Mark Hankins Ministries

Through the Blood of Jesus

IN CHRIST: BLOOD COVENANT TERMINOLOGY

Several years ago, while walking through an airport, Trina bought me the book, The Power of the Blood of Christ.  I thought, "Why do I need that book? I've been raised in church and know all about that topic."  After reading it, I realized how much I needed to learn. Andrew Murray said, "Faith is largely dependent on knowledge. If knowledge of what the blood can accomplish is inaccurate, then faith expects little, and the more powerful effects of the blood are limited. Feeble ideas of its power prevent the deeper and more perfect manifestations of its effects." Regardless of your knowledge of the Word, it is possible to grow in revelation knowledge and faith in the blood of Jesus.

To illustrate the power of the blood of Jesus, we want to share our grandson Dylan's experience. At three years old, he was diagnosed with stage four leukemia and underwent chemotherapy for almost two years. Our hearts fell when he was finishing his last few treatments and tests revealed the cancer cells had returned.  The doctors told us a bone marrow transplant was necessary to save his life.  While in a meeting with the doctor who was overseeing Dylan's transplant, I asked why, after being told the leukemia was in remission, it came back. Dr. Yu explained that there are two kinds of remission. The first kind is when the cancer is no longer active in the blood. The second kind is called "molecular remission,” which means there is no evidence of cancer cells at the molecular level.   

Preparations were made for the transplant and the search for a donor began. Dylan's brother, Gavin was chosen to be the donor. For three days, Gavin's life-saving blood was drawn. Dylan underwent strong chemotherapy and intense radiation to destroy his diseased bone marrow. This treatment prepared Dylan's body to receive his brother's healthy stem cells.  Dr. Yu told Dylan, "We are getting ready to say goodbye to you! You're going to be a new person after this!" The first six hours following the graft were critical. We imagined that when Dylan received Gavin's stem cells, his body would welcome the new cells. Dylan stayed in strict quarantine for several weeks.  One day the doctor announced with a big smile, "The new cells are multiplying! The graft is growing!" Dylan's bone marrow eventually became one-hundred percent Gavin's.  A bone marrow transplant can change the recipient’s hair, eyes, skin and even their personality.  Dylan’s DNA now matched Gavin’s.  So if Gavin was convicted of a crime, Dylan could be convicted also because they have the same DNA.  Dylan has been twinned to Gavin. 

IMAGINE WHO YOUR DONOR IS NOW

If medical science can do that physically, what can God do spiritually?  First of all, imagine who your donor is.  Your donor is the Lord Jesus Christ who carries the blood of the New Covenant. Just as the chemotherapy could not remove leukemia in Dylan's blood, the Old Testament sacrifices could not perfect us or remove our sin consciousness (Hebrews 10:1-4). The goal of a bone marrow transplant is absolute remission of cancer, which means there are zero cancer cells in any molecules of the body. Spiritually, we now have absolute remission of sin through Jesus’ blood.  The term remission in Christ’s work of redemption means cancellation of penalty and removal of guilt. Hebrews 10:18 (AMPC) says, “Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these sins…there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin." Colossians 1:22 (TLB) says, “...now as a result Christ has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are standing there before him with nothing left against you—nothing left that he could even chide you for.”

Through the blood of Jesus, sin has now gone into one-hundred percent remission. The Old Testament sacrifices produced the forgiveness of sin. In the New Testament, the blood of Jesus has the power to not only remove sin from the mind of God, but also to remove sin and sin consciousness from the memory of the believer. In the Old Testament, God said, "I will not remember your sin." Now, because of the blood of Jesus, God says, "Neither will you remember your sin." Believers now can be free from shame and have a revelation of the reality of their righteousness in Christ.

ENGRAFTED INTO CHRIST

Just as Gavin's blood brought molecular remission in his brother's body, Jesus' perfect blood brings us absolute remission of sin when we receive it by faith. I imagine God saying, "I'm saying goodbye to the old sinful you!" There was a grafting process where God's divine nature completely recreated your spirit.  Second Corinthians 5:17 (AMPC) says, “Therefore, if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come.” Say goodbye to the old you! Everything is new! The moment the blood of Jesus is applied, you can say goodbye to Satan's dominion.

Today, God’s power is released at the intersection where faith and the blood of Jesus meet.  God lives in constant view of the blood of Christ, and we must too. Faith in the blood of Jesus gives overcoming power.   

This month we want to offer you our brand-new book, “In Christ: This Changes Everything.” We believe this book will strengthen your faith and help you take your place in Christ.  There are over 130 scriptures in the Bible that use the key words In Christ, In Him, and In Whom.  Out of those 130, there are over 30 keys scriptures that tell us who we are and what we have in Christ.  Along with practical teaching, this book is a collection of over 30 scriptures that are listed in several translations to help give you further light and revelation on your identity.  For your offering of any amount this month we will send you this brand-new book (just check the box on the order form). 

