1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,000 Open your Bible to. Galatians chapter 5 we're going 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,560 to be picking up in verse. Two. 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:10,360 It's so. Good to have you here. 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,040 If you've been with us for the last. 5 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:13,960 Few weeks and months we've been going through Galatians. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,080 Actually, Paul has been. Wrestling with our hearts. 7 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,200 As he did with the church in Galatia for four. 8 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,400 Chapters because what has? Happened is Paul's gone into? 9 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,200 Galatia, He shared the. Gospel He's seen radical 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,680 salvations. He's seen the Holy Spirit hover 11 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,520 and minister lives changed. But now he's hearing news that 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,240 some plonkers have gone in there and have started to preach 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,640 another gospel. And this gospel is. 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,240 The fact that the. Cross is not enough. 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,440 You really need to work. Hard at your salvation. 16 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,320 You need to balance these scales. 17 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,920 I mean, your past is pretty. Shady. 18 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,720 So you've got to do a whole bunch of good works. 19 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,320 Even begin to measure up to what? 20 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,480 God is. Expecting of you. 21 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,560 Or the fact that, you know, you were adopted. 22 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:56,800 You're now a son. No, no, no, no, no. 23 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:57,960 You're. Still a slave, you? 24 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,680 Know, can we take you to the scriptures and show you where 25 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,560 you're a disappointment and a failure and you need to measure 26 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,800 up to Paul. I think he's pulling his hair 27 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,120 out. I can just, you know, I have a 28 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,480 vivid imagination, but I can see him sort of pacing in in the 29 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,320 study and you know, he's got his quill in his hands. 30 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,400 Like what more must I tell? These people to get through. 31 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,800 And then he gets. To chapter 5 verse. 32 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,440 Two which says listen. I Paul tell you. 33 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,440 This Read my lips if you are counting on circumcision to make 34 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,520 you. Right with God he uses. 35 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,680 Circumcision as a blanket term for trying hard, doing better, 36 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,840 pulling up your socks, earning your salvation. 37 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,600 If you are counting on circumcision to make. 38 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,640 You right with God. Then Christ will be of no 39 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:45,880 benefit. To you. 40 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,400 I'll say it again, if you're trying to find favor with God by 41 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,680 being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole 42 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,400 Law of Moses. For if you're trying to make 43 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,480 yourself. Right with God by. 44 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,840 Keeping the law. You've been cut off from Christ. 45 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,880 You have. Fallen away from. 46 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:08,000 God's grace. Them's fighting words. 47 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,080 And I know what he's. Doing I know what's. 48 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,440 Stirring in his heart. Because that's my Monday. 49 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,600 Yeah. You go to church and it's 50 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,840 beautiful. And you whipped in this baptisms 51 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,920 and you see people saved. And then on Monday you think 52 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:23,760 something, do something, see something. 53 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,920 And all of a sudden, I don't know if I don't approach God 54 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,960 anymore. I need to start piling up my 55 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,320 work. So I've got to take my spiritual 56 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,360 pulse. So I've been looking at this 57 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,760 because I'm like, Lord, that is me over and over again that. 58 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:44,520 Is the city of Pretoria that is 3 CR the struggle this? 59 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,720 Constant. Struggle. 60 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,760 Between the cross, is it enough? And circumcision? 61 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,880 Must I do more? Or as I. 62 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,000 Like to say, and we're going. To look at today. 63 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,960 We need to. Decide. 64 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,640 Where do we find it? In the blade or in the blood? 65 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,880 What is your hope the blade do? Better try harder, no longer a 66 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,360 disappointment. Or the blood is the blood? 67 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,200 Enough. So with this stirring in me, I'm 68 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,960 going to, I'm going through the entire Old and New Testaments 69 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 and look at the the value, the weight, the beauty and power of 70 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,360 the blood. And I'm, I'm going to invite you 71 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,440 on a bit of my journey. I'm going to squeeze it into the 72 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,400 next 30 minutes of how God answered my question like Lord. 73 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,360 Why is it? Because I think this is this is 74 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,120 the reason why I'm vacillating between the two is because I, 75 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,680 and I'm sure you are. Very. 76 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,400 Familiar with the blade, Disappointment being a failure, 77 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,040 Not measuring up, you're often told. 78 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,360 Maybe your father raised you and told you. 79 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,280 I heard of a guy who was called. Stupid number. 