It Had To Be The Blood // God Chose You (Part 8) // Pastor Charles Metcalf

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Is are you ready for the Word? All right?

Hebrews chapter number ten. Hebrews Chapter number ten is where

it will be. We're gonna read two pieces of scripture.

It's both in Hebrews. So if you got a Bible, you.

Ain't got to flip a bunch.

But yeah, Hebrews chapter ten. We're gonna read this. If

you gotta say I.

Got it, there you go.

Hebrews chapter ten.

The old system under the Law of Moses was only

a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come,

not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system

were repeated.

Again and again, year after year, but they were never

able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.

If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would

have stopped, for the worshippers would have been purified once

for all time. Their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.

But instead those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins

year after year, For it is not possible for the

blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Hebrews

chapter nine, verse eleven says this, So Christ has now

become the high priest over all good things. He has

entered the greater and more perfect tabernacle, which was not

made by human hands, not a part of this created world.

For with his own blood, not the blood of goats

and calves, he entered the most holy place once and

for all, and secured our redemption forever.

The title of this sermon, if you're taking notes, write

it down.

It had to be the blood. It had to be

the blood. Lord, I thank you so much this morning,

may we get a revelation of the value and significance

and the gift that your blood was to us.

It's the name of Jesus, we pray. And everybody said amen. Oh.

Now, depending on if you grew up in church or not,

people start talking about the blood of Jesus, its a

little weird. And let me just acknowledge this. There's a

lot of stuff we do in church that church people

act like ain't weird, but definitely is weird.

Just a lot of stuff.

Certain things would be saying you done met people.

You're like, how you doing, blessed? How you're favored servant

of the Lord most High God? Lifted up with Jehovah.

Job.

They just start saying something like, I don't know what

you're saying.

I just asked if I have piece.

Of gum, and you're like, Hallelujah, out to God, praise

and we thank you for the blessed God. He's like, okay,

I was talking to God this past week, super kind God.

But he was saying glory to God every two seconds.

I was like, how you doing, man, He's like, glory

to God.

Just I'm like okay.

And then he hit another glory to God and say, hey, bro,

you only get three glory to God's to day.

He got a chill. Okay. I'm just.

But there's a lot of stuff in the Bible that

we kind of skip over as believers. And one it's

because we ain't never really thought about it, or are

we afraid that if we start thinking about it, we

might spiral, and so we just act like it's not there.

As a matter of fact.

One idea I have and I started thinking of what

I want my next book to be. And one idea

I have is based on some Bible studies we did

here at the campus. But the idea is called asking

for a Friend, and the idea is there's a lot

of questions that we have of the Bible that we

don't be asking because it's kind of crazy what's going on.

Let's say, for example, how many you ever.

Heard of Abraham and Isaac in the Bible?

Just to show of hands, like, yeah, I know Abraham. Okay,

God asked Abraham to kill his son. That's weird, super weird.

But when I said Abraham and I was like, oh, yeah,

you mean the guy that tried to kill his son.

God asked me to do that. Yeah, super casual, super weird.

And of course, you.

Know, last minute, a little ram in the bush, like

I just kidding, don't do it.

I think that's where that came from.

He's like, I'm just kidding.

So it's like, no, he didn't really ask him to

do it. It was a test.

He's like, why did them testing with a scan tron

not his son?

That's a.

Come on.

Some of y'all missed them scan trouns. I'm not even

gonna lie to you. I took my act. I started

off strong my act. That's the last time I held

a scan trunk I had. But I had took my

act and I went really strong in the first couple pages.

Then I got tired.

What I do? I just hit all s's on the

rest of that joint. I knew I wouldn't going to college.

Who are playing? Come on, you better get out of here.

Mama had to be up in that act col. I'm like, Mama,

come on, get out of here. What are we doing?

Anyways? What was I talking about? Oh yeah, God test

in Abraham.

There's just a lot of stuff in church that we

don't talk about.

It's kind of crazy. Then one of those one of

the most central ideas of Scripture is the blood of Jesus.

Now we sang all these songs about the blood of Jesus,

and y'all be like, man, the worst em really locked in.

We told them.

I told them, seeing those songs, I'm like, hey, we're

doing blood Jesus. It'd be grateful you sing about the

blood Jesus.

But some of you in those songs were balling your

eyes out. Some of you in those songs were like,

what are we doing what's going on. It's because if

you do not understand the value of the Blood of Jesus.

If you don't understand, I'm gonna jump a little bit

to the.

End of my sermon. Here's what I've realized.

You will never understand the value of God choosing you

if you don't understand how much it costs Him to

choose you. See, we don't think about it this way.

We think, oh, yeah, God chose me, It's not that

big of a deal. He could have chose anybody. What

you don't understand is how much it cost him to

choose you, how much it cost him to stay with you,

how much it cost him to keep giving you chance

after chance, and grace after grace and mercy after mercy.

If you do not.

Understand the blood of Jesus, you cannot understand how valuable

it is that you've been chosen by Him. We spent

seven weeks talking about how important you are and how

much God loves you, and how much value He's placed.

On your life.

And I got to the end of this series and realized,

if we do not talk about the Blood.

Of Jesus, you will miss the entire gospel. This is

the idea.

It's so interesting because I was looking on on YouTube.

