Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. Normally, if I'm going to
preach, I try to sing softly, so I don't.
My voice just cracks up too early, too quickly.
But with those songs, how can you sing quietly?
So just pray that this voice holds up after all that singing
like that. Well, we're going to read again
few verses from Hebrews chapter 10 and I hope they can put that
up for us. Hebrews 10 and reading from
verse 19 to verse 25. Therefore, brothers, since we
have confidence, wonderful thing to have confidence, but look at
what the confidence it gives us to do to enter the most holy
place. How by the blood of Jesus moving
on and by a new and living way that's been opened up throughout
for us through the curtain that is his body on that cross, the
curtain in the temple. They tell me it was thick,
thick, thick right across the expanse of the the temple.
And when Jesus rose from the dead that just split, tore
apart, symbolic of his body being broken for us moving on.
And since we have a great priest can't get better than that.
Isn't it wonderful that you and I don't have to go to a single
person. We can go straight to the priest
of all priests. We don't need to go and say,
Father, forgive me this and that only to him, the Father in
heaven. And every time we go there,
Jesus says, Father, my blood. They don't deserve it, they
never will, but they've come in my name and I represent them.
We have an advocate with the Father and he is Jesus Christ
the righteous, and he is the mercy seat, the propitiation,
the atoning sacrifice for our sins seated here.
But isn't it wonderful to know for the sins of the whole world,
every person walking around outside the unsaved, Jesus died
for them. His desire is for them all to
come to Christ. That's his desire.
But reading on, and since we have a great high priest over
the House of God, over the House of God, we don't have human
beings over the House of God. The only over that these elders
have. And when I was an elder, the
only over we really have is the over of protection, not of
supremacy. It's like an umbrella.
It protects us from all the Wiles in the tax accusations.
Everything else the devil comes in, it throws at us.
And there isn't one of us seated here that doesn't have those
attacks from time to time. Some have them more often than
others, but we all have them, and we have that.
Remember, He's over the House of God reading on.
And so with all that in mind, let us draw near to God with a
sincere heart, full assurance of faith, Having our hearts
sprinkled like they did. They took the blood that
sprinkled it on the doorposts, having our hearts sprinkled to
cleanse us from guilty conscience.
Bear that in mind. Make an underlining in your
heart of that that he cleanses us from a guilty conscience.
Some some of those the translation.
So he purges us, purges us like fire purges blood purges it
cleans from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed
with pure water. Next verse please. 23 Let us
hold unswervenly, never giving up, never none of this, just a
straight line. And let us hold unswervingly,
unswervingly to the hope we profess for.
Not because I've got great faith, not because you people
are praying for me or we're praying for each other.
That's so just a contributing factor.
The major issue is for he who is prior, who promised it is
faithful. I have faith not in my faith.
I have faith in His faithfulness.
Lots of people have faith in their faith, and so when they
don't feel like they have faith, they don't have faith.
They live in negativity. Most of those who have faith and
faith will go through long periods of negativity because
their faith isn't what they want it to be.
My faith has never been what I want it to be, and I've been
saved for over 50 years, but my faith isn't my the amount of
faith I have. It's in the faithfulness of God.
I hope you get that and let's move on and let us consider how
we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds and
the last verse. And let us not give up meeting
together as some other in the habit of doing.
Bear that in mind, you know, and Anna and I, we have a we read
something every morning together.
This morning we read out, we were reading out a one-on-one
Watchmen, these daily devotional books.
And then it was today was about that scripture and I stopped and
thought how often we just don't come because it's not
convenience, got other things on the agenda or we had a late
night or even sometimes unnecessary work.
Think about that. God says in the light of all
that Jesus is and has done for us not to bring guilt on us.
He's just saying you want all of that to work in your life.
It comes through the blood, but we need to just meet the
conditions. That's all.
None of those things earn it. All I do is keep the passage
open for the Holy Spirit to pour all He wants.
That's all they do. It doesn't make us worthy.
