1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,880 Australia. Normally, if I'm going to 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,400 preach, I try to sing softly, so I don't. 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,120 My voice just cracks up too early, too quickly. 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,800 But with those songs, how can you sing quietly? 6 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,080 So just pray that this voice holds up after all that singing 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,760 like that. Well, we're going to read again 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,640 few verses from Hebrews chapter 10 and I hope they can put that 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,280 up for us. Hebrews 10 and reading from 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,720 verse 19 to verse 25. Therefore, brothers, since we 11 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,800 have confidence, wonderful thing to have confidence, but look at 12 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,360 what the confidence it gives us to do to enter the most holy 13 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,120 place. How by the blood of Jesus moving 14 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,600 on and by a new and living way that's been opened up throughout 15 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:13,520 for us through the curtain that is his body on that cross, the 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:18,080 curtain in the temple. They tell me it was thick, 17 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,400 thick, thick right across the expanse of the the temple. 18 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,080 And when Jesus rose from the dead that just split, tore 19 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:34,120 apart, symbolic of his body being broken for us moving on. 20 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:41,880 And since we have a great priest can't get better than that. 21 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,320 Isn't it wonderful that you and I don't have to go to a single 22 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,240 person. We can go straight to the priest 23 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,600 of all priests. We don't need to go and say, 24 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,080 Father, forgive me this and that only to him, the Father in 25 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,960 heaven. And every time we go there, 26 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:02,840 Jesus says, Father, my blood. They don't deserve it, they 27 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:10,360 never will, but they've come in my name and I represent them. 28 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:16,560 We have an advocate with the Father and he is Jesus Christ 29 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:22,120 the righteous, and he is the mercy seat, the propitiation, 30 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,920 the atoning sacrifice for our sins seated here. 31 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,680 But isn't it wonderful to know for the sins of the whole world, 32 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,560 every person walking around outside the unsaved, Jesus died 33 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,720 for them. His desire is for them all to 34 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,800 come to Christ. That's his desire. 35 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,480 But reading on, and since we have a great high priest over 36 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,800 the House of God, over the House of God, we don't have human 37 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,920 beings over the House of God. The only over that these elders 38 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,520 have. And when I was an elder, the 39 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:02,520 only over we really have is the over of protection, not of 40 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,800 supremacy. It's like an umbrella. 41 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:13,640 It protects us from all the Wiles in the tax accusations. 42 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:16,600 Everything else the devil comes in, it throws at us. 43 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,320 And there isn't one of us seated here that doesn't have those 44 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,120 attacks from time to time. Some have them more often than 45 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,400 others, but we all have them, and we have that. 46 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,000 Remember, He's over the House of God reading on. 47 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,200 And so with all that in mind, let us draw near to God with a 48 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,880 sincere heart, full assurance of faith, Having our hearts 49 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,280 sprinkled like they did. They took the blood that 50 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,440 sprinkled it on the doorposts, having our hearts sprinkled to 51 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,880 cleanse us from guilty conscience. 52 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,880 Bear that in mind. Make an underlining in your 53 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,280 heart of that that he cleanses us from a guilty conscience. 54 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,160 Some some of those the translation. 55 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:11,480 So he purges us, purges us like fire purges blood purges it 56 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,040 cleans from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed 57 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:23,520 with pure water. Next verse please. 23 Let us 58 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:29,680 hold unswervenly, never giving up, never none of this, just a 59 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,200 straight line. And let us hold unswervingly, 60 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,040 unswervingly to the hope we profess for. 61 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,200 Not because I've got great faith, not because you people 62 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,440 are praying for me or we're praying for each other. 63 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,920 That's so just a contributing factor. 64 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:51,720 The major issue is for he who is prior, who promised it is 65 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,560 faithful. I have faith not in my faith. 66 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,920 I have faith in His faithfulness. 67 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,400 Lots of people have faith in their faith, and so when they 68 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,600 don't feel like they have faith, they don't have faith. 69 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,320 They live in negativity. Most of those who have faith and 70 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:17,120 faith will go through long periods of negativity because 71 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,160 their faith isn't what they want it to be. 72 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,000 My faith has never been what I want it to be, and I've been 73 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,920 saved for over 50 years, but my faith isn't my the amount of 74 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,160 faith I have. It's in the faithfulness of God. 75 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:39,920 I hope you get that and let's move on and let us consider how 76 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,880 we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds and 77 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,800 the last verse. And let us not give up meeting 78 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,960 together as some other in the habit of doing. 79 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,760 Bear that in mind, you know, and Anna and I, we have a we read 80 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,280 something every morning together. 81 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,080 This morning we read out, we were reading out a one-on-one 82 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,720 Watchmen, these daily devotional books. 83 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,200 And then it was today was about that scripture and I stopped and 84 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,120 thought how often we just don't come because it's not 85 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,640 convenience, got other things on the agenda or we had a late 86 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,160 night or even sometimes unnecessary work. 87 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,880 Think about that. God says in the light of all 88 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,920 that Jesus is and has done for us not to bring guilt on us. 89 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,800 He's just saying you want all of that to work in your life. 90 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,600 It comes through the blood, but we need to just meet the 91 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,840 conditions. That's all. 92 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:49,280 None of those things earn it. All I do is keep the passage 93 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:52,320 open for the Holy Spirit to pour all He wants. 94 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,600 That's all they do. It doesn't make us worthy. 