256 ~ FINDING JESUS IN LEVITICUS - PART 2

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The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess

our promise. As we seek to find Jesus in

Leviticus, our hope is that we will fall deeper in love with

him and pursue him more. We look at Leviticus 17 today to

find there's life in the blood. Hi church, it's my joy to bring

God's word to you. As you know, we've been looking

at our Lent series, which is finding Jesus in Leviticus, and

today we're going to be looking at Leviticus 17.

And I've titled the message today as life in the blood and

you'll understand why as soon as we start reading it.

But when we think of the blood that was, you know, offered and

part of sacrifices as part of establishing covenant, there was

so much of ritual to it, but there was so much of meaning

behind it because it actually meant that there was a buying

back of sorts. It was pleading on behalf of the

person. When they, you know, put that

sacrifice out, when they drained the blood, there was an act of

atonement that was being done. And in the process there was

there was redeeming or a buying back.

I was reading this story about this Irish gentleman who heard

the story of in his native land of Ireland, where this man went

and saw this a little boy, a little Irish boy had captured a

beautiful bird and kept it tightly in his hand.

And this older gentleman felt so heavily and strongly that he

should release the bird because the bird looks so helpless, so

trapped in the little boy's tight grip.

And so he kept begging the boy. And he said, you know what,

Please just release the bird. You know, he's meant to be

flying free, not meant to be in your hand.

And the little boy just refused. He said, I have been chasing

this guy for three days. I have done everything to catch

him. I'm going to keep him.

I'm going to keep him trapped. And then finally, the older man

got an I got an idea. And he said, you know what, Let

me give you some money. If I pay you for this bird, will

you give the bird to me? And the little boy's eyes lit up

because he realized money was way more valuable.

So they made an exchange. The senior gentleman gave him

some money, and this man, this little boy, released the bird to

the older man, took the money and ran off the little boy.

But the older man then held this little bird and opened his palms

to let it set it free. But this bird had been so

tightly gripped that for a while it didn't know what to do.

It had gotten used to just being clamped down in that little

boy's tight grip. But the man kept keeping his

palms open and gently nudged the bird.

And the bird finally flew free. And before it flew free, it

actually hovered over him, twittering and making a big

noise, almost as if to say thank you for redeeming me, thank you

for redeeming me. And I believe that is what Jesus

did for us when we call him our Redeemer.

This is what he did. The enemy had us in a tight

grasp, but God and his kindness sent his son to us and said, you

know what, I'll buy him back, I'll buy her back.

God has flee out of Satan's vice like grip and has released us to

live in freedom. And with that idea I want us to

look at Leviticus chapter 17. Leviticus 17 verse one says the

Leviticus 17 · chapter mention

Lord said to Moses, speak to Aaron and his sons and to all

the Israelites and say to them, this is what the Lord has

commanded. Any Israelite who sacrifices an

ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it, instead of

bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present

it as an offering to the Lord in front of the Tabernacle of the

Lord, that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed.

They have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.

This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord the sacrifices

they are now making in the open fields.

They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the Lord at

the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as

fellowship offerings. I just want to pause there.

What it's talking about here is that there was the habit

sometimes of people sacrificing not in front of the Tabernacle,

but just wherever they pleased. So if they, if they there was an

animal that was slain in the open field or somewhere far off

from the tent of meeting, Moses is saying, I'm giving you

guardrails. You can't indiscriminately shed

blood of an animal. He was against God, was against

unsupervised bloodletting. And so he was putting, you know,

giving them accountability, saying if you choose to slay an

animal, it should be at the tent of meeting.

It should be with the express purpose of offering a

fellowship, offering to God. Continuing from verse 6, it says

the priest is to splash the blood against the altar of the

Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fact as

an aroma pleasing to the Lord. They must no longer offer any of

their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute

themselves. This is to be a lasting

ordinance for any foreigner residing among them who offers a

burnt offering or sacrifice and does not bring it to the

entrance to the tent of meeting. To sacrifice it to the Lord must

be cut off from the people of Israel.

I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner

residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off

from the people. Verse 11 For the life of the

creature is in the blood, and I've given it to you to make

atonement for yourselves on the altar.

It is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

Therefore, I say to the Israelites, none of you may eat

blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.

We're going to stop there. But if you look at this, there's

seems to be a precedent of the people offering sacrifices to

goat idols. In another translation, it talks

about goat demons. So basically any idol is

representative of a demonic entity and anything offered in

front of these idols was being offered to the demonic realm.

