1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,920 It's good to see everyone that's here this morning. 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,120 We're glad you're able to be with us and we're thankful for 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:11,200 our visitors and I'm assuming they're coming from the singing 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:16,160 school in Wichita Falls, TX on their way home and it's good to 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,720 have the Smith family with us this morning. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,760 Others if your visitor we welcome you back at every 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,440 opportunity that you might have. I want to talk about the power 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,880 of the blood of Christ. And you know, the more I, I 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,520 really study this subject, it just gets deeper and deeper and 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:40,200 deeper because there's so much that the Bible has to say about 11 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:43,440 blood, about the blood of Christ as well. 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:51,280 Blood is, is certainly a very mysterious piece of matter. 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,320 If you want to say without blood in our bodies we fail to live 14 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:04,280 and that blood can't be substituted with with water or 15 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,600 some other substance and expect the human body to function in 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,440 the way that it's been intended to function. 17 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,240 God didn't plan it that way. It's always fascinated men and 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,600 men's been studying this for years and years and years. 19 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,680 In the year 1628, Sir Henry Henry William Harvey, an English 20 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,520 scientist, discovered that blood was a river of life, he said 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,000 flowing around in the body. The scriptures talk about the 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,760 blood is the life thereof in Leviticus 17 and verse 14 that 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:45,320 the life lieth in the blood. Blood is mysterious link between 24 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,400 this physical body and the spirit. 25 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:56,800 How it is that the soul should in any way be connected with a 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,120 physical matter, I don't understand it. 27 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,240 God has that all figured out. But that's the way it is. 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,760 When the blood is in this physical body, it also supplies, 29 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:13,000 it also has with it the soul of mankind. 30 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,360 And when the body seizes to function and the blood maybe 31 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,840 leaves the body, then the the soul doesn't have doesn't stay 32 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,600 in that body anymore. It doesn't inhabit the body. 33 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,080 Without blood, there cannot be life in the physical body. 34 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,760 Blood flows through the Bible just as it does through our 35 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,960 veins. And the blood of Christ keeps 36 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,840 the Christians spiritually alive. 37 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:43,800 Blood is spoken of some 427 times in our Bibles, so it's 38 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,640 easy to see it's not a minor theme for us to to to study. 39 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,440 God used blood for several reasons. 40 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,280 First, he said in Leviticus 17 verse 11, life is in the blood, 41 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,120 for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it 42 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,080 to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it 43 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,720 is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. 44 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,560 In other words, God intended for blood to take away our sins 45 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,120 because it the life is in the blood. 46 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,080 The Bible also teaches us that sin brings death, as we notice 47 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,040 in Romans 6 and 23 a a familiar verse that we are very familiar 48 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,120 with tells us that the wages of sin is death. 49 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,280 So if there is sin in our life, which there is, then we need 50 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,640 something to get us back alive, to make us alive again. 51 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,960 And we're going to notice how God planned all that God desires 52 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,800 to give us life. And since blood was identified 53 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,520 with life, blood is the is the thing God chose to give us that 54 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,920 life. Now let's notice the Passover 55 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,360 and how it was instituted in Exodus the 12th chapter, verses 56 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,920 21 through 23. Then Moses called for all the 57 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,680 elders of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs 58 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,320 for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover 59 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,640 lamb. And you shall take a bunch of 60 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,880 hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the 61 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,720 lentils and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the 62 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,440 basin. And none of you shall go out of 63 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,880 the door of the his house until morning. 64 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,120 For the Lord God will pass through to strike the Egyptians. 65 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,120 And when he sees the blood on the lentil and on the doorpost, 66 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,440 the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to 67 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,080 come into your houses to strike you. 68 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:44,720 So during the Passover, an innocent lamb was slain, and his 69 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,560 blood was smeared on the doorposts and on the lentil, on 70 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,040 the on the head of the door and on the side posts of the door. 71 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,960 Every entrance of the entry. Israelites who put that on their 72 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:01,120 door opening. The death Angel passed by that 73 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,120 night. Blood constantly reminds that 74 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,080 minded the people that their sacrifice was to deal with 75 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,480 death's power and that the blood gave life. 76 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,880 Secondly, blood indicated that a price had been paid. 77 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,960 In order for a blood sacrifice to be given to God, something 78 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,120 had to die. That that lamb had to die. 79 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,480 It had to be sacrificed. And also noticed that it wasn't 80 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,480 just any lamb. It wasn't the crippled lamb, it 81 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,280 wasn't a blemish lamb. It was the best that they had. 82 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,360 It was the best in the flock that they sacrificed. 