1 00:00:10,870 --> 00:00:13,910 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:13,910 --> 00:00:19,150 Australia. I'm going to share with you from 3 00:00:22,550 --> 00:00:26,390 the book of Hebrews primarily, but not exclusively on one of 4 00:00:26,390 --> 00:00:30,470 the most important subjects that I think that there is in the 5 00:00:30,470 --> 00:00:34,070 Word of God. While it's Christmas now, we're 6 00:00:34,070 --> 00:00:36,920 going to be celebrating Christmas, there would be, no, 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,880 there wouldn't be a Christmas if there wasn't a purpose in the 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,000 birth of Jesus. And one of the purposes, one of 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,320 the major purposes of Christmas, the birth of Christ, is Calvary. 10 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,840 And Calvary carries with it one of the most important subjects 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,960 that I think is neglected from the pulpit. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,920 Not too many people understand the value of it and that is the 13 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,000 blood of Jesus. I want to speak a little bit 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,160 about the blood of Jesus. It was always a God's purpose. 15 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,440 We talk a lot about Christmas and birth of Jesus. 16 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,320 We talk about his life, talk a lot about the resurrection from 17 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,040 time to time, different circles, but very few actually ever 18 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,240 preach on the value and the power and the benefits of the 19 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,880 blood of Jesus which made all of this possible. 20 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,240 Without the blood being shed, Calvary there would not have 21 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:44,960 been a need for the resurrection and the resurrection was God's 22 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:50,760 seal of approval saying the life of Jesus and his death, The shed 23 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:56,520 blood is accepted in heaven. What he accomplished on the 24 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,800 cross when he poured out his life, his and the life is in the 25 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,960 blood. So when he poured out his blood, 26 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,920 the Father said I accept this when he raised him from the 27 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,240 dead, not only by the words he had spoken, by the demonstration 28 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,880 of the resurrection power of Jesus Christ, which Paul says 29 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,680 it's no longer I that live. And that's what's got to be true 30 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,480 for all of us. Till the blood has done its work 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,360 in our hearts and lives, we will never walk in resurrection 32 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:31,240 power. We can try to, but until we 33 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,640 understand the value, the benefits, and the power of the 34 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:40,880 blood of Jesus, resurrection power will never be what God 35 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,760 wants it to be in our lives. So I was reading my Bible this 36 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,280 morning and we just sang that song Worthy, worthy, worthy 37 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,320 Revelation 5 in my my devotions this morning and how they 38 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,680 actually talk about the angels, though everyone saying of the 39 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,080 lamb that was slain, his blood, blood poured out. 40 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,360 It's all in there in Revelation 5, which I wanted to read to 41 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,600 you, but I think it's going to just take too much of time. 42 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:14,680 But maybe I can just ask you turn to the book of Hebrews in 43 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,720 the 13th chapter. And I don't know if we can get 44 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,960 that up on our on the screen. And I've asked that we read it 45 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:27,720 in the new international Revelation 13, Revelation 10. 46 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:34,840 I think it was what I've said. I did send a message with all 47 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,840 the scriptures. And have you got that? 48 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,240 Yep. Hebrews 13, verse 12. 49 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,560 Therefore, Jesus also suffered and died outside the city's 50 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,320 gates in order that he might purify and consecrate the people 51 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:59,840 through the shedding of his own blood and set them apart as holy 52 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,320 for God. Just in that statement, there 53 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,000 are some serious things. Not only that He suffered and 54 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,640 died, not only was he rejected, He went outside of the city 55 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:14,200 gates, but that he might purify. And we'll talk about that as one 56 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:19,480 of the benefits that he might consecrate or set apart, as it 57 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,480 says later on, you know, through the shedding of His blood, set 58 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,800 them apart as holy. All of those things are part of 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,760 what the blood of Jesus does for us. 60 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:34,360 Now, can we turn to Hebrews chapter 10? 61 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,240 Click quickly, please. And we're going to read from 62 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:42,320 verse 19 through to the 25th chapter, Hebrews chapter 1019 to 63 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,600 25. Therefore, brethren, since we 64 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,320 have freedom, full freedom and confidence to enter the holiest 65 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:59,040 of holies by the power and virtue in the blood, another 66 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,560 thing that's going to be come out. 67 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,880 We have access to the Father through the blood, but we don't 68 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,000 any. We have freedom, we have 69 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,840 confidence, boldness, all these things come out all related to 70 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,800 the scriptures around the blood of Jesus that people just skim 71 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:24,360 over instead of thinking that through by the power and virtue 72 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,560 of the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is most one 73 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,280 of the most amazing subjects in the word of God. 74 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,920 I want to encourage you make a note of the I'm going to share 75 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,680 share 13 quick things with you, which really equates to 22 76 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,600 things. So I'll have to just say boom, 77 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,960 boom, boom, boom. Couple of remarks here and 78 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,000 there. Time just doesn't allow us to go 79 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,400 into the subject like I would like to, but I remember when I 80 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,960 came to we first came to Christ in the 1960s. 81 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:58,320 We so often sing and I still sing it in my devotional time 82 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,920 very often. My hope is built on nothing less 83 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,920 than Jesus blood and his righteousness. 