It's good to see everyone that's here this morning.
We're glad you're able to be with us and we're thankful for
our visitors and I'm assuming they're coming from the singing
school in Wichita Falls, TX on their way home and it's good to
have the Smith family with us this morning.
Others if your visitor we welcome you back at every
opportunity that you might have. I want to talk about the power
of the blood of Christ. And you know, the more I, I
really study this subject, it just gets deeper and deeper and
deeper because there's so much that the Bible has to say about
blood, about the blood of Christ as well.
Blood is, is certainly a very mysterious piece of matter.
If you want to say without blood in our bodies we fail to live
and that blood can't be substituted with with water or
some other substance and expect the human body to function in
the way that it's been intended to function.
God didn't plan it that way. It's always fascinated men and
men's been studying this for years and years and years.
In the year 1628, Sir Henry Henry William Harvey, an English
scientist, discovered that blood was a river of life, he said
flowing around in the body. The scriptures talk about the
blood is the life thereof in Leviticus 17 and verse 14 that
the life lieth in the blood. Blood is mysterious link between
this physical body and the spirit.
How it is that the soul should in any way be connected with a
physical matter, I don't understand it.
God has that all figured out. But that's the way it is.
When the blood is in this physical body, it also supplies,
it also has with it the soul of mankind.
And when the body seizes to function and the blood maybe
leaves the body, then the the soul doesn't have doesn't stay
in that body anymore. It doesn't inhabit the body.
Without blood, there cannot be life in the physical body.
Blood flows through the Bible just as it does through our
veins. And the blood of Christ keeps
the Christians spiritually alive.
Blood is spoken of some 427 times in our Bibles, so it's
easy to see it's not a minor theme for us to to to study.
God used blood for several reasons.
First, he said in Leviticus 17 verse 11, life is in the blood,
for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it
to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it
is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
In other words, God intended for blood to take away our sins
because it the life is in the blood.
The Bible also teaches us that sin brings death, as we notice
in Romans 6 and 23 a a familiar verse that we are very familiar
with tells us that the wages of sin is death.
So if there is sin in our life, which there is, then we need
something to get us back alive, to make us alive again.
And we're going to notice how God planned all that God desires
to give us life. And since blood was identified
with life, blood is the is the thing God chose to give us that
life. Now let's notice the Passover
and how it was instituted in Exodus the 12th chapter, verses
21 through 23. Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs
for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover
lamb. And you shall take a bunch of
hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the
lentils and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the
basin. And none of you shall go out of
the door of the his house until morning.
For the Lord God will pass through to strike the Egyptians.
And when he sees the blood on the lentil and on the doorpost,
the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to
come into your houses to strike you.
So during the Passover, an innocent lamb was slain, and his
blood was smeared on the doorposts and on the lentil, on
the on the head of the door and on the side posts of the door.
Every entrance of the entry. Israelites who put that on their
door opening. The death Angel passed by that
night. Blood constantly reminds that
minded the people that their sacrifice was to deal with
death's power and that the blood gave life.
Secondly, blood indicated that a price had been paid.
In order for a blood sacrifice to be given to God, something
had to die. That that lamb had to die.
It had to be sacrificed. And also noticed that it wasn't
just any lamb. It wasn't the crippled lamb, it
wasn't a blemish lamb. It was the best that they had.
It was the best in the flock that they sacrificed.
So in order in other, in order for a blood sacrifice to be
given to God, something had to die.
And God meant for his people to know how terrible their sin was.
And that's what we need to understand too, how terrible our
sin is because of the sacrifice that was given, the greatest
sacrifice that was given for our sins.
Every time they sinned, they're required to offer up a blood
sacrifice. In the Old Testament, every day
at the temple, you'd see people go come and go to the temple
with their sacrifices being offered for things they had done
day after day after day. These sacrifices were offered up
to God, and these sacrifices cost the life and the blood of
an innocent animal to pay for their sins.
A price had to be paid though, and blood was the dearest price
that could be paid. The only link that these animals
had between had to the sins of the offenders was that the
animals were owned by the offender.