There's not a ton of sermons about the Blood of Jesus.

But if you do not talk about the Blood of Jesus,

you cannot to ever understand.

The gospel message of Jesus.

It is the central whole concept of it. Be like

driving your car and not knowing there was a gas pedal.

That's how essential it is. Understanding and knowing what the

Blood of Jesus means is like driving a car not

knowing there's a gas pedal and still trying to figure

out what the steering wheel does. But for some reason

we don't talk about it. Well, it's just a little weird,

and we empires what's going on now.

It's just strange.

But if you don't understand this, if you don't understand

the value of this, you will never try find the

true gratitude and fuel you need to live the life

He's called.

You to live.

I want you to write this down if you're taking notes.

The power to live.

The life you dream of is only found when you

understand the purpose, the promise, and the power of the

Blood of Jesus.

You are trying to live everything you're trying.

To do because I know some of us feel like

the blood Jesus what I got.

To do with me every day.

I'm telling you, if you do not understand the gift

that this is in your life, you will never find

the true power, the purpose that you need to live

the life.

He's called you to live.

I was thinking about it, and you know, when you

get saved, there is classes and things you go to

and things you start hearing about. And if you were

to give your life to Jesus and go up to

anybody and ask them, all right, what do I need

to do and what do I need to know? I

would be interested to see how quickly some up would

someone would bring up the Blood of Jesus to a

new believer. I know they bring up a good worship playlist,

they bring up reach a Bible, they bring up pray,

they bring up go to a group.

I would argue, one.

Of the first things we should explain is how valuable

what you got really is, because if you do not

understand the value of it, it will be drastically difficult

and very very hard for you to understand how to

take care of it. All right, I'm gonna tell you

a story don't know if I was gonna tell a

story about a him. Okay, growing up, I always loved watches.

My dad had watches growing up, and I just really

liked it. As a matter of fact, one of the

first watches I got my dad. In our first family photos,

my mom and dad, they were dressed up all nights.

I remember by dad telling me, he said, we went

to J. C.

Penny's to take our family photos. When I was one

years old. My dad and mom had went to Goodwill

and got him a suit in a nice dress, and

my dad bought a Mickey Mouse watch and he put

that Mickey Mouse watch on and he's wearing a first

family photo. I'm sitting there in the photo. And so

from that moment, I always liked watches. Well, there's definitely

different levels of watches. Anybody who know this, You may

not know nothing about watches, but you know.

I know some levels of watches.

Well, there's a watch called a Rolex. What Relexes are expensive.

I always wanted a Rowlex, but you know, my bank

account didn't want a Rowlex. It was a different difference

between those two things.

I'll never forget.

It was a friend I had and I had this

one watch. I still wear it to this day.

I had this watch.

It looked like it was a Rolex, but it was

not a Rolex. I got it from we were getting

our watch from the good Will. I guess I got

my watch from the good Will and.

The clasp was broken. So I would take the watch.

Onto myself every day, like I would take it off,

tape it on, and then every day I'd have to

untape it and take it off, and.

I'll never forget.

I had this friend come to me and he was like,

hey man, I'm gonna give you something.

I was like, all right.

He sat down and he just told He gave this long,

beautiful thing about how much you know I've helped him

and all these different things, and it's like so I

really felt like I wanted to give you this watch.

And I was like okay, And he pulled out this box.

Now I'll study watch us. And once I saw this.

Box, I thought, oh shit.

I opened up the box. It was a Rolex. This

watch I'm wearing right here now.

Some of y'all, because some of y'all already know, y'all

see preachers go down there.

Money and spence.

My friend gave me just like, be quiet, get out

of here. It's your little YouTube channel.

Well I see he's wearing an expensive watch. Yeah, I

am take a picture. My friend gave it to me. Scrum.

I ain't worried about you.

That's so dumb, such a stupid thing. Anyways, it makes

you feel any better. These shoes are thrifted, that's so dupe.

But because I know how much the watch costs, even

though it was a gift, how I treat it is

based upon not that it was a gift to me,

but my understanding of how.

Much he had to pay for it.

So there are some watches when I can't find it,

I'm like, oh, I find a Mickey Mouse watch later,

or I'll just go on Amazon and get one for

twelve dollars.

You can ask my walk my wife.

Anytime I cannot find this watch, I'll be having my

kids in a line, like lined up against the wall,

which one of y'all took my watch.

I'll be split them up, interviewing them in different rooms,

like where was it?

I know you had it, they told me you took it,

trying to turn them.

Against each other.

Why, because the value of it has me caring for

it In a certain way. In the same way, you

will never understand how valuable your purpose is if you

do not understand what God paid for your purpose, the

value that is placed on your life by what He

paid for it. That's how we understand value is what

value is? What are you willing to.

Pay for it? That's how we know it's nice.

If you don't talk about the Blood of Jesus, you

don't understand what God did for you. It makes sense

why you would not live with the conviction and the

passion and the boldness that He's trying to give you

because you don't understand how much it cost. It's just purpose.

So it's just life. Oh, it's just it's just whatever. No,

let me tell you something. It was expensive. I'm gonna

do something for a second. I love teaching the Bible study,

and so we gonna get into our Bible study teaching

vibe real quick. So I'm gonna bring up the school

real quick. I'm gonna give you four terms and were

gonna learn about the Blood of Jesus.

