So again, you know, it's a big day for the church.
It's a big day for people to come back to the church.
And, you know, typically the the message that is centered around
today is the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus.
In past times, I have foregone that message and preached a
different one because, you know, sometimes I'm like, well,
they've heard that message. They're here.
We won't see them again till next year.
So let me preach something different.
You know, I was talking to someone at a restaurant recently
and I told them I did. And they're like, wow, Pastor
Earl, that's kind of smart because they probably have heard
that one message every time they come on Easter.
Now, I'm going to stay in the vein of the death, burial,
resurrection today, though, All right.
And but we're going to see some things today.
Number one, to remind us, say, remind me because you
understand, my wife has made a ham today so that we can go eat
this deal after service. So please excuse us.
We have to dart out because I'm not sure it's at the right
temperature yet and we need to get some fire on it.
With that being said, I've had ham before, but I'm looking
forward to it again. I mean, I've had fried chicken
before. I've had blackened salmon
before. I always look forward to it
again, especially if they know how to prepare it.
Amen. And man, when you first heard
some of the things we're going to talk today, you need to say,
man, I remember how good that tasted.
Hallelujah. That way you'll just ingest.
Oh, I do think we may go on some things that will open up our
minds and renew ourselves and remind ourselves of some things.
Because the blood still speaks. I said the blood still speaks.
Do you know what the blood says? Because the Bible tells us what
the blood says. The blood says forgive them.
The blood says forgive them, Father.
That's what the blood says, Forgive them, Father.
That's what the blood says, 'cause this blood that's been
poured out on the mercy seat in heaven, not in a Tabernacle made
by hands, not by the blood of bulls and goats, but with the
blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God himself.
When it was poured out on the mercy seat in heaven, it's
eternally speaks to the Father. Father, forgive them.
In essence, the blood has covered every sin imaginable and
the amount of that sin. If you've lied once, you could
lie 1000 times the world, from Adam all the way to the last
person that's ever born. There may be number.
We can't even count the more than trillions of times that a
lie has been perpetrated, perpetrated by a human, or
delivered by the mouth of a human being, that the blood has
covered it. It's covered it.
It has paid the price for the lie, is paid the price for
murder is paid the price for slander is paid the price for
adultery, for fornication. We could go on and give all
kinds of lists of things that are against the Kingdom of God,
are in disobedience to God. And guess what?
The blood has it covered. I mean, it's like, you know, you
have an insurance plan and they're like, well, what if this
event happens? You're covered.
Well, what about this? You're covered.
How about this? You know what?
You're covered. How about what if I you're
covered? Are you hearing me?
You're covered. Now.
Can I step over here a second? There's one issue that's not
covered. It's called blasphemy of the
Holy Spirit. That's a big deal and we'll
preach on that later, not today. But if you hear saying, oh, did
I do that, you haven't done it. Because when you do it, you'll
never darken the door or think about God ever again.
Period, Period. Hallelujah.
You know what? The blood's got you covered.
Are you hearing me? Look at this in John 316 For God
so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal
life. Now there is scholars that
believe in fact, it's. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
Help that man's name come to my remembrance.
He's Foursquare guy. Oh, man, thank you, Jesus.
Anyway, he, he was part of a particular Word and Spirit Bible
that had different, you know, people of faith that were
eloquent in certain subjects. Huh.
No, no, thank you. I know it'll come if it needs
to. Anyway.
Jack Hayford. Thank you, Jesus.
Jack Hayford, he was part of writing this particular Bible
and in his con commentary concerning John, he said John
was during when he wrote his letter was during the
persecution of the church in great persecution.
How much so John is arrested. They tried to kill the man could
not kill him, bold him and old couldn't kill him.
So they like we'll just put him on an island.
You know what I'm saying? They're trying to get rid of the
man, and when he's on the island, he gets the revelation
of stuff that we are still yet to see, that's still in our
future. Are you hearing me?
But during this time, Jack Hayford, through his study of
John, he said that John replaced the 'cause if you look at all
the other Gospels, it's heavy with the Kingdom of God or the
Kingdom of heaven. He said that John replaced the
Kingdom with eternal life, and that's in this particular Bible
that he has that he wrote or had a commentary.
So if that is accurate, which is not not accurate because when
you leave this planet and you're present before the Lord, are you
going to be in a Kingdom? When Jesus comes back, is he
going to bring a Kingdom? Is he going to be on a throne
during the millennial reign? Will there only be a Kingdom
that exist? So it's not too far to stretch
to say that's probably accurate because when you said Kingdom or
government in John's time, that's all that was on the
planet were kingdoms. And when, when we know in the
book of Acts that Paul had been accused of, of bringing
challenges to communities that one of them stood up, I believe
was a blacksmith that says this guy preaches that there's
another king besides Caesar. Well, that's pretty bold that
that Paul's walking around preaching the same message Jesus
is preaching, that the government gets concerned that
they are to stir up a whole community that says we're under
the rule of a king in Rome named Caesar.
But this guy says there's a different one.
I mean, that's like you walking around saying there's another
president. Are you hearing me?
I mean, not exactly because our government's a little bit
different than a Kingdom, but you understand these are
challenges. So John obviously is during this
particular time, it would read like this.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have the
Kingdom. Aren't you glad you have the
Kingdom? Amen.
But God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
What is he giving? Romans chapter 3 verses 323 says
this. For all have and fall of the
glory of God. Glory is the full weight.
It's the manifest presence of God.