80 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,320 Five by his. Dad until he was in his. 20s 81 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,720 fifth child. Stupid number maybe like me, 82 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,560 your nickname as a child was. Jerk. 83 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,640 You're very. Familiar with this that you 84 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,400 don't quite measure up. You never are going to measure 85 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,480 up. You've got to do more. 86 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,600 But we're so unfamiliar with the. 87 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,080 Power of the blood. So I want to remind you. 88 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,560 The power. Of the blood. 89 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,160 Thank you, Klinto. Going right very to the very, 90 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,839 very, very, very beginning, right like page one, you know, 91 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,480 long before you even get into. The weeds Weed. 92 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:22,000 Scripture. We found the very. 1st. 93 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,560 Mention of the blood. Actually, the very first. 94 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,600 Shedding of blood. You know the story Adam and 95 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,360 Eve's, and remember what Paul saying here you want to. 96 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,360 Do right. You want to be right with God. 97 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:33,840 Well, these. Are the guys. 98 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,440 Who made us unright? With God. 99 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,960 And so they're sitting there trying to make right with God, 100 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,960 but they're hiding in the in the bushes, naked and a shame full 101 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:42,920 of guilt. They've sinned. 102 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,280 And what we find in in Genesis 321 it says. 103 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,640 The Lord. God made garments of skin for 104 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,800 Adam and his wife and clothed them. 105 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,800 This is the first time blood is shed. 106 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,840 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and 107 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,360 clothed them. Now what's amazing there, just 108 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,320 in passing, is the fact that somehow he's showing them that 109 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,760 you can't approach me anymore. But by the blood. 110 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:08,840 You can't have fellowship with me anymore. 111 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,320 But by the blood. Actually. 112 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,200 You are a Sinner, but for the blood. 113 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,960 Now things. It's one of those verses that 114 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,560 you sort of you'll just read. Past doesn't quite. 115 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Hit you? But I looked at that. 116 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,800 I thought. That must have been a staggering 117 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,040 moment for them, because we don't actually find. 118 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,160 This blood. Issue being addressed or listen, 119 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,480 you have to for centuries. But somehow what happened there 120 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,200 with Adam and Eve made such an impact on them that we see 121 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,760 generation after generation page. 122 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,440 After page you just go through your Bible. 123 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,640 From the beginning, as you wade into Genesis and Exodus, you 124 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,200 find the blood again and again and again. 125 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,360 But you also find the blade, so Adam and Eve. 126 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,400 A covered blood is shed. They're allowed to. 127 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,600 Commune with God once again. They're. 128 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,800 Kids Cain and Abel Cain. He's a blade guy. 129 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,560 Don't put your stuffs on me. I will worship you the way I 130 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,000 want to worship. Yeah, my veggies, Abel. 131 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,240 He's a blood guy. Somehow Abel saw. 132 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,960 Somehow Abel understood because Hebrews, 11 says by faith. 133 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,120 Abel brought. A lamb as a sacrifice, actually, 134 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,080 what? This is I love. 135 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,920 This part in Hebrews 11 that says. 136 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,680 God testified to his offering. So he brings it by faith. 137 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,800 And God testifies. I don't know what comes to mind 138 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,280 when when you hear. The word testify. 139 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,760 To me, it's like African American church, you know, with 140 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,000 the. Pastor half, preaches half. 141 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,280 Sings. You know, can I get a witness? 142 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,040 I remember preaching. Yeah, it's filled filled 143 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:44,800 brother. Come on. 144 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,240 Glorious testify, I preached once. 145 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,640 There was a guy about 3 or 4 rows. 146 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,120 Back that kept saying tell us. Pastor, tell us. 147 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,520 Testify that's what God is doing. 148 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,480 That's what God. He's in heaven. 149 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,680 He sees Abel. Bringing a lamb and he. 150 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,720 Testifies. Gabriel, my uncle. 151 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,600 Come. Guys, come take a look. 152 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,400 He gets it. He gets it, but by the blood. 153 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,840 He saw something with Adam and Eve and he's appropriated it for 154 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,280 himself, unlike his brother Cain and you. 155 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,760 Fast forward. Generations. 156 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,560 And you come across a guy named Noah. 157 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,760 Now when you were in Sunday school, you were taught that 158 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Noah took the animals. Two by two. 159 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,120 Wrong. Seven by two. 160 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,120 You know all the clean animals. He took seven pairs. 