The animal had no sin. The animal was innocent.
The animal didn't sin before God.
The only connection there was was that the owner was the owner
of the animal that was sacrificed.
These goats and bulls and lambs had no tie whatsoever in in
their lives and what the owners did and certainly had nothing to
do with their sins. There was nothing inherently
powerful in the blood of these animals that would offer
forgiveness to sinners. But he says also in Hebrews 10th
chapter and verse 4, it's not possible that the blood of bulls
and and goats could take away sins.
Their blood couldn't forgive anybody.
Blood couldn't forgive anybody. It rolled the sins forward.
But God used the blood of animals to help us realize that
there would be come a time when an ultimate sacrifice would be
given and would remove our sins. And that ultimate blood
sacrifice was the blood of Jesus.
If there's one truth more than any other, there is that Satan
doesn't want you to know about the power in the blood of Christ
because it puts everything that the devil does and it nullifies
it all out. It cancels the power of the
devil when the blood of Jesus and the and the power of the
blood of Jesus is brought to life.
The truth in first Peter 119 that we are bought with the
precious blood of Christ takes away those things that Satan
would cripple us up on. Satan tells us that we can be
saved by our own merits. There are certain denominations
or the certain religious organizations out there that
would tell you that if you just be a good person, if you would
just reform your life and you would just do good deeds and you
would just be a good person. And if you would just, he tells
us that we can be saved by just doing our best and by just
saying a prayer, the sinner's prayer, and you'll be saved.
But that's not what the Bible has to say.
The Bible doesn't say that. Satan does.
Satan says that, but not what the Bible says.
But all the way through the New Testament we find that the only
way to God is a way that is marked by blood, by the precious
blood of Christ. Christ died, and in dying He
paid the penalty for our sins. His death was a punishment for
my sins. He came into this world and
suffered in my place. He bore the shame of the cross
for my disobedience, not obeying God for doing things that I
shouldn't do. Christ paid the price that I
owe. What a great sacrifice that is.
He paid the penalty. How powerful is that?
How powerful can the can something be to remove sins from
someone else? But the blood of Christ did that
for us. Galatians 3 and verse 13.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a
curse for us also, as Galatians one and four tells us, who gave
himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this
present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.
And this wasn't something that we don't see the picture of
Christ being dragged to the cross.
We don't see the picture of him being bound with chains and
being held captive and being pushed to the cross.
Christ went to the cross. Christ gave himself for our
sins. He allowed all this to happen
for our sins. The the Bible does not tell us
that Christ was forced into this, but that he gave himself
for our sins as here in Galatians 1 and 4.
The reason Jesus blood had the power to remove sins because it
was his own blood. Notice Hebrews 9 and verse 12.
Not that the blood of of blood of goats and calves, but with
his own blood he answered entered the most holy place once
for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Also Revelation one and five to him who loved us and washed us
from our sins in his own blood. Why is it important that it was
Jesus blood? It was important because all our
sins are committed against God. It's also because we've all
fallen short of the glory of God.
Romans 2, Romans 3 and verse 23. Sin presents a problem, but with
every problem we have, God offers a solution, and we need
our sins removed. So how can that happen?
We deserve death and punishment for our sin, but God has shown
mercy in Romans 5 and verse 8. But God demonstrated his love,
His own love toward us, and that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. That's a powerful, powerful,
powerful verse. When we think about it, the
while we were still sinners, and God sees that sin in our life
and he knows that we sin from time to time, some of it on
purpose, some of it unintentional, but we sin.
But still, Christ died for those sins.
He didn't die so that we can just go out and sin however we
want to and come to Him and expect that He's going to
forgive us, that we can sin just willfully, as we'll notice later
on. But we deserve death and
punishment. But God showed His love to us,
towards us while we're still sinners, noticing Isaiah 53 and
verse 5. But He was wounded for our
transgressions. He was bruised for our
iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and by His stripes we are healed.