95 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,200 We can never earn it. So let us not give up meeting 96 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,320 together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us 97 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,200 encourage one another. Now, I can't encourage David if 98 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,480 David's not here. But I want to tell you something 99 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,000 more. I can't encourage David by 100 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,800 telling him, you know, that last night that the 30 Sixers won or 101 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,280 the night before, that might encourage him for a moment. 102 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,160 That's not the encouragement God's talking about. 103 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,040 It's the encouragement that builds us up in the faith. 104 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,240 So what do we do when we come in the morning? 105 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:44,220 What do we talk about anyway? dot, dot, dot, we'll see where 106 00:07:44,220 --> 00:07:49,300 we go with that and then and all the more as you see the day 107 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:51,740 approaching. And that can't be too long now, 108 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,400 if Paul, who was so spiritual that he even went up into the 109 00:07:55,400 --> 00:08:02,640 third heavens, if he had believed that in his time 2082 110 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,240 thousand years ago, Jesus was going to come back, do you know 111 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,240 how much more closer we are to it now? 112 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,080 Right. So today we continue the subject 113 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:21,560 of the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, one of the most 114 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,520 valuable, most precious, one of the most amazing portions of the 115 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,800 word of God or truths of in the contained in the word of God is 116 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,559 this the blood of Jesus. It's opened up so much for us. 117 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,480 It's made available to us now and it's going to be a made 118 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,200 available to us forever, even into eternity, the blood of 119 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:49,880 Jesus. So I, I, I just want to say this 120 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,240 again. I don't want to repeat my 121 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,920 message from last week, but I do want to say that everything that 122 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,840 the blood is going to do for us in our lives has to be applied 123 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:05,000 by faith, that we have to just simply take God at His word. 124 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,560 Faith is simply resting in what God says and what God has done. 125 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,080 Really, at the end of the day, it isn't something you've got to 126 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,000 conjure up. But in the book of Romans, 127 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,440 chapter 10, verses 9 and 10, it tells us that if we confess with 128 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:25,440 our mouths and if we believe in our hearts, and then it goes on 129 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,720 to say that with with our hearts, we believe with our 130 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:34,640 mouths, we profess our faith. So that's that's what it means 131 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:44,160 to apply the blood that they did in the Exodus chapter 12, Exodus 132 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,640 12. We've got to apply the blood and 133 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,160 part of how we apply the blood. All of this is by faith are some 134 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,960 of the things we'll touch as we move through today. 135 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,560 But I won't be able to emphasize too much on that. 136 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:01,080 That's why I'm wanting to hear ask you listen to those things 137 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,000 that I say that I believe come out of the word of God about how 138 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,200 we apply the blood. There's a whole lot of things 139 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,040 how we exercise our faith, but one of the major things is 140 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,280 confessing. And the word confess isn't that 141 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,600 I come and say to you, you know, I confess that I've done 142 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,800 something. Because when you come to God and 143 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,160 say, you know God, I just confess I lied. 144 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,040 It's like God says, hello. Do you think I didn't know that? 145 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,400 And thanks for informing me. And what God is actually saying 146 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,840 is, do you agree with me? That's what confession means. 147 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:50,480 It's to agree with God. I want that to sink in somewhere 148 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,360 along the line. I've got to say what God says 149 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,960 and stop saying what others say, or even what the devil says, or 150 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,200 even what my inward thoughts want to tell me. 151 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,720 I've got to start speaking out God, because you said I confess 152 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,240 what you say is true. That's what it means that it's 153 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,880 in confess with your mouths. Now there can be that we're 154 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,680 telling others about it as well, but that's not what it's 155 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,680 referring to in the Scripture. So that's one of the ways we 156 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:29,280 apply the blood of Jesus. We stop lying to ourselves and 157 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,200 listening to the devil and we start saying about ourselves, 158 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:37,880 our sin, sicknesses, diseases, whatever it is, we got to start 159 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:43,800 saying, I agree with you, Jesus. Now, that doesn't mean you deny 160 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,240 the fact that you may be sick. And we'll come to that in a 161 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,200 moment. But if you keep on confessing, 162 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,120 look how sick I am, Father. Look at I can't do this because 163 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,800 I'm so sick. Now, when you get to my age, 164 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,680 you're getting older to keep on saying I can't do all these 165 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:02,320 things because I'm so old. Now, there are certain 166 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:07,320 limitations upon us because of the fall of Adam, but we place a 167 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,120 lot of of limitations on our lives by simply confessing the 168 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:17,680 wrong things all the time. Yes, I am getting older, but 169 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:23,960 Moses and so many of these other guys only started the ministries 170 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,720 at around about my age. Not too many, but a few. 171 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,840 I don't want to make anybody feel bad, but I'm just saying 172 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,840 let's start to confess the word of God. 173 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,040 This is the day the Lord has made. 174 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,160 I will rejoice. I will be happy in it. 175 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:41,320 God gives me strength for each day. 176 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,320 As your day, so shall your strength be. 177 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,520 I'm trying not to speak along these lines because I want to 178 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,920 get to the all. This is about the blood of 179 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Jesus. All right, So what did we say 180 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,800 last week? Quickly, the blood of Jesus 181 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,520 gives us access into the very throne room of God. 182 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,000 That was the first thing that you can come as often as you 183 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,840 like. You can come every 10 seconds 184 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,080 for 24 hours a day, etcetera. Secondly, the blood of Jesus 185 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,360 gives us confidence to enter that place. 