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The Benefits of the Blood

Striving For Perfection Ministries

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  1. I am what it says I am. I can do what it says I can. I'm a believer not a doubter. I'm a doer

  2. and not just a hearer. I am humble before the Lord. I'm obedient to the Lord. I am mature in the

  3. Lord. I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. I know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of

  4. God. Amen. In the book of Matthew chapter 26 verse 27 and 28 you'll find these words. It says

    Matthew 26:27

  5. then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying drink from it all of you.

  6. For this is my blood. Somebody said my blood. It says this is my blood of the new covenant.

  7. Every covenant had to be ratified with blood. In the old system all sins had to be forgiven with.

  8. So he's saying I'm putting something new in place. Amen. So he said for this is my blood for the new

  9. covenant which is shared for many for the remissions of. See God just knew. He couldn't put just sin

  10. there without F something. Took a lot of blood for something. Sin. Plural. Amen. Don't y'all see

  11. him try to play me every low Sunday morning. The Bible put an F on that because God know each one of

  12. us and he know that we came to him with multiple. I know some of y'all think y'all are there in

  13. a community but one little sin but I got news for you. We ought to be glad that the blood was shared

  14. for our sins. Amen. Y'all sit down. Y'all sit down. I'm done there.

  15. Let me begin by saying a very special thanks to Mr. Marvel here who stepped in last week

  16. to fill in the gap on the short notice. As many of you know I went out of town to show support

  17. for a dear friend who lost his wife and she was a dear friend of Lady Jeanette. Sister Brenna Palmer

  18. most of y'all some of y'all know her. In fact she was the inspiration behind Lady Jeanette

  19. beginning what we call out the women the black breasted social. She got that from sister Brenna

  20. and they were friends and so I just wanted to be there to support them during that time. So I want

  21. to thank sister Marvel for stepping in on short notice but you know how the spirit works is that

  22. while I was preparing to preach last week I was already preparing to talk about you know the benefits

  23. of the blood. Had the outline already written I was going to do two weeks on it and I didn't even

  24. ask sister ma what you're going to preach about but you know when I was listening in on I said oh

  25. that's a good segue to this week. She just took the first part of it because last week she was

  26. talking about I've been written and one of the values of the blood and the benefits of the blood

  27. is your redemption and so therefore what I'm going to do today is I'm going to kind of start from

  28. where she began with her text. Stay there for a few minutes because I don't want to preach what she

  29. preached last week but I do want to make the connection to some other benefits that the blood

  30. provides for us amen. You know benefit is anything that you can get as you have been earned it for

  31. retirement whatever the system you're in but sometimes you can have benefits and not even know

  32. it and when you have a benefit and don't know it you can end up living below your privileges

  33. because you don't know the benefits that you that you have and so what I want you to know is that

  34. I've got to get it in your heart and mind that I don't want you to live below your privileges

  35. because you don't know what benefit the blood serves in your life and I hope it would change your

  36. attitude and I hope the message counter is evocative to you today because at certain

  37. points I want to just get right in your face to make a point because if you can receive this I

  38. believe a lot of things in your life would change because you understand the benefits

  39. of the blood. Now in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 that's where Sister Marvel was at last week when

    Ephesians 1:7

  40. she talked about redemption so the first thing I want you to know is that the blood of Jesus

  41. because of his blood we have redemption. Redemption just means that we've been bought back. God bought

  42. us back because we had sin in our lives and because we had a debt that we couldn't pay so he used the

  43. blood of Jesus to pay our debt and with that blood comes our freedom from that debt and forgiveness

  44. of the sin. So knowing that you shouldn't walk around bound up to what you've been set free from

  45. and what I want you to see also is that when we came to God because that word had sins on it

  46. and if we were then law enforcement we had a jacket that was pretty thick you know we had a

  47. wrap sheet that was pretty long and so because of that when you get free you now no longer have to

  48. feel guilty about your wrap sheet. Amen. All of you came to God with a wrap sheet because we violated

  49. his laws. Amen. And so this is what he says here he says now look in verse 7 of Ephesians 1 he says

  50. in him we have redemption somebody say redemption. Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of

  51. sin according to the riches of his grace. God's extended grace toward us bountifully when he

  52. sacrificed Jesus for our sin. So you ought to always feel like you're living under God's grace.

  53. God's favors on your life because of the grace of God. So whatever you do wherever you go you

  54. ought to feel like hey I operate in grace and because I operate in grace and I have favor my life

  55. then if I do things God way and recognize what the blood has done then God was going to find favor

  56. with me before me and and y'all are going to hit me today. Some of y'all want to say you need to

  57. start pleading the blood for some favor in your life because that's a benefit that you have amen.