You know when I was at home and I would do something I shouldn't
be doing and get in trouble for it, I was the one that got the
weapon. I was the one that got the the
strap or I got the belt or I got the switch or whatever it was.
I was the one that received the punishment because it was me
that committed the wrong against the rules of the house.
My brother didn't step up for me and say, hey, Terry, I'll take
the licks for you. That didn't happen, nor did I do
it for him. I didn't offer that.
Now that doesn't mean I didn't take some for Him when I got in
trouble for something that He did, but I didn't offer myself
up in His place. But Christ did.
By His stripes we are healed. He took the stripes, He took the
punishment. He endured the cross for us
because of our sins, because of what we do.
Without the blood of Christ, the gospel is dead, we are dead and
we all are deprived of eternal life.
That blood that we are Speaking of carries in it life because it
cleanses us from our sins, it remits and it removes our sins.
Taters talks about remission and he says it means to the
forgiveness or pardon of sins, letting them go as if they had
never been committed, Remission of the penalty.
That's a wonderful thing to be completely wiped out.
Our sins be completely wiped out as if they never had happened.
You know, I don't really have that ability when someone does
something against me to forget what they did to me.
Now that doesn't mean that I don't forgive them of that, but
to remote move that from my memory, I, I remember those
things. We remember those things and
maybe next time we're a little more cautious.
We don't get too close to the doghouse or we'll get bit.
We stay away. We we keep ourselves separate
from sin and things like that, like that.
But remission and forgiveness of our sins means as if they never
happened at all. That's what God does for us.
Jesus blood remits our sins. Notice in Matthew 26 and 28 For
this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many
for the remission of sins. The purpose it was shed was to
remit the sins. If there would have been any
other way, God maybe would have chose a different way.
But God chose the blood of Jesus to be shed on the cross, to
remit our sins and to redeem us, Paul added in Hebrews 9 and
verse 22. And according to the law, almost
things, all things are purified with blood.
But without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
If Jesus would not have died, we would not be able to have our
sins remitted. That's it, plain and simple.
But that had to happen. Jesus had to go to the cross for
our sins. He also explains in Colossians 1
and 14 in whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins. The early church understood the
blood and the sermon recorded in the book of sermons recorded in
the book of Acts all give the same message, the death, the
burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
They understood that his death and the covering by the blood
was essential ingredient of the gospel.
That's why in baptism we're told, do you not know that as
many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ or baptized into
his death, therefore we are buried with him through baptism
into death. That just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, Even so we also
should walk in newness of life. So if we are dead, which sin
makes us dead to God? We noticed earlier, what is it
gives us life, the blood of Christ and coming in contact
with that blood of Jesus Christ, where do we come in contact with
it in baptism? Nothing else he says right here.
Do you not know that as many of us as we're baptized into
Christ, we're baptized in death, therefore we are buried with him
through baptism into death. The just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, Even so we also
should walk in news of life. For if we have been united
together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall
be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that
the old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might
be done away with, and that we should no longer be slaves of
sin. For he who has died has been
freed from sin. What frees us from sin?
What frees us from the guilt of sin?
What frees us from the penalty of sin?
Baptism and the blood of Christ The blood of Christ, when we
come in contact with it in baptism, is what remits our
sins, forgives us of our sins, puts us in contact with the
blood of Christ, the redeeming power of the blood of Christ,
and washes away all of our sins. And he remembers them no more,
as if they were never ever committed.
What a wonderful blessing we have in the blood of Jesus
Christ and its power. Then having been touched by His
blood and being buried with Jesus through baptism, we can
then share in His resurrection. So let's know some
characteristics of the blood of Christ.
The blood of Christ is perfect. The virgin birth of Christ
established His righteousness. Judas cried out in Matthew 27
verse four. I have betrayed innocent blood,
just like that innocent lamb that we talked about in the Old
Testament, Judas said. I have betrayed innocent blood,
Paul explained also in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 21.
For he, God made himself, Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for
us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him,
Pilate said in John 18 and verse 38.
I find no fault in him. Jesus himself said in John 8 and
46, Which of you convicts me of sin?
