1 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,960 Hi and welcome to the Via Zion Sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,000 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,200 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,440 encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you. 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,720 Our theme for the year 2024 is set apart and today on Good 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,480 Friday we look at how the blood of Jesus has set us apart. 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,520 As you listen in, would you ask God to teach you how to live 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,120 with a better understanding of His blood, its power, and 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,880 covering over your life? Hi church, what a amazing day it 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 is to celebrate the goodness of God. 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,600 We we look at Good Friday through the lens of Jesus and it 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,040 changes everything because it truly is a Good Friday. 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,640 We have a good Father who sent His perfect son who was a 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,720 sacrifice for you and me. And the good news is that 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,360 because of what Jesus did on that cross, you and I Can Walk 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,960 and freedom and newness of life. I was reading this story this 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440 week and I thought I should share it with you. 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,960 This person writes about how he had a herd of sheep, and one of 19 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,480 his sheep one morning when he went to check on them, found 20 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,680 that it's face was completely swollen and the sheep looked 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,360 like it was in terrible pain. When he examined the sheep, he 22 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,000 found that the sheep had been bitten by a rattlesnake, which 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,920 was very common in that parts of the country. 24 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,600 He was The shepherd was a bit worried for his sheep, but the 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,560 sheep didn't look perturbed by it at all. 26 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,560 The rattlesnake didn't know that the sheep's blood could actually 27 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,840 handle its venom. So although the sheep, for 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,360 better part of two days, was swollen up and in a lot of pain, 29 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,800 it kept doing its usual things. It was wandering around. 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,480 It was, you know, looking for pasture and doing all of the 31 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,800 usual things. The truth is that apparently 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,760 antidotes for snake venom are raised in sheep. 33 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,160 The rattlesnake didn't know that, so this sheep was actually 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,720 having blood that could override the venom of the rattlesnake. 35 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,560 If you have been living fearful of the serpent or his bite, I 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,480 want to remind you of this, that be sure that the lamb's blood 37 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,760 flows in your vein veins. What was shed on that cross of 38 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,240 Calvary now today flows in our veins. 39 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,960 We don't have to live afraid anymore. 40 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,600 When Jesus died on that cross, he took once and for all and 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,560 paid the penalty for our sins. Today, because of that blood 42 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,040 that runs through our veins that is washed over us, we can live 43 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,800 free from the power of sin. And one day in eternity where we 44 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,920 will live with the Father, with the Son, we will see that we 45 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,920 will be free from the presence of sin as we get into today's 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,440 Scripture. I was looking at the book of 47 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,280 John, and I love this one passage where John the Baptist, 48 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:54,840 when he sees his cousin Jesus walking in into the town that he 49 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,480 was in, He had a very weird way of introducing his cousin to the 50 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,120 people around him. He says, look, here's the Lamb 51 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,560 of God, the one that takes away the sins of the world. 52 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,200 But John had spiritized to see what Jesus was going to 53 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,600 accomplish. He knew that his cousin was 54 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,000 going to do something that no one else could ever do. 55 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,440 And so I want to ask you this. Have you ever felt that the only 56 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,480 tough part of you know, being a believer, being a believer in 57 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,480 Jesus, the follower of Jesus, is admitting just how sinful we 58 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,040 are. We needed a lamb who would take 59 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,720 away the sins of the world because we ourselves are so 60 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,880 sinful. We needed the lamb who would 61 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,440 take our sins upon himself. Sometimes it's easier to look at 62 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,840 someone else and say they are so sinful or they're doing 63 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,720 something. Or we look at the crimes that 64 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,640 are happening in our countries and we look at those people and 65 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,480 think, well, what a sinful person. 66 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:50,360 But to come back to ourselves and to remember that I am so 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,960 sinful and that's why Jesus died for me, I continue to grapple 68 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,400 with sin. I'm not no longer a slave to it. 69 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,440 I now have power over it. But it doesn't change the fact 70 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,200 that we are sinful. We are sinners that were saved 71 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,520 by grace and we we are sinners who are continually in need of 72 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,960 that grace. It's a saving grace that it 73 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,480 happens every day. That's the renewing work of the 74 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,960 Holy Spirit. So before we go further, I want 75 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,000 to just first look at the power of the blood. 76 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,120 We're going to be looking at a lot of scripture today, so I 77 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,000 would urge you to keep your Bibles open. 78 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:24,400 We're going to begin with Hebrews Chapter 9. 79 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,880 We're going to be reading about the power of the blood for you 80 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,720 to understand, actually in its entirety. 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,240 Why are we focusing on the blood? 82 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,040 I thought today was today was about the cross, but I want to 83 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,480 just encourage you. It's about the cross. 84 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,600 But from the cross float the blood of Jesus, which for you 85 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,960 and me was our redemption. So I want us to look at Hebrews 86 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,760 Chapter 9 verses 12 to 15. This is what it says. 87 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,560 With his own blood, not the blood of goats and calves, He 88 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,000 entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our 89 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,880 redemption forever. Under the old system, the blood 90 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,840 of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse 91 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,760 people's bodies from ceremonial impurity. 92 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,560 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our 93 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,040 consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living 94 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,440 God. For by the power of the eternal 95 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,760 Spirit, Christ offered Himself to God as a perfect sacrifice 96 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,480 for us sins. That is why He is the one who 97 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,720 mediates a new the covenant between God and people, so that 98 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,440 all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has 99 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,680 promised them. For Christ died to set them free 100 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,600 from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that 101 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,680 first covenant. The first thing that we looked 102 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,160 at look at in terms of the power of the blood is it It wipes our 103 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,840 sins clean, and therefore it sets us free from the penalty of 104 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,520 sin. When you go to a store and you 105 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,080 see an outfit, there's always something attached to it, and 106 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,000 that's that, the price tag. All our sins have a price tag to 107 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,280 it. You commit adultery, there's a 108 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:55,680 price tag. You lose your marriage or you 109 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,400 you are distant from God. Maybe you have an addiction to a 110 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,680 certain substance, but there's a price tag attached to that sin. 111 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,000 Maybe it's an anger problem. Again, there's a price tag to 112 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,880 that sin where you antagonize and hurt people. 