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The Power of Calvary
By: Sandy Haga
©2003
Table of Contents
Chapter Page Number
Chapter One The Power of Calvary 3
Chapter Two The One Who Died 7
Chapter Three The Love of God 11
Chapter Four Salvation 18
Chapter Five The Blood of Jesus 22
Chapter Six Be Sure Your Sins 27
Chapter Seven Forgiveness 33
Chapter Eight The Old Man Is Dead 38
Chapter Nine Made New 46
Chapter Ten Crucified 53
Chapter Eleven The Holy Ghost 60
Chapter Twelve Obedience 66
Chapter Thirteen Persecution 70
Chapter Fourteen Resurrection 76
Chapter Fifteen Authority 81
Chapter Sixteen Healing 93
Chapter Seventeen Prayer 102
Chapter Eighteen Mocking Calvary 105
Chapter Nineteen The Rapture 108
Introduction
This has been one of the most powerful books that I’ve written. I am definitely not saying this to brag any way on myself. Sometimes I can get a good strong connection in the spirit or an anointing for a book and it turns out to be special. That is not what I’m saying here either. This is a powerful book because the subject I am writing about is so powerful. Powerful enough to raise the dead. Calvary. It is the reason this whole thing started. It is why Jesus came and walked among us. Through Calvary we find the immense power of His love. We find there forgiveness and salvation. We find there the power to become new every day of our lives. At Calvary we find healing, victory, authority over satan, and the power to become Sons of God. We find victory over persecution and the strength to pick up our cross and follow Jesus. One day the power unleashed at Calvary will be the power that will resurrect us from the dead to eternal life. Or it will be the power that will raise us into the heavens to be with Jesus. No wonder this is such a powerful book. The subject itself gives it that power. I pray that this power and anointing and victory is unleashed in your own life, as you revisit Calvary.
Chapter 1.
The Power of Calvary
The most powerful force that the world has ever known exploded that day at Calvary. When we watch the effects of this world’s most powerful energy sources, we see only a tiny shadow, not even an ounce, of that power that was unleashed that day at Calvary. It was a blast that not only was felt around the physical world, but it shook the spiritual realm as well. Not only was it a blast of power felt that day, but it also reverberated down through all time from the past to the future. It exploded from the very beginning of time to the end. No other act has or will influence as many lives as this single act of Calvary except for the day that Jesus returns. The power of Calvary is an awesome power.
It is sad, but all too often we only see Calvary as Jesus dying on the cross so that we can be forgiven of our sins and saved. We don’t see it as being the place where we can find the victory and power to rise up out of our sins. Yes, we are saved. But that is only the beginning. Salvation is a wonderful thing in itself. We can’t stop there. Many people do. They receive salvation and think that is all there is to it. The power unleashed that day at Calvary is even more. If we could ever get a full understanding of what went on at Calvary it is enough power to raise the dead. It is surely enough power to raise you up out of your bondages, battles, defeats, circumstances, fear, sickness, and anything else. It will be enough power to raise you up out of condemnation over your past. One day the power released at Calvary will be enough to even raise you from the dead. On one glorious day it will be what resurrects the whole world into a newness of life.
One of the glimpses of this power of Calvary is found in Colossians 1:12-22. “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead: that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell; 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. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.” Through Calvary we are delivered from the power of sin. We are delivered from the power of our own flesh. We are delivered from the powers of darkness. Calvary had the power to give mortal men authority over the powers of wickedness in high places. When Jesus took the keys of hell and gave them to you, He gave you authority over the kingdom of darkness that rules this world. We have nothing to fear. Calvary gave us authority through the blood of Jesus. When Jesus made His show of triumph over hell, death, sin, and the grave, He didn’t just do it for Himself. He did it for us as well. He took the keys and passed them to us. His victory that He won because of Calvary was our victory as well. His resurrection was also your resurrection. Not only do we have a resurrection that we will one day see in the flesh, but we also have a spiritual resurrection. Colossians 2:12-15 tells us, “Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Not only do we have power to overcome death, but also power to overcome satan. When the devil comes to destroy you, lift up a standard and declare His boundaries. He has no right to hinder you, a child of God. You have been given authority over Him because of Calvary. This authority is not based on who you are in the natural. It was paid for at Calvary. It is based on Who Jesus was and is. We’ll talk more in this book about the authority that is given to us because of Calvary.