84 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:10,760 I dare not trust and the sweetest frame that holy lean on 85 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:17,400 Jesus name on Christ, the solid rock I stand all other ground is 86 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,000 sinking sand never hear that song sung anywhere anymore. 87 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:29,600 Some way they've the church has devalued the blood of Jesus in 88 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,800 the early 60s it around the world. 89 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,800 They began to attack the church saying we preach the butcher's 90 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,640 gospel, the blood somehow we don't want to talk about blood 91 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,760 anymore. We're just breeding soft Sissy 92 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,560 baby Christians. I just want that to sink in. 93 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,760 Around the world. We're just feeding people with 94 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,680 stuff that keeps them young and sissies. 95 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,400 They don't gross muscle and strength spiritually. 96 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,560 Another one of those songs we used to sing is what can wash 97 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,600 away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 98 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,600 What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 99 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,720 Oh, precious is that flow that makes me white as snow. 100 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,200 No other fountain are nothing but the blood of Jesus. 101 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,280 Another one of the songs was there's a fountain filled with 102 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,240 blood drawn from Emmanuel's way. All of these songs we used to 103 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,600 sing almost every Sunday about the blood. 104 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,760 I don't hear any of these songs anymore anywhere around the 105 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:46,640 world. Another one at the cross. 106 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,800 At the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my 107 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,360 heart was rolled away. It was there by faith. 108 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,320 I received my sight. And that where we're at the 109 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:01,800 cross. So, so few people preach on the 110 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,440 blood. And I'm hoping that people will 111 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:08,840 change, come back to that place before Christ comes back, where 112 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,960 the blood is seen as valuable, precious, the virtue of it, the 113 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,080 benefits of it, the power of the blood. 114 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,800 And the blood opens up all sorts of stuff for us. 115 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,120 Unbelievably, without the shattering of blood, the next 116 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,160 few things I say here would not be able to have happened. 117 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:33,400 First of all, now can I just say this Romans chapter 10, verse 9, 118 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,600 is it Verse 9 and 10 tells us that we've got to believe in our 119 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,799 hearts and then we've got to confess with our mouths what? 120 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:47,560 We've got to confess that Christ is Lord, that He died for our 121 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:51,480 sins. That is true for every single 122 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:55,720 promise in the Word of God. We've got to believe it here and 123 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,480 we've got to confess it here. Now in Exodus chapter 12 with 124 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,000 the Passover, the celebration of the Passover lamb, they had to 125 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,360 take the blood, as gory as that sounds to us today. 126 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,960 They had to kill the animal, take the blood and put it on 127 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,440 their doorposts. You see, in other words, the 128 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,960 blood was shed, the animal was slain, the lamb had died. 129 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,040 Jesus has died. So all of the benefits of that 130 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,200 were available, but they did not apply it. 131 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,600 The first born and their family died. 132 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,080 And it's the same for us. If we we've got a that's, that's 133 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,640 faith. We've got to confess with our 134 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,920 mouths and we've got to believe in our heart. 135 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,720 We have to confess the truth about the blood of Jesus. 136 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,840 And I'm going to stop and ask you not to be nasty, just to 137 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,720 wake you up, give you an alert call. 138 00:09:52,960 --> 00:10:00,480 How often do you thank Jesus for the blood, not just for the he 139 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,760 lived a holy life and he showed us how what God's like and he's 140 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,320 done certain things for us, but actually Jesus that you shed 141 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,920 your blood. And how often do we link that 142 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,440 with the promises of God that God gives us the access that God 143 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,760 gives us. Let it let your prayer life be 144 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:22,040 changed as from today related to the blood of Jesus. 