Hebrews 7 and 26. He spoke as he was spoken, as
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens. Again in first Peter 2nd 2 and
verse 22 Who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his
mouth. John added in first John 3 and
verse 5 in him there is no sin. So Jesus blood is perfect.
You know how many men have walked the face of this earth?
I was looking it up this morning.
I'm trying to remember exactly what it was.
I'm very forgetful. I think it was 108 billion
people estimated that have walked on the face of this
Earth. Do you know how many of them
were sinless? Just one.
One in 108 billion people was perfect.
That makes it pretty special, doesn't it?
Makes it pretty special. Makes it perfect.
Christ was perfect, He had no sin, He was sinless.
That lamb that was slaughtered and that was given as a
sacrifice for the sins of the Israelites was a was a lamb
without blemish. It was the best and God gave his
best for US. One reason we use grape juice in
our communion service instead of wine is because wine has to go
through a fermenting process. The process of fermentation is
actually bacteria working in the juice.
It's a rotting process. And this could never give the
proper picture of the sinless blood of Jesus.
That's why we use the blood of the grape.
When you squeeze the grape, when you squeeze it, what comes out
of it? Grape juice, it's the blood of
the grape. It's not fermented.
It is pure as it gets nothing added to it, nothing taken from
it. It is pure blood of the grape.
Jesus blood was pure and it was perfect.
And if we try to mess with the communion service and put
something else in there other than what God intended, it
defiles it. It makes it impure, and because
His blood is pure, it also purifies.
The blood of Jesus Christ purifies and cleanses.
Look at Hebrews 9 and 22 again. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no forgiveness. Blood sacrifices happened all
the time throughout the Old Testament, and here in Hebrews
we find that the blood of Jesus is what purifies us.
If we have something else that we're trying to be purified
with, like our own good deeds, be a good person.
Just try to be do the best you can and all those things.
You can never reach purity. You can never be perfect because
only one person has ever been perfect.
So you can't do it on your own, folks.
We can't do it on our own. We need the cleansing purity of
Jesus blood, that wonderful cleansing agent.
There's no other cleansing agent known to man that can rid your
soul of its filth and shame than the blood of Jesus.
Blood was designed by God to be used to forgive you and I of our
sins. The Bible also tells us God
loved us so much that he offered us a way to cleanse us of our
sins. Notice the writer in Hebrew says
here again, if we go back to verses 13 and 14.
For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes, and a
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
Cleanse your conscience for dead works to the serving to serve
the living God. So the blood of bulls and goats
was imperfect, but it was the best they had.
But God offered the purest and perfect sacrifice for our sins,
and if that was able to take our sins away, and how much more?
The blood of Jesus Christ, when the pure blood of of our Savior
is applied to the Sinner, provides a cleansing power to
remove sin from a sinner's life. John explained in first John 1
and verse 7, the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin. That's not just some sin, not
just certain sins. That's not just a certain grade
of sin. If we want to say, you know, we
hear about white lies, well, is a white lie.
OK, white lies not a sin, but all the other lies are sinful.
That's not the way God has it. Sin is sin.
There's not categories of sin. And he said that the blood of
Christ cleanses us from all sin. Whatever makes us dead to God,
the blood of Christ cleanses us from that.
The songwriter Robert Lowery wrote this song.
Someone we're familiar with. What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount.
I know nothing but the blood of Jesus.
There's nothing that can do it. Nothing ever will, nothing ever
has, other than the blood of Jesus to cleanse us.
Peter wrote in first Peter one verse 18 and 19.
For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with
corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of
the Lamb, without blemish and without spot, Jesus was perfect
without sin in his life. The blood of Christ is
perpetual. The animal sacrifices of the Old
Testament were continuous year after year.
The blood of bulls and goats was temporarily only because
temporarily only because it pointed to the sacrifice of
Christ and His blood being shed for the covering of our sins.
The writer in Hebrews speaks of Christ in Hebrews 7 and 27 as
one who does not need daily as those high priests to OfferUp
sacrifices, first for His own sins, and then for the sins for
the peoples. For this is He.