186 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,680 Don't have to come and say, well God, I just sin so badly, I 187 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,000 don't you know, I can't come back. 188 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,760 He just says come Christ of Jesus, the blood is shed for 189 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,960 that sin. You just do, you know that Jesus 190 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,040 knew that you would commit sins if you leave here today and you 191 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,400 commit 1. He knew that before He made the 192 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,480 world. He knew you would sin today 193 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,280 before you were even born, before the creation. 194 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,960 He's not caught off guard. That's why we can come with 195 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,960 confidence. I'm wanting you to understand 196 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:54,080 this is only because of the blood, not because of you, not 197 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,800 because you turning over a good leaf or you repenting that opens 198 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,720 the way, but it's only because Jesus shed His blood. 199 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,240 Thirdly, the blood redeems us. I said, and I said there were 200 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,360 nine things that that redemption uncovers and I would love to 201 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:13,920 talk about them again, but I can't. 202 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,360 I'm just going to say he redeems us to be to be redeems when he's 203 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,640 redeemed us. He's set us free from the slave 204 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,560 market of sin. He's set us free. 205 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,480 He redeemed us, taken us out of the slave market of sin, but 206 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,760 he's also taken out of us out of the need to fulfil the law, 207 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,920 living under it, trying our best, energy, effort. 208 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,440 It's all done for us. Jesus did it. 209 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:44,760 And thirdly, it reflected, it redeems us from the eternity 210 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,160 lost without Christ. The wrath of God will not be 211 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,160 poured out upon me because of Jesus blood. 212 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,560 It's been poured out on him. So that's for every one of us in 213 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,600 this meeting today. Redemption is covers 214 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,840 justification. I can't deal with it. 215 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,520 I'd love to. It deals with righteousness. 216 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:13,120 It deals with forgiveness, it deals with cleansing from all 217 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,800 sin, all sin he cleanser. I gave all the scriptures last 218 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,760 time we were you last week. It also purges our consciences 219 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,560 from all dead works. And I want to say this again, 220 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,160 all what are dead works? Every dead work is everything 221 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,160 you and I do. Even the things we say we're 222 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,080 doing for Jesus that are not done in the power of the Holy 223 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,200 Spirit with faith, it's a dead work. 224 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,440 You could have been sitting there today singing those great 225 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,760 songs and thinking of other things. 226 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:48,480 Dead work preachers can stand up here and preach the Bible and 227 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,960 not trusting God, the Holy Spirit to do the work, trusting 228 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,760 their own abilities. That's a dead work. 229 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,720 Flesh only gives birth to flesh. Anything done outside of the 230 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,200 power of the Holy Spirit related to the things of God is a dead 231 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,600 work. So we just need to learn to 232 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:15,280 depend more upon the Holy Spirit because in His cleansing or 233 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,640 purging of our consciences, He opened the way for the Spirit of 234 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,920 God's life to be kept on pouring into us. 235 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:25,880 Now talking about these things that open the way. 236 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,520 All right, firstly, I said it makes us holy. 237 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,200 It reconciles us. Reconciliation. 238 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,440 God and I, we're no longer separated. 239 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,720 No matter what the devil says and no matter what people say, 240 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,480 God and I are not no longer separated. 241 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,560 We reconcile, but the beauty is that that flows to you and I, 242 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:59,440 every one of us, between us. God has made it available for us 243 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,880 all to be reconciled. If there's someone sitting in 244 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,640 the here today and you know you've got alt against anybody, 245 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,920 no matter what they've done, how bad they treated you, God has 246 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,599 made it possible and available for you to be reconciled. 247 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:18,640 All you got to do is just obey him. 248 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:22,280 He may say, call that person and say sorry. 249 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,440 Call that person and just say, can we have a cup of coffee? 250 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,079 If they are elsewhere in the world. 251 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,040 Just a text. I really regret what I did 252 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:35,360 except God says the blood has made all that possible. 253 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,480 I'm taking too long on this. It's made a ton for us, brought 254 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,880 us into oneness. God and I at one through the 255 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:50,320 shedding of his blood and let me move on and it sanctifies us. 256 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:56,280 Not only does it separate us from sin, but it purges us, 257 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,800 cleanses us, and makes us pure. It's an ongoing process. 258 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,880 The process of sanctification will last until Jesus says that 259 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,120 we come up here or I look up and He's coming down to take us. 260 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,080 That's true for all of us. It's a lifelong process. 261 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,480 So now we come to the third, the fourth thing, The first one, the 262 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,560 blood gives us access. Secondly, it gives us confidence 263 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,320 to approach the throne of grace. And thirdly, it redeems us. 264 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,120 But now we come to the fourth thing that the blood does, and 265 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,600 this is where we start this morning. 266 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:35,040 If the blood gives us authority, authority In my devotions this 267 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,200 morning in the Book of Revelation I was reading there, 268 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,560 I think it's Revelation 12, my daily devotion. 269 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,520 I always ask God, God, if I'm going to be preaching on the 270 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,680 subject. Give me confirmations day by day 271 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,960 that I've got the right word. And here I am. 272 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,880 And I overcame him, Satan, by the blood of the Lamb and by the 273 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,800 word of the testimony. And they did not love their 274 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,840 lives even unto death. The blood of the Lamb, it gives 275 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,040 us victory. We can overcome Satan at every 276 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,320 level. No matter what the temptation, 277 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,320 remember this through that blood. 278 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,800 God says this. I will not allow any temptation 279 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,760 to to overtake you. I will always make a way of 280 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,120 escape, not because you're so good or you now made a 281 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,000 commitment to try and do better next time, he says no, my 282 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,560 commitment is no temptation Will I'll not allow anything to come 283 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,120 and beat you because of the blood. 