Exploring the Power of the Word Made Flesh by Bill Vanderbush

Today we’re diving into the heartbeat of the Gospel—the blood of Jesus. This isn’t just a theological concept; it’s the very life of God poured out to rewrite your story. The blood of Jesus isn’t a relic of the past or a ritual to perform—it’s a living reality that declares who you are and what God has done in Christ. It’s the currency of heaven, the signature and the ink of the New Covenant, and the key to walking in the fullness of your identity as a beloved child of God.

Let’s talk about the “Millennial Reign”. It’s like the Bible tosses us a few cryptic verses in Revelation 20, and end time theologians just can’t help themselves—they grab that sketchy outline and turn it into a Michael Bay movie. Jesus comes swooping in like a cosmic CEO, setting up an earthly government (that looks suspiciously like the one we’ve got now), except He’s the president, and we’re all bickering over who gets to be Vice President or Chief of Staff in the Kingdom. A lot of people right now seem to be applying for the Department of Justice position. We learn that we’re gonna “rule and reign,” and the vibe is we’ll just be bossing around everybody else who didn’t make the cut. That whole setup smells like human ego dressed up in the robes of religion, not the heart of Jesus.

“Evil isn't a thing with its own power. It is a no thing, a nothing. It's a parasite. It's a distortion of the good. And in God's divine wisdom, he has given you and I the power and the authority to do something about it.

Understand, picture evil like a shadow that's cast by a bonfire, real enough to actually make you afraid, but it only exists because the light was there first. See, evil is a no thing or a negation of being, a rebellion against the glory of God woven into the cosmos. Humanity and the fallen angels using their God-given freedom to say no to love, twisting the gift of our freed will into pride and greed and destruction, that's what brings this evil about.”

Bill Vanderbush

This is a message that's going to turn some of your assumptions upside down and set your heart ablaze with the truth of what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross. This is more than just about the forgiveness of your sins. This is about a cosmic victory over death itself. This is a fulfillment of ancient promises and a demonstration of the love of God so fierce that it actually rewrote the entire story of humanity.

Conversion is not about human effort, but about God's transformative grace at work in our lives.

“God is first father, not judge. Don't elevate judge above father. He's a father who has the judgment of a father, and his judgment is based in love.”

Bill Vanderbush

“Athanasius painted a wild and beautiful picture of the love of God, God himself literally crashing into humanity, fully divine, fully human, 100% love. He's saying, look, the creator, God, revealed in Christ, didn't just fix us from a distance. He's not a distant God. He moved into the neighborhood. This isn't some side hustle. He is fully engaged with humanity.”

Bill Vanderbush

“Jesus knew the wilderness very well. And he's going to take that crown of shame into the wilderness of our affliction, infirmity, and sin. And there in the wilderness, he becomes lost, forsaken, you could say, by his own creation.

And why? So that he could redeem us from the curse of the fall. Back in Matthew chapter 3, John the Baptist looked at the religious leaders and said to them, the axe is being laid at the root of the tree.

What tree? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree that caused us so much trouble in the first place.”

Bill Vanderbush

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