161 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,680 See because. Noah had heard about his Great, 162 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,080 great, great, great. Grandfather and grandmother and 163 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,400 what had happened when they sinned and how God atoned for 164 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,680 that, He's now witnessing first hand a generation that is going 165 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,520 to be. Judged. 166 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,240 By our Heavenly Father and he makes sure I'm not stepping back 167 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,800 on earth. But by the blood. 168 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,080 Takes 7 pairs of clean animals and the first thing he does is 169 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,680 build an altar and sacrifice. To them. 170 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,400 But by the blood you look at Abraham. 171 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,200 God says, Listen, I want to make a covenant. 172 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,320 With you, he cuts. Those animals in half, there's a 173 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,400 shedding of blood, he says. Listen, I promise you. 174 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,320 You will be a. Blessing and this land is yours. 175 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,680 The first thing he does is build an altar and sheds blood as it 176 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,680 comes off to him. Does exactly the same jacket 177 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,360 comes off to him? Does exactly the same. 178 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:27,720 The blood. The blood. 179 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,600 Page after page. Why? 180 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,320 The. Blood. 181 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:34,880 You mess. Why? 182 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,720 What's What's the deal with the blood well? 183 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,080 I came to my conclusion from going from the very beginning to 184 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,840 the very end. Right at the very end, in 185 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,680 Revelation chapter 13, John is given a prophetic vision of the 186 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,440 end times, the moments where people are being. 187 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,960 Gathered. The Bible says that. 188 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,800 It's appointed to man to die once and then comes judgment. 189 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,080 So this is the context. Of this verse. 190 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:01,720 And then it talks about the lamb. 191 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,360 'S Book of Life that is opened. And then the Bible gives, almost 192 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,760 like in brackets, you know we're going to which lamb? 193 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:12,360 And then says the following Revelation 13, it says the Lamb 194 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,360 who was slain before the foundation of the. 195 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,440 World, So we write. At the end, but actually we were 196 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:20,720 looking at right at the. Very beginning. 197 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,640 The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. 198 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,520 Where was he slain? Because the world wasn't there. 199 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,280 Jerusalem wasn't there. Rome hadn't come with the 200 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,960 crucifixion idea just yet. Could only be that. 201 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,280 Jesus was crucified in the heart of the Father before the 202 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,920 foundation of the world, which means. 203 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:42,920 That as we. Go through Genesis and Exodus 204 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,960 and Leviticus and Deuteronomy and Numbers and all this blood 205 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,680 being shed when God is looking on that. 206 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,880 He was before. The Foundation. 207 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,240 Of the world crucified. Slain in the heart of the 208 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,680 Father, which means that the Father is looking at that blood. 209 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,440 And he doesn't reduce. It to an animal. 210 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,080 He raises it to. The blood of the lamb. 211 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,960 So he looks on that in the shadow of the cross that will 212 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,720 come one day, and he says it's so important that you get if you 213 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,560 want to have fellowship with me. It requires blood if you want 214 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,400 to. Approach me requires blood. 215 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,520 If you want to be accepted by me, it will. 216 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,120 Require blood. If you want to enter into my 217 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,240 thing, it requires a covenant. It requires blood over and over 218 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,560 and over again. This is why we found the blood 219 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,760 from the very first. Pages of Scripture. 220 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:33,680 But I want to show you. That's why it's so important to 221 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:35,240 them, what's so important to God. 222 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,400 But I want to show you why it's so important to me. 223 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,200 Can't talk about the blood without going to the Passover. 224 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,800 The problem with the Passover. Is that we've heard it so many 225 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,480 times, The 10 plagues, the crossing of the Red Sea. 226 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,520 That you approach it with. Preconceived ideas. 227 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,440 So bear with me. Clean slate. 228 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,960 Read and listen. This is Exodus 12. 229 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,800 Why is the blood? So important to me. 230 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,440 First one says the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Egypt tell 231 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,840 the whole community of Israel that on the 10th day of this 232 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,760 month each man has to take a lamb for his family. 233 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,200 Each for. One for each household. 234 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,640 Take care of them until the 14th day of the month, when all the 235 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,920 members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at 236 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:17,960 twilight. Then they are to take some of 237 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,040 the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door 238 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,080 frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. 