145 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,040 Now #1 the blood of Jesus provides us with access to the 146 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,400 very throne room of God. Just imagine that this is where 147 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,480 God Almighty, the God who said let there be, and everything we 148 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,360 see around began to be formed just by creative word. 149 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,760 That God, that awesome God sits on the throne. 150 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,400 And because of the blood, you and I can go right to that very 151 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,920 throne room, that very throne room with all that power, all 152 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,840 that authority, all that love, all that God is you and I can go 153 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:03,560 there and we can come secondly with confidence. 154 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,200 So it doesn't only open up, give us access, it gives us 155 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,880 confidence to come, as with boldness, we don't have to come 156 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:15,960 cringingly. This is the wonderful thing to 157 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,720 me. There's so many scriptures I'm 158 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,120 going to leave out because of time that I've got here in my 159 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,000 notes and I gave them to you guys, but we can't, we're not 160 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,120 going to be able to cover them more. 161 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,200 But you just think of this, you can go to that throne room as 162 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:35,280 often as you like. You can go to that throne room 163 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,920 when you get home and get it. Just let's say it's 12:00 and 164 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,960 you go to the throne room. You can, God says come. 165 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,480 You may feel unworthy. The devil says you're unworthy, 166 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,280 but God still says come. And he doesn't say come 167 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,440 beggingly, although we are beggars. 168 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,560 He doesn't come, say come cringingly. 169 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,840 Although when we think of ourselves and we think of God, 170 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,280 you would almost want to cringe. He is so big, so awesome, so 171 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:10,920 holy, so mighty, so majestic. But he's saying, no matter. 172 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,000 This is 12:00. You've come and two minutes 173 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,560 later you're no longer there. You drink something else and you 174 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:20,640 mess up. He says come again, and five 175 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,680 past 12 come again. And that's happening around the 176 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:30,520 world for millions of believers, all coming to the one God. 177 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,040 Now, no human being can do that. We can't even listen when I when 178 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,160 if Leon's talking to me and someone else says something in 179 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,760 the background, I can't hear. I know that they're talking. 180 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,000 I don't know what they're saying. 181 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:50,520 God can hear millions every, everywhere across the nation's, 182 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,360 the whole earth, all at the same time. 183 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,800 I mean, let that sink in. All because of the blood of 184 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,520 Jesus. We all have access and we all 185 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,440 have confidence. We can come with boldness as 186 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,920 often as we are, as unworthy as we are. 187 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,240 We can come anytime as often as we like. 188 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,960 We'll never be worthy. So I want to just say to you, 189 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,040 please, because of the blood, it's not your worthiness. 190 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,200 Don't think because you prayed enough or you did, you came, had 191 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,960 a good day today. Now you maybe can come have 192 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,760 access to God and he may hear you because of that. 193 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,320 It's got nothing to do with it. How do we get this to come back 194 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:43,520 on? All right there it comes on 195 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:48,560 again. So the blood of Jesus, it's 196 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,160 never it's, it's easier. He sits in Hebrews 10/19 and 197 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,760 brothers and sisters, sisters, since we have confidence to 198 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,120 enter the holiest of holy, the most holy place by the blood of 199 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,600 Jesus. And Ephesians 213 tells us that 200 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:09,240 you who were once far away have been brought now or near by the 201 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,880 blood of Jesus. So don't me ever be misled into 202 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,640 thinking that when you you do the right things, you do the 203 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,360 good things, then you can have access. 204 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,000 When you do the wrong things, you don't have access. 205 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,440 You have access no matter what. It's because not only because of 206 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,400 works, but because of the blood. Let that sink into our hearts 207 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,840 today. You can go there as often as you 208 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,640 like, no matter how bad the sin, no matter what the need, as 209 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,720 often as you like. You could even stay there all 210 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,520 day with boldness. It's always only exclusively 211 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:55,120 because of the blood. I'm going to move to the third 212 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,240 thing. The blood also redeems us. 213 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:09,520 It redeems us from three things redeems us from how can I put 214 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:15,320 this, the slave market of sin, the slave market of sin. 215 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,400 In other words, I don't have to believe that because other 216 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,400 Christians, even pastors say we're all sin and word thought 217 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,600 indeed