We can never earn it. So let us not give up meeting
together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us
encourage one another. Now, I can't encourage David if
David's not here. But I want to tell you something
more. I can't encourage David by
telling him, you know, that last night that the 30 Sixers won or
the night before, that might encourage him for a moment.
That's not the encouragement God's talking about.
It's the encouragement that builds us up in the faith.
So what do we do when we come in the morning?
What do we talk about anyway? dot, dot, dot, we'll see where
we go with that and then and all the more as you see the day
approaching. And that can't be too long now,
if Paul, who was so spiritual that he even went up into the
third heavens, if he had believed that in his time 2082
thousand years ago, Jesus was going to come back, do you know
how much more closer we are to it now?
Right. So today we continue the subject
of the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, one of the most
valuable, most precious, one of the most amazing portions of the
word of God or truths of in the contained in the word of God is
this the blood of Jesus. It's opened up so much for us.
It's made available to us now and it's going to be a made
available to us forever, even into eternity, the blood of
Jesus. So I, I, I just want to say this
again. I don't want to repeat my
message from last week, but I do want to say that everything that
the blood is going to do for us in our lives has to be applied
by faith, that we have to just simply take God at His word.
Faith is simply resting in what God says and what God has done.
Really, at the end of the day, it isn't something you've got to
conjure up. But in the book of Romans,
chapter 10, verses 9 and 10, it tells us that if we confess with
our mouths and if we believe in our hearts, and then it goes on
to say that with with our hearts, we believe with our
mouths, we profess our faith. So that's that's what it means
to apply the blood that they did in the Exodus chapter 12, Exodus
12. We've got to apply the blood and
part of how we apply the blood. All of this is by faith are some
of the things we'll touch as we move through today.
But I won't be able to emphasize too much on that.
That's why I'm wanting to hear ask you listen to those things
that I say that I believe come out of the word of God about how
we apply the blood. There's a whole lot of things
how we exercise our faith, but one of the major things is
confessing. And the word confess isn't that
I come and say to you, you know, I confess that I've done
something. Because when you come to God and
say, you know God, I just confess I lied.
It's like God says, hello. Do you think I didn't know that?
And thanks for informing me. And what God is actually saying
is, do you agree with me? That's what confession means.
It's to agree with God. I want that to sink in somewhere
along the line. I've got to say what God says
and stop saying what others say, or even what the devil says, or
even what my inward thoughts want to tell me.
I've got to start speaking out God, because you said I confess
what you say is true. That's what it means that it's
in confess with your mouths. Now there can be that we're
telling others about it as well, but that's not what it's
referring to in the Scripture. So that's one of the ways we
apply the blood of Jesus. We stop lying to ourselves and
listening to the devil and we start saying about ourselves,
our sin, sicknesses, diseases, whatever it is, we got to start
saying, I agree with you, Jesus. Now, that doesn't mean you deny
the fact that you may be sick. And we'll come to that in a
moment. But if you keep on confessing,
look how sick I am, Father. Look at I can't do this because
I'm so sick. Now, when you get to my age,
you're getting older to keep on saying I can't do all these
things because I'm so old. Now, there are certain
limitations upon us because of the fall of Adam, but we place a
lot of of limitations on our lives by simply confessing the
wrong things all the time. Yes, I am getting older, but
Moses and so many of these other guys only started the ministries
at around about my age. Not too many, but a few.
I don't want to make anybody feel bad, but I'm just saying
let's start to confess the word of God.
This is the day the Lord has made.
I will rejoice. I will be happy in it.
God gives me strength for each day.
As your day, so shall your strength be.
I'm trying not to speak along these lines because I want to
get to the all. This is about the blood of
Jesus. All right, So what did we say
last week? Quickly, the blood of Jesus
gives us access into the very throne room of God.
That was the first thing that you can come as often as you
like. You can come every 10 seconds
for 24 hours a day, etcetera. Secondly, the blood of Jesus
gives us confidence to enter that place.
Don't have to come and say, well God, I just sin so badly, I
don't you know, I can't come back.