239 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,120 The blood on your blood on your hosts. 240 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,360 Will circle as a. Sign marking the houses where 241 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,760 you are staying. When I see the blood, I'll pass 242 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,440 over you. And this? 243 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,600 Plague of death. Will not touch you when I struck 244 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,200 the land of Egypt. This plague. 245 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,440 Of death will not touch you. When I struck the land of Egypt. 246 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,000 I don't know if you know this, millennials. 247 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,520 I don't know if your mommy's. Told you this, but. 248 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:55,720 You're going to die. You're going to die by deadness, 249 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,840 and you're going to be. Dead for a very. 250 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,240 Very long time. I'm sorry. 251 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,320 Sorry. Trigger warning. 252 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,600 Trigger warning. Be ready. 253 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,280 You're going to die for a long time. 254 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,040 You owe it to yourself. To consider the blood of the 255 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,760 lamb. The Bible says after. 256 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,200 Death comes judgement, the eternal death. 257 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,320 And what's interesting there is Paul is saying. 258 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,440 Do you realize that if you are? Banking on your. 259 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:31,440 Works that Christ is. Of no benefit to you when you. 260 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,520 Face. The final death What are you 261 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,240 going to hold up in front of your Heavenly Father? 262 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:40,240 What is going to be on the doorposts? 263 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:45,440 Of your heart only by the blood. I can tell you your CV that you 264 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,720 worked so many years at Microsoft is going to count for 265 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,840 next to nothing -1,000,000. You might have worked. 266 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,800 Really, really hard because you've got a very. 267 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,400 Shady background. And so now you've been giving 268 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,440 money to the poor and working into those orphanages counts 269 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,360 nothing. You're not going to hold your 270 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,840 CV. You're not going to hold your. 271 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,480 Status. Doesn't matter if you. 272 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:11,680 Lived in Silver Lakes. Nothing but the blood. 273 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,360 The plague of death. It actually says in Hebrews 11. 274 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,520 It says by faith Moses kept the Passover and the application of 275 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,280 blood. So that the Destroyer. 276 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:25,520 Would not touch the first corner. 277 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,080 I love that. So you're talking about death 278 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,720 and the? Destroyer held at Bay by the 279 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,200 blood. I don't know if you hear when, 280 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:32,920 Rory. Spoke. 281 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,960 We preached through. The Book of Job saw something 282 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:38,840 there that I don't think I probably read it. 283 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,520 I mean, you know, you've read. The Bible? 284 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,560 A few. Times, but it never. 285 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,600 Really stuck. What we know when we think of 286 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:49,720 the book of Job is we know that Satan stands in the counsel of 287 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,600 the Holy and he says listen, listen. 288 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,440 Only reason why that Job guy likes you. 289 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,200 The only reason why it comes to church, the only reason why he 290 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,880 raises his hands and sings the Hallelujah, is because you don't 291 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,280 let me touch him. I know that about job. 292 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,040 But what I'm less familiar with was what you found in Job. 293 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,240 Chapter One where every. Time his. 294 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,280 Kids would have a. Weekend party, He'd wake up 295 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,240 early in the morning. And he'd sacrifice. 296 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,080 There would be a shedding of blood just in case they sinned, 297 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,360 just in case the cursed God seemed like. 298 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,320 Job's kids. Had some friends from the bluff 299 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,600 and then he had those two kids come from Alfre's and he thought 300 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,560 like, who need to now we need blood. 301 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,440 We're in trouble. He called me then. 302 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,160 He was like, but Derek Prince says this. 303 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,320 He says. Although it's not directly 304 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,480 evident, Job inadvertently is covering his entire family, 305 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,200 himself included with the blood of the lamb like Moses did on 306 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:54,160 the doorposts in Egypt. Which meant that Satan, who 307 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,600 roams around like a roaring lung, seeking whom he may 308 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:03,640 devour, finds a line in the sand dipped in the blood of the lamb, 309 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,520 and he realizes and recognizes I may not devour. 310 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,760 Such as the power of the blood that it keeps, it holds at Bay 311 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,920 the Destroyer. And the plague of. 312 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:21,480 Death, Paul says. Do you? 313 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,520 Really think your good. Works your little bit of your. 314 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,720 Quitting smoking is going. To do that. 315 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,640 Do you understand the? Power of the blood. 