Is The Blood Necessary?

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble with Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you tonight

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. I hope you had

a glorious resurrection weekend. Obviously, many of us we enjoy

being with our family, but most of all our focus

is on remembering what Christ did for us, the shedding

of his blood on the cross, and what that did

for you and I. So tonight I'm going to be

talking about is the blood necessary? That's the title? Is

the blood necessary? In other words, Jesus blood. Was it

necessary that he shed that blood? Did he need to

do that? I'm going to give you. Let's see, I

think I have nine reasons, Yes, nine reasons the shedding

of Jesus blood was necessary. The first is we're going

to be reading out of Hebrews chapter nine, verses eleven

through fourteen. I'm going to be reading out of the

New King James version only this evening. And just a

little aside, I have an allergic cough that's disturbing me,

and so I have a loss enge in my throat

and I'm hoping that I don't cough as I share

this information with you tonight. Number one, the blood of

Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice for the cleansing and forgiveness

of sin. So let's look at these set of scriptures

here Hebrews nine eleven through fifteen. But Christ came as

high priest of the good things to come, with a

greater and more perfect ten tabernacle not made with hands,

that is not of this creation, Not with the blood

of goats and calves, but with his own blood. He

entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained

eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats

and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies

for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall

the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered

himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead

works to serve the living God. And for this reason

he is the mediator of the New Covenant by means

of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the

First Covenant, that those who are called may receive the

promise of the internal of the eternal inheritance. The blood

of bulls and goats only covered the sins of those

under that old covenant in the Old Testament, it only

covered their sins temporarily. And it covered their sins. That's

a keyword, covered their sins, And the next keyword is temporarily.

But Jesus' blood removed our sins permanently. And I like

what it says here. How much more shall the blood

of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot,

meaning he was holy without sin. With that spot he offered,

Jesus offered himself to God to do what to cleanse

your conscience and my conscience from dead works, to serve

the living God. Without that actually happening, you and I

would never have had a chance of having a clean conscience,

and it would have been very difficult for us to

serve the living God. But verse fifteen says for this reason,

Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant, how by

means of his death. So it took him dying, It

took him shedding his blood to redeem us from the

transgressions or sins under that first covenant, that old covenant,

that those who are called may receive the promise, that's

you and I to receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Eternal inheritance that means life with God forever. Hallelujah. Number two.

The Blood established a new covenant built on better promises.

Let's look at Hebrews eight. We're already in the book

of Hebrews, look at chapter eight and verse six. But

now he Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry inas

much as he is also mediator of a better covenant

which was established on better promises. Have you ever thought

to yourself, what does it mean to have a better covenant.

I'll give you an example. Under the old Covenant, we

know that one of the laws of Moses was thou

shalt not commit adultery. So in the Old Testament, if

you committed adultery, you were stoned to death. Ooh, think

about today, how many people have committed adultery. Probably a

whole lot of people. But if you're a believer, we

have the ability to confess our sin and be cleansed

from that sin. And if we've already asked forgiveness of

that sin, let's just say, prior to becoming a Christian,

that sin is forgotten, never to be brought up again.

If you commit that sin again, as a believer, you

have the ability to confess your sins and know that

Jesus will cleanse you from your sin. Jesus isn't going

to throw rocks and stone you to death. So this

is a better covenant with a better promise. They did

not have the promise when the High Priest went into

the Holy of Holies and sprinkled the blood. That didn't

mean that these people had eternal salvation. So we have

a better promise. We have an eternal inheritance verse fifteen.

In chapter nine, we just read we have an eternal

the promise of an eternal inheritance, we get to inherit

eternal life. I mean. So this is definitely a new,

better covenant built on better promises. I think you would

have to say, amen. And I'm just giving you like

one or two examples. Number three, the blood cleanses and

purifies us from all sin. So if you turn two

first John Chapter one, verse seven, and John writes, but

if we meaning we believers, if we walk in the

light as he is in the light, we have fellowship

with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his

son cleanses us from all sin. It doesn't get any

clearer than that. So we have been cleansed from all sin.