We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
In essence, we do not house the glory when we sin, When sin
entered into our life, when we sinned, then the glory departs.
The glory's not there. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And how many have sinned? Sin is simply just disobeying
what God says. Are you hearing me?
Don't let me be so elementary that you check out.
But it's very good for us to know why?
Because we don't treat sin like we should.
Because God treats sin like it is.
Hallelujah, all right, Sin is serious and God did something
serious about it. Are you hearing me?
Look at Romans chapter 623. For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord. Aren't you glad that there's a
gift? I said, aren't you glad that
there's a gift? Hallelujah, that the wages of
sin is death. So when sin is committed, it
must pay in death, it pays in death.
I said it pays in death. Now death is not physically
disappearing because a lot of times we in the natural someone
died. That means they're not no longer
with us. We understand they exist
somewhere, they're just not in their body.
So really death is just separation.
So the wages of sin is being separated from God and it brings
separation there. It pays that out.
It's the penalty or the payment due and it is not ignored.
I said it is not ignored. Do you understand?
I can go on vacation, not even be in my house, but I still get
electric bill. I still get a water bill and I'm
not even running water. That's right.
There's still utilities and it's due on a particular time.
And if you forget to pay that, they'll shut it off.
Say Amen. They'll shut it off.
You can own your house, have title deed.
You do not pay your taxes. They'll come and take your
property. You're like, but the house is
mine, OK, Amen. Well, there's something due when
it comes to sin and it requires payment.
I said it requires payment. Look at Hebrews Chapter 9 verse
22. The Amplified Classic says it
this way. In fact, under the law, almost
everything is terrified by means of blood, and without the
shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its
guilt, nor the remission of the due and merited punishments for
sin. So what can make the payment for
sin? Blood.
Blood does this. Come on, Blood does this.
Blood is a payment. Now the remedy translation is
powerful. Look at this, it says.
In fact, the Script requires that nearly everything be
symbolically cleansed with blood, because without the
shedding of blood there could be no restoration to God's original
ideal. Without the death of Christ, we
would not know the true loving character of God and could not
be restored to God's original ideal for mankind.
Can I get an Amen? Well, where do we find God's
original ideal for man? Sure, Genesis chapter one, verse
26, In this world, this earth, same planet we're on today, God
says let there be light. And he goes through these
different days of creating the heavens and the earth.
And then on this day in the 26th verse of Genesis 1, he said, let
us make man in our image according to our likeness and
let them have dominion. So man is created in the
likeness of God. Is there sin in God?
Has God ever sinned? No, so God has never sinned and
does not no sin. So death is not associated with
God and He makes man in his image, which means man has life
and the nature and character of God.
Hallelujah. And so in our original ideal for
man is God wanted us to look like him, walk like him, act
like him, talk like him, respond like him.
Amen. And we had dominion or rule over
the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over all the cattle,
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth. In essence, man was the God of
the world, as God is God in heaven.
Now God is God of all creation, of which He allowed us to be a
little God because we are sons of God.
And if we would yield and listen to our Father in heaven and
function like Him on the earth, then the environments of heaven
and earth would be the same. So much so that God would come
down in the cool of the day and converse.
So in order for man to demonstrate love to God,
although he's made in his image well as God love, God is love
and he made man in his image. So man obviously knows how to
function and operate with love because it's part of his nature.
However, he must demonstrate it how?
Through obedience. So he tells the man, You're of
my nature, then you would only do as I say, because I only do
my word. So he says, you can eat from any
tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, you shall not eat. For the day you eat you will
surely, surely what? Because when you eat the fruit
that you're not supposed to eat, you're in disobedience.
Because God says do not eat it. Didn't say it wouldn't taste
good, didn't say it wouldn't be awesome.
He just said don't eat it. So we understand that Adam and
Eve were in the garden for a time period that somewhere along
the way a serpent came in. He already had the command to
keep the garden and to not eat the fruit.
He has enough from God to remain obedient and demonstrate his
love. But the serpent said to the
woman, has God said that you can't eat from any tree of the
garden? She said that's not the word of
the king. The king has said we can eat
from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, we shall not eat. For the day we eat we will die.
And he says you're not going to die because God knows the day
you eat it you'll be like him, knowing good and evil.
And she was deceived and ate and gave it to her husband who went
into full blown rebellion mode and ate the fruit.
And the Bible says through one man's transgression, sin entered
the world. Are you hearing me now?
Adam has lost his glory 'cause when he sinned, the glory left.
I said the glory left, but God has given a word.
Aren't you glad God keeps His word?
God has given His word. His word is let us make man in
our image according to our likeness.
But the problem is Adam now is not in the image of God in
nature. And so because he has fallen, he
needs to be. He needs the opportunity to be
restored, but he can't do it. He's not going to be able.
He he he cannot live righteous now.
All he can do is put on things. But he has selfish desires.
He is now corrupt. It does not matter.
Everything he does will not be enough.
And Adam passes this seed on into all of us.
It was forced rebellion. Now you can say, well, that's
not right. I mean, it is what it is, and it
wouldn't be right if there wasn't a way out.
I mean, if you didn't have a way out, sure, you should be able to
die, stand before holy God. And you know what?
It would probably do really well in the courts of heaven.
Now, Lord, you know that I'm not the one who done that animate
the fruit. You would have been able to
argue a case. Now if I had been there, I'm my
own person, I'm who I am. I would not have eaten that
fruit at all. You could have argued, I mean,
his sins are now your sins. Your nature now is his nature
because it says through one man's transgression, sin and all
sinned. But then he said this.
