"He Died For You;
Now He Lives For You"

Romans 5:5-10  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Hebrews 7:23-8:3  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

• And that death for our sins was a powerful work of God.
• We noted that His death occurred for us when we were yet ENEMIES.
• We were UNGODLY.
• Nobody on earth would die for ungodly people, let alone there scarcely be a person who would die for righteous people.
• But God's love was so astounding that He died for us when we were ungodly.
• And some Christians think God hates them when they make a mistake and sin.
• If He loved you when you PURPOSELY, without care, sinned, I am sure He loves you now when you make a mistake and sin.

• After dying for our sins, we can say that HE DIED FOR US.
• But what about after we are saved from sin by His death?
• What if we make a mistake now?
• It is only appointed unto men ONCE to die, and we died ONCE with Him from sin.
• So what does that leave us when we sin AFTER we are saved, and His death did the work it was supposed to do?
• Are we lost?
• Is there nothing for us AFTER we accept His death?

• They were saved by faith, and they continue from that point of faith into a life of fleshly living.
• They "save themselves" out of troubles.
• They perform to please God.
• BUT THAT IS ALL WRONG.

• And He is alive forevermore.
• He DIED for you, BUT NOW HE LIVES FOR YOU.

• "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. "

• He LIVES for a purpose.
• His death served a GREAT purpose.
• BUt we tend to stop there and not realize HE IS ALIVE NOW, TOO.
• AND THAT LIFE HAS A PURPOSE, ALSO.
• HE LIVES FOR YOU.

• The High Priest was a man who took the burden of Israel upon Himself in atonement for sin.
• But he died, and another one was ordained to be High Priest, and so on, for generations.
• But CHRIST NEVER DIES.

• The prosecuting attorney is being defeated by the ace lawyer you hired for your case!
• Your case is going ahead greatly and you are winning.
• But the case is still ongoing.
• AND THEN YOUR LAWYER DIES!
• Will you get another lawyer that is that good?


"And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."

• It does not matter what your sin is, if you repent and turn to Him, HE POINTS AT THE ACCUSER and says...
• "Yes, y client did sin."
• "Yes, he/she did commit what the prosecutor alleged."
• "Yes, these things are all true, but there is one thing the Devil failed to show as evidence, and that is that this person has come in repentance and claims my blood I shed on Calvary for their sins.  THEREFORE, I DETERMINE THAT THIS CLIENT IS INNOCENT!!!!"

• he knows that if you go to God in repentance in the NAME OF JESUS, claiming the BLOOD for your MISTAKES when you sin, THEN HE LOST HIS CASE AGAINST YOU!
• You will be forgiven.

• He tries to make you think God hates you now.
• But Jesus DIED for you when you were an enemy, and HE LIVES FOR YOU NOW THAT YOU ARE HIS OWN.
• And His LIFE IS INTERCESSION MINISTRY -- OR LAWYER for your case.
• He ever LIVETH to make intercession FOR YOU.
• HE LIVETH FOR YOU.
• Intercession is being a lawyer ON YOUR SIDE.

Romans 8:33  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

• We may very well be blameable for sins we commit.
• Ever feel blamed?
• Ever feel deserving of blame?
• But GOD JUSTIFIES us.
• Being blameable means that you truly did wrong.
• We all truly do wrong sometimes.
• But in order to justify someone, you must take a blameable person and JUSTIFY THEM, or change their situation and make them UNBLAMEABLE.
• How does GOD CHANGE us from blameable to unblameable?
• We were already saved from SIN by His death, so what else is there for us?
• HIS LIFE is for us.
• HE LIVES to make intercession for us.
• That means your sins after you are saved must be repented of, and take to God to be removed like your sins were removed by His blood in His Death.
• And then those sins are gone, too!

CONDEMNED?

Romans 8:34  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

• Christ DIED, for one thing, for us.
• And YEA RATHER, He is risen and right now is at the right hand of God MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US.
• Intercession is necessary when we make mistakes after we sin.
• And He is MAKING INTERCESSION for us NOW.
• The ace lawyer is winning our case!
• Satan is a liar.
• Once you know your intercessor is taking your case, YOU KNOW YOU WILL WIN.
• So you can LAUGH at the devil when he tries to condemn you after you prayed and repented.

• KNOW THE WORD.
• THE WORD SAYS your case is handled by the INTERCESSOR.

• But my pastor showed me these words:


1John 2:1-2  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

• AN ACE LAWYER.
• He will take our case and WIN IT every time.
• So long as we trust in His blood and go back and claim our rights for forgiveness at the cross.
• We have a right for forgiveness, and DON'T LET SATAN CONVINCE YOU OTHERWISE!

• Your RESISTANCE to sin might be low, while your spirit hates sinning, and GOD UNDERSTANDS THAT.