Are you ready?

First word you need to know if you're gonna understand

the Blood of Jesus, the first thing you gotta understand.

Is sin, sin. We gotta talk about sin. I don't know.

Everybody don't want to talk about sin. Saying what's sin

send me feel weird. I'm a sinner?

Oh I ain't no sinner. Yes you are. We all sinners.

Sinner means you ever made a mistake ever in your life.

That's all it means.

Sin.

You have to understand sin. Sin is anything that goes

against God's will, intention, and design for your life, and.

It takes from your life.

I gave you an official defintie anything that goes against

God's will, design, or intention, and it separates us from

His presence. Sin, the original word, is an archery term.

It means if you were shooting a bow and arrow

and you didn't hit exactly in the middle of the target,

you sinned. You missed. All sin means is you missed.

You missed being kind to your friend, You missed doing

what you said you were going to do. You missed

having a kind thought towards your neighbor. We all sin,

the Bible.

Says, for all have sinned and fallen short of the

glory of God. So we have sin, then we have holiness.

This other word.

You need to understand holiness. God is holy. That means

completely set apart. This is the definition I wrote down holiness.

God's absolute uniqueness, purity, and perfection that sets him apart.

He is utterly other, morally flawless, and infinitely glorious.

So you have our sin.

We sin, we make mistakes, we do things we don't

want to do.

We sin.

Then you have God's holiness, which because He is so perfect,

so holy, so glorious, he cannot be close to or

associated with sin.

He cannot not like. It's kind of like a no,

It's like oil and water. It don't mix. He is

the sun.

If sin gets too close, it burns up, catches on fire.

Go with me, okay.

Then we have this word righteous. Get you another dirt,

Write down all these words. You gonna go home and

study all these words twenty points if you remember all

four when you get here next week. Righteousness the state

of being in right standing with God and therefore having

access to the blessing of a relationship with Him.

May have heard this word, you may not.

Righteous means I am in good standing with God. I

am in good standing, I'm righteous, I am in the

right place. You have sin, you have holiness, You have righteousness.

The last word you need to understand is atonement. Atonement.

What is this word?

Payment made to cover sin, restoring the relationship between God

and humanity.

I'm gonna lay this out for you. If you have

a business and you have a business card.

And you get that card to somebody and they just.

Go start buying stuff like crazy at some point, let's

say it's a credit card.

What's happening is they are buying stuff like crazy, stuff

they not supposed to be buying, and they buying all

this stuff.

And the more they buying, you like, hey, bro, what

are you doing. I'm just buying stuff. I'm thought.

What happens is you get in bad standing with the

credit card company and they gonna call you, hey, we

see your card ten thousand dollars at Sam's Club. Were

gonna need that money. Atonement is I don't care who

ran up the bill. Somebody's gotta pay for it. Somebody's

gotta pay for it.

Here's what happens.

I'm trying to teach you, because we're gonna land somewhere.

When you sin, when you make a mistake, it is

a bill and someone has to pay.

Because God is holy.

If you want to get back over here with me,

if you want to talk to me, if you want

to hear my voice, if you want to understand my presence,

if you want to have that moment where we were

just singing and you lifted your hands and you start

your eyes starting to well up with tears, that moment

right there, somebody had to pay for that. Somebody had

to pay for every mistake. So there's sin, there is

God's holiness, and if you want to be righteous, someone

has to atone.

And here's why you have to understand.

The blood of Jesus, because without the blood of Jesus,

there's a list of thousands of things that people used

to have to do to close this gap. I'm gonna

teach you some of these, because again I'm trying, you

will never Here's here's the example. It's like if you

a kid and your parents is rich, and you think

y'all always been rich, and your daddy have to show you, hey, brother,

first of all, you ain't rich.

I'm rich. You have to tell the first of all,

and let me show you.

Let me take you back to where you were born,

let me show.

You where you go.

This is what I'm trying to do today. We live

in the richness of God's grace. But if you don't

understand how it used to be, how much it used

to cost, you will never be able to appreciate this.

So I'm gonna give you seven things. These aren't up

on a screen. This is just seven things. You can

write down one or none of them. But this would

be the state if it had not been for the

blood of Jesus.

Number one, endless animal sacrifices, endless.

Now some of y'all, like Charles had just for the

old times.

No, you would have goats in your backyard right now,

because to come to church today you would have had

to bring a goat, and you wouldn't have been in

this room. You would have been out there, and I

would have had to walk out there as a pastor.

Of a priest.

Get your goats, come in here and ask God to

forgive you for all of them stuff you did one

at a time.

I take you go I come in here, sacrifice.

It, bring back out next, get your goat, come back in.

You don't get to worship, you don't get to lift

your hands, you don't feel the presence of God.

You don't get to talk to God for yourself. Forget that.

No way, Jose, you ain't talking to God. You are

not a priest. You have not gone through the rituals,

you have not done the things.

You weren't chosen because only certain people were chosen. You

don't get to be chosen. This whole sermon series does

not exist because you're not chosen.

Only the Levites are chosen.

So any goosebumps you get that time you felt like

you heard God's voice, throw it out the window because

you have to give animals to pay for the debt.

Your sin is racking up every single day.