every day. I don't have to believe that I 218 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:30,360 can believe what God says that he redeems us from the slave 219 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,840 market of sin. We're no longer slaves of sin. 220 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,840 Now if you feel you are, look to Jesus and confess the blood, 221 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,440 because not only does the blood of Jesus redeem us from the 222 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,480 slave market of sin, it's redeemed us even from the curse 223 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,920 of the law, even having to keep the law, because Christ did it 224 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,760 for us. It redeems us from the slave 225 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,520 market of sin, from the law, and that it redeems us from an 226 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:09,160 eternal eternity without God, the wrath of God in hell, It 227 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,600 redeems us. That's what God's done through 228 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,480 the blood. Without the blood, you would 229 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,680 still be a no matter what you believed. 230 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,520 Without the blood, you would still be a slave to sin. 231 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:25,360 You would still be going to hell and you'd still be struggling to 232 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,360 keep the law if you wanted to be a good person. 233 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,240 Hebrews 912. Just remember that now 234 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,120 redemption, which is eternal, covers a whole number of things 235 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,560 that I want to quickly share with you. 236 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,960 That word redemption, it covers justification. 237 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:52,280 And justification simply means that God sees you and God can 238 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:57,520 remain just even though you've sinned because he's executed his 239 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:05,359 judgement through Christ. Now this is not an accurate 240 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,160 thing to say here, but a lot of people would say justification 241 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:16,160 is just as if I'd never sinned. Because when I sinned, God sees 242 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,760 me in Christ and he justifies me. 243 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:26,000 He can remain a just God because of the blood and yet He can free 244 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,520 me and and redeem me and set me at liberty because of the blood. 245 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:37,160 And you could look at Romans 323 to 25 Galatians 216, etcetera. 246 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,680 So all this is because of the pen. 247 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,480 The the penalty of our sin has been taken by Jesus, but at the 248 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:49,160 redemption also covers not only justification, but it covers 249 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,400 righteousness. All of these words are in the 250 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,080 Scriptures and if we had time I would have read them the earlier 251 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,920 ones to you that had some of these scriptures in them. 252 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,680 But righteousness is just standing right standing in God, 253 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,960 right standing in God righteousness. 254 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,800 In other words, God pronounces us legally righteous. 255 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,040 That's imputed righteousness. A lot of people will talk about 256 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,920 imputed righteousness, but very few say talk about imparted 257 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,680 righteousness. Not only does Jesus impute for 258 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,120 the Father, impute righteousness to each one of us because of 259 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,320 Jesus, but slowly over the period of time through the next 260 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,440 one of the other things that he that that the blood does through 261 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:42,400 the period, the process of sanctification, God is able to 262 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,520 set us free. And well, let me just say that 263 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,320 justification and righteousness are almost synonymous words. 264 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,000 You could look up two Corinthians 521 for yourself. 265 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,800 Thirdly, in this whole thing of redemption, I'm speedy trying to 266 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:07,920 speed this up, this forgiveness, Jesus said, and their sins will 267 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,800 I forgive. Matthew 2628. 268 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,040 I'd like to have read it. Put down your notes and Hebrews 269 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,320 922, Colossians 140. Fourteen. 270 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,720 Jesus forgives sin and all of that's part of redemption. 271 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,760 Now here's the beautiful thing. Because of the blood of Jesus, 272 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,120 that redemption is eternal. And that redemption means that 273 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:40,120 God chooses to forget. Now the devil doesn't. 274 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:45,040 So if you sinned, the devil will throw that sin back in your 275 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,520 face. But if you've confessed it to 276 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,760 God and you went and said, God, I'm sorry about that thing that 277 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,160 I've just remembered. Now it's like God has to say 278 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,360 what's sin now, not because God can't remember. 279 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,640 God chooses not to remember. So how many of us live in 280 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,640 condemnation falsely constantly because of the devil? 281 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,000 The devil says you did that, remember, you did that. 282 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,760 He reminds you of things and God says, no. 283 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,840 It's as if I never, you never sinned. 284 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,680 I've forgotten that. Why come and bring it up again? 285 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:28,480 Why remind me God of that? And that's in Jeremiah 3134 286 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,600 number chapter chapter 31 verse 34. 