God Needs More White Blood Cells!

Revelation 7:14
These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

White Blood Cells or Leukocytes are cells of the immune system defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials. It’s important for the body to have a normal count of White Blood Cells in order to stay healthy. When they are low in number they expose the body to disease. These White Blood Cells make up 1% of a healthy blood sample but are vital to the health of the body.

Christians are God’s white blood cells to the body of humanity. We are supposed to bring Life and life more abundantly because of our spiritual genetics. The Apostle John sees a vision of a great multitude of people that no one could number of all nations, tribes, people and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes. John asks the angel, "who are these?” The angel says, “these are they who:

1. Come through great tribulation. In order to become a part of God’s healing movement we have to overcome the tribulations that come our way. Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 1 John 5:4
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

2. Washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. How do you wash your robes in Red Blood and get white robes? What kind of process can produce white robes out of red blood? Only God can do that. Only God can take a brown cow that eats green grass to produce white milk. Only God can take a sinner like me who lived a dirty life repented, and washed in the red blood of Jesus and made my soul white as snow. Only God can do that.

The name “white blood cell” derives from the fact that after centrifugation of a blood sample, the white cells are found in the Buffy coat, a thin white layer of nucleated cells. Centrifugation is a process that involves the use of centrifugal force for the separation of mixtures. Centrifugal force means to flee by the process as an outward force away from the center of Rotation.

When Jesus died on the cross there was a centrifugal force at Calvary’s cross that caused a separation. I was a mixture of sin and righteousness but when Jesus shed his blood, God shook up the whole earth and the curtain which separated the holy of holies from the secular people was split. There was a divine separation from good cells and bad cells. When Jesus rose from the dead three days later he made it possible for me to receive a transfusion. When God shook up the whole earth with the resurrection of Jesus it allowed you and I to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

When we come together in two or threes we form cell groups. Where two or three of us are there Jesus is. We then become white blood cells able to fight off disease, sickness and foreign objects that threaten the existence of humanity.

Dear God, help us to be your white blood cells to fight off disease of sin, injustice, racism, oppression, and sickness. Use us to infuse humanity with a dose of your saving grace and the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus, what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. God, I pray that you would multiply Christian cell groups all over the place today. I pray that two or three of us would consistently start coming together at work, at school, at home so that we can fight off the disease of sin so that one day we will be able to stand before the throne of the Lamb in heaven many nations, many tongues, because we have been washed in the blood of the Lamb.

In Jesus Name I pray,
Amen.