He just says come Christ of Jesus, the blood is shed for
that sin. You just do, you know that Jesus
knew that you would commit sins if you leave here today and you
commit 1. He knew that before He made the
world. He knew you would sin today
before you were even born, before the creation.
He's not caught off guard. That's why we can come with
confidence. I'm wanting you to understand
this is only because of the blood, not because of you, not
because you turning over a good leaf or you repenting that opens
the way, but it's only because Jesus shed His blood.
Thirdly, the blood redeems us. I said, and I said there were
nine things that that redemption uncovers and I would love to
talk about them again, but I can't.
I'm just going to say he redeems us to be to be redeems when he's
redeemed us. He's set us free from the slave
market of sin. He's set us free.
He redeemed us, taken us out of the slave market of sin, but
he's also taken out of us out of the need to fulfil the law,
living under it, trying our best, energy, effort.
It's all done for us. Jesus did it.
And thirdly, it reflected, it redeems us from the eternity
lost without Christ. The wrath of God will not be
poured out upon me because of Jesus blood.
It's been poured out on him. So that's for every one of us in
this meeting today. Redemption is covers
justification. I can't deal with it.
I'd love to. It deals with righteousness.
It deals with forgiveness, it deals with cleansing from all
sin, all sin he cleanser. I gave all the scriptures last
time we were you last week. It also purges our consciences
from all dead works. And I want to say this again,
all what are dead works? Every dead work is everything
you and I do. Even the things we say we're
doing for Jesus that are not done in the power of the Holy
Spirit with faith, it's a dead work.
You could have been sitting there today singing those great
songs and thinking of other things.
Dead work preachers can stand up here and preach the Bible and
not trusting God, the Holy Spirit to do the work, trusting
their own abilities. That's a dead work.
Flesh only gives birth to flesh. Anything done outside of the
power of the Holy Spirit related to the things of God is a dead
work. So we just need to learn to
depend more upon the Holy Spirit because in His cleansing or
purging of our consciences, He opened the way for the Spirit of
God's life to be kept on pouring into us.
Now talking about these things that open the way.
All right, firstly, I said it makes us holy.
It reconciles us. Reconciliation.
God and I, we're no longer separated.
No matter what the devil says and no matter what people say,
God and I are not no longer separated.
We reconcile, but the beauty is that that flows to you and I,
every one of us, between us. God has made it available for us
all to be reconciled. If there's someone sitting in
the here today and you know you've got alt against anybody,
no matter what they've done, how bad they treated you, God has
made it possible and available for you to be reconciled.
All you got to do is just obey him.
He may say, call that person and say sorry.
Call that person and just say, can we have a cup of coffee?
If they are elsewhere in the world.
Just a text. I really regret what I did
except God says the blood has made all that possible.
I'm taking too long on this. It's made a ton for us, brought
us into oneness. God and I at one through the
shedding of his blood and let me move on and it sanctifies us.
Not only does it separate us from sin, but it purges us,
cleanses us, and makes us pure. It's an ongoing process.
The process of sanctification will last until Jesus says that
we come up here or I look up and He's coming down to take us.
That's true for all of us. It's a lifelong process.
So now we come to the third, the fourth thing, The first one, the
blood gives us access. Secondly, it gives us confidence
to approach the throne of grace. And thirdly, it redeems us.
But now we come to the fourth thing that the blood does, and
this is where we start this morning.
If the blood gives us authority, authority In my devotions this
morning in the Book of Revelation I was reading there,
I think it's Revelation 12, my daily devotion.
I always ask God, God, if I'm going to be preaching on the
subject. Give me confirmations day by day
that I've got the right word. And here I am.
And I overcame him, Satan, by the blood of the Lamb and by the
word of the testimony. And they did not love their
lives even unto death. The blood of the Lamb, it gives
us victory. We can overcome Satan at every
level. No matter what the temptation,
remember this through that blood.