284 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,560 Now if you don't believe that you're going to be overcome. 285 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,840 If you think, man, I've been walking now for so many years. 286 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,960 I'm good now and now I really got in control of this thing. 287 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,840 I'm, I'm a winner. You know, I'm in victory. 288 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,240 The moment you think that the devil's listening, he's 289 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,280 watching. He's looking for avenues to get 290 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:57,480 in and he'll attack. And you no strength to beat him. 291 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,240 It's only by the blood and the blood opens the power of the 292 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,080 Holy Spirit to work in your life. 293 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,160 Mark 16, verses 17 and 18. Can we just quickly put that up 294 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,920 there? Mark 16. 17 and 18 this is the 295 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,800 signs that shall follow them that believe and these signs 296 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,080 will accompany those who believe in my name. 297 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:28,440 They will drive out demons when there's demon activity if you 298 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,480 feel it's in your home. Now some people say I'm 299 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,440 overboard on this, but when we analyze to travel a lot, we were 300 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,480 often having to stay in hotels and motels and dumpy rooms and 301 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,240 and sometimes we would have it, we would come into places where 302 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,280 what was on the beds, you knew what had happened there. 303 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:55,400 The night before the sex orgies, it was still on the beds, My 304 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,800 wife sitting there. This is not once, this is not 305 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,440 twice. This is so often. 306 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,560 We used to walk in and just sprinkle the blood by faith. 307 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:11,120 No matter what's been happening, dear Lord, in the name of Jesus, 308 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,360 we drive out every demon spirit that's had rule and reign in 309 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:18,680 this room prior to us getting in here and things that this is not 310 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:24,280 full a formula, just the heart. I remember when we bought the 311 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,800 property that they got in Branston, we bought this whole 312 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,920 Country Club, the whole grounds, 25 acres of it. 313 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,440 And the, the, the last thing that this Country Club had 314 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,920 become. It had been useful. 315 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,520 Lots of different reasons. It, it became the place where 316 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:47,360 all the witch doctors gathered. That's where they gathered when 317 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,640 we bought this place. We just, I remember taking all 318 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,560 the, the congregation with me. We walked through that place and 319 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,240 we just cleansed it by the authority of the blood of Jesus. 320 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:04,160 And every single Sunday People came to Christ in the place 321 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:13,110 where they worship Satan. And I just drops into my mind. 322 00:22:13,110 --> 00:22:16,790 You know, you've heard of Ronald Monkey, one of the greatest 323 00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:20,990 great evangelist of our time. I remember Ronald once saying 324 00:22:20,990 --> 00:22:23,550 this. He says, people quite often say 325 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:25,630 to me, can you feel the evil here? 326 00:22:26,870 --> 00:22:31,400 And he used to say, no, I can't. And there was evil there. 327 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:38,160 No, I can't. All I sense is God's presence. 328 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,920 Chris, I'm here. Something like that. 329 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,640 Why am I saying that? Because God wants you to see the 330 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:50,440 blood really gives you victory. It cleanses it. 331 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,280 It gives that, well, let me move up. 332 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,760 They will not only drive out demons, they'll speak with new 333 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,920 tongues. Why? 334 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,680 Because of the blood. I can speak in tongues. 335 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,440 Now if you want to believe that that's languages, then start to 336 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:13,080 practice languages. Go out and speak to some causa 337 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,960 or Zulu or Chinese person. Gaia. 338 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,320 But where does this get fulfilled if it's not the 339 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,000 tongues we're talking about, where we can just before God, 340 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,560 speak that language that He gives us when he fills us with 341 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,560 His Holy Spirit. So I won't fight with people. 342 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,680 I just say, well, are you still speaking in tongues? 343 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:40,360 Any tongues? I'm just being naughty. 344 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,560 Sorry, but I'm being truthful. This is what the blood is 345 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:50,720 opened. Next verse please. 346 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,080 They will pick up snakes with their hands. 347 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,640 I don't think Jesus is saying go around and look for snakes. 348 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,760 It's if it's accidental like it was with Paul on Malta. 349 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,480 In Malta, as they were making that fire, snake latched onto 350 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,080 him. Some of you may know this man, 351 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,520 he lives here in Australia now. I'm Mike Mcmeekin, he was in the 352 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,720 church in South Africa and I was preaching the similar message. 353 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,360 I don't know if it was on this subject but I was. 354 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:18,680 I touched the fact that we can pick up snakes. 355 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,120 So he was one of the elders on the in the church. 356 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,720 After that we all went to his home to have this was late at 357 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,360 night. We went there and as we got out 358 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,800 the car, the car car park, there was grass as he snake just 359 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,360 latched onto him, bit him right there and then. 360 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,880 So I mean his wife panicked. Now this guy lives here in 361 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,040 Australia. Now you can go and check it out 362 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,440 with him. If you think I'm kidding you, 363 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,240 you know who I'm talking about. Some of you do. 364 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,800 We walked into his house and his wife wanted to call the doctor, 365 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,880 try and book him into a hospital. 366 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,400 And he said, you know, Dudley's just been preaching on this 367 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:05,320 thing, let's trust God. And so we did not a single after 368 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,040 effect. And most of the snakes in South 369 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,520 Africa, they don't play around. There's something like our brown 370 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,960 snake yard. They're serious contenders 371 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,440 anyway. They place their hands on the 372 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,120 sick people and they will get well and so we could go on. 373 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,320 If will you just turn with me quickly, just skip. 374 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,800 We can pick up Luke chapter 10 verses 18 and 19. 