113 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,760 All our sin has a price tag. But the beautiful thing is that 114 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,360 in Jesus, the sin itself is wiped clean. 115 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,920 So there's nothing to hold the tag on to now. 116 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,560 And so there's no longer a penalty for it. 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,720 And so we are set free from the penalty of sin. 118 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,360 Isn't that amazing? Hebrews chapter 10, verses 19 to 119 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,760 22, it says. And so, dear brothers and 120 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,040 sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's most holy place because 121 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,920 of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new 122 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,120 and living way, giving through the curtain, giving way through 123 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,080 the curtain into the most holy place. 124 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,440 And since we have a great high priest who rules over God's 125 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,880 house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere 126 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,400 hearts, fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have 127 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,000 been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our 128 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,440 blood bodies have been washed with pure water. 129 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,960 Picture a dark room with heavy sun blocking curtains. 130 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,960 You know you have those these kind of curtains now just so 131 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,520 heavy that cuts all the light out. 132 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,280 Israel and the rest of the world was literally in a darkened room 133 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,480 when Jesus died on that cross, when the blood flowed from his 134 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,880 broken body. It says that he made a way to 135 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,360 the presence of God himself. The curtain in the temple was 136 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,120 torn into two right from the top, right down to the bottom of 137 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,960 the curtains. And the blood therefore opens a 138 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,960 way to God and brings us into his presence. 139 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,640 Up until then, the high priests had to do all of this work of 140 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,360 mediation. They had to offer the 141 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,880 sacrifices. And then people could actually, 142 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,560 you know, present their, you know, Thanksgiving to God or 143 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,840 their offerings to God. But now, in this beautiful turn 144 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,920 of events, the blood opened up the curtains. 145 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,120 And you know what? When you open a blocked room, a 146 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,840 light blocked room. Have you seen how the sunlight 147 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,360 just pours into the room? It lights up every crevice, but 148 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,800 it was no difference spiritually that that day. 149 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,640 On on that Friday afternoon when Jesus's blood flowed, the way to 150 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,600 the Father was open. No longer with priests needed as 151 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,960 mediators. No longer did they have to look 152 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,320 to any other means to have access to God. 153 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,040 They had direct access to the you and I have direct access 154 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,760 because of the blood. Let's look now at Hebrews 155 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,679 chapter 12 verses 22 to 24. It says. 156 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,159 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living 157 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:39,720 God, this heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of 158 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,280 angels, to the General Assembly and Church of the first born who 159 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,760 are registered in heaven. To God the judge of all, to the 160 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,280 spirits of just just men made perfect. 161 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,920 To Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood 162 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,760 of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 163 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,680 If you remember the story of Cain and Abel, Cain turns to his 164 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,600 brother in the field after his sacrifice was not accepted and 165 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,360 in a fit of rage kills Abel. When God confronts Cain, he 166 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,560 asked, Where's your brother? He asked. 167 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,520 Am I my brother's keeper? He says your brother's blood 168 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,920 cries out to me from the ground, which opened up to receive it. 169 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,120 And and So what Abel's blood was probably screaming for was for 170 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,520 justice, for recompense. But today he says the blood of 171 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,840 Jesus speaks a better thing. What does it speak? 172 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:33,520 The blood of Jesus speaks mercy over punishment. 173 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,240 It speaks forgiveness over condemnation. 174 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,720 Isn't that amazing? The blood of Jesus speaks a 175 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,640 better thing and brings restoration. 176 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,240 In the Old Covenant, the blood didn't speak restoration 177 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,000 necessarily. But here in the New Covenant, 178 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,080 when this blood was being poured out, it spoke restoration, it 179 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,280 spoke peace, it spoke love, It spoke volumes of grace. 180 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,400 The blood speaks over us. So the main thing that you need 181 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,800 to remember in terms of the power of the blood is it wipes 182 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,120 our slates clean, No more sin. It wipes our sins away. 183 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,960 It removes the penalty of sin. It opens the way to God himself 184 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,000 and leads us into His presence presence directly. 185 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,360 And thirdly, it speaks and brings restoration. 186 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,720 Isn't that amazing? The blood of Abel, it didn't 187 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,560 speak restoration. It's it's screamed for justice. 188 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,000 But today the blood of Jesus speaks forgiveness, speaks 189 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,720 mercy, and I want to encourage us to think of this in a new 190 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,240 way. When you look at the blood of 191 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,600 Jesus, I want you to remember the theme for this year at V as 192 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,720 I and the theme for this year is set apart. 193 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,440 Right? But God has marked us for His 194 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,000 own He set us apart. But I want to bring our 195 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,520 attention to Hebrews chapter 10, verse 10. 196 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,000 And this is what it says. And in accordance with this will 197 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,800 of God, we who believe in the message of salvation have been 198 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,320 sanctified, that is set apart as holy for God and His purposes 199 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:03,720 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, 200 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,400 the anointed. Once for all, we have been 201 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,800 sanctified, set apart as holy for God and His purposes. 202 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,920 How? By the blood of Jesus. 203 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,000 So the call on us today is to a holy separation. 204 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,560 You and I, we live in the real world. 205 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,600 We have real jobs. We meet with the real people. 