316 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,840 I remember I did a wedding recently. 317 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,800 I've been walking a long journey with a young man and he finally 318 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,920 got married and we're having a bride just before the wedding. 319 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,960 And I was chatting to his father, and I heard a story I'd 320 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,360 never heard. Before because. 321 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,800 At one stage, he'd gotten extremely depressed. 322 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,200 And he was. Rather suicide. 323 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,800 The dad. Said to me night after night I 324 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,040 would stand at my the foot of my son's bed while he slept and 325 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,440 just asked. The blood of. 326 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,200 Jesus to be upon him. To keep the Destroyer. 327 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,680 At Bay you remember Rory preaching last year on Easter 328 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,600 application of the blood. I remember him saying how the 329 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,800 cross, the crown of thorns, was laid on Jesus head and as that 330 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,960 blood began to run, covered his mind. 331 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,320 We have access and we were. Able to apply. 332 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,560 The blood to our mind, his eyes, ears and lips and all the way 333 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,840 down to his. Privates. 334 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,720 The bad is the power of the blood. 335 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:35,040 And So what I've started doing, I cannot but enter a day. 336 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,160 Covered by the blood. Of the Lamb I find myself over 337 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,960 and over. I'm like, Lord, this mind of 338 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,480 mine. Is so full of insecurities. 339 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,360 Is so full of Mondays and so trying to figure. 340 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,360 Would you ask for the blood? Of the lamb to be over my mind 341 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,760 and these. These ears. 342 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,240 These. Ears that seem to hear the lies 343 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,560 of the enemy. Would you cover it with the 344 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,160 blood? These eyes ADHD send me anything 345 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,600 that moves with legs. Lord the. 346 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,000 Blood of the. Lamb over my eyes and this mouth 347 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,480 that I can. Tear you to shreds. 348 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,680 Because my wit and my sharp cynical. 349 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,040 Dark. Language, the blood and this. 350 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:15,560 Heart this, Heart that. Lungs and lusts for and crave. 351 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,440 For oh, the blood. And these hands, everything that 352 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,240 touched. These feet everywhere they go, 353 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,520 Oh. Jesus, I need. 354 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,000 The blood I dare. Not trust in this frame. 355 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,640 This good works this effort or as Paul says why on? 356 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,000 Earth would you trust in the blade when you have the blood? 357 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,200 Do you know the power of the? Blood. 358 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:44,560 Oh, this? Is one of my favourites. 359 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,520 I know I'm properly geeking out, but I've got some time, so we're 360 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,840 going to jump straight into this is Exodus 24. 361 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,680 Then the Lord said to Moses, Come up to the Lord you, and 362 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,880 Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel. 363 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,960 You are to worship where? At a. 364 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:03,480 Distance but Moses. Alone is to approach the Lord. 365 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,120 The others must not come near, and the people may not come up 366 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,400 with him. Moses then wrote down everything 367 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,680 the Lord had said. He got up early the next morning 368 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,280 and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up 12 369 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,800 stone pillars representing the 12 tribes of Israel. 370 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,480 Then he sends young Israelite men, and they offered burnt 371 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,160 offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to 372 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,360 the Lord. Moses took half of the blood. 373 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,480 Put it in bowls and the other half he splashed against the 374 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,560 altar. Verse 19 when Moses had 375 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,360 proclaimed every command of the. Lord to all the people he took 376 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:34,120 the blood of the calves together with water. 377 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:38,040 Scarlet wool and branches of hyssop and sprinkled the scroll 378 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,040 and all the people. And he said, this is the blood 379 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,840 of the covenant which God has commanded. 380 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,480 You to keep. See this? 381 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,080 God hasn't changed his mind. About the blood. 382 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:51,400 So listen, I'm going to give you the. 383 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,200 Law, but before you. Even open it, I'm going to cover 384 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,920 it with the blood, I'm going to tell. 385 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,280 You how to sacrifice but. Before you even do one, I'm 386 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:00,640 going to cover. It with the blood. 387 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,880 And I'm going to. Call you to obey. 388 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,920 And to apply the. Word but before you do it. 389 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:07,800 I'm going to even put. The blood. 390 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,680 On you, on your ears and your eyes, and your heart has to be 391 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,600 under the nothing. But the blood? 392 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,760 But then the crazy thing. This is Exodus 24. 