God says this. I will not allow any temptation
to to overtake you. I will always make a way of
escape, not because you're so good or you now made a
commitment to try and do better next time, he says no, my
commitment is no temptation Will I'll not allow anything to come
and beat you because of the blood.
Now if you don't believe that you're going to be overcome.
If you think, man, I've been walking now for so many years.
I'm good now and now I really got in control of this thing.
I'm, I'm a winner. You know, I'm in victory.
The moment you think that the devil's listening, he's
watching. He's looking for avenues to get
in and he'll attack. And you no strength to beat him.
It's only by the blood and the blood opens the power of the
Holy Spirit to work in your life.
Mark 16, verses 17 and 18. Can we just quickly put that up
there? Mark 16. 17 and 18 this is the
signs that shall follow them that believe and these signs
will accompany those who believe in my name.
They will drive out demons when there's demon activity if you
feel it's in your home. Now some people say I'm
overboard on this, but when we analyze to travel a lot, we were
often having to stay in hotels and motels and dumpy rooms and
and sometimes we would have it, we would come into places where
what was on the beds, you knew what had happened there.
The night before the sex orgies, it was still on the beds, My
wife sitting there. This is not once, this is not
twice. This is so often.
We used to walk in and just sprinkle the blood by faith.
No matter what's been happening, dear Lord, in the name of Jesus,
we drive out every demon spirit that's had rule and reign in
this room prior to us getting in here and things that this is not
full a formula, just the heart. I remember when we bought the
property that they got in Branston, we bought this whole
Country Club, the whole grounds, 25 acres of it.
And the, the, the last thing that this Country Club had
become. It had been useful.
Lots of different reasons. It, it became the place where
all the witch doctors gathered. That's where they gathered when
we bought this place. We just, I remember taking all
the, the congregation with me. We walked through that place and
we just cleansed it by the authority of the blood of Jesus.
And every single Sunday People came to Christ in the place
where they worship Satan. And I just drops into my mind.
You know, you've heard of Ronald Monkey, one of the greatest
great evangelist of our time. I remember Ronald once saying
this. He says, people quite often say
to me, can you feel the evil here?
And he used to say, no, I can't. And there was evil there.
No, I can't. All I sense is God's presence.
Chris, I'm here. Something like that.
Why am I saying that? Because God wants you to see the
blood really gives you victory. It cleanses it.
It gives that, well, let me move up.
They will not only drive out demons, they'll speak with new
tongues. Why?
Because of the blood. I can speak in tongues.
Now if you want to believe that that's languages, then start to
practice languages. Go out and speak to some causa
or Zulu or Chinese person. Gaia.
But where does this get fulfilled if it's not the
tongues we're talking about, where we can just before God,
speak that language that He gives us when he fills us with
His Holy Spirit. So I won't fight with people.
I just say, well, are you still speaking in tongues?
Any tongues? I'm just being naughty.
Sorry, but I'm being truthful. This is what the blood is
opened. Next verse please.
They will pick up snakes with their hands.
I don't think Jesus is saying go around and look for snakes.
It's if it's accidental like it was with Paul on Malta.
In Malta, as they were making that fire, snake latched onto
him. Some of you may know this man,
he lives here in Australia now. I'm Mike Mcmeekin, he was in the
church in South Africa and I was preaching the similar message.
I don't know if it was on this subject but I was.
I touched the fact that we can pick up snakes.
So he was one of the elders on the in the church.
After that we all went to his home to have this was late at
night. We went there and as we got out
the car, the car car park, there was grass as he snake just
latched onto him, bit him right there and then.
So I mean his wife panicked. Now this guy lives here in
Australia. Now you can go and check it out
with him. If you think I'm kidding you,
you know who I'm talking about. Some of you do.
We walked into his house and his wife wanted to call the doctor,
try and book him into a hospital.
And he said, you know, Dudley's just been preaching on this
thing, let's trust God. And so we did not a single after
effect. And most of the snakes in South
Africa, they don't play around. There's something like our brown
snake yard. They're serious contenders
anyway. They place their hands on the
sick people and they will get well and so we could go on.