  58. I said we're going to preach a message let me go on to the second one to Ephesians chapter 2

    Ephesians 2 chapter mention

  59. since tomorrow I did a great job on that last week. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 11 through 13

    Ephesians 2:11–13

  60. I want you to see that the blood of Jesus brought us somebody said Gentiles brought us Gentiles near

  61. to God. See we will once consider aliens outside and estranged from the family of God you know and

  62. some places here we're going to read and say we were without hope of eternal salvation but the

  63. blood of Jesus had brought us near to God and we are no longer aliens but now we're citizens

  64. of his kingdom. Now the picture that I want to get you to see is this is that before the blood

  65. if if I can use my sanctified imagination but the JP I don't think it's blasphemy because you're not

  66. God but I'm just going to say for my analogy you are God sitting in your seat of power.

  67. Before the blood I was way over here because of my condition because of my sin because how the

  68. Jews looked at me. Cliff represented the Jews sitting right there next to God got his ear all

  69. the time. I'm over here alienated don't even know how to get through to him but because of the blood

  70. it drew me near to God so now I'm just as close to God as Cliff is. In fact because of the blood I can get

  71. under the old covenant you know the temple is set up in three parts

  72. out of court the inter court and the holies of holies that was a veil that separated

  73. that only the high priests could go behind the holies of holies that'll be where I'm standing

  74. up here now. The outer court may be out where the lobby is you will be considered in the holy

  75. place the sanctuary you can come no further than this before the blood. That's the closer you can

  76. get to God right there before the blood but because the blood which is the veil of the temple was

  77. now you can come straight up here on your own don't even need don't even need boulder

  78. that's the benefit because before that you needed someone else to go to God for you

  79. to atone your sins now you can come. Good God Almighty. Look at this verse 11,

  80. 2, 13 and chapter 2. He says don't forget somebody say don't forget. He says don't forget that you

  81. Gentiles oh you Gentiles you Gentiles we Gentiles that's us used to be outsiders somebody know what

  82. it's like to be an outsider that the difference between being an outsider and an insider and then

  83. everybody wanted to try to get to the inside but the Jews say look here before the blood you was a

  84. you were called uncircumcised heathens by the Jews who were so proud of their circumcision

  85. even though it affected only their bodies and not their heart in other words the physical

  86. circumcision of the body did not change the heart and so he said now look the blood

  87. that comes so that it would change your because if your heart changed your actions would change if

  88. your heart changed your behavior would change if your heart changed you'll hear God more than if

  89. your heart is still hot if your heart changed you receive the word of God and in your heart and it

  90. would take root if your this coming to church can be a formality because if this word ain't gonna

  91. change your heart you might well stay at home amen you could just zoom in or you could be at

  92. the be you could be somewhere else if you're not gonna let the word change your because if not you're

  93. gonna be still looked at as a heathen help me out clear he's gonna be looked at as a heathen

  94. on the outside looking in and see that's what the Jews thought they thought because they went

  95. through the physical act of circumcision that that was changing their lives when in reality

  96. they had to do that all the time they after the circumcision they had to take blood over and over

  97. and over again because their hearts were not changing something got to happen on the inside of you

  98. and when you realize that the blood of Jesus can change your heart and your content I'm gonna

  99. show you that it'll change the way you live amen now look at this verse 12 in those days

  100. you were living apart from Christ so when that is talked to you know in plural tense it don't

  101. have the effect so you have to personalize the scripture sometime to make it make sense to you

  102. because if I say in those days you were then that means who are you talking to in here

  103. but now what I want you to do and talking first person say in those days I was living apart from

  104. Christ amen have a different impact now when I say I

  105. I was excluded from citizenship from among the people of Israel and you did not know the covenant

  106. promises of God that God made to them you lived I lived in this world without God and without hope

  107. so before the blood of Christ came on the scene I was without God and without hope had no expectation

  108. of eternal life have had no expectation of the blessing that God had bestowed upon Abraham

  109. and the Jews I didn't even know that those same blessing was benefits toward me because of the

  110. blood and there are a lot of people that's walking around the day that's living hopelessly

  111. they don't know who they are they don't know where they belong and because they don't know

  112. who they are and where they belong then they live below their privileges because now they're

  113. living as if that is no I want you to have hope today because of the blood and then and if you

  114. don't have hope I hope that you leave here knowing beyond the shadow of doubt that the blood of Jesus

  115. has brought you near they lived in this world without God and without hope somebody say but now

  116. somebody shout but now he says now look but now you have been united with Christ Jesus

  117. once let me read this in first person once I was far away from God but now I have been brought

  118. near to him through the blood of

  119. so let me know that we all was afar from God but because of the blood now you've got the same

  120. level of access that the Jews got in fact your access is even better because some of them don't

  121. accept the blood they don't accept Jesus they don't accept the sacrifice that was made for them