But through one man's obedience, through his righteousness, all
now have the right. Doesn't mean it's automatic.
It's by choice. I said it's by choice.
And why is it by choice? Because I'm going to be really
honest with you. If you were Adam, you would have
been a problem too. You would have been a problem.
As much as you want to believe you would not have done it.
You would have done it, Hallelujah, as much as you want
to believe that you would have. But now you have choice to come
out. I said to come out.
So what does the Lord do? He comes down.
He says, Adam, where are you? That doesn't mean he doesn't
know where he is. He just says, Adam, what
position are you in now? Because you're not in the ideal.
You're not in the original ideal for mankind.
Have you eaten the fruit? I told you not to.
He blames God. Well, it's the woman you gave
me. That's not blaming his wife.
He's blaming God. It's the woman you gave me.
In essence, he's saying you didn't do a good job with giving
me the right person. A lot of men want to blame their
wives when you're really blaming God.
OK, take personal responsibility.
I understand your wife is her own free will.
She can go crazy on her own, she can act like a Jezebel, she can
be contentious. And you know a contentious wife
is a horrible thing to be around.
I get it. However you be the man and don't
be blaming God for the woman because most likely maybe you
just married someone that he didn't ask you to marry in the
1st place and now that you're there just go on with it.
Believe God for call those things that be not as though
they get in faith. Hallelujah say Amen anyway
Hallelujah. So God comes down and says he
what he does. She tells the truth.
I was deceived. So the Lord says to the serpent
doesn't even ask questions just gets to the chase because he
knows who this guy is. He said I will bring my seed
through the woman. In essence, I keep my word.
I said let man, let's make man in our image according to our
likeness and I will be a keeper of that word.
I cannot guarantee you that anyone will come back to me,
will want what I'm going to do for them, but they'll never
stand before me that day and say that I didn't do it all for them
because what's impossible for them will be possible with me.
Oh, praise God, aren't you glad that listen, people say this all
the time? Well, you know, if you were the
only one who get born again, he would have sent Jesus.
If nobody gets born again, Jesus is still coming.
He's still coming because you're not going to stand before the
great White Throne Judgment and tell God I couldn't get back in
and the Lord say, well, I knew you weren't wow, I was going to
you know you can't tell me that I couldn't.
No, he's going to provide the way and give you your choice and
they show you every time you rejected him.
If it is that you reject him, but for all of us who accept it,
who recognize our own shortcomings, realize that we
came out of the lineage of Adam. We came out of a fallen state,
but we have a heavenly Father, said Man, I want to restore you.
I want to put you back in the original ideal.
And it's really simple. My blood's got you covered.
I got you covered. Everything you've done wrong,
guess what? It's covered.
The blood still speaking today, Forgive.
Forgive them Father, forgive them.
How often do we get the forgiveness?
What, 7 times in our lifetime We blow it.
Jesus said no man, that's 70 * 7 a day.
I mean, you can't exhaust my blood.
My blood will forgive. All you have to do is ask.
That's all you have to do is ask.
It's not that it's not already done.
I just need you to ask because forgiveness comes with Lordship.
Hallelujah, my Lord, my Lord. When Adam sinned, it's like
there was this whole line of life that God created for man.
It was just, if you could imagine a lie coming across the
top here, right? And it was God original intent
for Adam. And if Adam had only stayed
faithful, then it would have just been a generation of people
that would have been sons of the king and we'd have ruled and
reigned in this earth and this earth would have been perfect.
No sin in it. It'd have been amazing.
It's what we all want when we talk look about heaven.
But man fell. Then it created another line of
disobedience that now has to be paid.
It cannot be ignored. It's not like God.
I mean, if it was possible to forgive without payment, then
the Father would have came down in the garden.
His Son has never blown it before.
It's his first act of disobedience, his first one.
I mean, Adam could have said, dad, I've never messed up
before. See, this is how we act today
when I, you know, I mean, I hadn't messed up that bad.
Now, granted we're in grace. There's mercy and compassion.
No problem, I understand the reason why God's so merciful.
I'm going to show you here in a minute.
But here's the point is that Adam's never blown it.
And why did the Father not just come down and say, you know what
Son, I forgive you. Let this sink in for a moment
because we use this word all the time.
Well honey, I'll forgive you. Well, how can you do that?
Because you can't. Forgive unless blood is
speaking. For us to be able.
To again, it's it's in the United States we hear this word
freedom. And again, as a veteran, you
know, and some more than others, because some have been in active
duty and has seen one of theirs fallen, of which we use that
term every Veteran's Day, you know, and every Memorial Day.
You know, no greater love has one have been this.
The one who lay down his life for his friend, spilled their
blood so that we could have these liberties, these freedoms
that we throw around at no cost. And yet.
We do the same with this term called forgiveness, that we do
not say the reason I can say I forgive you is because the
blood's talking. Because this is not.
Just some open forgiveness of my own personal merit.
Forgiveness. Requires blood to show up.
Blood has to be a part of the equation.
I said blood has. To be a part of the equation,
because here's the thing, God sacrifice an animal to cover
Adam and Eve. But it doesn't.
Cause them to come when they pass away to be present with the
Lord. They go to the grave and
depending on how they functioned in life during that, whatever
dispensation will determine when Jesus came and went to the
grave. Who was in?
Paradise and who was beyond the great chasm or a gulf fix are
the the place of torment. Because.
Those did not come out that day, but those in paradise whoo they
went with Jesus when he was resurrected on the third day.