Matthew 26:41  Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

• But He understood that though they slept and could not pray, THEIR INTENTIONS AND THEIR SPIRITS WERE WILLING TO DO SO.
• Jesus said that!
• God knows when you are low in resistance and you sin.
• To have a WILLING SPIRIT, but weak FLESH, is to know it is wrong before you do it, but being unable ot resist the temptation, and to sin.
• GOD FORGIVES US OF THOSE SINS WHEN WE REPENT.
• We just need to grow.
• BUT DO NOT LET THE DEVIL MAKE YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO BE FORGIVEN BECAUSE YOU KNEW IT WAS WRONG BEFORE YOU DID IT.
• God knows your SPIRIT IS WILLING, although your FLESH IS WEAK.
• But YOU STILL HAVE TO REPENT sincerely.

• SO BELIEVE THESE WORDS I PREACH TO YOU!

• Jesus KNEW THE WORD, so He used it against the devil.
• You need to KNOW THIS WORD about forgiveness and intercession.
• If you were not expected to make mistakes, why does HE EVER INTERCEDE FOR US NOW?
• Intercession is for those who make errors.
• God expects us to make mistakes.
• BUT HE ALSO EXPECTS US TO LEARN FROM THEM AND GROW to be able to TRUST IN HIS STRENGTH to stop sinning as time goes by.
• Some never grow.
• And they will make the same mistakes for the rest of their lives.
• But so long as they repent and continue to truly seek God for forgiveness, they will be saved.

Romans 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:38-39  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• If He loved us when we were enemies, do you think that being His child will separate you from His love when you make a MISTAKE?
• MISTAKE is the all important word.
• Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway, because our RESISTANCE is low, IS STILL A MISTAKE.
• HE STILL LOVES US.
• If He loves the homosexuals, and the murderers and the wife-beaters, to DIE FOR THEM, then he certainly STILL LOVES YOU, His child who made a mistake.
• HE HATES THE SIN, but LOVES THE SINNER.

• You need to KNOW THIS.
• Don't stop coming to church because you make a mistake.
• You need to come here so I can show you these things, so that the devil will not succeed in lying to you, saying God hates you.
• Paul was "PERSUADED".
• Are you?

When Jesus was riding into Jerusalem, the people cried HOSANNA!!

Matthew 21:9  And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

• Salvation was coming, because JESUS was coming.

Matthew 21:15  And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

• As we read past this verse, we see Him begin to speak parables of Messianic rejection, indicating they were rejecting the Messiah.
• He said the vineyard of the KINGDOM would be given to another people, for they rejected the SON.
• He told about the wedding invitations ignored by the people (Israel), and being sent instead to others (Gentiles) not initially invited.
• He said HE was the cornerstone that the builders rejected.


Matthew 21:42-43  Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Psalm 118:22  The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.

Psalm 118:26  Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

• But He was rejected, and therefore said...


Matthew 23:37-39  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

• He brought SALVATION.
• HOSANNA means SALVATION BELONGS TO THE KING.
• And the KING had COME.

Revelation 7:9-10  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

• And these were people from every nation!
• NOT JUST ISRAEL.
• Salvation came to us!
• Because we believed HE BROUGHT IT.
• We cried HOSANNA.
• HOSANNA is the cry that every sinner must make, saying Jesus is saviour!
• AND HE WILL SAVE.

• We need to be saved from things AFTER we are saved from sin by His death.
• We are saved FROM WRATH BY HIS LIFE!
• Romans said, "being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."
• HE LIVES FOR YOU.
• He is STILL SALVATION.
• Cry HOSANNA when you need help!
• SALVATION WILL COME!

Revelation 12:7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Revelation 12:8-9  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

• Angels are only brethren to those saved children of God.
• THE COMING OF SALVATION IS "HOSANNA".
• That voice was actually saying the same thing as saying "HOSANNA".
• SALVATION IS COME.

• Salvation COMES TO YOU, when you are being accused by the devil's words.
• He sees you have sinned and he accuses you.
• And his words of accusation might be true.
• You did commit those sins.
• BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED that brought salvation from it all.
• YOU CLAIMED THE BLOOD.


Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

• But you have to know the word in order for that to happen.
• When the devil condemns you, you will easily fail UNLESS you know exactly how God thinks of you when you sin and make a mistake.
• You need to know HIS LOVE IS THERE FOR YOU, HE STILL LOVES YOU.
• And you need to know THE BLOOD IS THERE FOR YOU TO CLAIM.
• Point to the blood and say, "This blood was shed for me that I might be saved from sin, and is still there for me to claim now that I am a child of God who has made a mistake.  I claim this blood as my right for VICTORY over the devil."
• And you have overcome!

• If you do not know the word, you WILL BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE DEVIL.
• He's too good of a liar to deal with without knowing the WORD OF TRUTH.

• When you make a mistake, CRY HOSANNA!
• Know that HE LIVES FOR YOU!
• His heartbeat is for you!
• You're worth more than all the world to Him.
• HE LIVES FOR YOU!

• One can only be delivered from sin by the cross, but after that, he saves you from troubles and failures by HIS LIFE OF INTERCESSION.
• Revelation 12 is long after Revelation 5, where the Lamb shed its blood for our salvation.
• But we still see salvation coming to GOD'S PEOPLE, this time, and not to lost sinners alone.
• He saves from the accuser and from condemnation.

• TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR YOU!