And it's not just once a week, it's not once

a year, it's every day of your life. Bring a goat,

sacrifice it, kill it, do it once a year, once

a day. Why Because only momentarily can you not feel

guilty until tomorrow when you wake up and you feel

guilty again, until you sacrifice another goat. Endless the rest

of your life trying to get what God now gives

you in an instant.

You don't get that no more.

No, you don't get to come into the presence of God.

You don't get to feel his presence, you don't get

to hear his voice.

No, you don't at all, because you've.

Got to pay for what you did, because it's your fault,

nobody else's, and you get what you deserve, endless animal sacrifices.

The high priest is your only access to God, so

you don't get to just start talking to God.

You don't get to do that. Hey God, Yeah, that

don't exist. If you want to talk to God, you

got to go talk to a priest.

That's the only way God hears you. You got to

go talk to the priest if you want to have

any conversation with God.

If it had not been for the blood.

Of Jesus, Number three, six hundred and thirteen laws you

got to follow every single day.

Don't mess up.

One of them are about the clothing you're wearing and

whether or not the twines have been mixed together with

cotton or silk. Look at all your tags, figure out

if there's any mixed cottons. Don't wear anything that is mixed.

If you do, you are sinful, unrighteous. Get out of

the camp. Get out of the camp. You don't get

to come back until you go get another sacrifice on

top of the daily sacrifice you do to bring a

different one so God can even get close to you.

You don't get to wear your favorite clothes.

No, you get to p You gotta find somewhere that

is just single strand do not mess with it, because

if you miss one law, you're unrighteous. One Bible Satan

says in James two nineteen that if you mess up

one of them, you might as well.

Have done all of them.

I'm trying to paint a picture of you to understand

we living in grace now, but if it wasn't for

his blood, this would be what we do today.

Guilt. Listen to this. One.

Guilt is recycled, never removed.

Your house ever be.

Really dirty, and you don't actually clean it, but you rearrange.

The mess to make it look more orderly. Come on,

some of you are your car.

You don't actually throw away everything, but you just got

everything kind of like okay, you know the McDonald's boxes

in this corner and in a trash. This is what

would happen with your guilt. The guilt was always there,

but momentarily the blood of that animal would just lift

it a little bit. Never truly being able to be

free from the guilts that your sin produces something you

feel like man I don't feel guilty. At some point

the life you live it starts to take from you.

I don't care who you are, and this is just

a quick take on culture.

Culture would try to sell you.

You can do whatever you want, drink whatever you want,

smoke whatever.

You want, have sex with whoever you want, and you

can just live your life. It don't matter.

It's just not true. You lie into yourself. Get out

of here. Love you, and that's stupid.

You don't know who you are.

You feel embarrassed the things you've done, you don't want

to talk about it, and you're not proud of what

you're doing.

At some point, it.

Reaches the spot where you are so empty you have

to take more drugs, have sex with more people, have

better parties.

Stop lying to me and you.

You're gonna have to keep doing that until you either

overdose and die or you realize that stuff has nothing

for you.

And you need to come to Jesus. It's the truth.

I love you, and let's stop planning and acting like

you canna have sex with whoever you want, and you

don't wake up feeling empty because nobody.

Really knows you. Get out of here. We gotta talk straight.

Do it. It's awesome. Sex is great.

I chose to do it with one woman for the

rest of my life, just you know, for the shame

and guilt, because my little emotional self would not have

been able to handle it.

I told that to Abby. I said, I thank God.

Me and Abby because people don't be testified by the

Me and Abbey were visions when we got married.

Shout out to Jesus.

We had a couple close calls there, but God, a

couple of close calls, but the Lord brought us through.

Why didn't say that the gay Abby?

Me and I've been together for ten years and I

thought I could not take I know.

I remember looking at Abby.

Be like, oh my God, that's the love of my life.

I could not deal if I having said to somebody

and then waking up and them being gone and I

don't know where you at.

He just left my house.

I couldn't do it, no way.

God knew he kept me for me. He said, yeah,

he ain't gonna be able to handle that.

It's true, man, tell the truth.

Shame the devil A couple bore.

Forgiveness is never permanent. No permanent forgiveness in your life.

None imagine that in any relationship you value. Now, you

make a mistake with a friend, the coworker, with a spouse,

you forgive me, and they say, for now. That was

God's conversation to you when you made mistakes before the

blood of Jesus. God, I'm sorry I made a mistake.

I didn't know you forgive me.

For now I do the last one. The curtain.

Is eternally closed between you and God's presence. I want

you to think about whether a follower of Jesus in

this room or listening or not. Anytime you either know

or think you know, you felt God's presence. Sometimes it

feels like a deep emotion in your spirit. Sometimes it

feels like a warm hug. Sometimes it shows up his tears, goosebumps.

At any time you feel like, oh my gosh, I

feel something. I don't know what that is, but it

is greater than me. You don't get that no more,

never again. The only person who gets that is the priest.

And hopefully he ain't been doing nothing he ain't supposed

to be doing because they have a rope tied around

that man and jingle bells on him. And if he

walks in and has messed up in any area of

his life six hundred and thirteen laws. If he's missed

one of them, he steps over the threshold, Bam, dead.

And people would be standing outside of.

The Holy of Holies listening for jingle bells, and when

they stopped, they would drag him with the rope out

of the Holy of Holies and get the intern priest

and say, congratulations, you've been promoted.