83 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,120 So in order in other, in order for a blood sacrifice to be 84 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,840 given to God, something had to die. 85 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,560 And God meant for his people to know how terrible their sin was. 86 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,200 And that's what we need to understand too, how terrible our 87 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:00,640 sin is because of the sacrifice that was given, the greatest 88 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,920 sacrifice that was given for our sins. 89 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,000 Every time they sinned, they're required to offer up a blood 90 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,200 sacrifice. In the Old Testament, every day 91 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,320 at the temple, you'd see people go come and go to the temple 92 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,480 with their sacrifices being offered for things they had done 93 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,320 day after day after day. These sacrifices were offered up 94 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,400 to God, and these sacrifices cost the life and the blood of 95 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,160 an innocent animal to pay for their sins. 96 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,560 A price had to be paid though, and blood was the dearest price 97 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,480 that could be paid. The only link that these animals 98 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:44,160 had between had to the sins of the offenders was that the 99 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,080 animals were owned by the offender. 100 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,120 The animal had no sin. The animal was innocent. 101 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,480 The animal didn't sin before God. 102 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,200 The only connection there was was that the owner was the owner 103 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,880 of the animal that was sacrificed. 104 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,080 These goats and bulls and lambs had no tie whatsoever in in 105 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,240 their lives and what the owners did and certainly had nothing to 106 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,680 do with their sins. There was nothing inherently 107 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,000 powerful in the blood of these animals that would offer 108 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,360 forgiveness to sinners. But he says also in Hebrews 10th 109 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,520 chapter and verse 4, it's not possible that the blood of bulls 110 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,240 and and goats could take away sins. 111 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,120 Their blood couldn't forgive anybody. 112 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,960 Blood couldn't forgive anybody. It rolled the sins forward. 113 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,800 But God used the blood of animals to help us realize that 114 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,400 there would be come a time when an ultimate sacrifice would be 115 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:51,560 given and would remove our sins. And that ultimate blood 116 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,600 sacrifice was the blood of Jesus. 117 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,160 If there's one truth more than any other, there is that Satan 118 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,040 doesn't want you to know about the power in the blood of Christ 119 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,960 because it puts everything that the devil does and it nullifies 120 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,560 it all out. It cancels the power of the 121 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,760 devil when the blood of Jesus and the and the power of the 122 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,400 blood of Jesus is brought to life. 123 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,400 The truth in first Peter 119 that we are bought with the 124 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,840 precious blood of Christ takes away those things that Satan 125 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:38,440 would cripple us up on. Satan tells us that we can be 126 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,919 saved by our own merits. There are certain denominations 127 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,880 or the certain religious organizations out there that 128 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,760 would tell you that if you just be a good person, if you would 129 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:55,520 just reform your life and you would just do good deeds and you 130 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:02,720 would just be a good person. And if you would just, he tells 131 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:08,320 us that we can be saved by just doing our best and by just 132 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:13,080 saying a prayer, the sinner's prayer, and you'll be saved. 133 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,160 But that's not what the Bible has to say. 134 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,600 The Bible doesn't say that. Satan does. 135 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,000 Satan says that, but not what the Bible says. 136 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,000 But all the way through the New Testament we find that the only 137 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,280 way to God is a way that is marked by blood, by the precious 138 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,800 blood of Christ. Christ died, and in dying He 139 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:41,560 paid the penalty for our sins. His death was a punishment for 140 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:46,800 my sins. He came into this world and 141 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:52,560 suffered in my place. He bore the shame of the cross 142 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:59,240 for my disobedience, not obeying God for doing things that I 143 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,600 shouldn't do. Christ paid the price that I 144 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,720 owe. What a great sacrifice that is. 145 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,680 He paid the penalty. How powerful is that? 146 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,520 How powerful can the can something be to remove sins from 147 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,960 someone else? But the blood of Christ did that 148 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,480 for us. Galatians 3 and verse 13. 149 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:29,880 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a 150 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:35,040 curse for us also, as Galatians one and four tells us, who gave 151 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,440 himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this 152 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,720 present evil age according to the will of our God and Father. 153 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:47,560 And this wasn't something that we don't see the picture of 154 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:50,080 Christ being dragged to the cross. 155 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,840 We don't see the picture of him being bound with chains and 156 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,440 being held captive and being pushed to the cross. 157 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:03,160 Christ went to the cross. Christ gave himself for our 158 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,080 sins. He allowed all this to happen 159 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:12,640 for our sins. The the Bible does not tell us 160 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,160 that Christ was forced into this, but that he gave himself 161 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,240 for our sins as here in Galatians 1 and 4. 162 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,360 The reason Jesus blood had the power to remove sins because it 163 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,880 was his own blood. Notice Hebrews 9 and verse 12. 164 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,800 Not that the blood of of blood of goats and calves, but with 165 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:40,040 his own blood he answered entered the most holy place once 166 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,880 for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 167 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,160 Also Revelation one and five to him who loved us and washed us 168 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:55,160 from our sins in his own blood. Why is it important that it was 169 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,400 Jesus blood? It was important because all our 170 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:05,160 sins are committed against God. It's also because we've all 171 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,080 fallen short of the glory of God. 172 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:15,080 Romans 2, Romans 3 and verse 23. Sin presents a problem, but with 173 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,440 every problem we have, God offers a solution, and we need 174 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,320 our sins removed. So how can that happen? 