287 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,400 These sins will I remember no more. 288 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,440 Next thing under redemption is that God cleanses us from all 289 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,200 sin. If we confess our sins, He's 290 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,880 faithful and just to forgive us our sins and what else? 291 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,160 To cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 292 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,840 If we walk in the light, John 114 I think is as He's in the 293 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,040 light, we have fellowship with one another. 294 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,520 And what happens? The blood of Jesus Christ keeps 295 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:02,280 on cleaning, keeping us clean. Now let me just you know what a 296 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,480 windscreen wipe is like. When I get up in the morning 297 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,920 because of all the trees around, my windscreen is dirty. 298 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:17,080 When I put it on, it cleans and it just keeps on cleaning no 299 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,120 matter what comes. That's what the blood does if we 300 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,160 just walk in the light. It's all by the blood of Jesus. 301 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,560 Here's another beautiful thing about not only does it cleanse 302 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,320 us from all unrighteousness, but the fifth little thing about 303 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,120 redemption is and listen to this one carefully. 304 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:38,440 He cleanses even our consciences from dead works some 305 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:48,000 translations and he I've gone a blank purges our consciences 306 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,520 from dead works. Now what are dead works? 307 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,440 Dead works are everything you've done in the energy of the flesh, 308 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:00,840 every action, every attitude, everything. 309 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,560 Those of us who sit in this meeting or stand in this meeting 310 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,680 and sing songs and we're not thinking about it. 311 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,600 We're not trusting God. We're not we're just mouthing 312 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,240 the words. Those are dead works. 313 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,880 Do you know that preachers preaching the word of God under 314 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:21,280 in the in the flesh, those are dead works preaching the word of 315 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,640 God. You can read your Bible every 316 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,120 morning and that can be a dead work. 317 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,560 Now if you're guilty of any of those things, God's Word says 318 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,080 this, I'll cleanse your conscience from those dead 319 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,400 works. What for? 320 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:44,400 To serve the living God. That's a promise that you should 321 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:49,200 claim for God from God. Hebrews 914 all dead works 322 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,560 number six. I'm looking at that clock and 323 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,240 saying I'm beaten already. The blood makes us holy. 324 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:04,320 That's why I said when we read earlier on that that amplified 325 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,200 version, it doesn't only forgive and cleanse it, it doesn't only 326 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,160 just set us apart, which most believers believe now God wants 327 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,840 to set us apart. It actually purifies us. 328 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,560 Sanctification carries with it the whole concept of 329 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,800 purification. And Peter, when Peter was called 330 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,840 before the the council in Jerusalem and he was talking 331 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,200 about Cornelius's conversion, he said, and God made the Holy 332 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,440 Spirit with no difference between them and us purifying 333 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,440 their hearts by faith. So I want you to know that the 334 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,680 blood actually can purify your heart, give you pure motives, 335 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:50,040 pure intentions, pure desires, pure goals, pure aims, pure 336 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,080 ambitions. Moving on. 337 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:02,200 I'm just looking at all that. I'm skipping over here, that Are 338 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,840 you feeling rushed? Are you picking it up from me? 339 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,920 Because I am. I'm feeling rushed, feeling like 340 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,840 everything's fighting me at every level. 341 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:18,040 Yeah, but the blood also in this whole thing of redemption brings 342 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,520 about reconciliation. That's a beautiful word. 343 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,200 Colossians, chapter one, verse 20. 344 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,080 I don't know if we can put that up there quickly. 345 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,880 Reconciliation really means bringing two things together, 346 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:38,680 and God reconciles us first of all to himself and through Him, 347 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,600 to reconcile him to himself, all things, whether things on earth 348 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,360 or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on 349 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,640 the cross. The blood brings about 350 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:54,360 reconciliation and I'm reconciled to God through the 351 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:59,560 blood, not through my good works, not even through how I 352 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,480 exercise my faith. Different people come to Christ 353 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,880 in different ways. And so often the devil says, 354 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,560 well, you didn't have the experience that that person had. 355 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,840 Yours is just so you were born in the church and you grew up in 356 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,680 the church and you've lived a pretty good life. 357 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,480 I know that Anne and I, when I, when I came from this background 358 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:28,600 of, of total corruption and just sick sin and Anne grew up in a 359 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,240 Christian home and when I would stand up and say I was an 360 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,200 