If will you just turn with me quickly, just skip.
We can pick up Luke chapter 10 verses 18 and 19.
I want to just you to listen to what Jesus said when these
disciples are rejoicing that they they can cast our demons.
They're doing all these things, he said.
I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions
and took overcome all the power of the enemy.
Nothing will harm you. Now that doesn't mean you won't
go through hard times and nothing's going to go wrong in
your life. What he's saying is I will not
allow anything to come your way that is outside of my will and
that I can't use for my good. We're going to start having to
believe that. When we don't believe that, then
these things are become very serious problems in our lives.
All right, let's move on. So it gives us authority.
Jesus has given it to us. And Matthew 28 go into all the
world. And that's the condition I think
too. You've got to go.
He says, go into all the world and make disciples of all
nations. And then he says, I'll be with
you always, even unto the end of the age.
But I've given you all that authority I give to you.
All right, next thing. Revelation 12/11.
It gives us protection. We said it gives us victory, but
it also gives us protection. The blood of Jesus is a powerful
weapon of defence and offence. We use the blood.
They overcame him by the blood to overcome you.
It's not defensive, it's attack offensive, but also defensive.
The blood of Jesus, Exodus 12/13.
They painted sprinkled the blood.
But you know, you take Psalm 91. I don't know how often you read
that. It's a Psalm.
You should read about once every week or two.
He that dwells under the shadow of the Almighty and then it just
goes through a list of things that God protects you from and
that God has done for you. Why all of that was possible
because it looked forward to the shedding of the blood and the
blood of Jesus. Nothing else but the blood of
Jesus protection. I wish.
I mean all of these are subject. You want to spend the whole of
that hour on that one subject. Number six, the blood of Jesus
has made peace, peace with God and the peace of God.
The two areas there, there's more than that, But these two I
want to touch for a moment the blood of Jesus.
It says in Colossians 12/1, verse 20, they're having made
peace through the blood shed on the cross.
He's made peace. I'm at peace with God and God's
at peace with me because God looks down on Dudley and says
the blood has been shed. He's looking to it, he's
confessing it, He's trusting me. That's enough for me.
He doesn't remove his peace from me when I'm trusting him because
of the blood. But it also means that I can
have the peace of God. And that's one of those things
that I want all day long. And I wish I could say that I
had it all day long. I don't always, but listen to
what it says. You know the scripture very well
in Where's it Together, Philippians chapter 4, verses 6
and seven. He says do not be anxious about
anything. I mean that word, anything,
What, what doesn't that cover? Just tell me, give me one
illustration of one thing that anything doesn't cover that
word. Do not be anxious about anything
but with prayer. Prayer, the blood on the
lentils, supplication or intercession, some translations
say, and Thanksgiving, prayer, prayers, general supplication is
more specific. And Thanksgiving.
Now which of those three things can you leave out and still
believe you applying the blood? You tell me none.
So how's it going for me? How's it going for you?
Prayer, supplication and this wonderful word called thank you,
Lord, Thanksgiving. How often do we thank him?
Can I just encourage you when you think of this tomorrow
morning when you wake up before you get out of bed, just get up
before you get out of bed, say Lord, I thank you for another
new day. For me.
I have always say another day. I near so nearly nearly had
never had Chris. I was on that operating table
down in Flinders and I died. 23 extra years and I tell him that
every single morning and he's listening.
Not because I was going to free. You can go back months, years,
for 23 years outside of when I was unconscious on that in that
hospital for a few weekdays. Every single day I thank him for
this new day, a day I so nearly never had.
Start your day, Lord, thank you for the night's sleep.
Or even if I got so little sleep, thank you.
I'm alive again today. This is applying all the
benefits. The blood has opened up for us.
Thanksgiving, prayer, supplication, anything.
And then it says and what will happen and it talks about and
then the peace of God, which transcends all.
It's everything and so you could go reading on our must move on
Ephesians 212 and 14. We won't read it, but it tells
us that Christ is our peace and that peace came through his
blood. And so Isaiah 96 says calls him
the Prince of peace. Next one quickly freedom.