Because so and so.

Apparently had something.

We didn't see but God saw. So he's dead and

you gave him your goat. Now you gotta go. You

out a goat and forgiveness. This is what your life

would be right now. Every day sacrifices.

Every day, sheddy and killing animals just to get above

the water of your guilt. Every day feeling like does

God forgive me? Hopefully I don't do anything wrong, Hopefully

I don't miss it. And if you were called into

the ministry, if you were a Levid, you knew that

if I walk in here and I haven't washed my

hands the right number of times, and I haven't burned

the incense the right way, I will step.

In here and I will die.

So when it comes to understanding the value of God

choosing you, and.

We sing songs that the blood.

Of Jesus reaches to the highest mountain and it flows

to the lowest valley. The reason I'm sitting here in

my chair balling my eyes out is because I know

if back then I would have touched that stage and

drop dead, because all have sinned and fallen shorts of

the glory of God, but because of the blood of Jesus,

because he was the eternal payment for everything I have done,

I am doing, and ever will do. I understand the

value of what's been given to me, so I do

not have time to play around with purpose. I do

not have time to make room for my sin, because

I understand I should still be paying for that. You

should still be paying for what you've done. You technically

should still feel all the guilt of all of your

worst decisions, all the darkest moments.

You deserve those under the law.

You deserve that feeling, you deserve, the abandonment, you deserve

nobody being there. Because the Bible says the wages of

sin is death.

And here's the thing people get hung up on that scripture.

That's not just a Bible scriptures. That is the result

of life. If you keep doing here's what happens. It

causes the death of relationships.

If you keep talking about.

Your friends and you abandon your friends, and you turn

on your friends solely, all your friends leave you and

there's death in your friendships.

If you do not know and do it things God's way.

It's not a matter of oh, what does the Bible

gonna do?

Trust me, this is the way life is set up.

It's just gonna happen to you, whether you believe the

Bible or not.

This is what it should be right now.

Sacrifices guilts upon guilt, forgiveness lulls. You're following rules, you're

following having to study and prove that you're good enough.

You being able to lift your hands, you be able

to pray in your darkest moment and immediately feel his presence, not.

A thing if you don't have the blood, not at all.

You don't get it. And some of you are saying,

Charleston feels harsh. Yes, exactly exactly when you.

Read the Old Testament, this is why people are like.

This just feels so intense. No, here's what happens.

If you read the Old Testament, I would encourage you

because one thing I've learned as a pastor is people

have a lot of opinions about stuff they've never actually read.

It'll actually have never actually read the scripture. There are

certain opinions you hold what the Bible says it.

If I ask you.

Where in the Bible, you would have no idea because

you've never actually read it.

So I would just encourage you.

If you're going to hold a strong opinion, just read

it just so you least know.

Now, all, yeah, I read that part. It really is

in there, because I could just be making up stuff.

You know in there it technically says that you know,

you're supposed to give me a thousand dollars.

Y'all laughing jokers still do this. This hap it all

over the world. Send me a thousand dollars, and I'll

send you a rug that I pray for and it's

gonna heal you.

I'll see.

Now we're acting weird because you send some prints in

Africa one thousand dollars and you ain't never got that rug. Okay,

that's the thing, y'all look weird to me about, Okay,

not the rug. In the Old Testament, God is so merciful,

kind and patient with the children of Israel.

He's like, hey, I create this garden. You can have

anything you want. There's just one tree. Don't touch it.

Like, all right, bet so where that tree at.

He's like, okay, you touch the tree.

You gotta have consequences because here's another word you need know.

God is just.

Me and my wife talked about this. One area we're

trying to grow in is being just parents. Because if

you tell your kid, if you do that, I'm gonna

give you a consequence, and you don't do it, you're.

Not being just. Come on, I'm gonna count two, I'm

gonna count of three.

I'm a count to eight, I'm aa coount twelve. If

you come, I.

Will count to thirty. You better be over here. It's crazy.

You can be graceful, but also you need.

To be just.

And here's why you need to understand that, because some.

Of us feel like, oh, the Old Testaments so intense, God,

so intense. What's up with all the sacrifices.

If you had a court case and you have been

done wrong, you would pray to God you have a

just judge. You would not want a judge who would

not follow the order of the law, especially if they

created the law. You want a God who is just.

So God was so just. He said, here's what I'm

gonna do. If you do these things, even though you

are a nobody and I randomly chose you out of

all the people on the ar and you are my truck.

If you do these things, I got you.

If you read those testament, the way they violate God's

rules is egregious. We didn't reading like he was so

harsh on those people. They literally God sets them free

for four hundred years of slavery. Twenty minutes go by

it and they're like, we're gonna make this gold calf.

Were about to throw a party forget God man, and

He's like, hey, man, let's not do that. They start

doing so many crazy things. Noah, Noah in the arc.

We've been teaching no off in our TC kids. Noah,

get off the arc. Startavinya, get drunk out of his mind.

Come all them animals that many days. It kind of

sends you to a place.

I read that scripture about number like, man, I get it.

You know what I'm saying, because saying this is what

the Bible over and over again.

They get caught up in the culture of.