Glory to God, holla. Why 'cause the blood was the
payment of release. It's the power of pardon.
It's not an. Open forgiveness, It is paid in
full. I said it's paid in full.
Isaiah 5312 says this. Therefore I will allot him a
portion with the great, and he will divide the booty, and all
my little kids will laugh with the strong, because he poured
out himself to death. He was numbered with the
transgressors, yet He himself bore the sins of many and
interceded for the transgressor. Here he is on the cross.
The Bible. Says that he was so deformed and
it wasn't from the physical beating he took.
It was the. Spiritual Receiving of every
person's sin ever committed that it distorted him.
I mean, we never see what Jesus actually looked like when he
hung on the tree. Hollywood.
Has never gotten it right. It says his.
Appearance was so marred that he didn't even look human.
He took on deformity. Because of the.
Sin of the whole world waited on him.
He becomes the lamb that's slain.
He's the scapegoat. He's the one who bears every
time you blew it. And the sins.
You're going to commit three years from now.
He's got you covered. He's got you covered.
I mean, think about it. In the moment of time, he is not
just pulling sin that has already happened.
He pulls sin that hasn't even occurred.
He pulled your. Because once he went, he died
once and for all. He's not dying again.
He's not sacrificing again for all this new sin after his
death, burial, resurrection. No, he did it once and for all.
That means he pulled everything you would ever commit in your
lifetime. And he put it on.
Him, I mean, if we just went through this room and say,
Rufino, tell me every sin you've ever committed, right?
I mean, nobody wants to have that happen, right?
But yet there's not one done that he doesn't know.
I'm glad he knows. He.
Knows, and he's bore it. Matthew 20. 628 says it this way
for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for
many for the forgiveness of sin. Kenneth E Hagan said this leave
that up for a moment said now when we minister on and he was
talking about particular subject this particular day was
ministering on the subjects of the gifts of the Spirit.
He say we separate the gifts of the Spirit for the sake of
teaching. Meaning there's 9 gifts of which
they're broken into three different categories.
And that from the teaching gift, we give this analogy.
But he says which gift is the most important?
Because when you start breaking it up for the sake of teaching
and you put three in a category we call the power gifts, which
is the working of miracles, the gifts of healing and the gift of
faith. And that's where all of a sudden
these supernatural things occur of raising the dead and
deformities coming out and, and being healed at, you know, limbs
growing back on all these things.
People like I want the power gifts.
He said you're supposed to desire all the gifts.
He says which one's the most powerful?
He said the one needed at the time and this morning the Holy
Ghost needed the gift of prophecy that we all understood,
not through tongues and interpretation of tongues, but
just through the language we already know.
But it impacts us when it was by the Spirit of God, Amen.
It was needed at the time and again what we would do if we
don't watch out. We separate so much through the
teaching that we do not keep things together.
And one thing that we've done in teaching is that we have
separated my blood of the covenant because covenant.
God is love, but he's also legal.
And I'm not talking legalism, I'm talking legal.
Blood. Is a legal form of payment.
That created. A legal decree that gives you
the legal right to make Jesus Lord and be released of all of
your transgression in the Kingdom.
Love did that. I.
Said Love did that. Love made sure every T was
crossed, every I was dotted. He did not want anybody sin to
get mistaken. And.
When the accuser of the brethren.
Tries to talk to. You about your past, you can say
legally I have been pardoned, I am free.
I have no more guilt or shame associated with my past.
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
This is legal and binding with the King of Heaven.
Hallelujah. Glory to.
God, instead of us running from these terms just because there's
been abuses, these terms are actually powerful because it's
by grace through faith we've received these legal actions of
our king so that we are assured without a doubt.
It is for sure my King upholds his word and if he says I'm
forgiven, then man, I am forgiven.
He has removed. My transgression as far as the
East is from the West, man, when you see me, if you see me like
Christ, you can't see me in sin. You can't see me as one that is
dejected, or you have to see me in Christ.
You see one cleansed, forgiven as if it never occurred.
Wow, 'cause the blood. Says forgive em Father, and when
we enact it through prayer we always receive forgiveness.
With a repented heart. Look at first, Peter 118 and 19
says, knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things
like silver and gold. From your futile.
Way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with the
precious blood as of the Lamb, unblemished and spotless.
The blood of Christ, honestly, and it's just a reality that the
blood of Jesus is a, in a spiritual sense, a financial
transaction of a debt owed. Redeemed.
Means to pay for is you've been redeemed.
So again, what if we don't watch out?
This free gift that we have is only free to us.
It was not free to him. Right.
Oh, come on again. Some of you would struggle if
somebody walked up to you with a Porsche 9/11 GT3 to give you
this car, plus a house on the beach, plus an account with a
billion dollars in it. We would be like.
Man I man, I don't deserve that. Now some of y'all like Nah.
Man, I know this ain't about deserving.
I just like, but you understand you didn't work for it.
Do. You start.
Categorizing with what people going to think.
What are people? Going to think that you're
redeemed. Who cares what they think that
they know about your path? Who cares?
You've been redeemed, you've been washed clean, you've been
made whole. Hallelujah.
I mean the. Value of the blood is more than
the things I just listed. It has more value because.
Somebody paid for the Porsche 11GT3, someone paid for the
house on the beach, somebody put the money in the account that
you didn't work for. But it's saying here you do it
and all of a sudden like, man, that seems so much.
I don't. Jesus did way more than that.
You're right, you didn't. Deserve it, but and when you
recognize the price he paid, then you value the gift.