206 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,800 So what does this look like? He's calling us to being set 207 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,480 apart. No longer is it an option. 208 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,720 It's a command. Because we were bought at such a 209 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,640 high price, it was not ordinary that someone would die for us in 210 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,560 such a gruesome way, give their life for us so that their blood 211 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:44,960 ran and washed me clean. I have no other response except 212 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,800 to being set apart. Why are we finding it so hard to 213 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,160 be set apart? Far from the madding crowd? 214 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,280 We want to hang out with people. We want to merge in. 215 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,640 We want to fit in. We're so desperate from the time 216 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,120 of little children in kindergarten, You know, some of 217 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,920 us are trying to fit in when God distinctly called us to be set 218 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,720 apart. How can we have the incessant 219 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:12,440 desire to fit in when his blood has marked us and set us apart? 220 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,160 Those are things we need to consider for ourselves. 221 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,240 What does it look like to be actually set apart, to have a 222 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,920 holy separation? I want us to look at Hebrews 223 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,720 chapter 13 verses 10 to 13. It says we have an altar from 224 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,920 which those who serve the Tabernacle, the sacred tent, 225 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,000 have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals 226 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,760 whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as 227 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,720 an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp. 228 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,320 Therefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the city gate, 229 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,200 so that he might sanctify and set apart for God as holy the 230 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,320 people who believe through the shedding of his own blood. 231 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:55,040 So let us go outside to him, outside the camp, bearing his 232 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:00,320 contempt, the disgrace and shame that he had to suffer. 233 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,880 When you look at this, it gives us a clear picture of what it 234 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,320 looks like for us today to be set apart. 235 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,200 Jesus suffered on all you know, that route of Via della Rossa 236 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,680 and right up to the hill of the sky, Golgotha, where he was 237 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,240 bruised, beaten, made to carry his own cross up. 238 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,600 And then, when they fixed him on the cross and hung him, he hung 239 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,680 there for the better part of a couple of hours. 240 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,960 He suffered outside the gates of Jerusalem. 241 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,640 He was removed from his place of birth. 242 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,120 From his origins he was taken separately. 243 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:41,120 He was separated and isolated he was and this this particular 244 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,000 hill would stand out so that people from a long distance away 245 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,200 could actually see him. He was made a spectacular. 246 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:52,120 He was despised and and afflicted and pointed at and 247 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,080 laughed and mocked. So many of us have a problem 248 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,480 with people disliking us. We have a a a constant need to 249 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,720 please people. I'm one such person. 250 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:05,120 It offends me that I've offended someone else. 251 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,040 It hurts that someone would treat me bad, and I didn't 252 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,160 deserve it when I didn't do anything that deserved it, when 253 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,480 they rightly deserved something and yet they looked at me like 254 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,520 the problem. It's awesome. 255 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,200 But when you read this, it brings us into a sharp focus of 256 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,440 what God expects from us. That when his blood has washed 257 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,120 us, it sets us apart. And there will be times when you 258 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,120 take a stand for Jesus in your work spot, in your family, in 259 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,600 your home, in your neighborhood, wherever you go. 260 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,640 Maybe when you're travelling, when you take a stand for Jesus, 261 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,440 it will cause reproach to fall upon you. 262 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,480 You will be name called, You will be called out. 263 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,720 You will be mocked. Will you be willing to bear it 264 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,920 for Jesus? If Jesus could do it, would I be 265 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,360 willing to join him outside the camp? 266 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,000 The camps are many. We look at school kids, they 267 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,680 have those tight cliques and a new kid who joins and God forbid 268 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:02,680 they don't know which group will fit them in. 269 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,360 Sometimes when they when kids join a school late, they just 270 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,400 fit themselves to the group that's seated closest to them 271 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,840 and then they find within a few weeks they don't fit in at all. 272 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,960 Wherever your camp, wherever you have set up camp, It could be at 273 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,360 office with a group of people. It could be in your apartment. 274 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,160 It could be in your society. It could be anywhere. 275 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,200 Will you take a stand for Jesus? That could even mean 276 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,920 excommunication from that camp. It might mean a season of 277 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,280 loneliness. It might mean a season when you 278 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,240 don't have many people to process things with. 279 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,440 It might mean a season when you need to go deep with God and let 280 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,720 go of certain relationships. But will you do it because Jesus 281 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,520 suffered outside the camp? Will I be willing to go to him, 282 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:52,200 the writers actually asking us. So let us go to him outside the 283 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:57,480 camp, bearing his contempt. Too many of us are avoiding the 284 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,880 contempt of people by saying all the right things, by agreeing 285 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,080 with the culture, with agreeing with New Age philosophies, by 286 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,200 appropriating those into our lives. 287 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,520 God's calling you to a holy separation. 288 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,080 What does it look like to separate ourselves practically? 289 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:16,720 You may say. Well, that was Jesus. 290 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,160 He knew his assignment. He knew right from the beginning 291 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,560 that he was going to suffer outside. 292 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,600 He knew that he was going to be set apart and pulled out and 293 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,080 made fun of. He knew that he signed up for 294 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:28,560 that. I don't know if I could do it. 295 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,680 I'm a man. I'm a woman. 296 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,600 Let's look at the example of Moses. 297 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,080 Hebrews Chapter 11 verses 24 to 28. 298 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,080 It says by faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be 299 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,960 called the son of Pharaoh's daughter because he preferred to 300 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,720 endure the hardship of the people of God rather than to 301 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,480 enjoy the passing pleasures of sin. 302 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,560 He considered the reproach of Christ, that is the rebuke he 303 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,120 would suffer for his faithful obedience to God to be greater 304 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,920 wealth than all the treasures of Egypt. 305 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,120 For he looked ahead to the reward promised by God. 306 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,720 By faith he left Egypt, being unafraid of the wrath of the 307 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:10,040 king, for he endured steadfastly as seeing him who is unseen. 