175 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,840 We deserve death and punishment for our sin, but God has shown 176 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,720 mercy in Romans 5 and verse 8. But God demonstrated his love, 177 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,840 His own love toward us, and that while we were still sinners, 178 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,160 Christ died for us. That's a powerful, powerful, 179 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:47,680 powerful verse. When we think about it, the 180 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:53,240 while we were still sinners, and God sees that sin in our life 181 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,560 and he knows that we sin from time to time, some of it on 182 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:01,360 purpose, some of it unintentional, but we sin. 183 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,440 But still, Christ died for those sins. 184 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,840 He didn't die so that we can just go out and sin however we 185 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,320 want to and come to Him and expect that He's going to 186 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,640 forgive us, that we can sin just willfully, as we'll notice later 187 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,840 on. But we deserve death and 188 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,160 punishment. But God showed His love to us, 189 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,240 towards us while we're still sinners, noticing Isaiah 53 and 190 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,680 verse 5. But He was wounded for our 191 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,040 transgressions. He was bruised for our 192 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,720 iniquities. The chastisement of our peace 193 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,760 was upon him, and by His stripes we are healed. 194 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,000 You know when I was at home and I would do something I shouldn't 195 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,960 be doing and get in trouble for it, I was the one that got the 196 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,320 weapon. I was the one that got the the 197 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:59,240 strap or I got the belt or I got the switch or whatever it was. 198 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,280 I was the one that received the punishment because it was me 199 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,720 that committed the wrong against the rules of the house. 200 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,600 My brother didn't step up for me and say, hey, Terry, I'll take 201 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,440 the licks for you. That didn't happen, nor did I do 202 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,360 it for him. I didn't offer that. 203 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,040 Now that doesn't mean I didn't take some for Him when I got in 204 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,440 trouble for something that He did, but I didn't offer myself 205 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,320 up in His place. But Christ did. 206 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:39,680 By His stripes we are healed. He took the stripes, He took the 207 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:44,000 punishment. He endured the cross for us 208 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,680 because of our sins, because of what we do. 209 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,720 Without the blood of Christ, the gospel is dead, we are dead and 210 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,760 we all are deprived of eternal life. 211 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,640 That blood that we are Speaking of carries in it life because it 212 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:05,000 cleanses us from our sins, it remits and it removes our sins. 213 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,680 Taters talks about remission and he says it means to the 214 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,000 forgiveness or pardon of sins, letting them go as if they had 215 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,440 never been committed, Remission of the penalty. 216 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,000 That's a wonderful thing to be completely wiped out. 217 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,080 Our sins be completely wiped out as if they never had happened. 218 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,200 You know, I don't really have that ability when someone does 219 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,000 something against me to forget what they did to me. 220 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,440 Now that doesn't mean that I don't forgive them of that, but 221 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,720 to remote move that from my memory, I, I remember those 222 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,280 things. We remember those things and 223 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,040 maybe next time we're a little more cautious. 224 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,280 We don't get too close to the doghouse or we'll get bit. 225 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,600 We stay away. We we keep ourselves separate 226 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,760 from sin and things like that, like that. 227 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:02,720 But remission and forgiveness of our sins means as if they never 228 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,120 happened at all. That's what God does for us. 229 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:11,480 Jesus blood remits our sins. Notice in Matthew 26 and 28 For 230 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:16,080 this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many 231 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:21,840 for the remission of sins. The purpose it was shed was to 232 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:28,240 remit the sins. If there would have been any 233 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,040 other way, God maybe would have chose a different way. 234 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,760 But God chose the blood of Jesus to be shed on the cross, to 235 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:45,840 remit our sins and to redeem us, Paul added in Hebrews 9 and 236 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,600 verse 22. And according to the law, almost 237 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,440 things, all things are purified with blood. 238 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,800 But without the shedding of blood, there is no remission. 239 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,200 If Jesus would not have died, we would not be able to have our 240 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,280 sins remitted. That's it, plain and simple. 241 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:09,240 But that had to happen. Jesus had to go to the cross for 242 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,440 our sins. He also explains in Colossians 1 243 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,760 and 14 in whom we have redemption through his blood, 244 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:22,319 the forgiveness of sins. The early church understood the 245 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,480 blood and the sermon recorded in the book of sermons recorded in 246 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,840 the book of Acts all give the same message, the death, the 247 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,720 burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 248 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,160 They understood that his death and the covering by the blood 249 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,680 was essential ingredient of the gospel. 