Calvary reached all the way to the beginning of time even to those souls who were held in captivity who had been there since their death waiting for that time when Jesus would walk in. Can you imagine Abraham’s joy when he saw his great, great, great, ever so many great grand Son. Can you imagine how he felt when he was able to see with his own eyes the fulfilling of the promise that was given to him? Can you imagine the release that they all received? Can you imagine the deliverance and the power that was in that place that day? Talk about a revival!! Through this, Calvary reached back through the past to the beginning of time. It also reached ahead to forgive you the day you accepted your salvation. The last time that you wept before the Lord for your sins and you knew you were forgiven, it was because of the power of Calvary. The power of Calvary reached round the world and throughout all time. It was not limited by time or place.
Nuclear reactors fuse atoms and unleash tremendous power. Calvary was also a place where a fusing took place, a reconciliation. The power of reconciliation is found in 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.” Through Calvary not only are we are reconciled to God, but at one time, all things in heaven and earth will do the same. That is powerful. He is surely able to present you, “holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.” (Verse 22, “In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.”) One day we’ll walk in that perfection God created for us to have. We will walk unreproveable in His sight. Verse 23 tells us how, “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven….” In other words we have to continue in the faith to have these things of God including the resurrection. We cannot have these things if we do not continue in the faith. Revelations 5:12 tells us more of the power of Calvary. Not only will all of God’s children be reconciled to Him, but also so will all of creation. Verse 12 tells us the angels, and elders were, “Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard it saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” The final triumph of Calvary will be when Jesus, the Lamb that was slain, is lifted up above all things to reign forever.
The power of resurrection is part of the power unleashed at Calvary. What other power do you know of that can bring eternal life to dead limbs? Jesus was resurrected, and He gave us the keys to death hell and the grave. I Corinthians 15:5 tells us, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” We don’t even have to fear death because of Calvary. But there is also another resurrection that was unleashed at Calvary. Calvary had the power to forgive men of their sins and resurrect them in a new life. A changed life is a testimony to the power of Calvary. Because of Calvary, families come together to be renewed, hope springs up where there was none. A new life is found when death and destruction was the only thing to look forward to. A rebirth when the old is made as new as a newborn baby. Joy when despair was all that could be seen. All of these are testimonies to the forgiving power and salvation found at Calvary. We are not just talking here about the resurrection that salvation brings, but also the power of being made new that we can find each and every day of our lives. When we need to be made new because the world has taken a toll on our hearts, we can go to Calvary. When we sin, and need that renewal that only God’s forgiveness and perfect love can bring, we go to Calvary. When our faith is mangled by the battle and we need to be restored in God’s love, we can go to Calvary. We can find there that God truly makes all things new each and every time that we go there.
The power of Calvary also gave sight to the blind, made the crippled walk, restored worn out organs, touched and made new the bodies of more children of God than we can ever know. Healing flowed out from that day until the day when we are perfect and our old bodies will no longer need God’s healing touch. When those stripes were laid on Jesus, the power to heal went out down through time to where you stand in your need right now.
The power of Calvary also unleashed the Holy Ghost. Without Calvary the Holy Ghost could not have come into our hearts. Our sin stopped that. Through Calvary the Holy Ghost can come into our hearts and spirits to birth into us a new life, a new man. Through the Holy Ghost, a perfect Savior can come into a very imperfect man to give him the power to become the son of God from the inside out.
I think that one of the most wonderful parts of the power of Calvary though, is the power of God’s love that made all this happen to start with. John 3:16 sums up this love. That God could look on the sins of man and know that they needed a Savior. That He would then send His only begotten Son because of that sin to die on a cross so that they could be forgiven. That love in itself is what leads us to Calvary. You can’t talk about Calvary without talking about the love of God. It is a powerful force that changes lives and gives hope where there is no hope. For me, the love of Calvary is why I am here today. I know that everyone world over that reads this book knows the same love. Every child of God world over down through time to the beginning of the world knows this same love. Think for a minute and try to imagine all those whose lives have been changed by this great love. If you try to hold that in your head as the old saying goes, it will burst your brains. We can’t contain it. The love of God is too much to even think about. We can’t even comprehend it. What a powerful, powerful love. Through the power of Calvary we can be crucified to the world, this old fleshly world that we live in. We can be resurrected into a Spiritual realm so that we are mindful of the things of God. Without this we couldn’t even understand God’s love.
If this chapter has affected you like it has affected me, then by now you are just about ready to fly. Rapture practice time. You can pretty well figure out that another part of the power of Calvary will be what we will see on the day when we take to the skies to become one with Jesus. When we see Him we will be like Him. This comes about because of Calvary. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God.