393 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,160 When you go to Exodus 25, things change. 394 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,960 See, because up until now Moses has been up and down the 395 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,120 mountain, up and down the mountain, everyone else from 396 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:29,200 afar. And then it says in. 397 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,920 In Exodus 25, the Lord said to. Moses, tell the Israelites. 398 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,680 To bring me an offering, you're to receive the offering from me, 399 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,400 from everyone whose heart prompts them to give in verse 8 400 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,800 and have them make a sanctuary for me and I. 401 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,840 Will dwell. Among them. 402 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,400 Why could God? Dwell among them. 403 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,040 Because of the. Blood. 404 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,600 Up until then, they hadn't been sprinkled with the blood. 405 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,840 Once it happens, no longer up and down the mountain. 406 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,240 Now your heavenly Father comes down the mountain. 407 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,400 To be with you, do you know? The blood of the Lamb. 408 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,160 That draws the. Presence of God in your life. 409 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,400 We're always. Talking about the holy. 410 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,200 Spirit. Right after this, the Tabernacle 411 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,240 gets built and it's blood from start to finish. 412 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,640 But you know where the Shekinah glory is? 413 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,280 The very presence of God. It's in the. 414 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,240 Holy of Holies. Above the mercy seat. 415 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,880 You know what's there? It's because. 416 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,400 That is where the blood is. Sprinkled every year. 417 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,960 The Holy, the High Priest. Goes in once a. 418 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:37,120 Year puts blood. On the Mercy seat and our 419 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,160 Heavenly Father just can't seem to help himself. 420 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,280 But he's attracted to the blood. Of the Lamb. 421 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,200 Where the blood is. That's where the presence is. 422 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,680 Do you know the? Power of the blood. 423 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,720 Or he's still banking on the blade, trying really, really 424 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,560 hard. Just do more you can do better 425 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,880 on. Invite you to abandon yourself 426 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,280 to the blood of the lamb. And that's just the Old 427 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,240 Testament. That's just shadow. 428 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,760 The ghost of a shadow of a whisper. 429 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,560 Of what is about to come. We haven't even gotten into the 430 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,160 New Testament, which you're about to do now. 431 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:17,560 And we start in John one right at the very beginning we were 432 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,400 introduced. Behold. 433 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,320 The. Lamb of God. 434 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,960 Takes away the sin of the world right in Page one, the. 435 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,840 Lamb of God. Who takes away the sins? 436 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,240 Of the world. And I don't know if you had this 437 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,080 experience, you know, when you went to buy that new car and 438 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,880 it's like no one in Pretoria is a Fortuner. 439 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,480 You know, I'm going to really going to have a status now in 440 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,680 the cities streets and then you drive down and there's just 441 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,000 Fortuners. Absolutely everything. 442 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,840 Well, OK, maybe a bad example, because they really are. 443 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:52,320 Yeah, you buy that Fiat. You know, and all of a sudden 444 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,120 you see it everywhere. It's the same with the blood. 445 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,000 So once I saw it once, I can't, I can't turn a page without 446 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,040 seeing the blood. I can't have a conversation 447 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,480 without hearing about. The blood. 448 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,720 Reading between the lines. It's like the. 449 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,120 Whispers of the Heavenlies. Have just saturated the pages. 450 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,720 So bear with me. The blood of the covenant was 451 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,360 poured out for the forgiveness of sins. 452 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,000 Matthew 2726. The blood. 453 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,960 Reconciles us to the father Colossians. 454 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,520 One the blood cleanses US1 John One the blood sanctifies us in 455 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,920 Hebrews. Sanctifies. 456 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,640 And now this is a nice big Bible college Christianese word 457 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,200 sanctifies means. To make you like Jesus. 458 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,240 See, what we do is we spend most of our days trying to be like 459 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,880 Jesus. What would Jesus do? 460 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,160 Scripture says no, no, no. It's the blood. 461 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,400 That sanctifies you. You want to be like Jesus. 462 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,440 Come under the blood makes us holy and righteous. 463 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,080 Hebrews 13 We are redeemed by the blood. 464 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,920 We sang it over and over again this morning. 465 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,560 One, Peter, One We're justified. By the blood. 466 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,320 Oh. This is one of my. 467 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,680 Favorites justified? Another big Bible. 468 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,400 College word. So it's. 469 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,240 Just as if I'd never sinned. You know why you're trying? 470 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:01,760 Really. Really. 471 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,600 Hard to be really, really good. It's because you've sinned. 