Looking at that clock, Revelation chapter 1 verses 5
and 6. If we could just put that up
quickly. Talks about Jesus Christ who is
the faithful witness, the first born from the dead and the ruler
of the kings of the earth. Now watch the sixth verse.
To him who loves us, the blood opened up the love to be able to
reach us, the agape love and has freed us from our sins.
How by his blood and has made us to be a Kingdom and priest to
serve his God and Father to him be glory and power forever and
ever. Amen.
How can you not give him glory? But he has freed us from our
sins. Now I want you to underline in
your mind that little word there it is not spelled IM.
It's from you know that in the book of when John wrote that
first letter in 1 John chapter 2 verse one, he tells us these
things right unto you that you sin not that you don't sin not
even once. But if if any man does sin, we
have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous, what I what God, what John's trying to tell.
He's the apostle of life. He's not making things hard for
us. He's trying to say you don't
have to sin if you believe in a sinning religion.
It's not the true Bible religion.
It's not true Christianity. When preachers tell you expect
yourself to sin, they are releasing you to release faith
to believe you've got to keep on sinning.
Now it does go on to say if any man does has says he has not
sinned, he's a liar etcetera with the potential to sin is
always there and God it's like the rail railroad here in this
country. Let's take the South Australian,
the one that the gone and all these they don't have on their
agenda on the timetable 11:45 on the 12th of such and such a day
we will have an accident. But they have every contingency
available that when it does, if it happens, they know what to do
about it. That's what the blood is.
It's not saying hey, you all got to go around sinning all day.
It's saying in actual fact, Jesus has freed you from your
sin, but if it does, you do sin, thank God.
Bang, contingent plan, the blood of Jesus.
The blood keeps us clean and frees us from all sin.
Now I don't know how many of you can receive that because even
when I preach it, it is so difficult for me to believe it
myself. We are so used to sinning and
then we get these other people who come from these movements
that say, I just want to give God thanks.
I haven't sinned for the last 15 years.
And my heart says, and you just did now, right now you just told
another lie. You see, it's, it's it's
difficult to say these things, but I'm asking you start to
believe this and you'll see by the process of the working of
the Holy Spirit in your life, these things will happen less as
you begin to believe them in the power of the blood and what
God's right available. So believe this.
Remember this said, well, biblical freedom, this is so
important, Biblical freedom. It's freedom from sin, but it's
freedom to serve. You see, freedom isn't doing
what you like. If you're going to San
Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.
It's not kind of daisies. And peace, brother.
All those things now. And some of you looking at me.
Well, what's that about? That just tells you you're still
young and you need to be grateful for that.
But I'm trying to say it's not freedom to do what I like, it's
freedom to serve him. Biblical freedom is freedom from
the downward pull of sin. It's freedom from that inward
desire to keep on wanting to sin, to sneak stuff in.
It's freedom from the law. It's actually freedom from the
power of sin, if you want it, but you can't compromise.
It's from to serving and then we won't read this now, but make a
note of this and get read it when you get home.
Romans 8 to the 1st 4 verses. Romans 6 verses three to seven.
A wonderful word. So it's freedom from rules and
rituals, regulations. It's even freedom from religion,
but not freedom to do as you please.
I'm going to say this because I see it and I'm trying to move to
the next point quickly because I want to finish this.
It's freedom to serve God joyfully and it's freedom to
live a spirit LED obedient life to Christ.
That's what the bloods open up for us.
I can, I can serve God joyfully. Oh, I've got to get up, got to
go to the meeting. I've got to preach and I don't
feel like it. It's to serve God joyfully.
I better read my Bible in case and hope I can find someone to
testify against today even though I don't like it.
Just how's it going with your freedom?
It's the ability to live a fulfilled life.
That's what the freedom is. A fulfilled life serving God,
His will and His purposes. And it's available if you want
it. Listen to what 1 Corinthian, I'm
just going to read a little part of this one Corinthians 10/23
and 24. It says Paul says you say to
yourself, I have the right to do anything you say.