  122. so I want to challenge you today look here why are you living afar from God when the blood has

  123. given you the opportunity to be brought near so my belief is you live apart from God not because

  124. of the blood not doing this work but because you make the choice to stay at a distance

  125. the choice is yours I got a choice I can come right down and sit next to mr jp right now and

  126. don't care what cliff think how he looked at me as an uncircumcised even it don't make no

  127. difference because now I know who I am and I know my relationship with my position has changed

  128. I'm no longer over there I'm right here in his

  129. man when you can get in the presence of God your whole attitude changed and I think a lot of people

  130. come to church and think that's because you walk in here you're in his presence look here you can

  131. get in his presence in your car before you you are to bring him here with you so that the worship

  132. experience will be pleasing to everybody because we all come with the same spirit on the inside of

  133. us knowing that we no longer are far from God but we have been brought you know children the closer

  134. they are to their parents the better they are you know the closer you got them to you you know

  135. they act different but when they grow up and get out on they

  136. they

  137. they have a tendency to do some things it is no different than you and your relationship with

  138. God when you go without studying when you go without prayer when you go without meditation when

  139. you go without doing the things in this world and you get a distance from God you start living

  140. y'all ain't gotta feel in the blank don't be afraid because I know what I'm talking about today

  141. you know and I believe that somebody needs to know you don't have to live apart from God

  142. because the blood has drawn you and what I need to help some of you with don't let other folk

  143. keep you from getting closer if you want to get closer there's gonna be some people out there who

  144. want to try to clot the blood that wasn't in my nose I just started that right y'all know that wasn't in my nose but it's sort of fear you know having

  145. the blood clotting out a good thing having someone hindering you from getting closer to God

  146. so now that we know that we have been brought near to God then it's important for us to realize

  147. that we have been justified so my my third point is because Jesus blood has been shared

  148. then now this being justified go back to what I was telling you about your rap sheet

  149. see Romans 5 chapter chapter 5 verse 6 through 11 this passage let us know that we have been

  150. justified by the blood we have been declared and made righteous in the sight of God because of Jesus

  151. blood she God declared you and me righteous in spite of our rap sheet in spite of you know

  152. the jacket was already full cliff but in spite of what was in that rap sheet God looked at the blood

  153. and decided to expunge everything out my record amen now look what I want you all to do right

  154. now just for the sake of your own life not mine I want you to just close your eyes just for a moment

  155. and visualize your rap sheet before the blood if you was honest with yourself I mean if you were

  156. just honest with yourself I mean if you were just truly honest with your spirit ain't gonna lie to

  157. you we said in the Bible said all night the spirit already know what your rap sheet looked like so

  158. you ain't revealing it to me you're just taking a look back and say oh man when I see and understand

  159. where God brought me from and what the blood did for me boy I got something to praise it for

  160. I you know like the song say I just want to praise it I just want to give it faith because

  161. I don't look back and even if I was a good kid I was still stuck up in some ways some of your

  162. rap sheets is not that long you didn't fornicate you didn't commit a dirty you was you know you

  163. was a virgin when you got married wasn't in your rap sheet but boy you had attitude couldn't nobody

  164. get along with you you were just all that and then some it was in your rap scene now I'm not

  165. trying to read in about his book but it's a good possibility some line was in your rap sheet

  166. some fornication was in your rap sheet some drunkenness was in your

  167. don't have don't don't don't have an effect over there I mean but but but it was in your rap sheet

  168. and see if you're still dealing with what's in your rap sheet then you don't understand the benefit

  169. of the she cuz I ought to be able to talk about your rap city you all be saying hey pass go ahead

  170. read it all that that is no longer me that's that you know I'm no longer that person because the

  171. better that charge still pending

  172. yeah you you gotta be quiet right now you you can't get up and do your little hole at the head

  173. yeah you cuz you gotta charge you may be found guilty cuz you don't know the blood

  174. but if you've been set

  175. let me read this now look at this in verse six roman chapter five because we've been justified

  176. we need to know that it says for now I want to make this first person again so I want you to

  177. read the first person as you read for yourself for when I was still without strength in other

  178. ways we were all at a point in our life we were just weak we were helpless man there was some

  179. stuff that had us so hooked up man we just couldn't every time it came around just helpless everybody

  180. told me you're gonna be alright when I was still in that state God was thinking about me when you

  181. were still in that state of helpless God was so he says when we were still without strength in

  182. do time at the right time cliff whenever God move on your life it is the right time he says

  183. christ died for the somebody said me you the ungodly I know some y'all think he was you the

  184. bible you the ungodly and christ died for you while you were still weak and undone