And So what these goat idols was something that they worshipped

back in Egypt, something that was worshipped in the land of

Egypt. And so I think there must have

been certain traits that rubbed off, certain rituals that rubbed

off. And God was saying you can't do

that anymore. Now you're worshipping a God

who's a living God who is moving ahead of you in a fire and a

cloud. He was not in any particular

form. Don't go before a form like idol

and worship that come before the Tabernacle.

Do it with the accountability of the priest who's supervised and

offer that as an atonement for you.

That would get you, you know, your petitions would reach God,

your Thanksgiving reached God. This was a way of accessing God.

It was a way of them being accountable.

But there's this interesting line.

It says the blood is what makes atonement for one's life.

The life of a creature is in the blood if you look at our own

bodies. So you know that I, I love

science. It's something that I enjoy

studying even today. And when I was just studying a

bit about the blood in our bodies, our bodies are actually

given life because of the blood that's flowing through it,

right? And it keeps every part of the

body connected. Isn't that amazing?

The blood keeps every part from the brain to the little pinky

toe. Everything is connected by

blood. So it's called a fluid,

connective tissue actually. Now blood carries oxygen from

the lungs and it transports it to all the organs and cells of

the body and it also transports all the waste and you know,

excretable materials to the organs that need to disperse of

it. It also, you know, the blood is

so important in maintaining our body temperature and mainly it

protects us. It protects us from bleeding

from infections because of the different components of blood

that actually work overtime to protect us and keep us healthy.

Without the blood we are nothing.

So it is true that the life of the creature is in the blood,

right? But when we look at the New

covenant, what Jesus brought in, what God did when he brought,

sent Jesus to earth, He shifted this view on Leviticus 17, and

this is how he changed it. Christ's blood had Christ's life

in it. So even though he died, his

blood brought each of us closer to God.

His blood bought us back from the enemy.

It redeemed us, right? His blood made atonement.

Atonement basically means at one with God, we were so far apart,

but the blood came and formed a bridge and brought us back to

God, right? The thing about anything living

now you, you take anything living, it has a voice.

You take creatures that are alive, they have a voice.

Human beings, we have a voice and interestingly, biblically,

even blood has a voice and I want us to look at that today.

Genesis chapter 4, verse 10 says the Lord said, and God is

Genesis 4:10

talking to Cain, what have you done?

Listen, your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

Cain had just killed his brother Abel.

And there's just such a it's such a tense moment when God is

confronting Cain. He'd already warned Cain, don't

fall into sin. Sin is crouching at your door.

Learn to overcome it. But Cain gave and killed his

brother, and the brother's blood actually cried out to God.

And God is responding. And so I want to ask you this,

if blood has a voice, right, it's because it has life in it.

It has the life of the creature in it.

And if the blood of Abel cried out for vengeance and justice to

be done on his behalf, how much more will the blood of Christ

speak? The blood of Christ, sinless

man, yet God, who was on earth, who stood in the gap, who, who

took on the weight of the sins of the whole world on himself,

how much more will that blood have a voice?

And if you don't believe me, I'm going to read from Hebrews

Hebrews 9:18–24

Chapter 9, verses 18 to 24. I want you to read along with

me. It says the mountain of fear and

the mountain of joy. It's taking examples from

Israel's history. Verse 18.

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is

burning with fire, to darkness, gloom and storm, to a trumpet

blast, or to such a voice speaking words that those who

heard it begged that no further would be spoken to them because

they could not bear what was commanded.

If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.

The site was so terrifying that Moses said, I am trembling with

fear. Verse 22 But you have come to

Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly

Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon

thousands of angels in joyful assembly for the Church of the

first born whose names are written in heaven.

You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the

righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant,

and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the

blood of Abel. Wow, Basically the writer of

Hebrews is comparing and saying, you know what?

Back in the day of the time of the Exodus, the people saw a

mountain that was trembling with the presence of God.

God was inviting people and saying, come and meet with me.

But they were so scared. His voice, the the thundering,

the thunderings, the lightning, the, the entire environment

seemed so charged with God's power that they said, you know

what? We cannot hear from God and

live. We are in awe of him.

So it's enough if Moses goes and meets with God.

It was even more said he was trembling with fear.