375 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:37,080 I want to just you to listen to what Jesus said when these 376 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,200 disciples are rejoicing that they they can cast our demons. 377 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,560 They're doing all these things, he said. 378 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,280 I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 379 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,360 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions 380 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,920 and took overcome all the power of the enemy. 381 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,960 Nothing will harm you. Now that doesn't mean you won't 382 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,280 go through hard times and nothing's going to go wrong in 383 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,400 your life. What he's saying is I will not 384 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,120 allow anything to come your way that is outside of my will and 385 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:12,520 that I can't use for my good. We're going to start having to 386 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,320 believe that. When we don't believe that, then 387 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,560 these things are become very serious problems in our lives. 388 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,280 All right, let's move on. So it gives us authority. 389 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,360 Jesus has given it to us. And Matthew 28 go into all the 390 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:27,800 world. And that's the condition I think 391 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,920 too. You've got to go. 392 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,000 He says, go into all the world and make disciples of all 393 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,920 nations. And then he says, I'll be with 394 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,720 you always, even unto the end of the age. 395 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,240 But I've given you all that authority I give to you. 396 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,080 All right, next thing. Revelation 12/11. 397 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,680 It gives us protection. We said it gives us victory, but 398 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:56,600 it also gives us protection. The blood of Jesus is a powerful 399 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:05,320 weapon of defence and offence. We use the blood. 400 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,000 They overcame him by the blood to overcome you. 401 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:14,040 It's not defensive, it's attack offensive, but also defensive. 402 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:20,440 The blood of Jesus, Exodus 12/13. 403 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,720 They painted sprinkled the blood. 404 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,320 But you know, you take Psalm 91. I don't know how often you read 405 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,000 that. It's a Psalm. 406 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,440 You should read about once every week or two. 407 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,400 He that dwells under the shadow of the Almighty and then it just 408 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,640 goes through a list of things that God protects you from and 409 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,240 that God has done for you. Why all of that was possible 410 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,680 because it looked forward to the shedding of the blood and the 411 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,080 blood of Jesus. Nothing else but the blood of 412 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,120 Jesus protection. I wish. 413 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,960 I mean all of these are subject. You want to spend the whole of 414 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:05,720 that hour on that one subject. Number six, the blood of Jesus 415 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:12,800 has made peace, peace with God and the peace of God. 416 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,800 The two areas there, there's more than that, But these two I 417 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,880 want to touch for a moment the blood of Jesus. 418 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,080 It says in Colossians 12/1, verse 20, they're having made 419 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,640 peace through the blood shed on the cross. 420 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,800 He's made peace. I'm at peace with God and God's 421 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,040 at peace with me because God looks down on Dudley and says 422 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,120 the blood has been shed. He's looking to it, he's 423 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,320 confessing it, He's trusting me. That's enough for me. 424 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,080 He doesn't remove his peace from me when I'm trusting him because 425 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,400 of the blood. But it also means that I can 426 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,200 have the peace of God. And that's one of those things 427 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,400 that I want all day long. And I wish I could say that I 428 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,040 had it all day long. I don't always, but listen to 429 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,480 what it says. You know the scripture very well 430 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:11,480 in Where's it Together, Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 431 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,680 and seven. He says do not be anxious about 432 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,960 anything. I mean that word, anything, 433 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:23,960 What, what doesn't that cover? Just tell me, give me one 434 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,800 illustration of one thing that anything doesn't cover that 435 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,280 word. Do not be anxious about anything 436 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:37,960 but with prayer. Prayer, the blood on the 437 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:44,840 lentils, supplication or intercession, some translations 438 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:54,880 say, and Thanksgiving, prayer, prayers, general supplication is 439 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,440 more specific. And Thanksgiving. 440 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:05,080 Now which of those three things can you leave out and still 441 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:12,960 believe you applying the blood? You tell me none. 442 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,760 So how's it going for me? How's it going for you? 443 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:25,040 Prayer, supplication and this wonderful word called thank you, 444 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,720 Lord, Thanksgiving. How often do we thank him? 445 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,320 Can I just encourage you when you think of this tomorrow 446 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,040 morning when you wake up before you get out of bed, just get up 447 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,720 before you get out of bed, say Lord, I thank you for another 448 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,040 new day. For me. 449 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,600 I have always say another day. I near so nearly nearly had 450 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,760 never had Chris. I was on that operating table 451 00:30:49,760 --> 00:31:02,680 down in Flinders and I died. 23 extra years and I tell him that 452 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,080 every single morning and he's listening. 453 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,080 Not because I was going to free. You can go back months, years, 454 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,200 for 23 years outside of when I was unconscious on that in that 455 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:19,200 hospital for a few weekdays. Every single day I thank him for 456 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,080 this new day, a day I so nearly never had. 457 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,600 Start your day, Lord, thank you for the night's sleep. 458 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,400 Or even if I got so little sleep, thank you. 459 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:39,000 I'm alive again today. This is applying all the 460 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,360 benefits. The blood has opened up for us. 461 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,800 Thanksgiving, prayer, supplication, anything. 462 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,160 And then it says and what will happen and it talks about and 463 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,040 then the peace of God, which transcends all. 464 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,720 It's everything and so you could go reading on our must move on 465 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,080 Ephesians 212 and 14. We won't read it, but it tells 466 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:06,680 us that Christ is our peace and that peace came through his 467 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,760 blood. And so Isaiah 96 says calls him 468 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:16,280 the Prince of peace. Next one quickly freedom. 