For this He did once for all when He offered Him up Himself.
Excuse me, my eyes are a little with allergies, I sometimes
can't read very well. So the blood of bulls and the
goats had to be offered up daily.
When we sin, we don't have to offer up another sacrifice.
We don't have to OfferUp sacrifices daily for our sins.
It was done once, and it was done for all again.
Paul tells us in Hebrews 9 and 12 that it was not the blood of
of goats and calves, but with his own blood He entered the
most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal
redemption. That means forever for the rest
of time. His blood was so powerful.
You know that blood that was shed on the cross that day still
has the same power today that it had in the day that it was shed.
It still does the same things on this earth.
Decay. They wear out.
The sun beats them up. The wind beats them up.
The elements beat things up. We have to repaint our houses.
We have to put new tires on our cars because things wear out.
Our bodies wear out, but the blood of Christ doesn't wear
out. It keeps on redeeming.
It keeps on saving. It keeps on sanctifying.
It keeps on purifying. It keeps on saving man from sin.
And it's still as powerful today as it ever has been.
And it's eternal. Then again in Hebrews 9 and 26.
But now once at the end of of the age He has appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of Himself only had to happen one
time. The death of death of Christ set
into motion a continuous cleansing and healing for those
who remain faithful to Him who are given the gift of eternal
life that He purchased with His blood.
Thank God we are once we are. We were washed once and for all,
forever. We only have to be baptized one
time, one time for our sins. John wrote in Revelation 5 and
verse 9. For thou was slain and has
redeemed us to God by thy blood. It takes amazing power to do
that. And we're told in Revelation
12:00 and 11:00 that they overcame Satan by the blood of
the Lamb. It takes a lot of power to do
that too. Paul's teachers have tried to
deny the power of the blood and baptism.
They say it doesn't need to happen, that you can be saved by
just reciting the the sinner's prayer and baptism is only an
act of obedience to to whatever. But it's through coming in
contact with the saving power of the blood of Jesus Christ in
baptism that we are saved. Notice, of course, these
teachers and many like them stand and come in complete
opposition to what the Bible has to say about it.
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission, or
without contacting that blood, there is no remission of sin.
The blood of Jesus Christ is powerful because it washes away
our sins. It remits our sins.
It redeems us. It reconciles us to God because
we are in opposition with God when we are living in sin.
It justifies us before God. It cleanses us of our sin.
It purifies us of our sin. It covers our sin.
It ratified the New Covenant. It paid the price for our sins.
It gives us spiritual life and we're brought near to God with
it. It allows us to be a child of
God and also that we can walk in newness of life.
We can be born again in baptism to walk in newness of life.
Have a brand new life, have a brand new slate.
We all make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice to start
over? God gives you that chance to
start over. Start over with your life.
Well the blood of Christ is permanent to to be acquitted.
It acquit means to pay off, to free, to clear, to absolve.
And it has far reaching meaning extending from the past all the
way into the future. Not only our past sins are
covered by the blood of Christ, but also the present sins and
future sins are covered by the blood of Christ.
Notice we don't have to get re baptized every time we sin.
A sacrifice doesn't have to be given every time we sin.
It's something that continually and perpetually and permanently
acquits us of our sins. Jesus blood cleans us of our
past sins, and he promises not to remember them again.
He says, I'll remember them no more.
We need that. We as sinners need that.
Now. That doesn't mean, well, let me
let me go on because I'm going to get ahead of myself here in
Hebrews 10 and verse 12. But this man after he had
offered one sacrifice, 1 sacrifice for sins forever sit
down at the right hand of God so it continues to atone for even
future sins. It doesn't mean that we can go
ahead and sin because that's should never be our attitude.
There are some religions that believe that you can just go out
and commit sin and then you can just go get it taken care of.
You can commit the sin intentionally.
That's not the reason Jesus died on the cross.