But then you you pivot that and he's saying, but now you don't

go to a physical mountain, you go to the spiritual mountain,

which is the presence of God. And here he says Jesus is the

mediator. You have access to the throne

room of God itself, the presence of God, but you enter not by

your own righteousness, you enter because of Jesus.

A mediator stands in the middle and confers and he says, you

know what, you can meet with this person.

They are worth it. They're covered and they are

saved. They are counted as righteous.

You have access. He's actually connecting the two

parties and he says he's the mediator of a new covenant.

And to the sprinkled blood, that speaks a better word than the

blood of Abel. Isn't that amazing that the

blood of Jesus speaks a way better word?

And I want to leave 4 words that I believe the blood of Jesus has

spoken over us. And why are these 4 words so

important? This is the words that the blood

of Jesus speaks. Because when we know this, we

are sure of who we are in Christ.

And when we are sure of who we are in Christ, the accuser

cannot come against us and say, you know what?

You are unholy, you are broken, you are damaged goods.

He cannot say those things, although that may be how he view

views us. When God views us and His blood

covers us, it's it speaks a better word.

And we want to believe what God's word says.

We want to believe what the blood speaks over us.

The first word that the blood of Jesus speaks is reconciliation.

No longer are you and I at loggerheads with God.

No longer are you and I, God and me in different corners, facing

off. No, now I have access to God and

I don't know if you realize what a marvellous thing access is.

Access is basically, you know, it's it's like a person sitting

in a room, a high up official and you can just walk in

anytime. You don't need to inform the

secretary. You don't need to have a phone

call and you know, confer and decide if you need like a

meeting time or you just walk in anytime, all day, any day.

That's the beauty of being reconciled and the first word

that the blood speaks to us, this reconciliation to God.

Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19 to 22 says, therefore, brothers and

Hebrews 10:19–22

sisters, since we have confidence to enter the most

holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way

opened up for us through the curtain that is his body.

And since we have a great priest over the House of God that has

drawn near to God with a sincere heart and with the full

assurance that faith brings. Having our hearts sprinkled to

cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies

washed with pure what I want you to focus on how a new and living

way has been opened up through the curtain that was His body.

So today you and I have access. Because of the blood.

We are reconciled to God. We are not enemies of God.

We're friends of God. Isn't that amazing?

That's the first thing. The second thing that the blood

speaks over us is purification. You and I are pure.

We live in times where people have used that against you and

said, well, you're impure. Well, you're a Sinner.

I know about your past. But the truth is, that when I

stand before Jesus, his blood has washed me and made me clean.

Hebrews 9 verse 11 to 15, it says, But when Christ came as

Hebrews 9:11–15

high priest of the good things that are now already here, He

went through the greater and more perfect Tabernacle that is

not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this

creation. He did not enter by means the

blood of goats and calves, but He entered the most Holy place

once and for all by His own blood, thus obtaining eternal

redemption. The blood of goats and bullets,

and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are

ceremonially unclean, sanctify them so that they are outwardly

clean. How much more than will the

blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself

unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead

to death, so that we may serve the living God?

For this reason, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that

those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance

now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins

committed under the first covenant.

I want you to look at this, but it says How much more will the

blood of Christ cleanse our consciences from acts that lead

to death? I love that this is such a deep

cleansing that happens. The blood of Jesus is not about

the superficial things of our life.

It's not a behavioral change. It's an attitude change.

It's an intrinsic change. And when God purifies us with

His blood, He sets us before Him blemishless.

Isn't that amazing? If you have been punishing

yourself for your past, if you have been punishing yourself

because you feel so inferior and less than, I want to just remind

you that the blood of Jesus purifies us from all our sin.

That's the second word that the blood of Jesus speaks.

The third thing is it speaks forgiveness.

You know, sometimes some people say I can't forgive myself for

what I did, but then the question remains, do you think

you're better than God? Because God himself said he's

forgiven you As far as the east is from the West.

So far have I thrown your transgressions, I've forgiven

you. Why do we hold on to things when

God has forgiven it? Are we better than God?

That's the question that begs to be asked, and I want to read for

you Hebrews 9 verses 16 to 22. It says in the case of a will,

Hebrews 9:16–22

it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it.

Because a will is enforced only when somebody has died, it never

takes effect while the one who made it is living.

This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect

without blood. When Moses had proclaimed every

command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of

calves together with water, scarlet wool, and branches of

hyssop, and sprinkle the scroll and all the people.