The time and God's like, hey, do not take anything

from that. You need to kill it's all unclean. This

will be arguments you'll watch on YouTube. Have you inspiraled

it on your faith?

Well, that's so intense. Why would God say that?

Because the countries they were invading were sacrificing babies to

their made up gods.

So a just God says, if.

You're gonna kill my creation over and over again, I

can't let you keep doing that.

That's why God said some of those. It's not some

ridiculous thing. It is why I'm telling you gotta read

your Bible.

What am I saying? I'm trying to say.

The truth is I'm gonna stand up here yelling for

seven weeks now eight and I really genuinely I got

to point this week where I was like, they gonna

have to find out for themselves, because the truth is

I can get up here and yell about how important

you are and read you the Bible, but until you

realize for you, I can't do nothing for you.

I can help you. That's what I've been trying to do.

That's what I'm trying to show.

I'm walking you through, like, hey, just so you know

you technically should have walked in with a goat.

And a sacrifice, and you'd be standing to get a line.

Out there technically, But because of the blood of Jesus,

you walked in here freely.

You're gonna lift your.

Hands, You're gonna feel his presence, You're gonna pray, and

guess what, he gonna answer your prayer, even though you

ain't even done stuff he asked you to do, because

He's just that kind. When you start to think of

some of that stuff, it brings you a different perspective.

It makes you realize, Oh, I didn't do anything to

get this.

He freely got.

Me out of something I should be paying for. In

the context of this scripture and this idea, some of

y'all you have a house payment right now.

Somebody walked up and said.

I paid off all your house, you would immediately start shouting, screaming,

and then.

You would say to this person, watch this, what do

you need?

I'll do whatever.

God took all of the guilt you would ever feel

in your life, all the embarrassment you would ever feel

in your life, all of the decisions you would ever

make that would hurt you and hurt those you love,

and He became the eternal atonement that covered your sin,

so you would not have to work so hard the

rest of your life proving to God that you're good enough.

Marid you.

A scripture, and then were gonna get out of here first. John,

my dear children, I'm writing to you so that you

will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have

an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He's

Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous, and he

himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins, not

only our sins, but the sins of all the world.

This is what's happening in heaven right now. You have

made mistakes that have robbed you of peace, of purpose,

of clarity, and Jesus is in heaven saying, hey, I know, technically,

because of what they did, they should deserve the consequences

of that, but remember I paid for all that, So

instead of doing to them what they deserve, I take

on all the punishment. I didn't do anything wrong, I

didn't deserve it, but I will take on all the

consequences of everything they're ever going to do wrong, so

that you treat me how you should have treat them.

So you can treat them how you treat me. This

is the gospel.

God treated Jesus how he should have treated you, so

that he could treat you how he treats Jesus. The

Bible tells us that when God looks at me and you,

he doesn't see you. He sees the covering and the

atonement of Jesus Christ. The Bible says that he who

knew no sin became sin so that you and me

could become the righteousness of Christ. This is the reality

of the grace of God. Every day when you wake up,

God does not see you working and doing good things.

He says, it's already paid for. You ain't got to

do all that. This is why you.

Have to be set free from the law that still

tries to show up in church. If I give this

money and I do these things that I go to

the outreach, then God will love me.

God says, no, no, no, I already paid for all that stuff.

You don't have to do that.

You don't have to do any other thing to prove

to me that you love me, Because the truth is,

the gospel is not about you loving me. The gospel

is about me loving you.

First John chapter four or versus it nine. Look at this.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his

one and only son into the world so that we

might have eternal life through him. This is real love,

not that we loved God, but that He loved us

and sin. His son is a sacrifice to take away

our sins. Dear friends, Since God loved us that much,

we surely ought to love each other. One of the

ways you can tell someone completely does not understand the

Gospel and the Blood of Jesus is how judgmental they

are to other people. Because it's very difficult to be

judgmental to other people when you really you are standing

up not under your own strength, and you shouldn't have

anything you have, and you realize, oh wow, I.

Know what I've been through and God's been this kind

to me. I don't deserve any of this.

So how am I standing here judging someone else assuming

what they are doing to do or don't deserve.

It's very hard to.

Judge people when you understand God did more than he

ever had to do. He's been kinder than he would

ever have to be to me. Every day I wake

up the breath of my lungs is not my own.

You're not telling your heart to beat right now, much

less worried about six hundred and thirteen laws and the

fabrics in your clothing, and whether or not your priest

is gonna get your sacrifice done it how many times

you have to wash your hands, and what food you

have to eat and where you have to go. You're

not worried about any of that. You just get to

wake up and live. Because God, the moment man sinned,

the moment man sinned, I'm gonna show it to you.

Genesis chapter number three, starting in verse eleven.

Who told you were naked? The Lord asked, have you

eaten from the tree of the fruit? I commanded you

not to eat?

The man replied, it was the woman you gave me, dummy.

Then the Lord God asked the woman, what have you done?

The serpent deceived me, That's why I ate it. Then

the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have

done this, you are cursed more than all the wild animals,

domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly and

growl in the dust, and I will cause hostility between

you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring,

and will strike your head.

Get this right. I'll read again.

I will cause hostility between you and the woman, between

your offspring and her offspring.

He give you a little teaching in the Bible. Capital

h he it's Jesus.

He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.

The moment humanity screwed up.