308 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,160 By faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood 309 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,440 on the doorposts, so that the destroyer of the first born 310 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:24,079 would not touch them. The first born of Israel, Moses 311 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:28,400 was born to his to an ordinary Jewish family. 312 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,840 But his family, even in that it says by faith, Moses's parents 313 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,120 saw that he was a beautiful special child and they kept him 314 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,760 hidden for three months. And I think that faith was just 315 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,280 carried on intrinsically towards Moses as well. 316 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,600 And so Moses carried that he knew he didn't belong in the 317 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,280 Egyptian household. He knew who he belonged to. 318 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,360 And so it says that he he preferred to endure the hardship 319 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,240 of the people of God rather than the the pleasures of the 320 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:59,040 Egyptian palace. He considered the reproach of 321 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,480 Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt. 322 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,800 It's interesting that by faith he left Egypt. 323 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,000 He didn't worry about the wrath of the king. 324 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,480 He had to run for his life of course. 325 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,280 But he left. And eventually it says by faith 326 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,840 he kept the Passover. Another, the word that is 327 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,360 repeating there is by faith. By faith, it was just an act of 328 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:25,800 obedience to an unseen God. He couldn't see this God of of 329 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,440 his forefathers in person, but he knew he was speaking to 330 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,840 someone real. He knew he was encountering a 331 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,360 real God and he was taking him at his word. 332 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,120 And the beautiful thing is, he chose again and again to be in 333 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:46,040 the camp of God himself. He could have chosen many times 334 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,520 along the journey God would say, you move aside, I'm going to 335 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,960 destroy the Israelites and he would stand in the gap and say 336 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,400 don't do that Lord. It's for your name's sake. 337 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,960 It would look like you couldn't bring them out safe. 338 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:01,240 So please, Lord, hold off. He kept choosing the assignment 339 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:05,080 that God had placed on. He kept choosing the Jesus camp. 340 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,720 He kept choosing the hardships of following his God, even 341 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,720 though they were easier options at the time. 342 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,240 He could have turned a blind eye to his suffering people, to his 343 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,640 suffering kin and kit. He could have looked away and 344 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,760 said this is not my problem, I don't know how to do this. 345 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,880 I have no background in this. I don't know social justice, I 346 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,880 have not studied and I don't have a degree in this. 347 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,840 I don't have the resources. I'm just an adoptive son. 348 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,760 Instead, he decided to step out. He stepped out of the camp of 349 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,400 comfort. He stepped out of the camp of 350 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,760 being recognized and being honoured into a place of 351 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:45,480 dishonour, into a place of obscurity, and he trusted the 352 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,080 God who had called him. Will you be OK to suffer for 353 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,360 Jesus to have a hard life just because you've said yes to him 354 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,160 and no to the world? Will you keep your eyes fixed on 355 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,320 an invisible God? For those of you who come from 356 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,800 families that don't know Jesus, they must find it very funny 357 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,080 that you would worship someone without a picture, without an 358 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,040 altar, without any kind of, you know, form. 359 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,240 But the beautiful thing is that our God may not have all of 360 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,120 that, but he's real. He's as real as the breath in 361 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:18,520 our bodies, and he's doing things that no man can even 362 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,320 understand. His ways are higher, his 363 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,320 thoughts are higher. I love that we are in a season 364 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,880 as a church where a lot of things that God had spoken to us 365 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,600 a couple of years back are coming into fruition. 366 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,040 And so it's amazing for those of us who have been praying to 367 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,880 actually see God's word unfold. We're in a season where he spoke 368 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,360 before, but now he's doing it. And so you're starting to see 369 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,560 the dots join. And without a doubt, we know he 370 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,880 is real. He's so real. 371 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,320 And so will you choose to again and again pursue this God who 372 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,800 others can't see but you know is with you? 373 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,840 Will you choose the Jesus camp? That's the question. 374 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,400 Will you choose? The Jesus camp is not with the 375 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,720 crowds. It's set apart. 376 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,040 It's being outside. It's a little isolated, but you 377 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,920 have an incredible community there with him. 378 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,760 It requires that you will be ready to give up everything that 379 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,840 he asks you to give up. I love that When you read the 380 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Old Testament, you look at the depths of the sacrificial 381 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,440 system. And you know, I've often thought 382 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,080 when I was read, when I read Leviticus, when I read numbers, 383 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,800 I I feel exhausted just reading the content because it feels so 384 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,400 exhaustive. It feels so. 385 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,400 It's tiring to have known these things as a community by heart 386 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,880 and then to do the right thing. Also, this is this week. 387 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,280 I need to do the grain offering. I need to do the burnt offering. 388 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,200 We need to do the trespass offering. 389 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,720 You know, there were so many things that they had to process, 390 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,440 figure out and do it right. And I think God insisted on that 391 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,120 so that there was a certain focus that the people had when 392 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,280 it came to worship because they were so easily turned aside by a 393 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,120 golden calf. They needed their eyes to be 394 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:06,840 fixed, and in these ritualistic offerings, their hearts, hands, 395 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,440 and mind would be fixed on actually worshipping God with 396 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,920 all that they had. It would keep them far from 397 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,360 idolatry because they would be so caught up in what they needed 398 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:18,640 to do. And the sacrificial system 399 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,600 actually began way before Leviticus, when Adam and Eve 400 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,280 sinned. God himself provided leather 401 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,160 garments from slain animals to clothe them with so that they 402 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,120 will not make it anymore. It didn't end there. 403 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:35,120 Then Noah, after the flood and when the earth was starting to 404 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,640 be, you know, reformed, so to speak, with, you know, new trees 405 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,720 and all of that coming back up. And the animals from the ark 406 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,640 were going out to populate the earth. 