He said This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded

you to keep. In the same way, he sprinkled

with blood both the Tabernacle and everything used in its

ceremonies. In fact, the law requires that

nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the

shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

Can we just say thank you Jesus, for the blood that you shed?

Because in his shedding of his blood we received forgiveness.

Did we deserve it? We did.

But it's because of the grace and the mercy of God that we are

forgiven. We stand forgiven.

So that's the third word that the blood speaks over.

It speaks over you and me. You are forgiven.

And the fourth word, I believe that the blood of Jesus speaks a

better word. The better word is mercy.

Mercy is basically when a just punishment that should have

meted out is prevented. We are not punished as we

deserve to be punished. You know, a lot of times we

confuse grace and mercy. Grace is basically unmerited

favour. I didn't deserve this extra bit

of favour, but God gave it to me.

That's grace. But mercy is when just

punishment, what I deserve, is not meted out to me, and that is

what we received when the blood of Jesus was given.

Hebrews 10 verses 26 to 31. It says if we deliberately keep

Hebrews 10:26–31

on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the

truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful

expectation of judgement and raging fire that will consume

the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of

Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three

witnesses. How much more severely do you

think someone deserve who deserves to be punished, who has

trampled the Son of God under foot, was treated as an unholy

thing, the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and was

insulted the spirit of grace. For we know him who said, it is

mine to avenge. I will repay, and again the Lord

will judge His people. It is a dreadful thing to fall

into the hands of the living God.

This is such a confronting verse because it is for so many of us

who think we can flout God's grace while His grace covers it

all it it does. But will you take for granted

the mercy that God has offered us?

Will you take for granted the blood that was shed for you and

me? That's what we need to think on.

And the truth is that there were many who rejected the law of

Moses and he said they died without mercy.

But today we live in the age of the Spirit, where in the New

Covenant mercy was given to us at the cross.

He took the punishment that was meant for me, for the for the

lies that I have said. He was punished for the life I

lived, which was ungodly and unworthy.

He was punished for the terrible attitudes and behaviour and

things I could say and do. He was punished, not me.

Mercy was shown to me. The blood speaks mercy.

And when you look at these four things that the blood speaks

over us, I realized with a lot of hesitation that if it speaks

that over me, it's speaking that over others as well.

So as much as I want to believe that I have received mercy, as

much as I wanted to believe that I am forgiven, as much as I need

to believe that I have been cleansed and made pure and that

I am reconciled to God, so also are others who Jesus died.

And so this is not something that I claim and keep to myself,

but it's something that Ioffer others as well.

As much as I'm reconciled to God, so is my brother or my

sister in Christ. As much as I have been made

pure, so have they. As much as mercy has been shown

to me, so has mercy been shown to them.

As much as I have been forgiven, I need to extend forgiveness to

others and this is something that we need to live in

constantly. It's this tension of knowing who

I am in Christ and believing that's who others are in Christ

as well. Now the interesting thing about

this is many global religions, the, the Satanic movement, the

New Age movement, all of these use blood in their rituals.

Satanic cults actually use blood sacrifices to appease and appeal

to demons, right? But when we accept Jesus our

Lord, we come into a relationship with him because of

the blood that was shed on our behalf, because of the blood of

Jesus that was shed. And this blood is so powerful.

You have to understand this blood was so powerful that it,

it cleanses us first of all from every sin.

And then it did this thing of redemption.

It bought us back from the enemy, right?

Now, how did he buy us back? The blood actually broke the

chains of sin that were holding us down, right?

It broke the hold that this enemy had on us.

And then once it broke the chains off, it washed us of all

the sin, the inequity, the shame and all of that.

It cleansed all the impurity of us.

And what happens is many times the shame and the guilt that

accompanies our sinful life are the weapons that the enemy uses

to keep us bound. And so now the blood has washed

away all of this. He's washed.

The blood of Jesus has washed away all the impurities.

And then when we begin to appropriate the blood of Jesus

over every part of our life, we truly live free for God's glory.

Many of us are set free from the things that held us back.

But why are we not living free? Because we have not appropriated

the power of the blood of Jesus over ourselves, right?

So if you notice when when I was explaining this process of, you

know, being set free by the by Jesus and his blood, the common

denominator was the enemy. Satan is the common denominator

in all of these situations, right?

And he has this tight grip, much like that sweet little child who

was holding the bird in his hand.