250 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:47,120 That's why in baptism we're told, do you not know that as 251 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:53,520 many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ or baptized into 252 00:17:53,520 --> 00:18:02,880 his death, therefore we are buried with him through baptism 253 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,520 into death. That just as Christ was raised 254 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:14,520 from the dead by the glory of the Father, Even so we also 255 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:20,240 should walk in newness of life. So if we are dead, which sin 256 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,640 makes us dead to God? We noticed earlier, what is it 257 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,560 gives us life, the blood of Christ and coming in contact 258 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,400 with that blood of Jesus Christ, where do we come in contact with 259 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,960 it in baptism? Nothing else he says right here. 260 00:18:45,430 --> 00:18:47,910 Do you not know that as many of us as we're baptized into 261 00:18:47,910 --> 00:18:51,590 Christ, we're baptized in death, therefore we are buried with him 262 00:18:51,590 --> 00:18:54,430 through baptism into death. The just as Christ was raised 263 00:18:54,430 --> 00:18:57,950 from the dead by the glory of the Father, Even so we also 264 00:18:57,950 --> 00:19:01,070 should walk in news of life. For if we have been united 265 00:19:01,070 --> 00:19:06,430 together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall 266 00:19:06,430 --> 00:19:11,120 be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that 267 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:17,800 the old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might 268 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,880 be done away with, and that we should no longer be slaves of 269 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,560 sin. For he who has died has been 270 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,080 freed from sin. What frees us from sin? 271 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,720 What frees us from the guilt of sin? 272 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,000 What frees us from the penalty of sin? 273 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,920 Baptism and the blood of Christ The blood of Christ, when we 274 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,360 come in contact with it in baptism, is what remits our 275 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,880 sins, forgives us of our sins, puts us in contact with the 276 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,960 blood of Christ, the redeeming power of the blood of Christ, 277 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:52,360 and washes away all of our sins. And he remembers them no more, 278 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,360 as if they were never ever committed. 279 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,440 What a wonderful blessing we have in the blood of Jesus 280 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:08,040 Christ and its power. Then having been touched by His 281 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,680 blood and being buried with Jesus through baptism, we can 282 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,320 then share in His resurrection. So let's know some 283 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,240 characteristics of the blood of Christ. 284 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:24,920 The blood of Christ is perfect. The virgin birth of Christ 285 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:30,000 established His righteousness. Judas cried out in Matthew 27 286 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,840 verse four. I have betrayed innocent blood, 287 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,720 just like that innocent lamb that we talked about in the Old 288 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,400 Testament, Judas said. I have betrayed innocent blood, 289 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,760 Paul explained also in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 21. 290 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:50,880 For he, God made himself, Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for 291 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,040 us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him, 292 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,360 Pilate said in John 18 and verse 38. 293 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,360 I find no fault in him. Jesus himself said in John 8 and 294 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,200 46, Which of you convicts me of sin? 295 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,680 Hebrews 7 and 26. He spoke as he was spoken, as 296 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:20,800 holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made 297 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,600 higher than the heavens. Again in first Peter 2nd 2 and 298 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,000 verse 22 Who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his 299 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,400 mouth. John added in first John 3 and 300 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:37,760 verse 5 in him there is no sin. So Jesus blood is perfect. 301 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,560 You know how many men have walked the face of this earth? 302 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,200 I was looking it up this morning. 303 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,960 I'm trying to remember exactly what it was. 304 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,520 I'm very forgetful. I think it was 108 billion 305 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,040 people estimated that have walked on the face of this 306 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,560 Earth. Do you know how many of them 307 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,880 were sinless? Just one. 308 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:18,840 One in 108 billion people was perfect. 309 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,320 That makes it pretty special, doesn't it? 310 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,680 Makes it pretty special. Makes it perfect. 311 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,360 Christ was perfect, He had no sin, He was sinless. 312 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,480 That lamb that was slaughtered and that was given as a 313 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,920 sacrifice for the sins of the Israelites was a was a lamb 314 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:46,360 without blemish. It was the best and God gave his 315 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:50,600 best for US. One reason we use grape juice in 316 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,760 our communion service instead of wine is because wine has to go 317 00:22:54,760 --> 00:23:00,000 through a fermenting process. The process of fermentation is 318 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,920 actually bacteria working in the juice. 319 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,480 It's a rotting process. And this could never give the 320 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,920 proper picture of the sinless blood of Jesus. 321 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,840 That's why we use the blood of the grape. 322 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,160 When you squeeze the grape, when you squeeze it, what comes out 323 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:25,240 of it? Grape juice, it's the blood of 324 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,440 the grape. It's not fermented. 325 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:33,600 It is pure as it gets nothing added to it, nothing taken from 326 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,880 it. It is pure blood of the grape. 327 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,640 Jesus blood was pure and it was perfect. 328 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,360 And if we try to mess with the communion service and put 329 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:48,480 something else in there other than what God intended, it 330 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:55,880 defiles it. It makes it impure, and because 331 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,400 His blood is pure, it also purifies. 332 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,560 The blood of Jesus Christ purifies and cleanses. 333 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,600 Look at Hebrews 9 and 22 again. Without the shedding of blood, 334 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,800 there is no forgiveness. Blood sacrifices happened all 335 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,400 the time throughout the Old Testament, and here in Hebrews 336 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,720 we find that the blood of Jesus is what purifies us. 337 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,080 If we have something else that we're trying to be purified 338 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,600 with, like our own good deeds, be a good person. 339 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,440 Just try to be do the best you can and all those things. 340 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,920 You can never reach purity. You can never be perfect because 341 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,840 only one person has ever been perfect. 342 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,200 So you can't do it on your own, folks. 343 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,440 We can't do it on our own. We need the cleansing purity of 344 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,320 Jesus blood, that wonderful cleansing agent. 345 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,360 There's no other cleansing agent known to man that can rid your 346 00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:00,160 soul of its filth and shame than the blood of Jesus. 347 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,520 Blood was designed by God to be used to forgive you and I of our 348 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,960 sins. The Bible also tells us God 349 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,320 loved us so much that he offered us a way to cleanse us of our 350 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,800 sins. Notice the writer in Hebrew says 351 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,720 here again, if we go back to verses 13 and 14. 