Hebrews 10 and verse 26. For if we sin willfully after we
received a knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains
sacrifice for sins. In other words, that's not the
reason Jesus died on the cross is so that we can go out and
premeditated and and premeditate sin, plan on sinning and then
committed, and then accept God, expect God to forgive us of our
sin. That's not the reason Jesus died
on the cross. It's for the sinless life that
we live and the sins that we commit from day-to-day.
Some we don't. We don't even realize that we
commit, but we can know that despite our best efforts we are
sinners and we still sin and we don't have to be baptized every
time we sin. Well the blood of Christ is
precious blood. Peter used the term precious to
describe the blood of Christ. He said in first Peter one verse
19 But the precious blood of Christ is of a lamb without
blemish and without spot. First John 1 and 29 The next day
he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of the world.
Jesus was our sacrificial lamb and God valued your soul and my
soul so much that he gave his son his only son for him.
Now talk about precious and you may Remember Me make giving this
example. There's there's certain stones
that we have we wear in our rings.
We may wear in the women may wear in their earrings, maybe
some of the guys wearing their earrings and around our necks
that are precious stones. I can go out here in the parking
lot and probably pick a piece of gravel out of the parking lot
and come and say that this is worth $1,000,000.
And it's not because it's just a common everyday rock that
anybody can pick up off the street.
Then you have gems. You have gems that that are a
little bit more pricey if you want to go buy one, rubies,
emeralds, sapphire, all those those gems that are a little bit
more precious. And then you get into what they
call the precious stones, the diamonds.
Now every, everybody likes diamonds, especially the women
like diamonds based on their colour, their clarity, and the
carrot. Those three things make them
very valuable. If you have a large diamond and
it's very clear and it's got the right color, it's very valuable
and it's very precious. Vicki and I were able to go into
the Library of Congress. I believe it was a Library of
Congress. And then displayed in in the
foyer, there was the Hope Diamond.
And let me tell you, it's impressive.
It's a big rock, not a rock that we find out here laying on the
street in the gutter. That rock was behind glass and
it was protected with lasers and and probably armed guards around
us. I wasn't paying attention to
that, but it was so precious and so valuable based on its colour,
clarity and carrot. It was a precious stone.
In other words, it's very, very, very rare.
No other diamond like it. One of the rarest.
You know how precious the blood of Christ is?
No other blood like it. There's no other blood like it.
No other blood can do with the things that Christ blood did for
us. It was perfect.
It was sinless, it was innocent blood that was shed because we
sin. That's what makes it precious,
the precious blood of Jesus Christ as a lamb without blemish
and without spot. And he says, behold the Lamb of
God who takes away the sin of the world.
Jesus blood is pure as that lamb was pure.
Also the blood of Christ is protective.
Going back to Exodus, the 12th chapter.
The blood was sprinkled on the doorposts of their Jewish homes
just as the Lord had instructed them.
When God came on the fit that fateful night and the judgement
of death to the first born in those houses, the Jews were
protected by the blood. They believed the word of the
Lord and they obeyed it. And it brought a redeeming, a
redeeming act in into their lives by following the
directions just as the Lord had given them.
They, they were spared from death just like that.
The blood of Christ protects us from the devil and from the
consequences of sin. It protects us.
God had said in Exodus 12 and verse 13, Now the blood shall be
a sign for you on the House where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be on on you to destroy you.
When I strike the land of Egypt. How are we protected from the
from the spiritual death caused by sin, by the blood of Christ.
It covers us, it covers our sin, it hides our sin.
We are often speak of being under the blood.
And if you have not gotten under the protection of the blood of
Jesus Christ, you need to do so before the death Angel comes to
your door. He says, God says when I see the
blood and when he says when I see the blood of Christ, He
knows who we are. If you don't have the blood
applied to your life today and God can't see the blood of His
Son in our lives, if not we're living in sin, we need to make
sure that we are covered by the blood of Christ that that.
But the blood of Jesus was shed so that all sinners could be
saved, not that those who the rest of the world would consider
as too evil to change, or those who would have the opportunity
to repent of their sins and be buried with Christ in the water
grave of baptism, rising up a new creature.