The grip that the enemy has on us is like a vice like grip.

It's almost around our throat. He holds us with that addiction.

He holds us with that anger. He holds us with that

bitterness. He holds us with that

unforgiveness. He holds us down and literally

crushes the breath out of us. But the beautiful thing is in

the Book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 212, verse

11, it talks about how night and day, the Saints of God are being

accused by the accuser of the brethren.

And you know what? He's the ancient serpent, the

dragon, the devil. And it doesn't end on a negative

note. It ends on an incredibly

positive note. It says they overcame him by the

blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, which is

such a beautiful promise because today you and I, no matter what

grip the enemy has on us, have the allowance to walk free

because we have access to the blood of Jesus.

It's amazing. So when the accuser raises his

voice at you, when he calls you like he sees you, when he says

you're damaged, you're broken beyond repair, you're sinful,

you're battered, you're incapable, you're unrighteous.

The blood that covers you, the blood that has washed you, the

blood that has broken all the chains away, the blood that is

doing a new work in you, says no.

She is redeemed. He is redeemed.

He is restored. She is whole.

He is healed. He is righteous.

She's chosen. She's called because that is

what the blood does. The blood speaks a better word

and the blood speaks so loudly that it's on us to take what the

blood speaks and declare it because we overcame the accuser

with the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

What is the word of your testimony?

Have you been living so claustrophobic, so come just

held down? Have you been feeling so

restricted in your life you want to break free but you don't know

how? I just want to say you have the

key in your hand. The key is the blood of Jesus.

The key is the word of your testimony.

And what you must speak aloud is actually what the blood is

speaking out. You need to believe it.

You need to start speaking it out of the enemy and saying thus

far no further. You don't get more territory.

This is my God's house. This is the temple of the Holy

Spirit. This is where you have to back

off, because the blood does speak of a better word when you

look at it biologically, right? When you look at blood, blood

and breath are very intrinsically linked.

Why do I mean that? Well, when you breathe in, the

oxygen actually dissolves into your bloodstream, which has

hemoglobin. It binds to that, and then that

transports it throughout the body, right?

So if you're anemic, you have low hemoglobin, your absorption

of oxygen is lesser, so you feel tired because less oxygen is

going to all your organs. Now, if you're a, you know,

reasonable, reasonably healthy person, you have the right

amount of oxygen in your cells. The blood is carrying it around

and therefore there is such a link between blood and breath,

Am I right? So I was thinking about this a

lot this week and I was thinking there is this connection between

the blood and breath biologically, Lord, but what

about biblically? What about, you know, from your

word? Is there a connection?

And I want to go back to that Scripture and Leviticus 17,

which said the life of the creature is in the blood.

And as I was looking at, at it in a, in a, you know, in the, in

the Greek lexicon, then I was looking at it through a Hebrew

dictionary, the word for life, the life of the creatures in the

blood. The word life in Hebrew is

nephesh. And nephesh actually means soul

or the holistic life of a person, not just their physical

being, but you know, their emotional, mentally, spiritual,

physical being. That's what soul is.

And that was the word for life. Interestingly, in Greek it was

Zoe, Zoe life, the life that Jesus brings in brand new life,

new wine, new wine skin kind of life.

But there was an other meaning for nephesh which was further

down the page, which really caught my eye and which thrilled

my heart because there was this word which when you went down

this, the page on nephesh, it had so many intonations of

nephesh, but it said one thing. It said nephesh is actually an

unused root word for breath. Isn't that amazing?

If I have to therefore substitute it in that verse,

This is what it would read. The breath of the creature is in

the blood. I don't know if you get where

I'm going with this, but the life of the creature is in the

blood life. If I have to substitute it with

the word nephesh, the breath of the creature is in the blood.

Let me trans bring that now to Jesus.

The breath of God is in the blood of Jesus and I don't

remember if you remember a few. I don't know if you remember a

few weeks back we talked about Abraham and Sarah and how God

breathed into them, into their destinies, adding that that that

beautiful syllable of hay with the breath of God that was

breathed upon them. It opened her womb, changed

their destiny, made it international, made it

transnational. And I believe that the blood of

Jesus has the life that it has because it has the breath of God

in it. Jesus was God, 100% God, 100%

man, and when he shed his blood, the blood had the breath of God.

And I want to encourage you about one thing.