But not everything is beneficial.
Not everything is constructive. So he says this and something
that little part of. So no one should seek their own
good, but the good of others. All right, next thing, it
imparts life. The blood of Jesus imparts life.
Can we just put out that John 6553 up there quickly, please,
while he puts it up? I just want to say that the
blood of Jesus gives us that life force that's opened up
because through the blood God can pour that life force into
us. Are we having problems here?
I thought it was a disaster. Somebody had hurt themselves.
All right, it's the life force that takes care of all of our
sins and therefore we can receive God's spiritual life
into our lives and we can fellowship with God and we can
draw from all these abundant resources and we live a whole
new, new life. Jesus said to them and tell
them, I'll tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of man and drink the blood, you have no life in you.
Now, that's not literally, and let me just say this in passing
because it's so serious. When we take that little cup,
that cup doesn't turn into the blood, the literal real blood of
Jesus that's trying to practice magic.
It's not biblical Christianity. It's an emblem, a symbol.
And how can we fulfill? How can I take that little piece
of bread? And now we've got them where
they're even stuck on the top of the little bottle.
How can I take that and say, wow, this is amazing.
It's it's this has become the body of Christ.
This is his literal flesh. And a whole vast section of
Christian theology believes that that's not what's happening, But
we take it as symbolic. This represents your blood
Jesus. This represents your body Jesus.
And through that drawing from Him, we actually open up the
life of God being released in and through our lives.
And I wish I could say much more.
I've got a whole lot more to say there.
But listen, just this one thing. It gives us new life.
And Two Corinthians 517 says that if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creation, the oldest past, the newest.
Come all things on you through the blood of Jesus.
It brings healing, one Peter 224 says.
And by his wounds you have been healed.
Now a lot of people restrict that only to salvation, that
you've been healed from the the disease of sin.
But it also covers our sicknesses for those of us who
struggle with healing, the theology of healing, but also
even with our own illnesses. What I've learned is simply
this, bring what's wrong with you and lay it at the feet of
the cross, feet of Jesus and leave it there and trust God to
work things out. Because when we get back to
Scripture, this is the promise of God.
The blood heals us. But at the same time, we see
that people like Paul himself says, you would have even
plucked out your eyes to help me.
Paul was sick and he was sick till the day he died.
He left his closest ally, the one who was in a sense looks to
me like the one who would have replaced him.
He said to his young son Timothy.
Take a little wine for your stomach's sake and for your
often infirmities. So if Paul, who could raise the
dead also had to face the fact he said Maletus, have I left
Trophemus have I left sick? And Maletus, Paul would have put
his hands on my Trophemus and Trophemus did not get instantly
healed. So if they had some problems.
I'm just trying to be real on this and I feel like I don't
want to grieve God on this thing, but when we just say
everybody gets instantly healed and a lot of us are sitting
saying we haven't been instantly healed and a lot of people who
said they were aren't anymore, it can cause 'cause confusion.
I'm just saying put everything, whatever your ailment is, put it
at the feet of Jesus and then just leave it with Him.
And when you get these symptoms and whatever else, or aches and
pains or whatever else it might be, Jesus, I'm still trusting
you. And I don't know when it'll
happen. I know it can happen right now.
I believe that with all my heart.
But I'm going to have to leave it with you because I can
struggle here and get myself back into condemnation and
guilt. And I know the number of people
around the world alive, some alive today and many dead that
used to criticize me when I went through that bad time.
Many of them are dead today, and they died much younger than me.
I'm 82, some of them died at age 5040, but they criticized me
most. Every person, preacher included,
has to somewhere along the line have a fresh look at the whole
subject of healing. Some of them live in this
country that I that used to look at me and something must be
hidden sin somewhere and now they sick so many of them now
wearing glasses as well hearing aids like me.