407 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,040 It says that Noah took a couple of those clean birds and he 408 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,000 actually offered it as a sweet smelling offering to God. 409 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,480 And it says that when God smelt that sweet offering, he decided 410 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,480 he will never destroy the earth by a flood again. 411 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,480 Following that, Abraham on multiple occasions built altars 412 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,960 and so did his sons, and they built altars. 413 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,680 They would worship at the offered burnt offerings. 414 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,760 So the sacrificial system then took shape, and you know, it 415 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,480 became really concrete with Moses when Moses actually gave 416 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,400 instructions on how the Tabernacle had to be built and 417 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,000 how everything had to be set up and how they had to institute 418 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,160 the concept of the blood sacrifice so that things would 419 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,320 be sanctified. The whole every item in the 420 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,120 Tabernacle was sprinkled with blood and the animals were 421 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,920 slain. And the priests would be so 422 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,920 involved in killing these bulls, or the calves, the heifers, the 423 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,280 sheep, and offering them to God. There were strict rules on how 424 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,360 it had to be done, and only the priest could do it. 425 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,680 But every single thing that you looked at, you saw that there 426 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,440 was so much of meaning, deeper meaning, there was so much of 427 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,120 symbolism in what they were doing in the old Covenant. 428 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,240 If you notice Hebrew chapter, Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 28, By 429 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,960 faith he kept the Passover. This is Moses and the sprinkling 430 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,840 of blood lest he who destroyed the first born should touch 431 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,280 them. Like I was saying, the blood has 432 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,480 such huge relevance. God gave an instruction to the 433 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,240 people. When you eat animals don't eat 434 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,000 the blood because the life of the animal is in the blood. 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,200 And yet at the Passover, just before they left Egypt on their 436 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:31,440 exodus, God says I want you to kill a goat. 437 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,960 Take his soap, which is a kind of a herb herbaceous plant. 438 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,280 Dip it in the blood and then smear it on your doorposts right 439 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,400 now. How did Moses know that this was 440 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,320 something he had to do? He trusted God. 441 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,400 God told him do this. It will protect your homes. 442 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,560 Because I'm going to send a destroyer who is going to 443 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,080 destroy every first born. If you want your people to be 444 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,760 safe, if you want your people to be set apart, you need to do 445 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,600 this. And Moses intrinsically knew 446 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,680 that he had to do what was being told to him. 447 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,840 This would be the beginning of a lot of instructions that God was 448 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,360 going to give him. And so he obeyed and told them 449 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,160 that in every single Israelite family obeyed. 450 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,960 And I love if you watched The Prince of Egypt, it's a cartoon 451 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,720 animation of of the story of Moses and the people of Israel. 452 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,880 And I love the way they showed that that particular scene that 453 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,720 night everyone is locked into their homes and this dark figure 454 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,600 descends from the sky and starts to visit the houses. 455 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,680 And every time the figure came near one of the Israelite 456 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,280 houses, one of the Jewish homes, they had the blood marked on the 457 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,880 door post. It would look at. 458 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,560 It was just like a big cloud that came down a dark cloud. 459 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,720 It would visit that it cannot enter the house because of the 460 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,480 blood and it would swerve and go to the next place. 461 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,960 But the same dark creature would went into Egypt and caused havoc 462 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,120 in every family. From the Pharaoh's home to the 463 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,880 bonded labour in Egypt. Everyone lost someone in their 464 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,200 home. The power of the blood, the 465 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,800 power of the sprinkled blood. By faith, Moses kept the 466 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,600 Passover. Today we are no different. 467 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,720 We can sometimes read these things as these incredible 468 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,920 stories which maybe give us goosebumps and we think, well, 469 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,360 that was them. But I want to encourage you 470 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:23,280 something about something. Today we know the power of the 471 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,640 blood. We know that it speaks. 472 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,680 We know that it opened the way. We know that it washes our sins 473 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,280 clean. But if we don't appropriate that 474 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,800 power in our lives, we're going to live powerless, empty lives. 475 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,480 We're going to live lives that are defeated by sin again and 476 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,760 again, even though the battle was already won. 477 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:44,640 Today we have that blood of Jesus in us, but it requires for 478 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,920 us to appropriate it. When you look at the the 479 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,600 sacrificial system, the priests had to dip their hands in the 480 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,400 blood. They had to actually touch it. 481 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,880 When they when they cut the throat of the animal, when it 482 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,400 bled out, they would collect the the blood in a vessel. 483 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,720 And I'm sure there was a whole lot of blood on their hands. 484 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,560 Ignore the pun, there was a lot of blood on their hands. 485 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,200 And then when Moses and the priests had to dedicate the 486 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,840 Tabernacle, they had to dip their hands in and they had to 487 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,720 sprinkle it. They had to sprinkle it. 488 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:19,880 He had to apply it on the left lobe of Aaron and his sons and 489 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,920 on different places to sanctify them, to mark them as being set 490 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,240 apart. What am I trying to say? 491 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,280 They had to get their hands messy with the blood. 492 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,200 There was no, you couldn't be, you know, all being germophobic 493 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,560 at that point, because when the blood flowed, you had to 494 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,640 actually be there to touch it, to apply it when Moses and the 495 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,520 Jews at that time had to apply it on the doorpost. 496 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,640 You think that was a a clean job? 497 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,760 No, it was a messy job. They probably got the animal's 498 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,480 blood on their clothes, on the floor. 499 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,720 And you know, when they were sprinkling it, some of it must 500 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,920 have dripped on them. Appropriation is everything. 501 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,640 The blood of Jesus was shed for us. 502 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:03,320 Yes, it flowed from that. His body slowed down, I'm sure, 503 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,840 But you and I need to take the effort to appropriate it and 504 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:14,120 make it ours. Today I want to ask you, have 505 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,280 you ever tried this? Have you tried to appropriate 506 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,000 the blood of Jesus on your life? Have you appropriated it over 507 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,880 your children's lives? Have you appropriated it over 508 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,080 your home, over your office, over the things that you love 509 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,440 and own? What do I mean by that? 510 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,680 What do I mean by that? So this past few weeks we have 511 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,240 moved from, you know, all of us use ACS at home in Chennai 512 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,920 because it's really hot and I have a problem wherein when it's 513 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,000 cold, I when you know, I need a comforter. 