We know that the minute you are saved, you are saved because

you, you all who call in the name of the, of the name of

Jesus will be saved, right? We know that already and we know

that we're saved because of the blood of the Lamb.

But there's an important thing of knowing something and

actually applying it, right? So here I have two different

kind of medications. 1 is a spray type.

So basically this is say I'm using this for a muscle pull.

So I basically have to just take it out.

It's an aerosol. It's a liquid, but then it

aerosolizes it and it makes it a spray.

And then you spray it on yourself and then you leave it

be and it works. But then there's the old form,

right? Which was just the ointments.

Now till today we still have ointments.

Ointments are still very powerful to be used.

So this is a heat rub, it's for joint pains etcetera.

Now if I was to ask you which was more effective, say I had, I

had a heavy day, lot of sports and I needed to use this on my

joints. I've tried it, I've tried it, I

spray it on the joint, I leave it be a couple of hours and

nothing has changed. Did the material actually get on

me? It did, but it only worked as

long as I applied it on my skin. So even this, when I sprayed it

would work if I actually rubbed the ointment in, rubbed the

aerosoil in. But there's something so

powerful about taking something and actually applying it on

ourselves, and blood of Jesus is no different.

For too long we have looked at it as well.

The blood of Jesus is there. Yes, I was saved by the blood of

Jesus. But it's coming to a place where

you and I need to understand that the enemy is very serious

about his plot and pride to get us entrapped.

He gives us a, a feeling of freedom, a taste of freedom.

But then he holds us back with one or two fetters.

He keeps us bound in fear. He keeps us bound with lust.

And we think, well, those are not big things.

Everyone's struggling with that. But the, the life that God won

for us at the cross and at that empty tomb is too vital for us

to settle for, you know, half than the full.

And my desire is that each of us would live in the fullness of

the freedom Jesus earned for us, that Jesus got for us.

And the way that we can live in complete freedom, the way that

we can live in complete surrender to God, is when the

blood of Jesus has been applied on us.

So I would ask that you move from just living with the spray

tan effect of, you know, just spraying it on or yeah, I know

the blood of Jesus is there. Because the truth is this.

In the book of Exodus, when we read about the Exodus, on the

night when they had to leave, they were having the Passover

meal. The Angel of death was going to

Passover Egypt. And God just gave them this

instruction. He said tonight I want you to

kill a lamb at dusk. Take the blood, apply it on the

doorposts. He didn't say sprinkle it at

that point. He actually said, take it with,

you know, the hisop plant, which was like a baby's breath, I'm

guessing they would dip it in the blood and apply it.

And they would have been the drips of blood everywhere, I'm

sure. But every Jewish Home needed to

have that done. And the reason for that was

because when the Devourer came that night, the Devourer would

pass through the land of Goshen as well.

It was going to target the the main cities of Egypt, yes, but

it did pass through Goshen and but because the people of God

had obeyed and applied the blood of the lamb on the doorposts,

they were saved. The devoured and touched them.

He passed over them and went and touched the Egyptians.

Now that's why the Passover is celebrated.

But today we are living in a season where we are in the

world. We're not off it, but we're in

it. The effects of of a fallen world

touch us. We do face the evil that is all

around us. We see it, sometimes it touches

us, sometimes we experience it. We get cheated, we get stolen

from, things happen to us. But the point is this, when we

begin to apply the blood of Jesus, we actually take that

blood. We believe that it is powerful,

but we begin to apply it on every area of our lives.

It will change the kind of protection that you bring

yourself under. When you begin to apply the

blood over every area of your life, you begin to see something

new. Because remember this, the blood

of Jesus has the breath of God in it.

And the minute you start to apply the blood of Jesus over

every part of your life, that Zoe life begins to start

showing. When you apply the blood of

Jesus on your marriage, your marriage will start to show

signs of new life, fresh growth, the goodness of God.

When you start to apply the blood of Jesus on your children,

even the most rebellious will start to turn towards the light

of God. When you start to apply the

blood, blood of Jesus over your work, you find that you'll find

joy in the simplest things. When you begin to apply the

blood of Jesus on your business, you find that you're waking up

with new ideas, fresh purposes. When you apply the blood of

Jesus over your boundaries, over your home, over the fence in

your house, over the the territories that you occupy

physically, your office space or your car, you find that you have

access to another level of protection.

It's like you levelled up in protection.

For too long we have not applied the blood of Jesus on our lives.