And let me just say this as a confession acknowledgement
before God and before you. I used to also preach that here
I am when when you go to put a hearing aid and I mean you hear
what I'm trying to say. Please let God just help you.
Nick. Sing quickly.
It promises us better things. Hebrews 12/24 says the sprinkled
blood that speaks of better things or better word, better
covenant, better promises, better everything.
Wish we could cover more of that.
I've only got four more things quickly.
The blood of Jesus equips us because I can't come back next
week and I'd like to finish at 11 and I see it's 3 minutes
past. So give me some latitude here,
please. Hebrews chapter 13 verses 21 and
20 and 21. If you'll just read that for us,
put that up for us, please. Hebrews 1320 and 21 just wanted
you to see how the blood is linked with with equipping us.
May the God of peace, who threw the blood of the eternal
covenant, brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep. Now listen to what it says.
May He equip you, He equip you with everything good for doing
His will. And may He work in us what is
pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever
and ever. Amen.
The blood linked with equipping and the ability, the skills,
everything we need for what God calls us to do.
Now, God will not equip you with what he has not called you to
do. But I want to say this to you,
you, you down into the future, wherever he is and anyone else
that God might rise up in the our church and into the future.
If he's called you, he has equipped you.
If you're not feeling the equipping coming through, it's
because you're not confessing or trusting the blood enough, the
finished work of Jesus. Now, if you know, people say to
me, yeah, I can do all things through Christ.
And some of them can't even pull a nail out of a piece of timber
with they're just not practically made.
They don't just that does not work for them.
I can't cook roast beef. It'll just be a charred mess.
It's not my calling, and I may not be the best preacher, but
God equips me to preach with the skill He gives me.
He equips us, all of us. He equips you to be a good
housewife, a Good Wife, a good woman in business, a good
businessman, a good whatever you are.
He equips you when you in His will.
All right #12 I think it is. It also gives us assurance.
The blood of Jesus gives us that assurance. 1 John 5 verses 8
through to 13, and we can't read it all, but that's part of where
Paul says linking it to the blood.
That's why I've, I've said involve the eighth verse as
well, that you may know these things.
Have I written unto you that you may know we have assurance by
the Holy Spirit. I wish I could.
And then it gives us victory. And lastly, he purchased the
church with his blood. He purchased the whole church
with his blood. Acts 2028.
It tells us that he purchased the church with his own blood.
Now that doesn't say the blood of Jesus.
It says God purchased us. Isn't that incredible?
A God who is spirit made flesh. I don't know of any price any
person could ever pay to enjoy the angels, angelic worship, the
fellowship within the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I mean, I know the intimacy of an and my relationship when we
talk to each other, sit with each other, when we enjoy each
other, that's infinite. That's just so small and
insignificant in comparison to the fellowship they would have
had in heaven. And God says, I'm going to go
down there now we just say, well, Jesus came, but remember,
there's only one God, three persons, but it was God in
flesh. He purchased this with his own
blood. And again, all of this, you're
going to have to put the blood on the lentils, confess it,
pray, intercession, praise, agree with God.
And so we could go on. Would you stand with me, please?
I've taken 7 minutes longer than I wanted to.
Those of you who can stand on if you don't have to, I mean, Lord,
I just come before you with this congregation.
And I've talked about the blood that Jesus shed for us.
And Lord, I've done the best I can, but I know it's more than I
could ever, ever adequately convey to this congregation, and
it makes more valuable and precious than even I have
understanding of to this day. We'll never be able to
comprehend in fullness what the blood really means.
But we do ask together as a congregation, help us not to
live like we've lived before, but to lift it from today on in
a different realm of life, with all that the blood is made
available to make use of it. Help us to agree with you, to
take your word seriously, believe what you say in your
faithfulness and all of your blessings.
Help us to live in victory, to serve you willingly from the
heart, and to be available to one another.
So we commit ourselves to you in Jesus name, our families, our
friends, the whole of our future, we put it in your hands
in Jesus name, with Thanksgiving, Amen, Amen.
God bless you. Thank you for joining us for
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