In the same breath that he is explaining to them

what they've done, he immediately makes the promise of Jesus Christ.

Immediately from the jump.

He says, what are you doing?

Why did you eat that? What are you doing?

Okay, here's the consequences, Satan, this was going to happen

to you. But also you're going to try to bruise

his heel, but he will strike.

One of the translations says he will crush your head.

God has always had a plan for grace from the beginning.

I want to give you three quick things. The title

is what to do with the blood?

How is this.

Important in your daily life? Three things?

Write this down? What to do with the blood? The

first thing you do is you got to receive. If

you do not receive the payment that Jesus paid, you

will find yourself working for something that has been given

to you.

Imagine if you have kids.

Your kid woke up and you came outside and they

were cutting your grass. Some i'n be like, man, that'd

be incredible if I can give my kid to cut

my grass.

Then they come inside.

They're cleaning the bathrooms, and then they walk into your

closet and they clean up all your clothes, and then

they're doing laundry and they're working, and you say what

are you doing and they say, well, I was just

hoping I could eat today.

I was just hoping you'd love me enough to give

me some food today.

You'd say, you don't have to do all of that

to get me to feed you, to love you, to

be in this how you I love, I will do

any of that for you. Yet some of us wake

up and the reason you're reading your Bible is because

you're thinking, God, if I read enough of this book,

that'll prove to you that I love you a lot,

and it'll make me worth you saving. So I'm gonna

show you how much, and I'm going to prove to

you so that.

You will.

You haven't received it because you can't do anything about it.

It's just thank you, that's all it is.

I'm not saying you don't do those things.

Let me be very very clear with you, but the

reason you're doing those things is out of recognition.

He already loves me. I'm already eternally.

Secure, so I can serve him from a place of gratitude.

But I'm not doing this to try to get something

from God. This is why there are spaces and places

in different religions where.

They tell you you got to pay.

Money to talk to God. It's a lie, it's not true.

It's a good way to fund a religion, but it's

not true. You can talk to God for yourself. So

you have to receive that because if not, you will

create your own version of the law. Maybe you're not

doing that six hundred and thirteen, but you've got your

own version of the law.

What you have to do and who you have to be,

and how much you have to pray.

And if you do all those things, here's what we do,

then we place an unreasonable expectation on God that he

never said. We say, God, I served in church, you

have to answer my prayers, and then you do all

these good things you pray. He doesn't answer your prayers,

and now you're mad at God because you were trying

to hold him to something he wasn't asking you to

do in a way to control him so he could

answer your prayers and treat him like a genie.

Then he disappoints you.

Now the devil can attack your faith and say God's

and it's not true. You were living under the law,

and the law only produces the Bible says a reminder and.

The weight of your sin. We do this all the time.

I did all these good things, so you should do

this for me, not how it works.

I do all this for you because I love you.

You have to receive that. You have to receive the blood,

and I said daily thing. The next thing you do

is you gotta rest. You gotta rest. It's covered. You

ever go out to eat with some of your friends

and you're like, oh, I'll cover the bill, and they're like, no, no, no,

don't do that.

And you know, sometimes you know, if you for me,

I don't even hit the note.

Don't do that.

I just be like, thank you, appreciate it.

Well, I'm gonna argue with you for it to prove that.

I'm like, hey, we got it. I'd be like, hey,

I appreciate you, man, thank you I just received that.

But some of you will sit there and argue, no, no, no, no,

didn you say I'm gonna go get the waiter. I'm

gonna go, and you'll do that with God? Hey, I

chose you, well, God, come on not just don't don't.

Let me just get some things together. No, I got it,

Chill you, no, just let me. I gotta do enough good.

I gotta make sure that I got it covered and

I got chill.

Calm down.

You are eternally secured when you put your faith in Jesus,

and you have to remind yourself.

I can rest in that I do not have to

prove to God how much I love him. What loving

relationship is like that. I don't do.

Stuff for my wife to prove to her. Hey, just

case you just so you know I'm doing this, So

you know I do it.

No, I just love you. You know I love you,

and I want to do This is my joy. And

here's what you find yourself doing in a relationship.

That you start doing stuff that is beyond what they've

asked of you because of how.

Much you love them.

This is the beauty of a relation. It's not because

you have to do it. You love them so much

you want to do it. This is what church should be.

When it comes to church, even serving in church pre

you talked about today, we have servant leaders that served.

Here's the truth. And I'll be telling the team this.

I don't want to trick you into serving. So you've

been doing that church sometimes, come on, serve. It'll be amazing.

It'll be easy. It'll be It's not easy.

There are people up there wrestling two year olds, our

bad two year olds. It's not easy telling the kid

that you can't spake to listen to you.

Come on, that's difficult. Like you've been listening to you stupid.

You're like, you better go stay there. I ain't standing

in the corll. You ain't my daddy. I will literally

start doing a robot. You're like, I swear se serving

is not an easy thing.

And when we gonna do serve pushes, I'm never like, yeah, man,

it'll just be super.

It is.

You should want to serve because of the contextuff you

realize you know what God gave so much to me.

It'll be my honor to take some time to go

stand in this parking lot and tell people no, not

that spot, the one over the note, not that spot,

the one right there. But I want you serving because

you feel like you gotta serve.