  185. that rap see let me know you rap see talking to you right now weak

  186. I ain't gonna never have another drink weak

  187. I ain't gonna never fornicate again I ain't gonna even touch you I ain't gonna look at weak

  188. man I'm gonna stop lying weak

  189. and ungodly

  190. over eating

  191. it's all right long without talking about the fornicators no let's let me talk about those

  192. that don't know how to push away weak and ungodly that's what the bible say weak

  193. so when God saw us in that state he knew that that wasn't the best place for us

  194. so while we were still weak and ungodly he was thinking about us because in due time

  195. he said christ died for the so y'all to be happy man he died because when I was weak

  196. yeah he died when I was you know fornicating he died when I was lying

  197. it would have been nice if he said get it right first Jesse but he said why are you still doing it

  198. in due time christ died for the ungodly

  199. yeah benefit now look at this he lets us know that you know they're seldom will somebody die for

  200. you clear even if you're okay they may even consider it they think you're a good dude

  201. but it's so rare you don't see it often so that's why he says for scaffolding for a righteous man

  202. for someone you know who's somewhere good will one die yet perhaps for a good man somebody who's

  203. especially good first jp i'm gonna consider you it's especially good somebody may even dare

  204. to die for you but if they have some second thought they may say jp you on your own man

  205. i thought i could do it for you but but bro why ain't you on your own man i thought i was gonna be

  206. able to take the bullet for you but you you're on your own man i know we'd rather die like that but

  207. i didn't know the bullet was gonna come so so scarcely would i die for you why i ain't gonna

  208. jump in front of and say i will be your hero now you ain't got but one hero that will end up you

  209. his name ain't boulder amen so so so don't make me your hero don't make the person who stand up here

  210. and teach you your hero because most people that stand up here ain't gonna sometimes we won't even

  211. pray for you so how in the world

  212. if i ain't praying for your diner's not the question

  213. verse they say but somebody say but well i was told the but you know

  214. you're gonna change the direction of the thought here he says now scarcely would cliff die for me

  215. but god somebody say god but god demonstrated his own love toward me toward you toward us

  216. and that while we were and while i was still sinning christ died for us christ died for me

  217. that's how you got to read that you know so so god didn't just talk about big game

  218. he showed up at the game and he put some skin in the game and then he allowed his son to die for us

  219. and i died for me while i was still while i was still

  220. yeah still chasing

  221. and you know just still lying still eating too much still he didn't say look you know boulder

  222. you ought to stop eating two pieces of pie before i let jesus die i was still eating too many calories

  223. but jesus now i'm just using myself for that but you got to still too

  224. yeah don't sit here and try to play me y'all i know you you got to you got to wrap she too

  225. why you were still i don't know poor one say still

  226. still not told y'all some of y'all don't got real quiet all right look here

  227. some of y'all still it's not as bad as others but it don't make no difference

  228. huh you were still

  229. and we ought to shout because we ought to be glad he let jesus die while we were still

  230. because it would have been worth it for jesus benefit if we had to get it right because he'll still be living

  231. right so he says now look in that while we were still sinners christ died for us then he says

  232. much more than having now been justified by his blood made right we shall be saved from

  233. wrath through him in other words i don't have to worry about condemnation i don't care how mad

  234. god get up in heaven he ain't gonna get mad at me because he see the blood he he may say a little

  235. something to me every now and then but he ain't gonna never talk to me about hell

  236. i ain't that guy that conversation ain't for me because the blood has sealed that conversation

  237. off forever and so therefore when i error i just tell him i'm sorry but i don't have to worry about

  238. saying okay i've made a mistake now he's gonna send me there now the blood

  239. keeps me from all wrath amen that ought to be something to shout about man you know

  240. you don't want to fall into the hands of an angry god and so therefore because we have the blood

  241. protecting us and we have Jesus blood that had been shared for look here that's a sense of freedom

  242. that you ought to enjoy that's a benefit that you ought to walk in and live in it so that when you

  243. walk and talk about the Lord you talk about it with confidence because you know hey that is

  244. there for no condemnation for those who are in

  245. so whether you believe in hell or not it don't make me no different if it is one i ain't gone

  246. amen so i don't even have to be preached to about no hell i just say that for folks who

  247. you know don't believe in it just let them know but for me that's a lesson i already got clear

  248. that's elementary that deal has been sealed and that deal ought to be sealed for each and every

  249. one of you you shouldn't have to wake up every morning being condemned because you're not sure

  250. what your relationship is like with god the blood

  251. saved us from wrath through him look at verse 10 he says for if somebody say if if we were

  252. enemies if when we were enemies we were reconciled to god through the death of his son much more

  253. haven't been reconciled we shall be saved by his life man if god did that for me cliff when i was

  254. an enemy and now that jesus have justified me and reconciled me back to god and i'm god's friend

  255. why would god kill his why would god why would you kill your

  256. he didn't kill me went out of the enemy so why in the world when he killed me now that i'm his