469 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,080 Looking at that clock, Revelation chapter 1 verses 5 470 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,760 and 6. If we could just put that up 471 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:33,480 quickly. Talks about Jesus Christ who is 472 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,040 the faithful witness, the first born from the dead and the ruler 473 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,360 of the kings of the earth. Now watch the sixth verse. 474 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,040 To him who loves us, the blood opened up the love to be able to 475 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:48,040 reach us, the agape love and has freed us from our sins. 476 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:54,520 How by his blood and has made us to be a Kingdom and priest to 477 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:59,960 serve his God and Father to him be glory and power forever and 478 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:00,680 ever. Amen. 479 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:06,080 How can you not give him glory? But he has freed us from our 480 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,720 sins. Now I want you to underline in 481 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:14,800 your mind that little word there it is not spelled IM. 482 00:33:22,050 --> 00:33:28,730 It's from you know that in the book of when John wrote that 483 00:33:28,730 --> 00:33:34,480 first letter in 1 John chapter 2 verse one, he tells us these 484 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,080 things right unto you that you sin not that you don't sin not 485 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:50,800 even once. But if if any man does sin, we 486 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,800 have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the 487 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,000 righteous, what I what God, what John's trying to tell. 488 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,840 He's the apostle of life. He's not making things hard for 489 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,680 us. He's trying to say you don't 490 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,600 have to sin if you believe in a sinning religion. 491 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,239 It's not the true Bible religion. 492 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:15,440 It's not true Christianity. When preachers tell you expect 493 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,800 yourself to sin, they are releasing you to release faith 494 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,159 to believe you've got to keep on sinning. 495 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,600 Now it does go on to say if any man does has says he has not 496 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:33,960 sinned, he's a liar etcetera with the potential to sin is 497 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:40,760 always there and God it's like the rail railroad here in this 498 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,400 country. Let's take the South Australian, 499 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,960 the one that the gone and all these they don't have on their 500 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:52,280 agenda on the timetable 11:45 on the 12th of such and such a day 501 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,800 we will have an accident. But they have every contingency 502 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,920 available that when it does, if it happens, they know what to do 503 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,440 about it. That's what the blood is. 504 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,880 It's not saying hey, you all got to go around sinning all day. 505 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,520 It's saying in actual fact, Jesus has freed you from your 506 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:17,160 sin, but if it does, you do sin, thank God. 507 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,760 Bang, contingent plan, the blood of Jesus. 508 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,120 The blood keeps us clean and frees us from all sin. 509 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,120 Now I don't know how many of you can receive that because even 510 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,400 when I preach it, it is so difficult for me to believe it 511 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:40,480 myself. We are so used to sinning and 512 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,080 then we get these other people who come from these movements 513 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,520 that say, I just want to give God thanks. 514 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,440 I haven't sinned for the last 15 years. 515 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:53,480 And my heart says, and you just did now, right now you just told 516 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,840 another lie. You see, it's, it's it's 517 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,600 difficult to say these things, but I'm asking you start to 518 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,240 believe this and you'll see by the process of the working of 519 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:07,440 the Holy Spirit in your life, these things will happen less as 520 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,000 you begin to believe them in the power of the blood and what 521 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,280 God's right available. So believe this. 522 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:20,880 Remember this said, well, biblical freedom, this is so 523 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:29,320 important, Biblical freedom. It's freedom from sin, but it's 524 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:37,080 freedom to serve. You see, freedom isn't doing 525 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:42,320 what you like. If you're going to San 526 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:47,320 Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair. 527 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:55,760 It's not kind of daisies. And peace, brother. 528 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,440 All those things now. And some of you looking at me. 529 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,560 Well, what's that about? That just tells you you're still 530 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,480 young and you need to be grateful for that. 531 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,800 But I'm trying to say it's not freedom to do what I like, it's 532 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,760 freedom to serve him. Biblical freedom is freedom from 533 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:23,120 the downward pull of sin. It's freedom from that inward 534 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,320 desire to keep on wanting to sin, to sneak stuff in. 535 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,280 It's freedom from the law. It's actually freedom from the 536 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:38,520 power of sin, if you want it, but you can't compromise. 537 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:45,800 It's from to serving and then we won't read this now, but make a 538 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,440 note of this and get read it when you get home. 539 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,440 Romans 8 to the 1st 4 verses. Romans 6 verses three to seven. 540 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,640 A wonderful word. So it's freedom from rules and 541 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,720 rituals, regulations. It's even freedom from religion, 542 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,920 but not freedom to do as you please. 543 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,640 I'm going to say this because I see it and I'm trying to move to 544 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,760 the next point quickly because I want to finish this. 545 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:21,800 It's freedom to serve God joyfully and it's freedom to 546 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,840 live a spirit LED obedient life to Christ. 547 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,480 That's what the bloods open up for us. 548 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,760 I can, I can serve God joyfully. Oh, I've got to get up, got to 549 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,800 go to the meeting. I've got to preach and I don't 550 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,520 feel like it. It's to serve God joyfully. 551 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,840 I better read my Bible in case and hope I can find someone to 552 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,240 testify against today even though I don't like it. 553 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,800 Just how's it going with your freedom? 554 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,680 It's the ability to live a fulfilled life. 555 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,440 That's what the freedom is. A fulfilled life serving God, 556 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,720 His will and His purposes. And it's available if you want 557 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,400 it. Listen to what 1 Corinthian, I'm 558 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,200 just going to read a little part of this one Corinthians 10/23 559 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,960 and 24. It says Paul says you say to 560 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,800 yourself, I have the right to do anything you say. 561 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,840 But not everything is beneficial. 