Christ died for everyone, the Sinner, all sinners.
In conclusion, the precious blood of Christ is a wonderful
thing. It does so much for us in our
lives that we can even be we can't even really begin to to
think about it. I mentioned at the 1st that the
deeper you get into the subject, it just seems like the more that
the blood just flows through the Bible like it does.
His blood allows us to approach the very presence of God as the
High Priest were able to do, enter into the Holy of Holies
only by the blood of the sacrificial Lamb.
It consecrates us, it cleanses us, and makes us worthy to stand
before God, and He hear our petition and our prayers.
Hebrews 10 of verses 19 through 22.
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter, to enter the
holiest, by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He
consecrated for us through the veil that is His flesh, and
having a high priest over the House of God, let us draw near
with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Sin separates us from God, but
Jesus blood draws us near. Ephesians 2 and verses 13
through 14. But now in Christ Jesus, who
was, who once were afar off, have been brought near by the
blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who
hath made both one and has broken down the middle wall of
separation doesn't separate us from God anymore.
It opens up that veil and we're able to go into the holiest of
holies as our as we can talk to God directly through Jesus
Christ. It what it took down that middle
wall of partition of partition, that wall of separation.
God says that whosoever will may come and drink of the water of
drink of the living water. And that means allowing the
blood of Jesus to wash away their sins.
Jesus blood is sufficient. That's all we need.
We don't need anything more than that, but we certainly don't
need anything less than that. It's sufficient to do what God
planned, and that is to wash away and to take away our sins
through his blood. A familiar song to us in the In
the words of William Cowper. There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, And sinners plunge
beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day, And
there have I, though vile as he washed all my sins away.
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power
till all the ransom Church of God, be saved to sin no more ere
since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply.
Redeeming love has been my goon, and shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing Thy power to save when
this poor, lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
If you've not been baptized for the remission of sins, won't you
consider the things that we've said this morning about the
power of the blood of Christ? Nobody's too sinful, nobody's
too far away. You haven't committed to sin
that Jesus won't forgive you and God won't forgive you of your
sin. Notice in Isaiah 1 verse 18,
those your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow,
though they be like be red, like Crimson, they shall be as wool.
Don't reject the power of the blood of Christ.
That reminds me also when we talk about, as you, everyone
here may have been thinking about this same song as we went
through this lesson this morning.
There's power in the blood. Would you be free from your
burden of sin? There's power in the blood.
Power in the blood. Would you or evil a victory win?
There's wonderful power in the blood.
Would you be free from your passion and pride?
There's power in the blood, Power in the blood.
Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide.
There's wonderful power in the blood.
There is power, power, wonder, working power in the blood of
the Lamb. There's power, power, wonder,
working power in the precious blood of the Lamb.
Well, how do we let the power of Jesus in the blood of of Christ
work in our lives? The transformation has to take
place from the sinful state that we are in to be acceptable in
God. That transformation begins with
us hearing the word of God. Romans 10 verse 17.
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
The transformation continues as we believe the word of God.
Mark 16 and 16. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be
damned also. The transformation continues as
we repent. Acts 2 and verse 38.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, everyone
of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of
sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The transformation continues as we confess the name of Christ.
Romans 10 and verses 9 and 10. That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart,
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved.
For the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The transformation continues as we're baptized into Christ.
For as many of you has been baptized into Christ, have put
on Christ. Galatians 3 and verse 27 also
first Peter 3 and 21. The like figure where unto even
baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It's baptism that will rise, that we will rise to walk in
newness of life and then we can read.
We can go back and read this all again in Romans, the 6th
chapter, verse 38, if we wanted to.
I'm going to stop with that because it's through baptism
that we contact the blood of Christ, that we rise to walk in
newness life and we'll be raised in that day when Jesus comes
again. The lesson is yours.
I hope that we've said something this morning that will benefit
you in some way, and maybe you'll be able to share with
others as well. This is not something that's new
to us, but I think it's good to remind us about how powerful the
blood of Christ is to us.