Signed in Red

SIGNED IN RED

IN HONOR OF THE LATE CHARLES MCCOY...”WAYFARER”

Most legal documents require a signature to ensure their validity and authorship. Many authors engage in events where they display their books for sale and, those purchased, personalize with their signature. Often people like to boast, concerning some well known authors books, “I have signed copies”. Somehow this claim individualizes them as more worthy to possess the book than those retrieving it from a moulage of books on some book store shelf. This, I suppose, is as it should be in the world. But, we Christians, while in the world, are not of the world; neither can we be.

Oh, you say, God didn’t have a book signing for the Holy Book of His words. Many would say that God did not personally sign His book. Without His autograph, it cannot be authenticated. But, I tell you that the Holy Bible in the inerrant, authentic and irrefutable Word of God. Though penned by various representatives of God Almighty, it was personalized and solidified by the bright red blood shed by Jesus on the cross and elsewhere.

Consider the book signing Jesus held in the Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane a garden east of Jerusalem near the foot of the Mount of Olives. It was the scene of Jesus's agony and also his later betrayal. (Mark 14). Gethsemane literally means “oil press,” and is situate on a slope of the Mount of Olives just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem. A garden of ancient olive trees gave it its name. Jesus frequently went to Gethsemane with His disciples to pray (John 18:2). On the night of His betrayal, Jesus put God’s signature in blood on His Word. Following that book signing, Christ and Saints shed blood that forever sealed God’s Word s the only book leading the reader to everlasting life. Signed in red, resigned in red and all by the extended hand of God Almighty.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

According to Luke, Jesus’s agonized signing was so deep that "his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground."

Luke 22:44 “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”

1 John 1:7 -But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Proven or signed in blood.
Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Romans 5:9 “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”

1 John 1:7-9 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
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.”
Acts 20:28 “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.”

Revelation 1:5 “...from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,”

Ephesians 1:7 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”

Hebrews 13:12 - “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.”

Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.”

1 Corinthians 11:24-30 “And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.”

John 6:55-59 “For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.”
Colossians 1:20 “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.”

We see blood drops everywhere down through history from Saints of God. Yes, the Bible is the most authentic historical document in existence. There are more evidences confirming the authenticity of scripture than there is to prove Caesar was emperor in Rome, or that Washington crossed the Delaware. The Bible has guided archaeologists to several important sites that were long considered fables. Authentic Christians are marked by the hope of heaven.

1 Colossians 1:5: “…because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel ….”

1:1 “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 1:2 “Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.” 1:3 “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

Isaiah 35:8 “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” Amen. Know God, know peace. 01-02-2020 BLL (RP BRO CHUCK)