562 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,560 Not everything is constructive. So he says this and something 563 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,240 that little part of. So no one should seek their own 564 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:36,520 good, but the good of others. All right, next thing, it 565 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:41,120 imparts life. The blood of Jesus imparts life. 566 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,640 Can we just put out that John 6553 up there quickly, please, 567 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,320 while he puts it up? I just want to say that the 568 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,640 blood of Jesus gives us that life force that's opened up 569 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,640 because through the blood God can pour that life force into 570 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,520 us. Are we having problems here? 571 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,040 I thought it was a disaster. Somebody had hurt themselves. 572 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,840 All right, it's the life force that takes care of all of our 573 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,160 sins and therefore we can receive God's spiritual life 574 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,360 into our lives and we can fellowship with God and we can 575 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,600 draw from all these abundant resources and we live a whole 576 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,600 new, new life. Jesus said to them and tell 577 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,520 them, I'll tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the 578 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,720 Son of man and drink the blood, you have no life in you. 579 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:38,120 Now, that's not literally, and let me just say this in passing 580 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,320 because it's so serious. When we take that little cup, 581 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,840 that cup doesn't turn into the blood, the literal real blood of 582 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,920 Jesus that's trying to practice magic. 583 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:55,920 It's not biblical Christianity. It's an emblem, a symbol. 584 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,160 And how can we fulfill? How can I take that little piece 585 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,360 of bread? And now we've got them where 586 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,320 they're even stuck on the top of the little bottle. 587 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,840 How can I take that and say, wow, this is amazing. 588 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,800 It's it's this has become the body of Christ. 589 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:16,360 This is his literal flesh. And a whole vast section of 590 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:22,040 Christian theology believes that that's not what's happening, But 591 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,840 we take it as symbolic. This represents your blood 592 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,800 Jesus. This represents your body Jesus. 593 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:35,680 And through that drawing from Him, we actually open up the 594 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,200 life of God being released in and through our lives. 595 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,600 And I wish I could say much more. 596 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,680 I've got a whole lot more to say there. 597 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,280 But listen, just this one thing. It gives us new life. 598 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,960 And Two Corinthians 517 says that if any man be in Christ, he 599 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:56,280 is a new creation, the oldest past, the newest. 600 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:01,480 Come all things on you through the blood of Jesus. 601 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,120 It brings healing, one Peter 224 says. 602 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,120 And by his wounds you have been healed. 603 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,360 Now a lot of people restrict that only to salvation, that 604 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,920 you've been healed from the the disease of sin. 605 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:24,720 But it also covers our sicknesses for those of us who 606 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:29,560 struggle with healing, the theology of healing, but also 607 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,680 even with our own illnesses. What I've learned is simply 608 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,360 this, bring what's wrong with you and lay it at the feet of 609 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:44,840 the cross, feet of Jesus and leave it there and trust God to 610 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,480 work things out. Because when we get back to 611 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,240 Scripture, this is the promise of God. 612 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:55,440 The blood heals us. But at the same time, we see 613 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,560 that people like Paul himself says, you would have even 614 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,120 plucked out your eyes to help me. 615 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,760 Paul was sick and he was sick till the day he died. 616 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:11,320 He left his closest ally, the one who was in a sense looks to 617 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:12,960 me like the one who would have replaced him. 618 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,240 He said to his young son Timothy. 619 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,280 Take a little wine for your stomach's sake and for your 620 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:26,520 often infirmities. So if Paul, who could raise the 621 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:33,440 dead also had to face the fact he said Maletus, have I left 622 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:40,840 Trophemus have I left sick? And Maletus, Paul would have put 623 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,320 his hands on my Trophemus and Trophemus did not get instantly 624 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,520 healed. So if they had some problems. 625 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,880 I'm just trying to be real on this and I feel like I don't 626 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,080 want to grieve God on this thing, but when we just say 627 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,720 everybody gets instantly healed and a lot of us are sitting 628 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:02,200 saying we haven't been instantly healed and a lot of people who 629 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:07,800 said they were aren't anymore, it can cause 'cause confusion. 630 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,040 I'm just saying put everything, whatever your ailment is, put it 631 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,680 at the feet of Jesus and then just leave it with Him. 632 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,840 And when you get these symptoms and whatever else, or aches and 633 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,280 pains or whatever else it might be, Jesus, I'm still trusting 634 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,200 you. And I don't know when it'll 635 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,480 happen. I know it can happen right now. 636 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,120 I believe that with all my heart. 637 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,000 But I'm going to have to leave it with you because I can 638 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,880 struggle here and get myself back into condemnation and 639 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,440 guilt. And I know the number of people 640 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,240 around the world alive, some alive today and many dead that 641 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:46,880 used to criticize me when I went through that bad time. 642 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,440 Many of them are dead today, and they died much younger than me. 643 00:44:52,440 --> 00:45:01,280 I'm 82, some of them died at age 5040, but they criticized me 644 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,360 most. Every person, preacher included, 645 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,520 has to somewhere along the line have a fresh look at the whole 646 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,920 subject of healing. Some of them live in this 647 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:20,040 country that I that used to look at me and something must be 648 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:25,480 hidden sin somewhere and now they sick so many of them now 649 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,080 wearing glasses as well hearing aids like me. 650 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,760 And let me just say this as a confession acknowledgement 651 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:38,640 before God and before you. I used to also preach that here 652 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:47,480 I am when when you go to put a hearing aid and I mean you hear 653 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,120 what I'm trying to say. Please let God just help you. 654 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:52,840 Nick. Sing quickly. 