  257. friend so now i walk around with a benefit that hey i am a friend of i don't have to worry about

  258. him just slapping me around and condemning me why because i'm his friend but with that friendship

  259. come responsibility i try to live in a way that please him but at the same time i don't live

  260. in fear of being backhand by god because i'm his

  261. like your children they don't have to live in fear of being backhand by you when they are your

  262. no i know some y'all don't backhand your friend you're not you're not you that example

  263. but they don't have to you don't get your little ruler or whatever you don't time out of them

  264. you know you don't take the toys they got to walk in that fear when they know that they are no longer

  265. condemned by you because they're your friend

  266. now i know that go against popular teaching your children they're supposed to be your friend

  267. because sometimes friends don't respect you like this year but i would much rather have your children

  268. be your friend than to be your friend

  269. he said now now that we no longer his enemies and that we've been brought there and reconciled

  270. to make friend look at verse 11 says now and not only that but we also somebody to rejoice

  271. we rejoice in god through our lord jesus christ through whom we have now received

  272. reconciliation so so the writer is telling us that when you realize that your god's friend

  273. that's a shouting revelation

  274. i think in my mind that i'm thoughts

  275. i'm supposed to

  276. see it looks like he ain't got no friends right here

  277. because his friend is scared to read so can i just take a pause right here because i don't have

  278. one more text and just let y'all have a pause moment of praise moment with your friend because

  279. you got a friend who has forgiven you of your sin he has reconciled you because of the blood

  280. and therefore he is worthy of your praise he's worthy of your adoration it is not too much to

  281. praise your friend it's not too much to ask of you to clap your hands for your friend it's not too

  282. much to ask you to say hallelujah for your friend to say thank you for saving me to your friend

  283. hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah see those of you who see sometimes i have to make things like this

  284. out in the social media world everybody is fighting for friends

  285. they brag about how many likes i got i got i'm in a friend i got a little dog about red

  286. a friend you don't even really know and can't really do nothing for you and you come to church

  287. your son i ain't trying to guilt you right here because your conscious i'll be speaking to you

  288. and you come to church your son and got a friend that sacrificed his life

  289. and we tell ourselves it don't take all that and we know that our friend loved to be praised

  290. he loved to be magnified he loved to be glorified he didn't have his to praise up his people

  291. so it shouldn't be nothing wrong with saying thank you when i was a little boy man my grandmom and

  292. i'm proud of man if you can't say nothing else to somebody that has done something for you that

  293. leaf just say thank you that's enough sometimes you just gotta say and every now and then you

  294. ought to say with some emphasis like you really are thank you because you know the benefit of the

  295. blood that was shared for you don't live below your privileges all because you're too proud to say

  296. thank you god i thank you when i with my imagination look back at that rap sheet

  297. that you had on me i say

  298. all i have to do is just look at all them charges oh man he had that on me had that on

  299. me first degree on that one second degree on that mr. meaner right there but look here

  300. that's murder right there that that's that was a capital when you did that that was a capital

  301. see somebody ought to got some hold and i let y'all don't forget what y'all rap

  302. see look the lez least look like but look at i'm trying to tell you you gotta tell him thank you

  303. that you have been freed up from all those charges that was held against you

  304. and when i understand that they're not good look here the beauty of that is now

  305. nobody can bring those charges up in a way that's gonna make me feel guilty because i know

  306. i know i know i know i know i know that he has exonerated me of all those charges because of the

  307. cause of the blood that's a benefit so therefore i live in this freedom major i don't have to

  308. walk around bound up i hope major don't go and look at my past and see some of my old posts out there

  309. of finding what i did when i was in high school baby dig all you want whatever you see you ain't

  310. gonna see a lot because look here i've been freed up the god then just took it out the other record

  311. and therefore it don't make me no different if you sniff it out you wasted your time because

  312. it's not gonna hold me the blood them freed me up from people people don't get next to me like that

  313. no more i could care less what people think because i know what the blood has oh lord let me get back

  314. to my lessons i went forward to get that day because some people need and some of you all need to be

  315. freed up people are holding too much against you and you come to church every Sunday you pray you

  316. draw that but you still walk around like you guilty man you better you better find out who you are

  317. and the lord is start living like you free start acting like you free start talking like

  318. all i'm doing is saying i'm gonna agree with what god say about me and not what somebody else say

  319. people will always say something but whatever they say don't mean nothing because they have no

  320. condemning power the power to condemn has been covered by the blood oh let me move on let me

  321. move on because i wasn't supposed to get excited right there so this last part i guess i got excited

  322. the right play because that was the time we could enjoy but let me just go over here to Hebrews to

  323. close out Hebrews chapter nine this is another one of those things that you're going to have to

  324. kind of get a good picture of what was going on under the old system see this passage let us know