And as we continue to walk in the light, we

know Jesus is in the light, and we want to

walk in the light always as well. We don't want

to walk in darkness. Number four, The blood provides reconciliation

and peace with God. So turn to the Book of Collostions,

chapter one and versus twenty and twenty one twenty twenty

twenty one, twenty two. It says, and by him Jesus

to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things

on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through

the blood of his cross. And you who were once

alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, Yet

now He has reconciled in the body of his flesh

through death, to present you holy and blameless and above

reproach in his sight. Isn't that amazing? So Jesus death

on the cross reconciled all things to himself and made

peace through the blood of his cross, so that you

and I are no longer enemies of God. If you

are a believer in Christ, you're no longer his enemy.

Who would want to be God's enemy? Yaoza. I mean, yet,

before we knew Christ, we were all enemies of God.

And I venture to say most people don't even realize that,

not being born again, they are enemies of God. So

verse twenty one. And you once who once were alienated

and enemies, think about the enemies in your mind. Of course,

by wicked works. You hear people all the time they

say bad things about God, and they don't have any

desire for the things of God. And you know they'll blaspheme,

they'll I mean, they'll curse, they'll say all kinds of crazy,

wicked things. But he reconciled, He reconciled them to himself.

He reconciled all things to himself. How to do that

in the b body of his flesh through death. That's

what his death accomplished. In other words, that's what the

blood accomplished. That blood helped us to have peace with

God and reconciliation. That's a big deal. Okay. Number five,

The blood defeated the devil, and we have power and

victory over sin, sickness, and death. Turned to the Book

of Revelation chapter twelve, verse eleven, and they overcame him.

Who's him? Who do they overcome Satan. And they overcame

Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the

word of their test snemony, and they did not love

their lives to the death. So how do we have

that victory over the devil by the blood of the lamb.

Jesus is the Lamb of God. He was slain before

the foundation, and then we see that he died on

the cross and shed his blood, so he defeated the devil.

That blood he shed defeated the devil and gave us

power and victory over sin, sickness, and death. So we

overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb. That's where

the power is. See pay attention to that. The power

comes by the blood of the Lamb, by the blood

of Jesus Christ. You could never overcome sin, sickness, death, hell,

and the grave without the blood of the Lamb. Not possible.

But we now have that reconciliation and we have that

peace with God, and we've overcome Satan by the blood

of the Lamb because of Jesus' blood. Can you shout

Hallelujah number six? The blood provides supernatural protection and we

can turn to Exodus twelve Exodus twelve. And of course

we're talking here about passover. And if we look at

verse we'll look at if you look at the verses

in Exodus twelve, like verses one through let's say Versus

one through ten, it's talking about taking a lamb each.

Each family had to take a lamb, and then they

were to This had to be a lamb without blemish,

a male of the first cheer, and then the whole

assembly had to kill it at twilight. And they had

to take some of the blood and put it on

the two doorposts and on the lintel that's the top

part of the door of the houses where they eat it.

Then they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted

in fire, with unloven bread and bitter herbs. They shall

eat it. And they were told not to eat it

raw or boiled, but roasted in fire fire. And thus

verse eleven, thus you shall eat it with a belt

on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your

staff in your hands. So you shall eat it in haste.

It is the Lord's passover. So they took that hissip,

dipped it in the blood of that lamb that was sacrificed.

They put that blood on the doorpulse on the lintel.

And then verse twelve says, for I will pass through

the land of Egypt on that night. This is the

Lord speaking, and I will strike all the first born

in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and

against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment.

I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be assigned

for you on the houses where you are. I'm in

Exodus twelve, verse thirteen. And when I see the blood,

I will pass over you, and the plague shall not

be on you to destroy you when I strike the

land of Egypt. So this day shall be to you

a memorial, and you shall keep it as a feast

to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it

as a feast by an everlasting ordinance. Now I want

to go down to verse twenty nine Exodus twelve, twenty nine.

And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord

struck all the first born in the land of Egypt,

from the first born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne,

to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon,

and all the first born of the livestock. So Pharaoh

rose in the night he and all his servants and

all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt,

for there was not a house where there was not

one dead. And so the oh I got ahead of myself.

