such rest in them, as the biting of an adder, and had rather have his rest and the love of his heart in Eloheem. He often flees the pleasures of this life, for love of the life everlasting. Through grace he is made mighty and strong to suffer and bear his body, with all the evil stirrings of it, without hurting or defiling himself, inasmuch as he loves them not, nor follows them, nor consents to sin, as the other does.
Therefore, souls that are blinded and bound with the love of this world, I say and counsel that they would think on their souls, and dispose themselves for grace as much as they can. Let them first think with themselves what a miserable and dangerous thing it is to be out of the state of grace and separated from Eloheem; for there is nothing that holds them from falling into the pit of hell presently, save the bare single thread of this bodily life. For, were the breath stopped in their body (and that may easily happen) their soul would presently pass out, and would instantly be in hell, there to remain everlastingly. And if they would but thus think with themselves for some time, they would shake and tremble at the righteous judgments of Eloheem and at His severe punishing of sins, and they would begin to grieve and sorrow for their sins, and for their want of Eloheem's grace and favor, and then would they cry and pray that they might have grace, and if they did thus, then would grace enter in and put out darkness and hardness of heart and weakness of their will, and give them might and strength to forsake the false love of this world. There is no soul so far from Eloheem through willfulness of deadly sin that may not, through grace, become righteous, and be restored to cleanness of living, if he will but bow and submit his will to Eloheem with humility, amend his life, and heartily ask grace and forgiveness of Him. For holy the Scriptures say: I will not, saith Yahweh, the death of a sinner, but rather that he be converted and live. Yahshua’s will is that the most froward man that lives, if he will but change his will and ask grace, may be reformed to His likeness by the power of the cross.
Though you be ever so wretched, and have committed never so great sins, do but forsake yourself and all your sins and cry out to Eloheem for mercy and ask salvation by virtue of Yahshua’s blood, and that with a good trust, and without doubt you shall have it. Upon that act of faith and surrender the Spirit sets out to purge your life of the nature and root of sin via the cross and baptism of fire - baptism into Mashiach’s sufferings.