You value it. Hallelujah.
So we've been redeemed, paid for.
Ephesians 17 says in him we have redemption through his blood and
the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the
riches of His grace. Isn't that amazing that his
blood has forgiven us of our trespasses?
How many? Come on, how many?
How many of yours? How many of your neighbors, How
many of your other neighbor, how many of your family members that
have not yet made a withdrawal yet?
How many for the? 8 point something billion people
that's existing on the planet today.
How many of the ones who have already died and are in the
grave? How many of the ones who are
down in what we call the place of torment or hell?
How many of them was the has the blood paid for their sin?
This is why the. Great White Throne judgement is
going to be so something to wash because they'll all see that the
blood already had you covered, you just never accepted it.
Because you. Didn't.
You got to pay for it. Now.
Come on. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And they have to pay for something that they'll never be
able to pay for. That's why it's eternal
damnation. Yet the blood.
Is eternal, would have paid and covered it eternally.
It satisfies the debt. Psalms 32 one look at this.
David said How? Blessed is he whose
transgression is whose sin. Aren't you glad your sin is
covered? I said.
Aren't you glad your sin is covered?
I mean, he said. Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven. Now.
When is it forgiven? It's forgiven before you even
receive it. I mean, we're not talking about
being forgiven only when you ask.
It just means you get access to what has been forgiven.
Now again, you have to access it.
If you do not, if you die without making Jesus the Lord of
your life and the payment he paid for you, well then you're
going to pay it. But as far as?
God's concerned if He was looking at you, He would see you
and is seeing you like He ordained you before you were
ever in your mother's womb. And all the while He's talking
to you about trying to get you on the original ideal path for
mankind while you're in the earth.
And it's not letting you have an excuse why you cannot get there.
Why? Because your sin is covered.
It is not a. Hindrance to your ability that
when you keep it under the blood, it's as if you've never
done it ever. I heard one minister say one
time in Romans 81. Therefore now there's no
condemnation for those who are in Christ, she said.
How would you act if you never blew it?
How would you? Act If you never blew it, you've
never blown it. Unfortunately, in the.
Church. The church is more sin conscious
than it is Christ conscious. So we always, you know,
basically say, forgive me Father, for I have sinned all
the time. Now, Lord, you know, you know,
basically it's like when you go to Alcoholics Anonymous, he
goes, my name is so and so I'm an alcoholic.
I've been free from we are still claiming alcoholism while
they're saying I've been dry and that's what the church.
I'm just a Sinner saved by grace.
I'm a Sinner, but I'm saved by grace and I'm not free from sin.
No, you've been freed, and if you'll get your mine on Christ,
then you can go through life. With rarity.
I'm not going to say you'll do it without, but with rarity that
you would walk in disobedience to God.
Because when you know that I've been forgiven, then you can have
confidence. And many, many.
Saints lack confidence because they keep seeing themselves in a
way that God doesn't see them. Marriages fail because.
They see each other not as God sees them.
Once forgiveness is there, it's as if it's never happened.
Well, if we can get that revelation by.
Itself. Romans 4/8 through 6 through 8
says this, just as David also speaks of the blessing on the
man to whom God credits righteousness.
Apart from works. Blessed are those whose lawless
deeds have been forgiven and whose sins have been what
covered. Blessed is the man who sins, sin
the Lord will not take into account.
Amen, Hallelujah, Amen. Right now, if I let everyone in
a prayer of forgiveness, whether you are lost and you've never
made Jesus the Lord of your life, or whether you're a
believer and you know you've done something wrong in the last
24 hours, whatever, and you haven't actually talked to the
Lord and you ask him to forgive you, then technically at that
moment none of us would be able to come up to each other and
say, yeah, but I know what you did.
Because God would not say. Yeah, but last week, 'cause it's
covered. Are you hearing me?
It's paid for in full. It's not for me to pull it up
to. Remind you.
Hallelujah. Psalms 85 Two, look at this, he
says. You forgave the iniquity of your
people. You covered all their sins.
Now listen. I'm not saying.
Covered the Bible is because that's.
What the Bible? Does and this word covered means
to hide? It literally means.
To hide from the knowledge of. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
It means to hinder the knowledge of a thing.
Do you understand? Jesus, boy, your sin, so he
doesn't have to tell your sin that's.
Good. Here's the next thing we.
Had the lifeline but then man fell.
We had the deaf line that has to be paid.
Jesus knows the. Day Adam 8.
God came down and said I'll send my son.
In essence, everything committed on this line is not is not
anything that God is not going to pay for.
He there's, there is, there is not anything on this line.
That Jesus Christ. Will not pay in full, so this.
Is not him. Saying doesn't matter what you
do. What he's saying is whatever you
do, I'm going to cover it, but. What you need to do in order?
To get off the deaf line is to receive my forgiveness.
Because I'm going to be merciful.
Why can't I be merciful? Because everything you're doing,
I'm going to pay for it, you understand?
You could go 5. Years and seem like nothing's
happening because God's what Merciful.
What does he want you to repent? What's his purpose?
I need restoration. I just want you back in original
intent and he'll show goodness and kindness to you.
Not because he's saying what you do.
I'm accepting what he's saying is I've covered that and even.
Before he covered. It he knew he would cover it.
So any acts of compassion and mercy are not because we are
turning away from sin. No, he knows the seriousness of
sin. He's saying I will pay it.
But now, in order for you to be back in your original intent
you're you will have to accept my sacrifice and my payment.