  325. that Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to be offered for our sin not over and over but once and for all

  326. and he did that with his blood so the blood of christ purify or cleanse our conscience

  327. from sinful deeds in other words the blood of jesus can transform our minds so that we can distinguish

  328. what is morally good and bad the blood cleans up up on the inside by the power of the Holy Spirit

  329. making us aware of our thoughts that come into our mind that will try to get us to go back to where

  330. God has delivered us from so every now and then when i want to think about what i used to be

  331. revisit that rap sheet the blood the blood say hey you ain't got no business going back there

  332. you've been set free so don't take your mind back somewhere where you have been set

  333. because most of the things that cause us problems in life starting out

  334. if you can let the blood cleanse your mind cleanse the way you think it'll change the way you live

  335. you're conducting your character to resolve so what's in your head amen so look at this and i'm

  336. in hebrus chapter 9 verse 11 through 14 and i'm done he says now look so christ has become

  337. the high priest over all good things that have come in other words hebrus is a comparative study

  338. everything that the writer was right he was comparing the old to the new and he's saying now

  339. this old priesthood christ is better than that the priesthood the errand and the levites ran

  340. where they had to go out and sacrifice animals over and over and over and then offer up a sin

  341. offering for themselves that day is he's the priest over all good things that have come not

  342. not this coming but have come now he has entered the greater and more perfect tapernacle in heaven

  343. which was not made by human hand or and is not part of the creative world in other words

  344. the high priest had to come behind the veil once a year in an earthly temple like this house this

  345. church and offer up animals blood he said now there's a better tabernacle than this earthly

  346. tabernacle and jesus didn't come to this earthly tabernacle to give his blood he went back to the

  347. half tabernacle in heaven and laid his blood on the altar there for you that sacrifices much better

  348. than the blood of a goat or a ram or a bull or a dove that sacrifice you got to realize you're

  349. living under a better covenant a better sacrifice you got to act like you know that because the blood

  350. gave you a better deal our deal is better than the old deal so every time we go out there and live

  351. beneath our privileges it's almost like we sacrifice in Jesus over again and he said that he was

  352. sacrificed once so now you ought to think about man why am I putting Jesus back on the cross

  353. why am I going to let this extra piece of power put Jesus back on the cross why am I going to

  354. let this movie that got all this pornography in it put Jesus why am I going to let this extra

  355. drink of alcohol that I know going to call me to go out my mind put Jesus

  356. back on the cross I'm just trying to make you think right now because if you won't think about

  357. your life you ain't gonna change because you're gonna settle for what you're comfortable with

  358. but every now and then you need to be reminded that the blood was shed for you for a reason

  359. you got a better deal now and because we got a better deal we got to live

  360. we still live in under the influence of this created world

  361. and it takes the blood of Jesus to help you navigate your way through this created world

  362. that is changing culturally every day and if you don't understand your position in this created

  363. world you will get caught up with some of the change

  364. not knowing that the blood has cleansed you

  365. I know it's gonna get quiet right there man I know that's why I ain't yelling I know

  366. because you're thinking now I'm glad you're thinking right now you're thinking right now

  367. I hope that was an evocative moment for you that you look deeper that rap sheet look deeper

  368. this world that we live in and say God let me take advantage of the blood that was shed for me

  369. he says with his own blood verse 12 not the blood of goats and calves he entered to the

  370. most holy place what I told you earlier once for all time and secured our redemption that that word

  371. is again for that's why I told you I ain't worry about hell and you know condemnation

  372. forever means forever forever is always

  373. forever I'm forever redeemed that wasn't no job that Jesus didn't do perfectly the

  374. Bible said he did it perfectly so therefore I'm perfectly redeemed I ain't going to hell

  375. amen whether you believe in that I ain't going there I've been redeemed for

  376. let me finish this up verse 13 he says under the old system I say old system the old system

  377. the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people bodies

  378. from ceremonial impurity in other words all you was working on was the outer man

  379. you was cleaning up the outer man so we take blood sacrifice the animal sprinkle it all over

  380. the altar over you or whatever put some ashes on you and now you will consider ceremonially clean

  381. but that didn't last till you took a shower once you go wash it off there's no lasting power in

  382. it just like there's no lasting power in baptism water we do that as a ceremony but if your heart

  383. don't change in the water before you get in the water you're going to come up out the water and

  384. once you draw off that little same demon that was in you before you went in

  385. he there because you thought that the ceremony just going to take that desire from you the

  386. ceremony going to know the ceremony just initiate you into the body but after you come out the water

  387. now you got to let the spirit work on that because until he started working on the inside the water

  388. is just a four he says it cleanses people's bodies from ceremonial impurity look at verse 14 last

  389. word he said just think somebody say just think now he wants you to just think about now if if