alcoholic and I was on, I did this and I did that and I did 361 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,800 that. And, and then Anne comes and 362 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,240 says, and I, I remember this. I the two of us used to preach 363 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,880 together in in Zimbabwe. I was up in Zimbabwe for one 364 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,480 year preaching. And this guy Phillip and myself 365 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,760 were the two kind of Co workers. We worked, we'd work across the 366 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,200 whole of Zimbabwe, which was Rhodesia in those days. 367 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,200 And he grew up in a Christian home. 368 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,080 So we'd both give our testimonies and he'd feel like, 369 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,160 he told me, I feel like a fraud. And I haven't done all these 370 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,520 things. I've never, I've never touched 371 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,520 alcohol. I've never touched tobacco. 372 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:16,000 And you were an alcoholic and you even smoked marijuana and 373 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,600 did all these other kind of things. 374 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:23,480 I feel like I inferior. It's got nothing to do with 375 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,600 that. It's the blood. 376 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,760 It's not what you come out of what you and you know, you, you 377 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,480 think about how many people want to hear a Christian testimony 378 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,680 about somebody who lived a good life, Very few. 379 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,160 So they bring in the people that live the worst lives. 380 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,920 I've killed 65,000 people and I've murdered this and I, you 381 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,360 know, the more you can make it sound worse, the more you in 382 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:53,320 demand and we just fall in for the trap. 383 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,960 I don't think there's a greater privilege than to be brought up 384 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,320 in a Christian family to be able to honestly say I haven't done 385 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,400 those things. I yes, I'm a Sinner, but I 386 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,840 haven't done any of those things. 387 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,840 I just think that's the grace of God. 388 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,640 I wish I could honestly wish I could say I'd never done some of 389 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,520 the things that I've got to sometimes just acknowledge I 390 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,800 have done anyway, it's all through the blood. 391 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,800 I'm just taking 2. So first of all, reconciliation 392 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,400 between God and ourselves, but Goddess also through the blood, 393 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,520 listen carefully to me. He's brought about a 394 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,880 reconciliation between any two people or group of people 395 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,720 anywhere on earth. The Jews and the Gentiles were 396 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,440 so far apart, and he broke down that middle wall of partition, 397 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,600 brought them together. He can bring a husband and wife 398 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,000 who are having problems in their marriage together because of the 399 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,000 blood. If you think I'm going to try 400 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,480 it, I'm going to do better. I'm going to reform. 401 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,800 I'm going to and all these pledges and you don't look to 402 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,280 the blood. You're as good as beaten. 403 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,440 The blood is what reconciles us to each other. 404 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,160 There's not a person anywhere on earth that I need to be 405 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:17,480 reconciled to from my part because I've seen and looked to 406 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,600 the blood. But there are people who have 407 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,920 some things against me because they won't look to the blood. 408 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,760 The sin is too big, the grievance is too high. 409 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,920 They're huge. Instead of just seeing the 410 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,520 blood, if they would just put their trust in the blood instead 411 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,080 of trying harder, I'm going to see them again. 412 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,120 I'm going to love them. It's the blood. 413 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,480 The blood is what gives the you see, the blood opens up 414 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,200 everything we need for God to be able to pour his life in and 415 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,600 through us through the blood. Nothing else. 416 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,240 Even when we're saying in the name of Jesus, we're referring 417 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:11,610 back to the blood as well. I'm hoping that this makes 418 00:29:11,610 --> 00:29:15,130 sense. And then the blood brings 419 00:29:15,130 --> 00:29:20,680 atonement too, another one of those things that's part of 420 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,880 redemption. Atonement. 421 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:28,080 Atonement means in a sense at one moment with God at atone at 422 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,360 one mint, we're to get we're drawn together. 423 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,160 That's through the shedding of his blood. 424 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:38,640 No more separation. Just think about this for a 425 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,680 little while. Nothing in the Bible, the Bible 426 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,200 says nothing can separate you. Nothing in all the world can 427 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,960 separate you from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ 428 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,840 our Lord. Nothing. 429 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,040 Do you believe that? Seriously, Do you believe that 430 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,480 when you're going through a rough time? 431 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,680 Do you believe that when you filled up? 432 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,480 When you do, you believe that when you feel like all hope is 433 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:17,360 gone, that nothing in the whole world can separate us from the 434 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,160 love of God, which is in Jesus Christ. 