514 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,240 When it's warm also I need a comforter because I can't bear 515 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,720 the cold of the AC. And so this past week we have a 516 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,200 comforter which we use, but it only works for geshom. 517 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,560 For me, it's way too cold even with the comforter. 518 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,840 So through the week from Sunday evening, I was trying out 519 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,240 different bed sheets over the comforter just for my side, you 520 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,520 know, to keep me a little extra warm because I wasn't sleeping 521 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,040 well at all. I kept waking up because of the 522 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,640 cold switching off the AC, switching it back on. 523 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,400 It was exhausting. Finally, on Wednesday night, I 524 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,480 just, I tried a new blanket. So this was, you know, a little 525 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,320 heavier and it just rested on the comforter, didn't move off 526 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,880 in the night. And on Wednesday night I had the 527 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,440 best sleep ever because the the comforter stayed, the blanket on 528 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,520 top of it stayed. I was at the right optimal 529 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:27,720 temperature and I could sleep well. 530 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,560 I didn't have to wake up. I didn't have to switch off the 531 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,120 AC, none of that. And when I woke up in the 532 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,160 morning, I was thinking about, you know, how I had to 533 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,080 experiment so much with these different coverings till I 534 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,120 settled on this one blanket that worked. 535 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,160 And I felt like God was reminding me that that's what 536 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,160 the blood of Jesus is. It's a covering. 537 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,320 And too many of us have been trying different coverings on 538 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,240 our life. We make sure we have the best 539 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,640 insurance, home insurance, health insurance, dental 540 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,680 insurance. Some of us are so concerned 541 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,560 about the right networks because if this business fails, that 542 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,040 opportunity may come in. Too many of us are trusting in 543 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,840 friendships and thinking that they will be our covering. 544 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,560 Some of us love our marriages so much that we think our spouses 545 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,320 are covering. For those of you who are older, 546 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,080 you're so worried about your retirement, you think your 547 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,440 children are going to be the covering. 548 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,120 Rightly so. But God is coming to this place 549 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,120 of asking us. My blood is your covering today. 550 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,200 If I stand before my Heavenly Father and I can speak to him 551 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,440 boldly, I can speak to him As a friend. 552 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,520 I can speak to him and tell him my heart's desires, I can weep 553 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,440 before him. It is because I am covered by 554 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,560 the blood of the lamb. He sees me as redeemed. 555 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,640 He sees me as ransomed. He sees me as pure. 556 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,880 I'm covered. You are covered. 557 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,480 What? I'll fitting cover. 558 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,400 Have you been using? The problem is the covers that 559 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,840 we use. Like I mentioned, it could be 560 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,600 people, it could be situations, it could be our jobs. 561 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,560 There's so many things that we tend to use as coverings to 562 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,120 protect ourselves, to make sure that you know, all our ducks are 563 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,680 in a row. The problem with that is they 564 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,560 will not bring lasting peace. The evidence of the covering and 565 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,920 its legitimacy in your life is the peace that it will bring. 566 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,160 When you appropriate the blood of Jesus as you're covering, 567 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,360 when you believe and say, Lord, I claim the blood of Jesus over 568 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,120 myself, I believe that I'm healed. 569 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,960 When you claim it over a child who's who's out of control and 570 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,560 say I plead the blood of Jesus on this child, I know that your 571 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,120 blood has already washed him clean. 572 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,880 He's OK. He's going to be fine. 573 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,080 When we believe that the blood of Jesus washed this person or 574 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,680 this situation, when we pleaded over our lives, it changes 575 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,880 everything. It changes how we look at our 576 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,120 current situation. And the important thing is that 577 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,200 when we begin to appropriate the blood of Jesus into our lives, 578 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,120 we see three things happen. And that's what I want to leave 579 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,800 with you. The first thing is you have 580 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,360 peace with God. Romans chapter 5 verses 9 to 10. 581 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,160 Now that we are set right with God by means of the sacrificial 582 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,360 death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a 583 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,720 question of being at odds with God in any way. 584 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,560 If when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with 585 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,600 God by the sacrificial death of his Son. 586 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,160 But now that we are at our best, just think of how our lives will 587 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,200 expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life. 588 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,560 Isn't that amazing? When we were at our worst, we 589 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:30,640 were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of 590 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,840 his Son. The blood of Jesus got you 591 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,920 peace. Maybe you're someone who's 592 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,800 saying I don't understand God's ways. 593 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,520 He feels unkind. He feels mean. 594 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,560 He took away my job. He allowed my marriage to 595 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,280 crumble. A child that was wayward left. 596 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,280 How is he still good? I can't be at peace with this 597 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,280 God. I can't pray to him. 598 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,280 I don't know what the outcomes are going to look like. 599 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,800 It looks all over the place. It feels too unpredictable. 600 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560 I want you to remember that when you appropriate the blood into 601 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,840 your life, you come into this place of, I should say, just 602 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,960 this casual relaxation when it comes into being in the hands of 603 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,840 God. You realize that God. 604 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,200 Yes, I'm having these health issues, but you've got it. 605 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,120 Your blood has washed me clean. Bio stripes. 