  390. they thought that made them clean just think just think just let your mind go for a moment and

  391. paint something on your brain and in your head how you see this playing out just don't turn your

  392. brain off and tune out and go somewhere else right now just Todd he said just think right now

  393. something ought to be running through your head that you're thinking about what's significance

  394. that Jesus blood played my life just if you don't know how to think about the blood you're not

  395. gonna live under the benefits just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify or cleanse

  396. our conscious our conscious well conscious is the part of that thinking process that

  397. so if I think about what Jesus has done then that blood can cleanse my conscious so when some bad

  398. thoughts come in I can plead the blood over that thought so that I don't try to act out what I've been

  399. you got to get your conscious in line with this word of God you got to get your mind in line with

  400. this word of God and you got to plead the blood of Jesus over your mind because your mind still

  401. remember your rap sheet your mind know what's in the jacket your mind know what they got on you

  402. they mind be your mind know how many cases you had pinned them you know me you know that was some

  403. detective sitting there they say I just caught a case today that Veronica and when I opened up her

  404. jacket your mind know what he saw but because of the blood of Jesus your conscious I don't care

  405. what he saw because I know that I have been redeemed from all that was in there and so therefore

  406. when my mind want to go back to that I have to plead the blood so that my conscious will stay

  407. in line with what God would have me now you are letting too much that's out there on social media

  408. get into your conscious mind and whatever gets in front of your conscious mind and start you to

  409. thinking about it you're gonna start acting on what you've been thinking so now this blood is

  410. supposed to say that content I cannot read because that content go contrary to what the blood represents

  411. so if you had that read in all kind of content and your spirit is never quick I submit to you

  412. that blood doesn't stop running your conscious is dead you no longer sense and feel the things of

  413. God moved through your spirit because you have become immune to what you're reading now and now

  414. that has become a part of you again I know y'all don't want to hear that today what they got this

  415. first Sunday this is the blood I said yeah you're saying be forgiven but the devil's still trying to

  416. get your mind so purify our conscious from sin for these so that I can worship the living God so it

  417. looked like to me he said we but I put either clip it's hard to worship God when your conscious is

  418. all jacked up you come in the word trying to get through to your conscious beating you down you

  419. ain't got no business here today you know what you did last week you were you here time out conscious

  420. the blood I'm here to worship now and because I know what he's done for me I'm not gonna let you

  421. miss this moment in his presence I'm gonna enjoy this because I came to feel something I came to

  422. feel some I came to experience I'm not gonna let my conscious mind keep me from feeling what God

  423. would help me to feel all because I'm still dealing with guilt and the pain of sin

  424. so those sins for these he didn't say they weren't gonna come they're gonna always come

  425. but now your mind has been renewed been transformed and so therefore we plead the blood of Jesus

  426. to help us with the things that come and attack our

  427. so that we can worship the living God that's the whole purpose of coming to church you come

  428. in at home wherever you are you're just supposed to be a worship moment you're supposed to be worshiping

  429. God kidding some from his word feeling like you're in his presence so this ain't just wasted time in

  430. your life this is a time that you set apart you ought to get something out of time because you

  431. can't get this time back so you got to take advantage of the moments that you have now

  432. because once this moment is over it is that's why the world is telling people right now and they

  433. bind it to but they won't buy them to you got to live in the that's the going thing when I'm looking

  434. out there on the Netflix and I'm gonna live in them but what are they talking about but most of

  435. time when you hear them say that just look what they're trying to live in and I'm just trying to

  436. tell you I want you to live in the base upon where you are oh god I'm done he says by the power of

  437. the eternal spirit Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins the blood of

  438. Jesus has benefits and therefore when you understand and know that he is your faithful high priest

  439. and his sacrifice was perfect you no longer have to bear the guilt the staying the pain and all that

  440. stuff that come with your past life your past life is holding you back because your past life

  441. is still in your head you can't get over what happened to you 10 years ago 20 years ago and

  442. I'm here to say that the blood is supposed to help you deal with your past and cleanse your mind so

  443. that I don't forget what happened to me in my past but I no longer have the pain that's associated

  444. with my past I remember every good and bad thing I've done for the most part but when I think about

  445. those things now I no longer feel guilty I no longer feel pain by those things even though they

  446. I may have hurt somebody when I did it but God has forgiven me don't mean that person has but the

  447. one who count has now if I did things right I should have went back to that person and said hey

  448. let's make it right and they don't accept the power that's fine but that person ain't gonna be

  449. the walker I said well you know he did that to me and then I was gonna gotta go oh man I'm guilty

  450. again feel bad I ain't feeling bad that's one area I ain't feeling bad in right there because look

  451. here my conscious mind has been cleansed with the blood of Jesus so I don't care what's the