This is why he's merciful. A lot of times we say, wow, man,
the Lord that you know, grace was.
A lot of times people use the word grace when it's really
mercy, and mercy is what giving you more opportunity to repent.
Repent because God will do what he says.
And God's like I can. Wait another year.
Because it's not like the sin. Is not going to be paid for.
I'm going to do that. I'm going to give them more time
to repent. And the minute you repent, it's
like an off. Ramp to the line of death
through his mercy. It puts you back on the line of
life. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah. And aren't you glad he's
merciful? He's merciful because he's
footing the bill. I said he's footing the bill.
So. James. 519 and 20 says this, My
brethren, if any of you stray from the truth, and one turns
him back, let him know that he who turns a Sinner from the air
of his ways will save his soul from death.
And will what cover a multitude of sin?
Cover a multitude of sin. You understand Jesus knew that
man, when he fell, man would not be able to accomplish this.
So at the end of the day, I'm going to bear it all.
Well, if he's paying for it, you understand I when I go to a
restaurant. And if I choose to.
Pay for someone's meal unless. You did the.
Calculations prior to all that you've purchased.
You may not know how much it cost.
Cause some of you like well if I.
Two ways. Some of you are like, well, if I
knew you were paying for it, I wouldn't have spent so much, Or
if I knew you were paying for it, I'd have bought the. $100
steak. Either way, doesn't matter, is
paid for. Are you hearing me now when I
pay that bill and put on the tip?
I do not go and say, Pastor Alyssa, I paid for your check
yesterday. You know, it was this much.
And the tip. I don't let her know what I
covered. Oh, y'all want to hear that nor.
If Andrew came and. Said, hey, I saw you paid for
Pastor Alyssa's bill. How much?
How much that set you back? I don't need to know, you tell
you how. Much it covered.
Yeah, Hallelujah the. Blood is amazing because the
blood is all about covering what the infraction is by him now.
He knows. I know when I.
Sin. He knows.
And then when I repent covered because it's already covered.
I just thank you, Lord, that your payment.
Yes, the blood is always speaking.
Forgive them, Father, forgive them.
Why? Because the blood's always
saying forgive so we can restore.
Blood was given so that man could get back in his original
ideal. First, Peter. 48 Above all, keep
fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a
multitude of sin. For God so loved the world he
gave, because the blood covered sin, because love covers sin.
Now the Lord says this, y'all with me again.
This particular Greek word means to hinder the knowledge of a
thing in. Essence God is.
Not here to inform the world of your infraction?
In fact, he is. Clearly saying that when an
infraction takes place, that number 1, he wants to handle it
privately. This is why you have the Holy
Ghost, because the Holy Ghost. In.
You will begin to say, ho, wait a minute, that's not the word
and not one person that's born again.
You know when you're done, when you've done it, you know you're
like now at that point you've got to you're either going to be
like David and be quick to repent or you can not do that
now. If you don't, don't take care
of. Let God have this thing covered
then. Things can happen.
Because the Bible says your sin will surely see.
As a. Believer, you shouldn't be
trying to find people's sin. That's not your assignment.
Let me go find out what's going on with them.
What kind of sin are they in? I mean, that just sounds
ludicrous. But it's amazing how many people
are looking for somebody else's sin.
It's amazing. The Bible's very clear that your
sin gets out beyond you, meaning God's dealt with you and I mean
minute you do it, he'll talk to you.
Now you could have an infraction in front of somebody as a
believer, you know, you could be in the flesh, you're in the line
and all of a sudden you cuss them out and you're like, man
shouldn't do that. So now that.
Person knows you. Cussed and they may not know
you're a believer at that point they may like they like me, but
you're like man, I got to come clean here the Lord's talking to
you you don't talk like this this is not your mouth you know
the. Blood's got that covered.
So you say, Lord, forgive me, I was in the flesh.
I should not have said that to this person that they don't even
know because they're going so slow through the express lane.
It's all right, Lord. I have the fruit of patience and
I can be patient. So you know, you ask them,
listen, forgive me, I shouldn't have said that.
Now you're acknowledging. Now this person may have been
believer like well, praise the Lord, That's awesome.
They may have been someone and say, you know a cuss word to you
because they don't want to hear it, because now you're asking
them forgive convicts them of their own separation from God,
but you still have that response.
But again the Bible says if he gets out you see your brother
and sing go to them where private Why?
Do you do this? What's the purpose of the blood?
Not just to forgive, but to restore.
So you go to your brother in. Private.
Why? So that if they repent?
Because then they can receive the blood that's paid that
action in full. Right now.
They are restored and you're in restoration with your brother.
That's the point. Nowhere is it that the brother
goes. And says over here, oh man, I
had to go talk to so and so and tell them about themselves, you
know, they were wrong and they did this, that and the other,
you know, and I went and pointed it out to him and they got it.
What are you doing right now? Because the minute that person
repented, God doesn't even know the conversation you're taking
to your friends now. 'Cause it's covered.
You immediately have to view your brother as they never did
it. Because if you go to someone,
say yeah. You know, so and so was in sin
and I had to bring it to their attention.
Well, there's. Only one that brings up.
Your past. That spirit's not of God.
The only time you're bringing up passage.
If someone is not really repenting.
But again, that takes time to. Determine Hallelujah.
Proverbs 10/12 Why is this important?
Look what it says here. Hatred stirs up strife, but love
covers. All transgression.
I mean, if anyone could have been, had hate towards us, could
have been the Lord. In fact, the Bible says the Lord
hates love, can't hate, He said. There's some things he hates
again. You got to read the Bible.