Well, if I don't serve, what's gonna happen? You know

what's gonna happen. God's gonna be glorified.

People don't getting saved, and he'll speak to somebody else

to serve.

But you should wanna serve. It's an overflow, it's a joy.

Your life will change through serving. Ask any serving lated,

I'll tell you no. It reminds me.

It's a beautiful thing. The stories I get to hear.

But I'm not up here to trick.

You to serve. You don't want to do. This's on you,

it's not on me. I know it'll help you. I

know it'll change your life.

But they're not doing it to prove something to God.

You're doing it because you realize. Hen God, I'm so grateful.

You gotta rest, you gotta receive.

The last one is you gotta remember, You gotta remember

it's a beautiful thing. One of my favorite things to

do as a parent is you know, on your phone,

it'll pop up and I'll show you these. Even on

social media, pop It'll pop up and show you.

Old memories and I'll raanly pop up.

And one of my favorite things is when it pops

up an old picture of my kids.

And it just will come up and it'll be some bald.

Headed, little light skinned kid and I'm like, oh my gosh,

look how small they used to be.

Oh my gosh, what's that so special?

You remember they used to what was that one word?

Literally, I have a note on my phone of all

the random.

Words they used to say.

It's just funny, just random words like right now blue,

she says, blue Sunday, cat calf, and cat calf is

down in my list of words. Because when you start

to remember, it kind of helps you zoom out for

a second and you realize, Man, I really frustrated about this,

But in the grand scheme of the bigger picture, I have.

So much to be grateful for.

And the Bible instructs us to remember the blood of Jesus.

And today we're gonna take communion together as a church

as a reminder of the blood of Jesus. And when

you walked in today, they hand you a little cup.

If you don't have one, you can raise your hand.

Our ushers have extras for the irresponsible people who lost

theirs in a matter of forty five minutes. I'll give

you a moment to grab that. But Jesus is with

his best friends. Bible tells us he is having a meal.

It's known as the Last Supper, and Jesus knows what's

about to happen, and they don't know.

And it's his beautiful moment.

Where he's trying to get them to understand the gravity

of what's happening.

And I would to encourage you. We're gonna take communion today.

But in church on a service is not the time

you can only take communion.

Some people feel like, why don't the church be doing

more communion? Because this instruction was not for a church

building on a Sunday.

It was for a personal believer. Anytime you start.

To forget the power of the grace that God's given you,

you can go to your house, grab a saltine cracker,

grab whatever you got and something to drink, and you're remembering.

What God did for you.

You're remembering God, I thank you that I am not

under the weight and the guilt of what I have done. God,

I thank you that because of You I do not

have to carry the shame of my decisions. God, I

thank you that Lord, I did nothing to deserve every blessing.

You've given me.

God, I thank you that because you were beat beyond

recognition and the eternal atonement for my sin. God, I

thank you that I am righteous in you.

I didn't have to do anything to get it. I

don't have to do anything to keep it. As I

say yes to you, I am.

Eternally and permanently secure with you.

I'm gonna read you the scripture.

I'm gonna ask everyone actually to stand, if you will,

for this moment, and I'm gonna invite the worship team.

To come up, and we're gonna take communion.

We're gonna sing one more song, and then we're gonna

be out of here. I'm gonna ask some of you,

it's gonna be the most powerful thing that's happened over

the last eight weeks for you, cause you're gonna find

it's gonna click. Some of you, you've been right there,

You've been right there on Okay, I'm gonna do what

God called me to do, and he chose me. It's important,

But this moment, it's gonna beautiful.

I want to read you.

This scripture Matthew twenty six, Verse twenty six. Now, as

they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it,

he broke it.

And gave it to his disciples.

Take eat.

This is my body. Could everybody eat bread? It tastes

nasty on purpose, just to remind you how difficult it

was for God, says And he took a cup, and

when he had given thanks, he gave.

It to them.

Drink, all of you.

This is my blood of covenant, which is poured out

for many for the forgiveness of sins.

You can drink.

Take a moment. I'm gonna pray, and I want you

to sing this last song. This song we sang today.

It's a newer song. It's a beautiful song written by

one of my friends. Her name is Tiffany. It's called

the Wonderful Blood. And the lyrics talk about how simple

it is, but it's actually so.

Divine and beautiful.

And as we sing this song, I want you to

now sing, to listen to hear these lyrics in the

context of what the reality should be.

Because you can't sing some.

Songs without the knowledge of understanding the value of what

we're singing.

So when we sing Oh, the wonderful blood of Jesus.

You realize, Oh, I didn't know it did all that.

God.

Right now we say thank you for the blood of Jesus.

Thank you for your blood. Thank you for doing what

we could not do. God, thank you for shedding that blood,

Lord God, that cleans us, that cleanses us, that makes

us new, that gives us clarity, that can heal us.

God, right now we are taking a.

Moment to acknowledge the beauty of the blood of Jesus,

Lord God, that it's that blood that shows us.

It is that blood that frees us. It's that blood

that heals us. It's that blood that can calm the

anxiety on the inside of us. It's that blood that

can cancel out all of our sin and wrongdoing. It's

that blood that can lift the shame that we've carried.

It's that blood that can give us the power to

live the life we've only dreamed of. God, we thank

you for the wonderful blood of Jesus.

It's in your name, I pray Amen.