Derek Prince - Bought with Blood: The Divine Exchange at the Cross

BOUGHT
with
BLOOD

Books by Derek Prince

Biography

Appointment in Jerusalem

Derek Prince: A Biography

Guides to the Life of Faith

Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose

The End of Lifes Journey

Faith to Live By

God Is a Matchmaker

Gods Remedy for Rejection

The Grace of Yielding

How to Fast Successfully

Husbands and Fathers

Marriage Covenant

Rediscovering Gods Church

Rules of Engagement

Shaping History through Prayer and Fasting

Spiritual Warfare

They Shall Expel Demons

Through the Psalms with Derek Prince

Transformed for Life

War in Heaven

Systematic Bible Exposition

Entering the Presence of God

Foundational Truths for Christian Living

Lucifer Exposed

Promised Land

Self-Study Bible Course

You Shall Receive Power

BOUGHT
with
BLOOD

The Divine Exchange at the Cross

Derek
PRINCE

2000, 2007 by Derek Prince MinistriesInternational

Published by Chosen Books
A division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.chosenbooks.com.

Previously published in 2000 under the title Atonement, Your Appointment with God

Printed in the United States of America

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Prince, Derek.
[Atonement, your appointment with God]
Bought with blood : the divine exchange at the cross / Derek Prince.
p. cm.
Originally published : Atonement, your appointment with God. c2000.
ISBN 10: 0-8007-9424-9 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-8007-9424-8 (pbk.)
1. Atonement. I. Title.
BT265.3.P75 2007
232 .3dc22 2007006475

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Scripture marked kjv is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

All royalties from this book are assigned to Derek Prince Ministries.

Contents

In the cross is health,
in the cross is life,
in the cross is protection from enemies,
in the cross is heavenly sweetness,
in the cross strength of mind,
in the cross joy of the Spirit,
in the cross the height of virtue,
in the cross perfection of holiness.
There is no health of the soul, no hope of eternal life, save in the cross.

Thomas Kempis, fifteenth-century theologian

I n the closing years of his long and extraordinary life, Derek Prince lamented more than once what he saw as a decline in bold preaching focused on the cross. He saw Jesus sacrifice as central to every aspect of the Christian life. In fact, to a group of ministry supporters and friends he once wrote:

Anywhere I go, if I have the choice and opportunity to deal seriously with a group of people, it is my committed intention always to begin with the cross.

And I would like to say to those of you who are preachers and ministers, do not ever leave the cross out of your preaching. When you do, youre like the drill sergeant giving excellent orders to people without the power to carry them out. That power comes only from the cross.

In my preaching I remember the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 2: I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.... My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

To explore Derek Princes lifetime of teaching is nothing less than an exploration of the breathtaking depth and breadth of the redemption Jesus accomplished through His suffering, death and conquest of death. And nowhere will you find a better guide to that revelation than in the book you hold in your hands.

In Bought with Blood Derek brings us a complete and panoramic picture of what Jesus paid an awful price to obtain for us. On the pages that follow, you will find truths that have equipped hundreds of thousands to live more freely, more fully and more powerfully than ever before.

As Derek lays out the nine exchanges transacted at the cross, you will likely find that you have been living beneath your privileges as a blood-bought child of God. In the chapters covering the five aspects of deliverance, you will discover keys to a level of freedom you never dreamed possible. And as Derek shows you in the closing chapters how to appropriate these truths in practical terms, you will find greater access to the Holy Spirits power for living the highest and best of Gods will for your life.

Beyond all this, and perhaps most importantly, the journey on which Derek Prince takes you will surely produce in you a heart overflowing with love and thankfulness for Jesus. Such hearts belong to those used mightily by God!

The editors of Chosen Books

Part 1
THE CROSS AT THE CENTER

1
ONE ALL-SUFFICIENT SACRIFICE

A single theme runs throughout this book: atonement. This word is comparatively rare in contemporary English. In fact, many English-speaking people today do not even know what the word means.

Its meaning begins to appear, however, when we divide the word up into its three syllables: at-one-ment. That is what atonement really meansthat God and the sinner are brought into a relationship in which they are at one. A more common word today is reconciliation. Through the cross God and the sinner are reconciled to each other.

There is a vitally important difference between the word translated atonement in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the word translated atonement in the Greek of the New Testament.

In Hebrew the word is kippur and means covering. The Day of Atonement was a day of covering. By the sacrifices offered on that day, the sins of the people were coveredbut only for one year. The next year at the same time, their sins had to be covered once more. The sacrifices offered that day provided no permanent solution, therefore, to the problem of sin; they merely provided a temporary covering. On each successive Day of Atonement, that covering was extended for one more year.

The picture of atonement in the New Testament is totally different. We see this when we contrast two passages in Hebrewsthe book that deals, above all others, with Jesus as our High Priest and with the sacrifice He made on our behalf.

First, Hebrews 10:34 speaks of the sacrifices of the Old Testament: In those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. So, far from taking sin away, those sacrifices reminded the people of the problem of sin. For it is not possible, the writer continues, that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. The central issue here is taking away sins, not merely covering them.