He hates some things, but he doesn't hate unrighteously.
He doesn't hate with the. Intent to harm.
In fact, Joseph Benson says it concerning this passive
scripture. He said hatred stirs up strife
upon every slight occasion by filling men's mind with
suspicions and surmises whereby the imagination faults where
there are none, and aggravate every small offense.
But love covers all sin. It does not severely observe or
willingly or it willingly forgives, forgets the injury and
offenses of others, and so prevents contention and mis
mischief. In essence, hatred wants to
expose where love wants to hide and hiding.
Doesn't mean we're. Not acknowledging hiding is what
can we do to get you into place of restoration?
So the least amount, no. You would think that some
people. Would think that you should walk
around with all your past sins walking around with it, John.
Gill says it this way. He said hatred stirs up.
Strife means this. A man whose heart is full of
hatred and malice against his neighbor will stir up or awaken,
as the word signifies, contentions and quarrels which
were happily laid asleep. These he renews by tale, bearing
and whisperings and evil surmises, by raising lies,
spreading false reports and culminaries.
And I didn't know what that word meant, so I had to look it up.
Which means the act of uttering false charges or
misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's
reputation, and by reproaches and slanders.
That's what hate will do, but love covers not.
It's own but. Others It imitates the pardoning
love and grace of God, which covers all sins of His people
with the blood and righteousness of His Son.
Love spreads His mantle over the sins of His fellow creatures and
Christians and forgives them, even all of them, instead of
exposing them, hides and conceals them, and instead of
loading and aggravating the affirmities of others, puts the
best construction on them. Hopes and bears and believes all
things. Proverbs 17/9. 17-9 says it this
way. He who conceals A transgression
seeks, but he who repeats a matter separates intimate
friends. We're on Resurrection Sunday.
That every one of us, or without excuse.
Man, if we had the daunting. Task of having to recite
everything we've done wrong in fact, brother.
Hagin said it this. Way brother Hagin said man goes
to hell not for the sins they've committed, but the lack of
lordship of Jesus Because again, first John 19 is not for the the
loss because he says you know when you confess your sins, he's
faithful and just to forgive you ever since as a a person law
separated from God, there's no way you know all your sin.
Amen. No way you could recount it all,
but the minute you acknowledge Jesus as Lord then every sin
that you know, that you may know you've done wrong, but the ones
you don't even know you did wrong, all of those are under
the blood not to. Be uttered in fact, the Bible.
Makes it clear that in this cover that God desires that
within the body of Christ that we try to contain.
So that sin doesn't spread. Nor people gain access to
information unwarranted. It's very clear that it hides
and conceals. You can do as many words studies
as you want and you'll see that that was the intent is to
safeguard us all. Because again.
The enemy reminds. I would love to think that
everyone and we know it's not true in the realm of carnality,
that it's easy for people to remember people's past, but if
you don't know their past, how can you remember it?
And this is one of those moments where.
Probably Jesus would be saying there's many more things I'd
love to tell you, but you're not able to bear them, and there's
some things you just don't need to know.
That's because love does. That because.
Once. It's fixed.
Why do we need to talk about it? Or once it's released again, you
go to your brother in private. If he repents, you've won your
brother. If you've taken that and you can
go to two others again. If you're not even going to the
brother over what's being said and you're going to someone
else, you're not even scriptural.
I mean, you are stirring. Up strife.
I mean, the minute the body of Christ matures at this level,
Sabrina, I'm going to use you as an example.
If somebody comes to me and talks to me about you, my first
response will be have you spoken to don't talk to me?
Have you spoken to Sabrina? Well, no, don't talk to.
Me then your. Biblical.
Obligation is to go to her I. Mean as a pastor I don't even
need. To know about what's going on in
your life initially, I don't need to know.
And again, if if there's a conflict in the parking lot and
you work it out, I don't have to know that it's under the blood,
it's finished. I mean, what's?
The problem. But again, what we do is.
But you know how? So and so treating me, you know
how such what are you doing talking about your brother to
someone else concerning an offense, a wrong action or
anything, and you've not even spoken to them.
The blood doesn't do that. And and I'm not.
Saying that sins not a big deal. It's a big deal because the
blood's covered it. Then if you two or three
witnesses don't help with the active restoration, if you can
take them to the church because you understand sometimes you'll
run into some sins with people that you don't have any
association with them in the church they are and you'll never
be able to take them before the church.
The only place you can take them before the church is you go on
before the Lord and say now Lord, you know what they did?
I pray because again, if you are not speaking, Lord, I pray they
repent, change. I'm praying for them.
I'm not going to say anything. Think about what I know.
I'm just going to be in prayer for them.
Now, if you have a different heart, I don't know that you're
operating in love. In fact, I can say you're not
operating in love. Hallelujah.
Because the blood covered. Covered it, did that and it
forgave you of. All your sin.
Which brings us to the last scripture today, Revelations
chapter 10. Thank you for the blood I said.
Thank you for the. Blood.
I don't want to. Blow it.
Ever. But I'm thankful.
That I have an advocate. With the Father, when I do that,
I can run to him. You know, sometimes, again,
especially in the Church, we, we get too eyesighted.
Because we're like. You know, I never see so and so
on the altar. You don't have to come to an
altar if you are dealing with your at your house.
I mean, there's plenty of times to repent and get right.
You understand, you could walk through life to where it looks
like you've never blown it in your life.
But you know when you do and then you ask God to forgive you
and you don't have to create a billboard to communicate that.