352 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,440 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes, and a 353 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,440 heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of 354 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:31,440 the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 355 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,640 the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, 356 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,000 Cleanse your conscience for dead works to the serving to serve 357 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,640 the living God. So the blood of bulls and goats 358 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,280 was imperfect, but it was the best they had. 359 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,120 But God offered the purest and perfect sacrifice for our sins, 360 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,280 and if that was able to take our sins away, and how much more? 361 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:06,280 The blood of Jesus Christ, when the pure blood of of our Savior 362 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,360 is applied to the Sinner, provides a cleansing power to 363 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:14,240 remove sin from a sinner's life. John explained in first John 1 364 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,400 and verse 7, the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from 365 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,240 all sin. That's not just some sin, not 366 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,240 just certain sins. That's not just a certain grade 367 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,840 of sin. If we want to say, you know, we 368 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,280 hear about white lies, well, is a white lie. 369 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:37,040 OK, white lies not a sin, but all the other lies are sinful. 370 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:40,920 That's not the way God has it. Sin is sin. 371 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,320 There's not categories of sin. And he said that the blood of 372 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:52,840 Christ cleanses us from all sin. Whatever makes us dead to God, 373 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,480 the blood of Christ cleanses us from that. 374 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:05,200 The songwriter Robert Lowery wrote this song. 375 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,840 Someone we're familiar with. What can wash away my sin? 376 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,800 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? 377 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,080 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that 378 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,960 makes me white as snow. No other fount. 379 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,200 I know nothing but the blood of Jesus. 380 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,720 There's nothing that can do it. Nothing ever will, nothing ever 381 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,520 has, other than the blood of Jesus to cleanse us. 382 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,640 Peter wrote in first Peter one verse 18 and 19. 383 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,480 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with 384 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:42,840 corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of 385 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,120 the Lamb, without blemish and without spot, Jesus was perfect 386 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,440 without sin in his life. The blood of Christ is 387 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,720 perpetual. The animal sacrifices of the Old 388 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,520 Testament were continuous year after year. 389 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,960 The blood of bulls and goats was temporarily only because 390 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,200 temporarily only because it pointed to the sacrifice of 391 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,840 Christ and His blood being shed for the covering of our sins. 392 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:15,560 The writer in Hebrews speaks of Christ in Hebrews 7 and 27 as 393 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:21,920 one who does not need daily as those high priests to OfferUp 394 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,920 sacrifices, first for His own sins, and then for the sins for 395 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,240 the peoples. For this is He. 396 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,320 For this He did once for all when He offered Him up Himself. 397 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,720 Excuse me, my eyes are a little with allergies, I sometimes 398 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:44,520 can't read very well. So the blood of bulls and the 399 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:50,800 goats had to be offered up daily. 400 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,640 When we sin, we don't have to offer up another sacrifice. 401 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,440 We don't have to OfferUp sacrifices daily for our sins. 402 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,760 It was done once, and it was done for all again. 403 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,280 Paul tells us in Hebrews 9 and 12 that it was not the blood of 404 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,520 of goats and calves, but with his own blood He entered the 405 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,960 most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal 406 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,800 redemption. That means forever for the rest 407 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,080 of time. His blood was so powerful. 408 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,120 You know that blood that was shed on the cross that day still 409 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,920 has the same power today that it had in the day that it was shed. 410 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,400 It still does the same things on this earth. 411 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,600 Decay. They wear out. 412 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,520 The sun beats them up. The wind beats them up. 413 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,800 The elements beat things up. We have to repaint our houses. 414 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,080 We have to put new tires on our cars because things wear out. 415 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,360 Our bodies wear out, but the blood of Christ doesn't wear 416 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,840 out. It keeps on redeeming. 417 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,600 It keeps on saving. It keeps on sanctifying. 418 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,720 It keeps on purifying. It keeps on saving man from sin. 419 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,280 And it's still as powerful today as it ever has been. 420 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,880 And it's eternal. Then again in Hebrews 9 and 26. 421 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,400 But now once at the end of of the age He has appeared to put 422 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,200 away sin by the sacrifice of Himself only had to happen one 423 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,880 time. The death of death of Christ set 424 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,440 into motion a continuous cleansing and healing for those 425 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,400 who remain faithful to Him who are given the gift of eternal 426 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,560 life that He purchased with His blood. 427 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,880 Thank God we are once we are. We were washed once and for all, 428 00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:00,000 forever. We only have to be baptized one 429 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:09,560 time, one time for our sins. John wrote in Revelation 5 and 430 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,520 verse 9. For thou was slain and has 431 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,400 redeemed us to God by thy blood. It takes amazing power to do 432 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:18,680 that. And we're told in Revelation 433 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,040 12:00 and 11:00 that they overcame Satan by the blood of 434 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,000 the Lamb. It takes a lot of power to do 435 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,200 that too. Paul's teachers have tried to 436 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,600 deny the power of the blood and baptism. 