{Benefits of the Cross) Death Day 1

Verse: Romans 6:4

Romans 6:4 (NASB)

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:4 (NIV)

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Romans 6:4-5 (MSG)

That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country.

Benefit of the Cross: We are given a newness of life.

Faith Statement: Because of Your death, I am given a new life.  

Next Verse: Romans 5:8-11

{Benefits of the Cross} Offering Day 1

Verse: Hebrews 10:14


Hebrews 10:14 (NIV)

For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Hebrews 10:14 (NKJV)

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Benefit of the Cross: The Offering/Sacrifice that was given makes is perfect.


Faith Statement: Because of Your offering, I am viewed as perfect in your eyes.


Tomorrow's Verse: 1 John 4:10

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 13

Verse: Revelation 12:9-11
Revelation 12:9-11 (NASB)

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

Revelation 12:9-11 (NIV)

The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Benefits of the Cross:  Our accuser, the devil, was defeated by the blood of the Lamb.


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, my accuser is defeated and holds no power over me!


Tomorrow's Verse: Tomorrow we will be starting a new word study! We will now be studying the word Offering.  Our verse will be Hebrews 10:14. 

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 12

Verse: Revelation 5:9

Revelation 5:9 (NASB)

And they *sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

Revelation 5:9 (NIV)

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Benefits of the Cross: We were purchased by the blood of Jesus!


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, Satan doesn't own me!!


Tomorrow's Verse: Revelation 12:9-11

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 11

Verse: 1 John 1:7


1 John 1:7 (NASB)

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:6-7 (MSG)

But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God's Son, purges all our sin.

Benefits of the Cross: The blood of Jesus washes ALL our sins away!


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, I am viewed as SINLESS in Your eyes!


Tomorrow'sVerse:  Revelation 5:9

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 10

Vacations are fun, but it is so good to come home and thus get our study going again!!

Verse: Hebrews 10:19-22

Hebrews 10:19-22 (NASB)- 19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled cleanfrom an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.


Hebrews 10:19-22 (NIV)- 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.


Hebrews 10:19-22 (MSG)- 19-21 So, friends, we can now—without hesitation—walk right up to God, into "the Holy Place." Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The "curtain" into God's presence is his body.22 So let's do it—full of belief, confident that we're presentable inside and out.  


Benefits of the Cross: We can enter the Most Holy Place by his blood.  We are given a new way of living.  Our consciences have been cleansed.


Faith Statement: Because of your blood, nothing separates me from coming into your presence. 


Because of your blood, I can live a life worthy of You.


Because of you blood, I am no longer weighed down by all the things I have done. 


Tomorrow's Verse:  1 John 1:7

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 9

Verse: Hebrews 9:22


Hebrews 9:22 (NKJV)

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

Hebrews 9:18-22 (MSG)

Moses said to the people, "This is the blood of the covenant God has established with you." Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. That's why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins.

Hebrews 9:22 (NASB)

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Benefits: The blood of Christ makes it possible for our sins to be forgiven. 


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood my sins are forgiven!


Tomorrow's Verse: Hebrews 10:19-22

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 8

Verse: Hebrews 9: 12-15


Hebrews 9:12-15 (KJV)  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but in his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who thought the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your on science from dean works to serve the living God?  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were  under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 9:12-15 (MSG) He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all.  If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.  Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can life all out for God.

Benefits: The blood of Jesus cleanses us and frees us from sin.


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, I stand before You purified and sinless!


Tomorrow's Verse: Hebrews 9:22

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 7

Verse: Hebrews 2:14


Hebrews 2:14 (KJV)

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Hebrews 2:14-15 (MSG)

Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it's logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil's hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.

Hebrews 2:14 (NASB)

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Benefits: When Jesus died on the cross, the devil became powerless!


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, the devil has no power over me!!


Tomorrow's Verse: Hebrews 9:12-15

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 6

Verse: Colossians 1:20

Colossians 1:20 (KJV)

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Colossians 1:19-20 (MSG) (This one is amazing!!)

Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe-people and things, animals and atoms-get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.

Benefits- Christ's blood, brings all things back into harmony with one another! It puts our broken lives back together again!

Faith Statement- Because of Your blood, I am restored to Your original design.  You view me as perfectly new! All of the hardships and heartache that have torn my life apart and left me broken don't matter anymore! Because of you, I am whole.

Tomorrow's Verse: Hebrews 2:14

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 5

Verse: Ephesians 2:13


Ephesians 2:13 (NASB)

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:13 (NKJV)

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Benefit: The blood of Jesus brings us near to Him.


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, sin no longer separates me from You!


Tomorrow's Verse: Colossians 1:20

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 4

Verse: Ephesians 1: 13, 14


Ephesians 1:13,14 (KJV)

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:13-14 (MSG)

It's in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first installment on what's coming, a reminder that we'll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.

Ephesians 1:13,14 (NASB)

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,  who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Benefit: I am sealed for Heaven!!


Faith Statement: Because of Your blood, I am going to Heaven!! I have been purchased by Christ for His kingdom.


Tomorrow's Verse: Ephesians 2:13

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 3

Verse: Ephesians 1:7

Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Ephesians 1:7-10 (MSG)

Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

Ephesians 1:7 (NASB)

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Benefit: Our sins are forgiven

Faith Statement:  Because of Your blood, sin no longer burdens me.   I stand forgiven in your presence!

Tomorrow's Verse: Ephesians 1:13,14

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 2

Acts 20:28-

Acts 20:28 (KJV)

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Acts 20:28 (NASB)

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Benefit- God purchased me with his blood!

Faith Statement- Because of Your blood, Satan doesn't own me!!

Tomorrow's Verse- Ephesians 1:7

{Benefits of the Cross} Blood Day 1

Here we go!! As I had mentioned earlier, in this study, we will be studying the benefits of the cross by looking up words, that pertain to the cross, in the concordance, and then looking up each of those verses, and claiming the benefit that Jesus gave us.

Here is the process that we will use for this study: First, I decided that a good way to start would be with the word BLOOD.  I looked up this word in the concordance and selected some verses containing the word blood.  Next, I used the you version Bible, which allows you to look up verses in many different versions of the Bible to look up the first verse. After reading the verse, I ask myself, "What is the benefit of the cross mentioned in this verse?" Finally, after finding the benefit, I make a Faith Statement and claim that promise/benefit! So Let's get started!!

Verse: Matthew 26:28 


Matthew 26:28 (KJV)

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Matthew 26:26-29 (MSG)

This is my blood, God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

Benefit: Christ's blood forgives sins.

Faith Statement: Because of your blood, I stand forgiven. 

Tomorrow's Verse:  Acts 20:28