I mean again. If you.
Don't understand that everybody in this room has blown it some
way at some occasion? Well, you're already in fantasy
thinking, but when you're out trying to expose in order to
destroy someone, that's not love.
Again, there's one sin that cannot be forgiven in this life
or the next, this blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Any other one can be forgiven. And restoration the minute the
body of Christ. Decides as A and as a church
maturing, we have to do this. We have to say we're, we're
going to get this under the blood.
We are not allowing this stuff to happen.
I'm not going to let someone. Hold something against you.
They need to forgive you, and God treats forgiveness as a big.
Deal when he knows what it's about because we have a parable.
The Kingdom of heaven is like this master who had this guy
that had so much debt couldn't repay him.
He said bring him here with his wife and kids, send him to the
torturer so they can pay the debt.
And he cried out. And it says the master had.
Compassion forgave him of his debt completely.
The man went outside. Later on found a fellow slave or
brother who had one day he owed him just one.
And the guy cried out. Have compassion.
I'll repay you. He could have said OK and let
him pay but instead he had him arrested for one day and.
When everybody saw how he. Treated that guy knowing what he
had been forgiven of what he did, went back to the Master.
And says man. You know what tells me how in
the world can I be talking about people's sin and stuff going on
when I know what God has done for me, what he's done for me,
right, Matt? I mean, think about that, what
he's done for us, bro, I mean. How in the world am I having?
A conversation. Seriously, how bad?
Can someone mistreat you? Anyway.
That you can't forgive. I can forgive anybody because
he's forgiven me. I can be restored to anyone
because he's forgiven me because I'm sure not going to have Jesus
say, son, as much as I've forgiven you.
You're going to treat like what? Yeah.
Revelations 1, five and six says this.
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born
of the dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth.
Who are those kings? Come on, who are those kings?
Come on, who are those kings to Him who loves us and released us
from our sin by His blood? Come on, can I get a shot?
Amen. He has released us from our sin.
He's released us. He's released us from our past
sins. He's released us from our
present sin we committed this morning and had to ask him to
forgive us. He has released us from future
sins we've not even done yet, but when it occurs we can come
to him before our throne and say, God forgive me.
I know the blood still speaks. Father, forgive them.
I receive your forgiveness. I am clean, I am made whole.
I am not in condemnation. I am righteous.
I'm a child of God. I will enjoy.
I have been delivered. Sin no longer has dominion over
me. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, I rule.
Over sin and death. Because now I have a new law
called the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah. And He has made us to be a
Kingdom priest of his God and Father.
To him be the glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen. What have you done?
What have you done well?
Everyone of us have done enough. To be eternally separated from
God. That's true, everyone of us.
But God being rich in his mercy not because.
He said. Keith, let's just act like it
didn't happen, though, he said. Keith, I saw it.
I know it exists, but I've forgiven you.
Receive my mercy because the blood still says forgive.
Keith, Father and I could go. Through every person.
Here and say that. Father.
Forgive Marlene, my mother-in-law, please.
I have the best mother-in-law, Sorry.
About the rest of y'all. Are you hearing me?
Really. You know why?
The world. Really struggles with making
Jesus Lord is because there's too much infighting.
I mean, why? Why receive Jesus?
When you can't even openly forgive a wrong and.
I'll be honest with you most. People are struggling from
perceptions, not even realities. Most people are struggling.
Because they're not willing to let put down their own flesh, so
they have to blame somebody else.
That's the majority. I've been in ministry too long
to not understand that that's how it occurs.
But there are wrongs. It's true.
But no one can stop you but. You.
Because the minute you choose to.
Not forgive someone. You're walking in unforgiveness.
And unforgiveness is a. Serious thing with God.
So what have you done? Doesn't matter, I don't.
I don't care how you rank it, how bad you rank, that doesn't
matter how bad you rank it because there.
Was some God, some some. Things God says this is an
abomination. He hates some stuff.
Then he says this is an abomination.
I mean, he actually. Has some.
Classes of sin in his Kingdom, however.
Outside of blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.
The blood, it's got you covered and there's really no excuse for
you to stay in it. You might.
As well. Just go ahead and.
Receive what God freely wants to give you.
Because again, it's not about saying to you, man, you've blown
it. It's about God saying I've been
waiting for you to walk in Dominion.
I've been waiting for you to be. Back into the position that I
always wanted man to be a child of mine, ruling and reigning
with me. And you don't have to wait to go
to heaven to do that, Joy. You don't have to wait to go to
heaven to do that. You can do that right now on the
planet. Girl, isn't this amazing?
The church has made it. About what you've done wrong,
God never made it. About what you did wrong, God
made it about. I've got to deal with the wrong
so I can get them back in Dominion.
Because when God. Sees you.
He's not looking at you. He doesn't want to look at you
through the eyes of sin. If you're wrong, he sees you.
This person can be a child that rules and reigns with me.
I've already paid the price. I'll treat them like they've
never blown it, Like it's never happened in their life.
I mean, Brian, think about it. Anything you ever did before you
came here, it's like it doesn't. It does not even exist.
Man, this is so amazing. That the blood.
Has this. Power to transform our whole
lives into something that it's not anymore and then because of
that it doesn't matter how many times you've come and gone but
man if. You'll stick.
Grow and no, I'll never let anything pull me off from being
able to forgive another person cause of the blood I'm telling
you the church would flourish. Because who am I?
Rachel to hold you accountable and not be able to forgive your
life My. King.
Does so I will.