437 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,480 They say it doesn't need to happen, that you can be saved by 438 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:41,960 just reciting the the sinner's prayer and baptism is only an 439 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:50,040 act of obedience to to whatever. But it's through coming in 440 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,520 contact with the saving power of the blood of Jesus Christ in 441 00:31:53,520 --> 00:32:03,480 baptism that we are saved. Notice, of course, these 442 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,240 teachers and many like them stand and come in complete 443 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,720 opposition to what the Bible has to say about it. 444 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,400 Without the shedding of blood there is no remission, or 445 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,320 without contacting that blood, there is no remission of sin. 446 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,840 The blood of Jesus Christ is powerful because it washes away 447 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,040 our sins. It remits our sins. 448 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,680 It redeems us. It reconciles us to God because 449 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,960 we are in opposition with God when we are living in sin. 450 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,640 It justifies us before God. It cleanses us of our sin. 451 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,400 It purifies us of our sin. It covers our sin. 452 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,920 It ratified the New Covenant. It paid the price for our sins. 453 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,400 It gives us spiritual life and we're brought near to God with 454 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,560 it. It allows us to be a child of 455 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,760 God and also that we can walk in newness of life. 456 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,600 We can be born again in baptism to walk in newness of life. 457 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,120 Have a brand new life, have a brand new slate. 458 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,400 We all make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice to start 459 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,120 over? God gives you that chance to 460 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,720 start over. Start over with your life. 461 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,480 Well the blood of Christ is permanent to to be acquitted. 462 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:27,400 It acquit means to pay off, to free, to clear, to absolve. 463 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,040 And it has far reaching meaning extending from the past all the 464 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,160 way into the future. Not only our past sins are 465 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,960 covered by the blood of Christ, but also the present sins and 466 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,840 future sins are covered by the blood of Christ. 467 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,600 Notice we don't have to get re baptized every time we sin. 468 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,560 A sacrifice doesn't have to be given every time we sin. 469 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,680 It's something that continually and perpetually and permanently 470 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,440 acquits us of our sins. Jesus blood cleans us of our 471 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,120 past sins, and he promises not to remember them again. 472 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,040 He says, I'll remember them no more. 473 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,440 We need that. We as sinners need that. 474 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:23,040 Now. That doesn't mean, well, let me 475 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,040 let me go on because I'm going to get ahead of myself here in 476 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,719 Hebrews 10 and verse 12. But this man after he had 477 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,560 offered one sacrifice, 1 sacrifice for sins forever sit 478 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,639 down at the right hand of God so it continues to atone for even 479 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,840 future sins. It doesn't mean that we can go 480 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:44,719 ahead and sin because that's should never be our attitude. 481 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,360 There are some religions that believe that you can just go out 482 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,120 and commit sin and then you can just go get it taken care of. 483 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,639 You can commit the sin intentionally. 484 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,120 That's not the reason Jesus died on the cross. 485 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,560 Hebrews 10 and verse 26. For if we sin willfully after we 486 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:11,040 received a knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains 487 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:18,440 sacrifice for sins. In other words, that's not the 488 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,080 reason Jesus died on the cross is so that we can go out and 489 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:29,720 premeditated and and premeditate sin, plan on sinning and then 490 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,600 committed, and then accept God, expect God to forgive us of our 491 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,440 sin. That's not the reason Jesus died 492 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,800 on the cross. It's for the sinless life that 493 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,680 we live and the sins that we commit from day-to-day. 494 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,960 Some we don't. We don't even realize that we 495 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:52,760 commit, but we can know that despite our best efforts we are 496 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,640 sinners and we still sin and we don't have to be baptized every 497 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:04,480 time we sin. Well the blood of Christ is 498 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:10,520 precious blood. Peter used the term precious to 499 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,720 describe the blood of Christ. He said in first Peter one verse 500 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:18,720 19 But the precious blood of Christ is of a lamb without 501 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:26,120 blemish and without spot. First John 1 and 29 The next day 502 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,760 he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God 503 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:31,960 who takes away the sin of the world. 504 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:41,840 Jesus was our sacrificial lamb and God valued your soul and my 505 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,320 soul so much that he gave his son his only son for him. 506 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:53,160 Now talk about precious and you may Remember Me make giving this 507 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,600 example. There's there's certain stones 508 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,960 that we have we wear in our rings. 509 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,000 We may wear in the women may wear in their earrings, maybe 510 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,280 some of the guys wearing their earrings and around our necks 511 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,080 that are precious stones. I can go out here in the parking 512 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,680 lot and probably pick a piece of gravel out of the parking lot 513 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,880 and come and say that this is worth $1,000,000. 514 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,320 And it's not because it's just a common everyday rock that 515 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,120 anybody can pick up off the street. 516 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,920 Then you have gems. You have gems that that are a 517 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:41,120 little bit more pricey if you want to go buy one, rubies, 518 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:47,560 emeralds, sapphire, all those those gems that are a little bit 519 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,840 more precious. And then you get into what they 520 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,240 call the precious stones, the diamonds. 