Trina and I want to thank you for your partnership with us.  Your giving is helping us distribute the Word of God to many people through the daily television, all the social media outlets, and the books that are being distributed in many countries.  The Word is growing and multiplying!!  We declare this blessing to all our partners, “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 4:19. 

In Christ,
Mark and Trina

Meeting with God

HOW TO HAVE A MEETING WITH GOD

The Bible was written by men who had a “meeting” and personal encounter with God. Here are a few examples. God revealed Himself to Moses in a burning bush and Moses went on to lead the nation of Israel out of slavery, receive the Ten Commandments, and write the first five books of the Bible by revelation. David, the man after God’s heart, killed giants, built a nation, and was the sweet psalmist whose eyes saw the glory of God. Isaiah saw the glory of God, was touched by the coal from God’s altar, and became a prophetic mouthpiece for God. Saul’s name and identity were changed after the light from heaven knocked him from his horse. From that moment the Apostle Paul never stopped in his pursuit to know Jesus Christ. These are some of many who were strong and did exploits for God because they knew and experienced God (Daniel 11:32). We can have our own meeting with God through faith in Jesus’ blood. We must stand before Him, in His Presence, where we take hold of His faith and do His will.

Some people try to have faith from a distance. However, there is no such thing as “long distance faith.” They quote scriptures but don’t seem to know how to access the presence of God. They try to believe without getting before Him. The phrase “before Him” is also translated in His presence or in His sight.

“And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord” (Genesis 19:27). Romans 4:17 says, “As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Abraham did not just have the promises of God, but his faith was loaded with the presence of God. He was God- conscious. I like to say that some people are self-conscious, some are people-conscious, or devil conscious. Some people are time-conscious, and others are just unconscious! However, to win the fight of faith, we must be God-conscious.

Imagine if you had an invitation to meet with someone who is very influential, extremely rich, and would grant you anything you desired. When you learn how to pray, that’s exactly what’s happening! I like to call it, “How To Have A Meeting With God.”

If you were invited to the White House to meet the president, you would be given exact information and the protocol to follow. In the same way, when you meet with God, the meeting place is established at the throne of grace, and your access is granted through the blood of Jesus. Now, there are unlimited possibilities open to you. God is looking for someone to show Himself strong to. It’s His pleasure to grant every need and fulfill every desire. Not only will He do this to the detail, but exceedingly, abundantly, far over and above all you can ask or imagine. Having a “meeting with God” opens all of heaven’s resources to you.

Romans 3:25-27 gives us this protocol, which begins with having faith in the blood of Jesus to qualify you to meet with God. “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.”

In the Greek, the word “propitiation” means mercy seat. That’s our meeting place. Exodus 25:22 tells us what happens in the meeting, “There I will meet with you and from above the mercy seat...I will speak intimately with you….” In the Old Testament, only the high priest, once a year could have this meeting. However, everything changed when Jesus, by His own blood, entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us,” (Hebrews 9:12).

Jesus has made the way for anyone with faith in His blood to meet with God. “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water,” Hebrews 10:19-20, 22.

Paul describes this meeting in Colossians 1:22 (TLB), “And now Christ has brought you into the very Presence of God and you are standing there before Him with nothing left against you-nothing left He could even chide you for.” The KJV says, “to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.” There is no one who can get closer to God than you can. Any time someone has faith in the blood, that’s where the meeting place is. Hebrews 10:22 in the Lovett says, “Let us, as members of His family, exercise our right of access and press closer and closer to the Father. But we must come with childlike faith and the unshakeable assurance He is eager to receive us.” The Doddridge translation says, “Let us not stand at a distance as if God were inaccessible; but on the contrary, let us draw near with a sincere and affectionate heart, in the full assurance of faith, supported by such considerations as these, which may well embolden us...to make our approach unto Him in the most cheerful expectation of His blessing.”

We boldly ask God to strengthen and bless you, our partner, with mighty power in your spirit. He will then be able to do exceedingly, abundantly and above all you can ask or think. We want to offer you our book, “The Bloodline of a Champion” and the 2 CD’s “How to Have a Meeting with God.” We believe they will stir your faith and you will have a greater revelation of how to have a meeting with God.

We also want to thank you for your faithful partnership. We are making great progress on our new Conference Center. In just a few months we will be hosting our first conference in the new building. Thank you for your faithful partnership. We are believing for about $500,000 more to finish the Conference Center. We declare to you the same blessing Paul declared to his partners, “And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 4:19 (AMPC).