655 00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,120 It promises us better things. Hebrews 12/24 says the sprinkled 656 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:04,640 blood that speaks of better things or better word, better 657 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,200 covenant, better promises, better everything. 658 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,320 Wish we could cover more of that. 659 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,160 I've only got four more things quickly. 660 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,880 The blood of Jesus equips us because I can't come back next 661 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,200 week and I'd like to finish at 11 and I see it's 3 minutes 662 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,880 past. So give me some latitude here, 663 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,160 please. Hebrews chapter 13 verses 21 and 664 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,080 20 and 21. If you'll just read that for us, 665 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:39,000 put that up for us, please. Hebrews 1320 and 21 just wanted 666 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,160 you to see how the blood is linked with with equipping us. 667 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,560 May the God of peace, who threw the blood of the eternal 668 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,240 covenant, brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great 669 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,000 shepherd of the sheep. Now listen to what it says. 670 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:56,960 May He equip you, He equip you with everything good for doing 671 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,320 His will. And may He work in us what is 672 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,840 pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever 673 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:03,600 and ever. Amen. 674 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:09,120 The blood linked with equipping and the ability, the skills, 675 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,280 everything we need for what God calls us to do. 676 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,840 Now, God will not equip you with what he has not called you to 677 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,400 do. But I want to say this to you, 678 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:27,720 you, you down into the future, wherever he is and anyone else 679 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,680 that God might rise up in the our church and into the future. 680 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,000 If he's called you, he has equipped you. 681 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,640 If you're not feeling the equipping coming through, it's 682 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,880 because you're not confessing or trusting the blood enough, the 683 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,360 finished work of Jesus. Now, if you know, people say to 684 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,440 me, yeah, I can do all things through Christ. 685 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,120 And some of them can't even pull a nail out of a piece of timber 686 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,240 with they're just not practically made. 687 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,240 They don't just that does not work for them. 688 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,200 I can't cook roast beef. It'll just be a charred mess. 689 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,480 It's not my calling, and I may not be the best preacher, but 690 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,800 God equips me to preach with the skill He gives me. 691 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:18,320 He equips us, all of us. He equips you to be a good 692 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:22,600 housewife, a Good Wife, a good woman in business, a good 693 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,000 businessman, a good whatever you are. 694 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,080 He equips you when you in His will. 695 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:37,360 All right #12 I think it is. It also gives us assurance. 696 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,680 The blood of Jesus gives us that assurance. 1 John 5 verses 8 697 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:46,160 through to 13, and we can't read it all, but that's part of where 698 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,040 Paul says linking it to the blood. 699 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,920 That's why I've, I've said involve the eighth verse as 700 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,560 well, that you may know these things. 701 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,520 Have I written unto you that you may know we have assurance by 702 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,360 the Holy Spirit. I wish I could. 703 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,360 And then it gives us victory. And lastly, he purchased the 704 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,880 church with his blood. He purchased the whole church 705 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,720 with his blood. Acts 2028. 706 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,120 It tells us that he purchased the church with his own blood. 707 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,200 Now that doesn't say the blood of Jesus. 708 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:20,680 It says God purchased us. Isn't that incredible? 709 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:28,360 A God who is spirit made flesh. I don't know of any price any 710 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:35,720 person could ever pay to enjoy the angels, angelic worship, the 711 00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:40,120 fellowship within the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 712 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,680 I mean, I know the intimacy of an and my relationship when we 713 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,360 talk to each other, sit with each other, when we enjoy each 714 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:54,240 other, that's infinite. That's just so small and 715 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:57,200 insignificant in comparison to the fellowship they would have 716 00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,760 had in heaven. And God says, I'm going to go 717 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:06,880 down there now we just say, well, Jesus came, but remember, 718 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:12,120 there's only one God, three persons, but it was God in 719 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,360 flesh. He purchased this with his own 720 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,240 blood. And again, all of this, you're 721 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:24,440 going to have to put the blood on the lentils, confess it, 722 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:32,040 pray, intercession, praise, agree with God. 723 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,960 And so we could go on. Would you stand with me, please? 724 00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,560 I've taken 7 minutes longer than I wanted to. 725 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,880 Those of you who can stand on if you don't have to, I mean, Lord, 726 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,200 I just come before you with this congregation. 727 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,360 And I've talked about the blood that Jesus shed for us. 728 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:58,040 And Lord, I've done the best I can, but I know it's more than I 729 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,680 could ever, ever adequately convey to this congregation, and 730 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,640 it makes more valuable and precious than even I have 731 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,760 understanding of to this day. We'll never be able to 732 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,400 comprehend in fullness what the blood really means. 733 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,720 But we do ask together as a congregation, help us not to 734 00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:23,960 live like we've lived before, but to lift it from today on in 735 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,920 a different realm of life, with all that the blood is made 736 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:32,280 available to make use of it. Help us to agree with you, to 737 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,400 take your word seriously, believe what you say in your 738 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,320 faithfulness and all of your blessings. 739 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:45,200 Help us to live in victory, to serve you willingly from the 740 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,280 heart, and to be available to one another. 741 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:54,280 So we commit ourselves to you in Jesus name, our families, our 742 00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:59,120 friends, the whole of our future, we put it in your hands 743 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,200 in Jesus name, with Thanksgiving, Amen, Amen. 744 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,240 God bless you. Thank you for joining us for 745 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:08,680 today's message. For more information about The 746 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,880 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 747 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,240 AU. Have a blessed day.