521 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,680 Now every, everybody likes diamonds, especially the women 522 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:06,280 like diamonds based on their colour, their clarity, and the 523 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,880 carrot. Those three things make them 524 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:15,440 very valuable. If you have a large diamond and 525 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:23,120 it's very clear and it's got the right color, it's very valuable 526 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,680 and it's very precious. Vicki and I were able to go into 527 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,440 the Library of Congress. I believe it was a Library of 528 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,440 Congress. And then displayed in in the 529 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,320 foyer, there was the Hope Diamond. 530 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,600 And let me tell you, it's impressive. 531 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,120 It's a big rock, not a rock that we find out here laying on the 532 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:51,840 street in the gutter. That rock was behind glass and 533 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:56,000 it was protected with lasers and and probably armed guards around 534 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,200 us. I wasn't paying attention to 535 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,240 that, but it was so precious and so valuable based on its colour, 536 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,320 clarity and carrot. It was a precious stone. 537 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,720 In other words, it's very, very, very rare. 538 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,960 No other diamond like it. One of the rarest. 539 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,560 You know how precious the blood of Christ is? 540 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:28,720 No other blood like it. There's no other blood like it. 541 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,440 No other blood can do with the things that Christ blood did for 542 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,000 us. It was perfect. 543 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:45,760 It was sinless, it was innocent blood that was shed because we 544 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,320 sin. That's what makes it precious, 545 00:39:51,520 --> 00:40:01,200 the precious blood of Jesus Christ as a lamb without blemish 546 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:07,880 and without spot. And he says, behold the Lamb of 547 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,920 God who takes away the sin of the world. 548 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,360 Jesus blood is pure as that lamb was pure. 549 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,080 Also the blood of Christ is protective. 550 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,160 Going back to Exodus, the 12th chapter. 551 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,480 The blood was sprinkled on the doorposts of their Jewish homes 552 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,520 just as the Lord had instructed them. 553 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,680 When God came on the fit that fateful night and the judgement 554 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,760 of death to the first born in those houses, the Jews were 555 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,080 protected by the blood. They believed the word of the 556 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:47,600 Lord and they obeyed it. And it brought a redeeming, a 557 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,520 redeeming act in into their lives by following the 558 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,240 directions just as the Lord had given them. 559 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:56,800 They, they were spared from death just like that. 560 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,920 The blood of Christ protects us from the devil and from the 561 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,040 consequences of sin. It protects us. 562 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,360 God had said in Exodus 12 and verse 13, Now the blood shall be 563 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,880 a sign for you on the House where you are. 564 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:18,360 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague 565 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,800 shall not be on on you to destroy you. 566 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,240 When I strike the land of Egypt. How are we protected from the 567 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:31,560 from the spiritual death caused by sin, by the blood of Christ. 568 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,400 It covers us, it covers our sin, it hides our sin. 569 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,800 We are often speak of being under the blood. 570 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,400 And if you have not gotten under the protection of the blood of 571 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,800 Jesus Christ, you need to do so before the death Angel comes to 572 00:41:52,800 --> 00:42:03,480 your door. He says, God says when I see the 573 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:09,920 blood and when he says when I see the blood of Christ, He 574 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,840 knows who we are. If you don't have the blood 575 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:19,280 applied to your life today and God can't see the blood of His 576 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:24,840 Son in our lives, if not we're living in sin, we need to make 577 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,080 sure that we are covered by the blood of Christ that that. 578 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,120 But the blood of Jesus was shed so that all sinners could be 579 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,560 saved, not that those who the rest of the world would consider 580 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:45,440 as too evil to change, or those who would have the opportunity 581 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,440 to repent of their sins and be buried with Christ in the water 582 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,800 grave of baptism, rising up a new creature. 583 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,600 Christ died for everyone, the Sinner, all sinners. 584 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,360 In conclusion, the precious blood of Christ is a wonderful 585 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,640 thing. It does so much for us in our 586 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:07,080 lives that we can even be we can't even really begin to to 587 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,960 think about it. I mentioned at the 1st that the 588 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,320 deeper you get into the subject, it just seems like the more that 589 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,880 the blood just flows through the Bible like it does. 590 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:23,880 His blood allows us to approach the very presence of God as the 591 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,360 High Priest were able to do, enter into the Holy of Holies 592 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,640 only by the blood of the sacrificial Lamb. 593 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,040 It consecrates us, it cleanses us, and makes us worthy to stand 594 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,640 before God, and He hear our petition and our prayers. 595 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,880 Hebrews 10 of verses 19 through 22. 596 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,800 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter, to enter the 597 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,080 holiest, by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He 598 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:56,480 consecrated for us through the veil that is His flesh, and 599 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,000 having a high priest over the House of God, let us draw near 600 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,160 with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our 601 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,080 hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies 602 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:12,080 washed with pure water. Sin separates us from God, but 603 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,000 Jesus blood draws us near. Ephesians 2 and verses 13 604 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,720 through 14. But now in Christ Jesus, who 605 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:22,480 was, who once were afar off, have been brought near by the 606 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,440 blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who 607 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,080 hath made both one and has broken down the middle wall of 608 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,640 separation doesn't separate us from God anymore. 