472 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,880 You've blown it and you think, oh, I've got to cover that thing 473 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,280 up a little bit. I mean, you know, you blow it. 474 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,160 First thing you do is you avoid Christians and church and life 475 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,240 group. You're sitting in the corner 476 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,640 there, you know, don't come near me. 477 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,520 You're not praying, You're not asking for forgiveness because 478 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,880 now there's some stuff that you've got to do, there's some 479 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,640 hoops you've got to jump through, you know you. 480 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,760 Can't just go straight back into the presence of God. 481 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,360 You've you've you've got to feel bad. 482 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,040 And you've got to when I was in Bible college. 483 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,960 You had to break your CDs because. 484 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,680 It was heavy metal, you know, and you you smashed your laptop. 485 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,880 Because of what you looked at, you got to do. 486 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,200 Some stuffs and then you kind of, you know, time passes and 487 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,840 you think I can go, but when you go to life group, you don't. 488 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,600 Participate. Sort of hard. 489 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,120 There, you know, because you've got to be like I'm such a, such 490 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,920 a loser. I've blown it again. 491 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,400 You don't contribute, you don't look anyone in the eyes. 492 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,920 And then when you come to church, you sit. 493 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,840 Right at the very back house that everybody could have you 494 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,200 here. Slowly but surely you work your 495 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,600 way down and then think, OK, he's not going to blip me now I 496 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:19,000 can maybe carry on the. Bible says you're justified just 497 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,120 as if. I'd not looked, not done, not 498 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,800 listened, Not said not. Justified by the blood. 499 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,920 Why do you want the? Blade, as I like to say, How 500 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,280 dumb can you be and still breathe when we have the blood? 501 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,960 Welcome to my Monday. The blood atones for our sins. 502 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,280 Romans 3. The blood gives us confidence to 503 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,880 enter the most holy place. Hebrews 10 But I want to I want 504 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,560 to I want to let you marinate in in 4. 505 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:52,640 Last verses as we close. The first is Ephesians 2, but 506 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,840 now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far. 507 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,320 Away. Have been brought nearby the 508 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,960 blood of Christ. Are you far away? 509 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,000 Maybe you don't know what you were thinking and agreeing to 510 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:13,040 come to church on a Sunday. You know that can change in an 511 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,800 instant, simply. By the blood. 512 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,480 Which means you don't have to go home and change a thing before 513 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,640 you can enter boldly. Before you can draw near. 514 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,320 All you need is. The blood. 515 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,000 Hebrews 13 Now May the God. Of peace you through the. 516 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,960 Blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our. 517 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:42,520 Lord Jesus, take a look at that. Through the blood brought Jesus 518 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,720 back. From the dead, what's dead in 519 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,680 your life? Maybe you're the person that. 520 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,600 Rory is talking about. Where you have been beaten at 521 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,000 the hands of someone, maybe been beaten at the hands of your 522 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,880 guilt and shame and disappointment. 523 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,960 The blood is able to open the. Grave and bring you back. 524 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:11,760 To life. Maybe it's a wayward child and 525 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,560 you try to be the. Fixer upper. 526 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,040 If I can just. Quote the perfect Bible verse. 527 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:19,320 If I can just love him and more if I can buy some gift or 528 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,760 whatever, No, no. The blood will bring him out of 529 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:28,480 the grave. Revelations 1/5 to him who loves 530 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:29,880 us and has. Freed us. 531 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,200 From our sins by. His blood. 532 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,600 Did you see it yet? Why the blade? 533 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,840 Paul says. If you bank on the. 534 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,440 Blade to be free. From your sins then Christ has 535 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,760 no benefit. The Son of God has no benefit to 536 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,320 you. Why would you not openly? 537 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,840 Actively receive the blood. And I close with this one, 538 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,160 Revelation 5 and they sang a new song saying You are. 539 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,160 Worthy to take the. Scroll and to open it. 540 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,360 Seals because you were. Slain and with your. 541 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,800 Blood you. Purchased for God, persons from 542 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,800 every tribe and language and people and nation. 543 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,320 Which means it's all likes to say. 544 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:27,440 Young and old, rich and poor, Single, Married, Widowed. 545 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,240 Divorced, Educated. Uneducated. 546 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,760 Black whites. Indian. 547 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:39,880 Chinese. Purchased with his blood. 