606 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,560 I am healed. I'll be OK. 607 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,480 The blood unites us with God. It makes peace with him so that 608 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,320 I begin to view his ways through the lens of his beautiful 609 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,360 character, Not through my expectations, because my 610 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,400 expectations are so warped. But I begin to look at him and 611 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,560 say, Lord, I know that you have a plan. 612 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,360 Even in this, even in this huge set back. 613 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,000 I know you have a plan, and the blood of Jesus does this. 614 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,200 When you appropriate and say, Lord, I apply your blood upon 615 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,400 this particular situation which is disturbed, disturbing me so 616 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,200 much, he'll begin to give you fresh perspective where you will 617 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,040 start to accept his sovereignty in your life. 618 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,120 That's the beautiful thing. The blood of Jesus enables you 619 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,480 to accept that he is God. He can do as He pleases, but he 620 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,880 will do good. He will turn anything around for 621 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,320 good, for his glory. The second thing is when we 622 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,159 appropriate the blood of Jesus, we have peace with ourselves. 623 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,360 Isaiah chapter 53, verses two to six. 624 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,760 It says the servant grew up before God. 625 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,719 A scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. 626 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,600 There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us 627 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,960 to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed 628 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,920 over a man who suffered, who knew pain first hand. 629 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,800 One look at him and people turned away. 630 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,040 We looked down on him, thought he was scum, but the fact is it 631 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,960 was our pains. He carried our disfigurements, 632 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:48,560 all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on 633 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,400 himself that God was punishing him for his own failures, but it 634 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,120 was our sins that did that to him that ripped and tore and 635 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,520 crushed him our sins. He took the punishment and that 636 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,160 made us whole. Through his bruises we get 637 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,040 healed. We are all like sheep who 638 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,760 wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, 639 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,320 gone our own way, and God has piled all our sins, everything 640 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:18,680 we have done wrong on him, on him by it says he took the 641 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:24,000 punishment and that made us whole spirit, soul and body. 642 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,320 So often the reason we feel out of control all over the place is 643 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,520 because they're not In Sync. We feel discordant because 644 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,120 stuff's going on inside, but we're speaking something 645 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,880 different. We're acting in a different way, 646 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,880 but God is saying that because of the blood that was spilt on 647 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,160 your behalf, that blood doesn't just physically heal you, it 648 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,840 heals you spiritually. It heals your emotions. 649 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,760 It heals every part of your life so that at the end of your life 650 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,160 you are completely whole. When you're presented to God 651 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,720 himself, isn't that amazing? So your dislocated parts of your 652 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:01,080 life, your wounded, broken pieces, will come together when 653 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,240 the blood of Jesus washes over you. 654 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,280 I love the description for Shalom that Eugene Peterson 655 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,840 gives. He says it's a vibrating 656 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,120 wholeness that resonates throughout your being. 657 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,240 It's that abundance that Jesus talked about in John 1010. 658 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,920 I have come that you may have. Life in abundance is basically 659 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,360 peace that holds all the bits together. 660 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,760 Isn't that amazing? And so that's what happens. 661 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,680 When we appropriate the blood of Jesus on ourselves, we have 662 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,640 peace with ourselves. When we appropriated the blood 663 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,000 of Jesus on ourselves, we have peace with God and we finally 664 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,080 have peace with one another. One Corinthians, chapter 10, 665 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,840 verses 16 to 17, it says, is the cup of blessing which we bless 666 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,800 at the Lord's Supper not a sharing in the blood of Christ? 667 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,920 Indeed it is. Is the bread which we break, not 668 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,680 a sharing in the body of Christ. Indeed it is. 669 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,160 Since there is one bread, we believers, who are many, are 670 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,040 united into one body. For we all partake of the one 671 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,120 bread which represents the body of Christ. 672 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,440 That is what we do at communion. When we actually partake of the 673 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,760 Lord's table, we are actually uniting ourselves with others 674 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,720 whom the blood connected us with. 675 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,320 Today, the body of Christ is our greatest gift. 676 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,920 I love that when we go to another country, we go to 677 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,920 another city. The minute you see a fellow 678 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,520 follower of Jesus, you know the connection which comes as so 679 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,000 uncanny. We may look different, we may 680 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,560 have different languages, we may be part of different 681 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,520 denominations. But the fact that we love Jesus 682 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:36,200 unites us so fast. It's important that we apply the 683 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,520 blood of Jesus over our relationships because then we 684 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,880 truly experience peace. Will there be discord? 685 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,280 Will there be issues? Yes. 686 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,640 But the blood of Jesus brings peace. 687 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,520 The blood of Jesus unites US against all odds, however 688 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,800 different we are. No matter what our upbringings, 689 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,760 no matter what our socio economic status looks like, the 690 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,160 blood of Jesus brings us together. 691 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,480 Even as I close, I want to just ask you this. 692 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,840 Do you know Jesus for yourself? We often take it for granted 693 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,800 that as you're listening in that you know the Lord personally. 694 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,240 But if you don't know Jesus, I would encourage you to make a 695 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:18,040 decision today. It's a very simple thing, like I 696 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,760 began. John introduced John the 697 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,800 Baptist, introduced Jesus, his cousin, saying, look, the Lamb 698 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,280 of God that takes away the sins of the world. 699 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,560 You and I primarily have to admit that we are sinners in 700 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,600 need of a saviour. And if you are someone who's 701 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:38,600 saying I need Jesus, I I've heard of him, He seems nice, but 702 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,760 I feel so sinful on my own. I don't think I can save myself. 703 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,040 I need Jesus. Can I lead you into a very 704 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,640 simple prayer? It's a prayer where we just say, 705 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,000 Lord, I'm a Sinner. I need you. 706 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,040 I believe that you sent your son. 707 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,360 I believe that he died for me. I believe that he rose again. 708 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,320 And I believe that he's going to walk with me into eternity, that 709 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,000 I'm going to have a life full of purpose. 710 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000 That's all it takes. It's that simple a prayer. 711 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,320 And the beautiful thing is that as soon as you pray that prayer, 712 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,720 you first of all become part of the body of Christ of which he's 713 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:10,360 the head. But more importantly, your sins 714 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,240 are immediately washed. You have access to the Holy of 715 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:16,000 Holies, the presence of God himself. 