Here verse twenty two. And you shall take a bunch

of hissup, dip it in the blood that's in the basin,

strike the lentil and the two doorposts with the blood,

and none of you shall go out of the door

of his house until morning, for the Lord will pass

through to strike the Egyptians. And when he sees the

blood on the lentil and the two door posts, the

Lord will pass over the door and not allow the

destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. And

you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you

and your sons forever. And it will come to pass

when you come to the land which the Lord will

give you, just as he promised, that you shall keep

this service. And it shall be when your children say

to you, what do you mean by this service, that

you shall say, it is the passover sacrifice of the

Lord who passed over the houses of the children of

Israel in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians and delivered

our households. So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. Okay,

have you ever wondered why the Lord said to them,

you're going to keep this service, this passover forever, because

he already knew that Jesus was gonna be a sacrifice,

and he would be the one sacrifice that was going

to take care of everything. So this was a picture

of what was to come in the future. And so

that blood provided supernatural protection for these people. The death

angel could not touch those homes, those houses that had

the blood that was struck on the doorposts and the lintel.

The destroyer, the angel of Death, had to pass over.

That's why it's called passover, had to pass over those houses.

But it says there wasn't a house in Egypt where

there was not one dead. So the blood of Jesus,

now that wasn't the blood of Jesus. That was just

the blood of a lamb. But now look forward, we

know that Jesus is the lamb of God. Remember John

the Baptist, when he saw Jesus, he said, whoa behold

the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of

the world. So it's the blood of Jesus that provides

supernatural protection. If the blood of a real lamb could

provide supernatural protection from death, imagine back then, what do

you think the blood of Jesus can provide for you

and I? The blood of Jesus is stronger than death. Amen.

So it's an amazing picture. I love reading this because

you can see what happened then and then we look

to the future and we see Jesus shedding his blood

on the cross. He's the perfect sacrifice. He's the perfect

lamb that shed his blood for you and I. And

that blood, oh, the blood of Jesus. That blood is

stronger than death. That blood provides supernatural protection over you

and I. And if no one ever taught you, I'm

gonna tell you tonight. You know, I hung around those

old Pentecostals growing up, and they would plead the blood.

Why because they understood the power of the blood. You

don't even hear people talking about the blood of Jesus anymore.

I've said this many times. You know, churches don't sing

about the blood. In fact, they refuse to sing about

the blood. They won't preach about the blood, they won't

teach about the blood. And therefore, you know, people are

just not being taught well. Number one. Number two, this

is a truth that's so powerful. You know, no wonder

the enemy has infiltrated the church. Can I just get

to the point here. The enemy has infiltrated the Church

of America to weaken it, to soften it, so that

Christians no longer walk in the power of the Blood

of Jesus, in the authority of the Blood of Jesus.

And then you know, he wins. So he weakens the church.

And that's where we are, anemic church that does not

know how to stand, does not know how to war against.

You know, our enemy, we have a fierce enemy. Number seven.

The blood gives us access to enter the most holy place.

Now we're going to go back to the Book of Hebrews,

chapter ten and verse nineteen. And let me say this

before I even read that scripture. I said this before.

I'm going to say it again because not everyone listens

to every program. But Hebrews is a book that if

you get this under your belt and you really understand

the Book of Hebrews, it will really bring a lot

of freedom to you. This is a powerful book. And

even though we don't know who exactly wrote it. It

was written to hebrew Christians, that's for sure, Jewish Christians,

that's who the writer's writing to. So makes you think

that Paul wrote the book, and it does sound like

his writing. But this Book of Hebrews, let me tell you,

it is so chocked full of nuggets, gold nuggets that

if you if you begin to chew on this word

in the Book of Hebrews, you begin to chew and

meditate and chew and meditate on the scriptures in the

Book of Hebrews, it's gonna do so it's going to

change you. It's gonna change you, I guarantee you, because

you know, we know that there's power in the Word

of God, and that word is life giving and it

changes us it. You know, it renews our mind right,

it changes our wrong thinking, our bad thinking, our anemic thinking.

And it's just an incredible book. I I just I

want to encourage you to really spend time just chewing

and meditating in this fabulous book. But I'm looking at

the time and I'm not even gonna go there. I

was going to number seven, but I don't have time

to get into that. We'll finish that next week. But

again I just encourage you to, you know, maybe listen

to this message again so you're understanding about why the

Blood of Jesus is so necessary, so vital, so important

to us as believers. And again study the Book of

Hebrews chew and meditate on it. Well, this is Don Noble.

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Don Noble saying Shalom shalom, Peace be unto you