435 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:27,360 So let's in Romans chapter 8 through Romans 835 to 3039, John 436 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,720 10/20/28 to 30, Jesus promises us this. 437 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,320 No man can pluck us out of his hand. 438 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,320 That's an incredible thing. Talk about eternal security. 439 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:48,920 Eternal secure. No man can pluck us out of his 440 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,200 hand. X15 tells. 441 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,960 I mean one Peter 15 tells us we're kept how? 442 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,920 By the power of God. Every morning I thank God I'm 443 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,400 kept by your power. I pray that little prayer in 444 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,960 Judah also though, help me to keep myself in the love of God. 445 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,320 I'm in the love of God, but I can ignore it. 446 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,000 God help me to keep myself in the love of God, looking for the 447 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,200 mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us also He is 448 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,520 able to keep us from falling to present us faultless. 449 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,240 Just imagine that faultless before the presence of His glory 450 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,680 with exceeding joy to the only wise God, the old glory, 451 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,720 majesty, dominion and power, both now and forevermore. 452 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,520 And he's able to keep that which I've committed unto him daily. 453 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,400 I commit my family to him. Lord, I put them in your hands. 454 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,000 I claim that promise because of the blood. 455 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,880 You can keep that promise even though I felled up or they 456 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,960 felled up because of the blood, you can keep that promise and 457 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:08,230 keep them. I'm going to skip that one. 458 00:32:09,990 --> 00:32:17,240 So those three things quickly, the the blood of Jesus provides 459 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,720 us with access to the Father confidence to approach the 460 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,720 holiest of holies and it provides us with redemption. 461 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,520 That's four out of I think the 13 I wanted to tell you, but I'm 462 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,960 going to quote it's already 11:00. 463 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,760 Father, we come before your throne now. 464 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,600 We thank you for the blood. When we think of this Christmas, 465 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,560 we think of that child born in a major. 466 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,160 We can let that sink into our hearts. 467 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:58,360 Lord, that he was willing. God himself, Jesus, who had 468 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:06,640 fellowship with you, fellowship with the Holy Spirit, enjoyed 469 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,800 the worship of heaven, the multitude singing their praises. 470 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:20,040 He was willing to come as Almighty God and be a baby, live 471 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,360 in the womb of a woman, Nestle at their breast. 472 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,040 Those things amaze us Father, but we never want to forget why 473 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:36,640 He came, that there was sin to be dealt with, that He knew. 474 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,520 Jesus, you knew that you were going to die on that cross. 475 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,360 You laid down your life, you bled, you died. 476 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:55,760 The blood made it all open for us to have access, and even that 477 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:03,120 thrills our hearts as we go into this rest of this day and into 478 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,840 the new year. Make us more aware of what the 479 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:13,600 blood is done for us to begin to apply it on a daily basis, just 480 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:20,320 like those Israelites did. Help us to just cover ourselves 481 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:26,760 with the blood so that with the when you come through or the 482 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:32,280 Angel of death or anyone else or anything else comes our way, we 483 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,440 will just stand with a shield of faith. 484 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,000 But exercise in the blood of Jesus. 485 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,760 Confess it. We believe in the power and the 486 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,280 authority of your precious blood, Jesus. 487 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:52,840 We stand upon it. In all of the tribulations, 488 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,760 trials, whatever we go through, the disappointments and failures 489 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:03,080 and even sin, we remember and hold up before you nothing but 490 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,400 the blood of Jesus. Thank you. 491 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,680 We have you as an advocate with the Father. 492 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,800 You are the atoning sacrifice for all of our sins. 493 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,080 When we come before you and say we're sorry we sinned, it's as 494 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,280 if you hold the blood before the Father and the Father has to say 495 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,920 forgiven. Oh thank you Lord, not our works 496 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:33,320 of righteousness, just blood, blood shed for us in Jesus name. 497 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:41,800 Holy Spirit, help us, teach us each day of our lives, teach us 498 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:48,240 how to pray, teach us how to use the blood as a weapon. 499 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:55,160 They overcame in by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their 500 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:59,800 testimony. Thank you Lord, in Jesus name, 501 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,240 Amen. Amen. 502 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,000 Thank you for joining us for today's message. 503 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,960 For more information about The Way Church, please visit 504 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,920 ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot AU. 505 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,240 Have a blessed day.