  452. version of Larry Bowden you go and get Larry Bowden 15 Larry Bowden 25 35 45 55 65 whichever

  453. version you want to go and get I'm gonna put the blood on it I don't kill he just sound too

  454. yeah well I'm just telling that you ought to be sounding because I'm not gonna live the rest of

  455. my life when people talking about me put me on a guilt you can't help nobody if you walking around

  456. feeling guilty about every little thing that you done did 20 years ago how you're gonna help and

  457. deliver somebody from something when you have them allowed the blood of Jesus to deliver you

  458. so I hope you got something out of today's message there's some benefits to the blood

  459. give the Lord a hand cup of praise if you will hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

  460. we thank God for the blood of Jesus every head body every eye closed we have several appeals for

  461. you my first appeal is for salvation if you're here and you never made Jesus the Lord of your life

  462. and you want to give your life to him on today if you're online or you're in the house I just ask

  463. if you're here raise your hand someone will minister to you if you're online I just asked

  464. you send us an instant message to let us know and we will gladly get in contact with you because we

  465. believe that everybody ought to know who Jesus is everybody ought to know that Jesus came to die

  466. for us while we were yet still sinning so if you are there thinking that you got to get some things

  467. right because that's a common clause the enemy say but once I get it right once you get it right

  468. then you can give your life to the Lord now you ain't gonna get it right not on your own not without

  469. his help because you're weak and helpless but if you just trust him he can help you get it right

  470. and that starts with accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior so if that is you again I just

  471. ask if you just give us a call here to church 8508 6238 999 or if you're in the house just raise

  472. your hand just raise your hand say yes pastor I want to give my life to the Lord my second appeal is

  473. for new members if you're here and you're looking for a church home and the spirit of God is speaking

  474. to your heart and saying striving for perfection ministry is the place for you true we love to

  475. have you as a part of this body but we can continue to strengthen you and so that you will walk up

  476. right before God to be more and more like Jesus that is our goal that is our aim is to to make sure

  477. that you're nurtured and brought up in the truth of God's word if this is where you think the Lord

  478. is leading you please raise your hand if you're in the house if you're online just give us a call

  479. please raise your hand please raise your hand please raise your hand

  480. then my third appeal is for the baptism of the Holy Spirit if you're here and you want to know

  481. more about the gift of the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit with evidence speaking other times if

  482. that is you and you want to know more please raise your hand we have ministers that will share

  483. information with you then my fourth and final appeal is for our altar time for prayer time or

  484. you can pray at your seats or you now you can come if you want to come to the altar around the wall

  485. if we have we got ministers in the house who will gladly pray with you if that's what you desire

  486. but pray your line of communication with a holy God and because the veil of the temple has been

  487. rent you can go to him any kind of anytime you want to in your own way so if you got a prayer

  488. concern you may want to intercede on someone else for heaven that the spirit of God is speaking to

  489. your heart don't don't miss this moment where you may be able to intercede for someone please be

  490. obedient to your spirit if you got a prayer concern you got a prayer need please come at this time

  491. please come at this time you want to stand at your seats you can do that also please come

  492. please come because we believe that the fervent prayers of the righteous avail it much

  493. hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

  494. even if you're seated at your seat i just ask that you

  495. focus on things and things that you could be praying for not for yourself just lift up

  496. your neighbor concerns intercede for someone don't miss this moment when we're trying to communicate

  497. with our God hallelujah we thank you Lord Jesus we thank you for the benefits in

  498. the and the ability God to come back before you hallelujah hallelujah let us pray eternal

  499. God our Father we thank you for your word that is gone for today God we realize that that word

  500. has got to get into our heart and in our minds so that we will live in accordance with us that I

  501. thank you for reminding us just how precious the blood of Jesus is it was a perfect sacrifice

  502. for all of our sins one time and for all so God we thank you for counting us worthy you count us

  503. valuable enough to let Jesus die just for us I truly believe that if heaven rejoiced because

  504. one sinner gives their life to the Lord I believe Jesus would have died just for one person on this

  505. earth and so God I thank you for letting him die for all of us so that we could have a way back to

  506. you and Father we just promise that we're not going to take for granted this relationship that we

  507. have with you because of him we're not going to live below our privileges God so we're going to

  508. walk in the favor and the honor that you have bestowed upon us and God I pray that you keep our

  509. minds and things focused on you so that as our old nature try to re-reach up in our lives that the

  510. blood of Jesus will cleanse us from that thought that acts in that deep whatever it is God we

  511. plead the blood of Jesus that was shed for us and God when it's all said and done we give you all

  512. praise honor and glory in Jesus name we pray that everybody say amen say amen again amen give the

  513. Lord a hand cup of praise if you will thank you Jesus thank you Lord amen amen this time

  514. it been the first Sunday