It's time that we move into this place of saying, Lord, I'm just

going to apply the blood of Jesus on this area.

Maybe you're saying it's not a tangible area that I need the

blood of Jesus on. It's a broken heart.

I would urge that you ask Jesus, I apply your blood on my broken

heart. Maybe it's a body part,

something that's been giving you a lot of trouble.

Maybe it's your sugar levels. Maybe it's your back.

Begin to have this exercise of saying, Lord, I'm just applying

the blood of Jesus because I know it has the breath of God in

it. I know that then I will enjoy

this Zoe life that you have promised for me.

Every time we partake of communion as a church, we are so

mindful that we're remembering the body and the blood of Jesus,

the broken body, the spilt blood.

But today, even as we do this in church, as I'm doing this here

with you on this online service, if you have bread and wine at

home, bread and just juice, even just a bit of juice is fine.

I want you to hold the bread and the cup in your hand and believe

that God has a purpose for your life and believe that God's got

something that He needs to breathe afresh in your life.

No part of our life is completely whole.

There are parts of all our lives that need His fresh touch.

And so we're going to believe and ask him, God, I want your

precious blood to be applied over this area of my life.

It could be a personal life, It could be a private life.

It could be a professional life. It could be your relationship

with a parent, with a friend, with a spouse.

Would you? As you partake of the communion

today, would you choose to apply the blood over your life?

Will you also ask yourself which area needs the breath of God?

Which areas feel very dry today? Those are the areas that you

need to apply the blood of Jesus because the breath of God will

do its thing. I love that in Leviticus, in the

book of Leviticus, it says that you can't drink of the blood

because the life of the creature is in the blood.

But in the New Testament, Jesus actually sat at the Last Supper

with his disciples, broke bread with them, had a glass of wine

with them and said take and eat. This is my body.

Drink of this cup. This is the establishing of the

new covenant. He broke the norm because what

we are doing symbolically is partaking of Jesus himself, the

brokenness that He opened up for all of us to partake of so that

we could be whole. He was broken so that we could

be whole. He was poured out so that we

could be filled. And the new covenant times that

we live in, we have this grand purpose to live to the fullest

extent we are capable of. And we cannot do it without the

blood of Jesus over every part of our life, covering every

part. A sprinkling won't do.

A spray won't do. We need to be applied.

The blood of Jesus needs to be applied.

And so today, every time you partake of the Lord's table,

would you say Lord Jesus? I don't know which is the driest

part of my life right now, but I want the blood of Jesus to come

upon that, to be applied on that part so that your breath would

just breathe the flesh on me. Can we just pray together,

Father? I just pray right now for each

person, God, even if they're going to partake of the

communion by themselves, I just pray, Spirit of God, that triune

God, you would be with them, that you would enable them to

experience a refilling like never before.

I pray that the blood of Jesus would just cover them and quote

them. I pray that Lord, every area of

their life, you will experience the breath of God.

I pray Lord that areas they're feeling very dry, very

exhausted, very disappointed. Your spirit would breathe

afresh. I pray for a blood covering upon

homes right now. I pray for blood coverings upon

children as they sleep, as they rise up.

I pray, pray, pray for a blood covering on on wombs that are

holding babies right now. I pray in the name of Jesus that

you will be a hedge of protection.

God, I pray that Lord, you will be The blood covering would be

on couples right now. God, I pray for singles, those

who are waiting on you. I pray for a blood covering over

their hearts and minds that God you will keep them safeguarded.

I pray that Lord, you will continue to watch over your

people. I pray God for churches around

the city, around the country, to be covered with the blood of the

Lamb. That you would protect your

people. We thank you, God, for shedding

your blood so that your church could be purchased.

We thank you that we were purchased at such a high price,

and we thank you Jesus. We thank you God, for giving

your life for us. We thank you, God, that you

poured out your life so that we could be atoned for.

We thank you for buying us back, for redeeming us, and for

setting us free. We love you, we thank you, we

glorify your holy name. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

I would just encourage you through the week.

Make it a habit of practice. Pray over your children, apply

the blood of Jesus on them, apply it over yourself.

If you're having an area of ill health, begin to apply.

This is nothing magical. This is not a portion.

This is just a a simple act of faith.

When Jesus died on that cross, when his blood was spilt, it was

powerful because it had the breath of God in it.

Let's appropriate it. Let's apply it to our lives.

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