716 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,760 And not just that, it doesn't end with that. 717 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,960 You now have access to the new life, a life that is filled, 718 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,040 where you have power to overcome the things that you were a slave 719 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,280 to before. So, as I pray, would you repeat 720 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,720 the simple prayer after me? This is for those who don't know 721 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:38,440 Jesus. Heavenly Father, I admit that 722 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,280 I'm a Sinner. I admit that I cannot save 723 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,720 myself. I need a Saviour. 724 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,040 I invite Jesus, the Son of God into my life. 725 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:57,040 I believe that he came to earth, died for me, rose again, and is 726 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,800 now alive in heaven. I believe that he now lives in 727 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,840 me and will be with me as I navigate life here on earth. 728 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,840 I love you. Heavenly Father, thank you for 729 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:15,360 choosing me and setting me apart to know you in Jesus name. 730 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,160 Amen. Amen. 731 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,040 Welcome to the family of God. You belong to Jesus now. 732 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,560 You're one of his. You're a child of God. 733 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,760 You have incredible things lying ahead of you. 734 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,960 So I just want to congratulate you as you've started this 735 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,880 incredible journey. The blood of Jesus has washed 736 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,800 you. It has set you apart. 737 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,320 If you have never appropriated the blood of Jesus into your 738 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,120 life, if you feel I have used every other covering known to 739 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,520 man, you know, much like Adam and Eve, when they sinned, they 740 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,760 took fig leaves and tried to cover themselves. 741 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,120 But God knew that was such an insufficient thing because the 742 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,880 minute you plucked a leaf off its stalk and put it on you, it 743 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,720 would wither. It's not a permanent covering. 744 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,240 The blood of Jesus is a permanent covering. 745 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:01,520 It covers you so that when you stand before the throne, you are 746 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,360 counted as righteous. It covers you. 747 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,720 It cleanses you. It wipes away everything. 748 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,920 It speaks God's love over you. It speaks his mercy and 749 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,200 forgiveness over you. And so I want to ask that if you 750 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,560 have never appropriated this love, you've never claimed it 751 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,400 over your life. You've never pleaded it over 752 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,360 your life. Today I want to lead you in that 753 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,160 prayer, believing that as you do so, you're going to have peace 754 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,000 with God. Maybe you've been wrestling with 755 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,440 God. Maybe you've been saying God. 756 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,000 I don't want certain things that you are promising because it 757 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 feels like it comes with strings attached. 758 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,600 I don't know your heart, God. Maybe you've been struggling 759 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:42,240 with yourself, with ailment after ailment, set back, after 760 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:46,800 set back, Emotional, physical, financial, any area, he says. 761 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,720 I want to bring peace within yourself. 762 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,240 Maybe you've been struggling relationally in your family with 763 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:56,280 your friends. Plead the blood of Jesus over 764 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,800 those relationships. Can we do that together? 765 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,880 Father in heaven, we just thank you because you are here. 766 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,000 We thank you for the great gift of your Son, Jesus, how much it 767 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,200 must have pained you to watch your son go through that 768 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,240 suffering at the hands of other image bearers. 769 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,320 Thank you, Father, for that plan of redemption. 770 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,880 Thank you for the perfect sacrifice that Jesus was. 771 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,960 And even now, Lord, we just plead the blood of Jesus upon 772 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,800 ourselves, upon our families, upon our circumstances, upon our 773 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,680 homes of Father, that you would fill every place with your 774 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,960 fullness, that you would bring peace like never before. 775 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,840 I pray your Father, that you will wash away everything that 776 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,480 is not of you, that God you will open up, Lord, areas that have 777 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,200 been so dark and dank to the brilliance of your light and 778 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,120 presence. Father, I pray where negativity 779 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,360 has spoken into our lives that Lord the blood of Jesus would 780 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,960 speak life and truth and hope Once we pray in the name of 781 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,040 Jesus and believe that we are covered by the blood of the 782 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,880 Lamb. We thank you that your blood 783 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,680 flows through our veins today. We thank you that you are 784 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,880 healing us from deep within at the DNA level. 785 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,400 You're bringing healing, Lord of the emotional level, you're 786 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,560 bringing healing. Father, thank you that our 787 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,800 spirits, which have been dead for very long, are being revived 788 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,440 by the blood of Jesus. We thank you, Lord, that by your 789 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,200 stripes we are healed. We thank you that the 790 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,680 chastisement that I should have been on us was on you. 791 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,280 And because of that, Lord, today we are set free. 792 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,280 We thank you, We love you, We glorify you. 793 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,720 We pray that Lord our lives would scream and shout of Your 794 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:35,360 grace, your mercy and your forgiveness. 795 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,880 We submit ourselves to you, cover us with your precious 796 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,080 blood. In Jesus name I pray. 797 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:44,760 Amen. Amen. 798 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,520 God bless you, even as you get into this last two days of the 799 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,160 Lent season. Can I just ask that you would 800 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,640 take some time on this weekend to just spend some time with the 801 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,720 Lord? Ask him to show you things that 802 00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,560 maybe you missed in the past 40 days. 803 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,480 Ask him to reveal himself clearer than before, and maybe 804 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,880 you haven't had the time to pray or intercede for someone. 805 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,320 But if you could spend some time this weekend just pleading the 806 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,440 blood of Jesus on yourself and asking God to move in a powerful 807 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,520 way, can you do that? I hope you can. 808 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,280 God bless you. God bless you. 809 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,840 Thanks for listening to this message. 810 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,680 We hope you were blessed to hear more messages like this. 811 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,000 Make sure to subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 812 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,320 episodes. If you like what you are 813 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,880 hearing, consider rating us, subscribing and even sharing it 814 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,480 with friends. That would really help us. 815 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,720 For more content from Via Zion and to connect with us, go to 816 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,960 Via Zion dot in. Remember, whoever finds Jesus 817 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,000 finds life.