548 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:40,760 It's. NOT like. 549 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,200 You get that blood, but we get the good blood. 550 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,560 We are all equal for the. Blood of the Lamb. 551 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,200 Tyler Stetten tells the story. Climbed into an Uber. 552 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,600 That's what everyone does when they climb into an Uber. 553 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:57,400 So, like, hi. Hi. 554 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:57,920 Hi. Thank you. 555 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,080 Thank you. I'm Stephen. 556 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,960 Thank you all Going in the right direction. 557 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,240 Good. And then you're still looking 558 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,160 out the window and out of the blue, the driver says, you know, 559 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,680 I used to smoke marijuana. Used to. 560 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,760 Like, a lot. Like it was a proper problem. 561 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,760 So for years I. Could not I tried. 562 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,760 As hard as I could blade just. Could not get free. 563 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,040 It's OK. So then someone climbed into my 564 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,080 car. I don't know why I wasn't 565 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,600 telling anyone. I was kind of ashamed of it, 566 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,040 actually. Didn't want my family to know. 567 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,160 But somehow I just found myself telling this guy, you know, I've 568 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,880 got this problem, can't stop smoking marijuana, he said. 569 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,600 The guy said nothing. He just listened. 570 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,960 And when I dropped him off, he sort of stuck his head and said, 571 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,640 hey man, I really believe today you're not going to smoke. 572 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,560 He said you won't. Believe it, I didn't smoke that 573 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,280 day, actually, he said. I. 574 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,600 Haven't smoked since he. Said actually. 575 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,800 The smell of marijuana makes me want want to throw up. 576 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,400 It makes me. Nauseous, so. 577 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,720 Tyler's sort of sitting there because the guy's now finished 578 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:14,400 with the story. He's like, so why do you think 579 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,400 when the guy was in the car he suddenly we're free from from 580 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,480 your addiction? He said. 581 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,000 I think that guy prayed, Tyler says. 582 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,200 Yeah, I think you're right. He. 583 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:27,960 Said. Who do you think? 584 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:33,000 He prayed to, probably Jesus. I think you're right. 585 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,040 So what's your name? My name is Muhammad. 586 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,440 Where are you from, Muhammad? Afghanistan. 587 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,280 Are you a praying man? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got that. 588 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,240 My rugged in the boot of. The car pray 5. 589 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,240 Times a day. So. 590 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,400 So you think he prayed to Jesus? You know, I think he prayed to 591 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,920 Jesus, set in silence, said Mama. 592 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,760 Can I ask you a very random question? 593 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,760 Why did you tell me that? Story, I said. 594 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,400 Well. I don't know. 595 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,120 I guess when you climbed in the car, I just felt something that 596 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,160 I hadn't felt since that guy climbed in the car. 597 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,880 He was encountering the power. Of the blood. 598 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,040 He just didn't know it yet. Tyler said What? 599 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,720 Can I tell you why? Can I introduce? 600 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,800 You to this Jesus. And I say all of that because in 601 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,200 Galatians, it says if you're counting on circumcision to make 602 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,640 you right with God, then Christ is no benefit to you. 603 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,760 It's not you. Yeah, it's you, Yella. 604 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,120 Plural. See, because the weightiest 605 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,080 thing about this verse has gotten behind all these defenses 606 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,320 is what he's saying is if we are not. 607 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,200 People of the blood. We are of no use to anybody else 608 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,600 when you have the blood, when you're under. 609 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,640 The blood when you're. Banking on the blood when the 610 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,800 power. Of the gospel has a hold of your 611 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,040 heart. When you have surrendered your 612 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,040 life to what Christ has done on the cross, it doesn't just 613 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:15,120 benefit you. Benefits Yellow, Yellow, Family 614 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,600 Yellow. Caric Yellow Stud. 615 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,520 Your family. Your church, your city. 616 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,080 What he's saying is the reason why I end. 617 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,520 With purchase for God persons from every tribe. 618 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,760 And language and people and nation. 619 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Is because This is why we take the blood. 620 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,680 Into our city. Because the blade. 621 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,360 Means nothing. The city has enough. 622 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,480 Blade has enough religion. Has enough. 623 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,920 Just do better try harder you. Too much of A failure. 624 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,880 Jesus would never accept. You into his church? 625 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,840 The city. Your family, the departments you 626 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,520 work in, and the Uber you climb into needs you to understand the 627 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,520 power of the. Blood and to apply it daily.