609 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:36,360 It opens up that veil and we're able to go into the holiest of 610 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,800 holies as our as we can talk to God directly through Jesus 611 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,800 Christ. It what it took down that middle 612 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,520 wall of partition of partition, that wall of separation. 613 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,080 God says that whosoever will may come and drink of the water of 614 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,360 drink of the living water. And that means allowing the 615 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,520 blood of Jesus to wash away their sins. 616 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,000 Jesus blood is sufficient. That's all we need. 617 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,240 We don't need anything more than that, but we certainly don't 618 00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:17,320 need anything less than that. It's sufficient to do what God 619 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,400 planned, and that is to wash away and to take away our sins 620 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,920 through his blood. A familiar song to us in the In 621 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,960 the words of William Cowper. There is a fountain filled with 622 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,920 blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, And sinners plunge 623 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,200 beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains. 624 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,160 The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day, And 625 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,280 there have I, though vile as he washed all my sins away. 626 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,280 Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power 627 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:55,520 till all the ransom Church of God, be saved to sin no more ere 628 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,240 since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply. 629 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,440 Redeeming love has been my goon, and shall be till I die. 630 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:08,640 Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing Thy power to save when 631 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,560 this poor, lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave. 632 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:19,120 If you've not been baptized for the remission of sins, won't you 633 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,120 consider the things that we've said this morning about the 634 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:28,680 power of the blood of Christ? Nobody's too sinful, nobody's 635 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,400 too far away. You haven't committed to sin 636 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,400 that Jesus won't forgive you and God won't forgive you of your 637 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,560 sin. Notice in Isaiah 1 verse 18, 638 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,280 those your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, 639 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,280 though they be like be red, like Crimson, they shall be as wool. 640 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,640 Don't reject the power of the blood of Christ. 641 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,800 That reminds me also when we talk about, as you, everyone 642 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,120 here may have been thinking about this same song as we went 643 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,520 through this lesson this morning. 644 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,880 There's power in the blood. Would you be free from your 645 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,320 burden of sin? There's power in the blood. 646 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,640 Power in the blood. Would you or evil a victory win? 647 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,680 There's wonderful power in the blood. 648 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,600 Would you be free from your passion and pride? 649 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,400 There's power in the blood, Power in the blood. 650 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,080 Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide. 651 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,200 There's wonderful power in the blood. 652 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,640 There is power, power, wonder, working power in the blood of 653 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,040 the Lamb. There's power, power, wonder, 654 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,720 working power in the precious blood of the Lamb. 655 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:40,040 Well, how do we let the power of Jesus in the blood of of Christ 656 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,400 work in our lives? The transformation has to take 657 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:50,280 place from the sinful state that we are in to be acceptable in 658 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,040 God. That transformation begins with 659 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,200 us hearing the word of God. Romans 10 verse 17. 660 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,440 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 661 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,120 The transformation continues as we believe the word of God. 662 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,720 Mark 16 and 16. He that believeth and is 663 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:08,400 baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be 664 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,880 damned also. The transformation continues as 665 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,800 we repent. Acts 2 and verse 38. 666 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,720 Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized, everyone 667 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:19,440 of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of 668 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,480 sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 669 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,440 The transformation continues as we confess the name of Christ. 670 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,120 Romans 10 and verses 9 and 10. That if thou shalt confess with 671 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,880 thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart, 672 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,800 that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. 673 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,120 For the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the 674 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,360 mouth confession is made unto salvation. 675 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,360 The transformation continues as we're baptized into Christ. 676 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,320 For as many of you has been baptized into Christ, have put 677 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,280 on Christ. Galatians 3 and verse 27 also 678 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,960 first Peter 3 and 21. The like figure where unto even 679 00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,720 baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the 680 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:03,520 filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience 681 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,520 toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 682 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,600 It's baptism that will rise, that we will rise to walk in 683 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,800 newness of life and then we can read. 684 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,960 We can go back and read this all again in Romans, the 6th 685 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,920 chapter, verse 38, if we wanted to. 686 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,200 I'm going to stop with that because it's through baptism 687 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,560 that we contact the blood of Christ, that we rise to walk in 688 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,320 newness life and we'll be raised in that day when Jesus comes 689 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,600 again. The lesson is yours. 690 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,720 I hope that we've said something this morning that will benefit 691 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:40,520 you in some way, and maybe you'll be able to share with 692 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,080 others as well. This is not something that's new 693 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:48,720 to us, but I think it's good to remind us about how powerful the 694 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,200 blood of Christ is to us.