The Blood Applied Pt. 3

Good evening. Welcome to a voice in the wilderness. I'm

Don Noble of Peerhart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing a joy. Well, it's good

to be with you this evening. I'm hoping to get

through this message without coughing, not feeling as well as

I'd like to. But last week we talked about applying

the blood, and I want to continue in that same

vein because I said that we would finish Hebrews chapter ten.

And the thing about these scriptures and Hebrews eight nine

and ten is how strongly they correlate with the Book

of Romans. And Paul writing the Book of Romans and

most likely wrote the Book of Hebrews, is giving us

a beautiful picture of how to understand what Christ sacrifice

did the power of that. Now he shares in Romans

how the sacrifice of Christ was made us righteous, cleansed

us from all unrighteousness. Yet what we see in the

Book of Hebrews is how did that happen? How exactly

did that happen under the Old Covenant? And now what

is it in the New Covenant that we have that

is so much better than what was in the Old Covenant.

And really this is a huge deal. I would tell

you that of all the things that I've ever taught,

I don't think there's anything more important than talking about

the blood of Jesus. Seriously, this is a very important topic.

I know many preachers won't even touch or talk about

the blood, but they are really leaving out a very

critical concept in understanding about our salvation and what Christ

did for us. Okay, I'll give you that every Christian

you know we're coming up to Easter, knows that Jesus

shed his blood on the cross. But do they know

the purpose of the blood. Well, they may know that, yes,

their sins were redeemed. I mean they were redeemed, their

sins were washed away by the blood of Jesus. But

what else about the blood is necessary for us to know?

So I think that this topic and I talk about

it every you know, every Easter season, and I talk

about it because you need to know about it, and

there's so much to talk about. My gosh, I could

I could keep going past the Easter season, past resurrection, Sonny,

keep talking about the blood to you, but we will

go back to starting in Hebrews chapter ten. I'm going

to be reading out of the New Living Translation because

I think it's a little easier to help you understand.

And then i'll finish in the new King James version

with other scriptures from another chapter. So this is Hebrews

chapter ten, verse starting with verse one. The old system

under the Law of Moses was only a shadow, 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 that's a keyword. They were never able to provide

perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. If they

could have provided perfect cleansing, thus sacrifices would have stopped

for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time,

and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. So that

old system was a very dim preview of what was

to come in the future, meaning that you know, under

the old system, animals were being shed, I mean they

were being killed, and their blood was being shed, bulls

and goats, and then it was just giving us a

preview of the good things to come, which was going

to be Jesus blood was going to be shed. So

if those sacrifices back under the old system and the

law Moses, if those sacrifices year after year, over and over,

if they had been able to provide a perfect cleansing

for the individuals, well there would have been no need

for Jesus to come and do it. If that had

if that had accomplished, everything had provided perfect cleansing, and

they had been purified once for all time, you know,

then there would be no further need. I mean, those

sacrifices would have stopped now. But instead those sacrifices actually

Verse three says 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.

That is why when Christ came into the world, he

said to God, the Father, you did not want animal

sacrifices or sin offerings, but you've given me a body

to offer. You were not pleased with burnt offerings or

other offerings for sin. Then I said, that's Christ saying this.

Then I said he's saying that to the Father. Look,

I've come to do your will, oh God, as is

written about me in the scriptures, so you know, we

see very clearly black and white. It was not possible

for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. No,

it's why Christ came into the world, the scripture saying,

and then he tells God, hey, you never wanted those

animal sacrifices. You wanted me to give my body, and

that's what I've come to do. I've come to do

your will because my body is going to be an offering.

My body is going to be the sacrifice because you

were never pleased with those burnt offerings and all those

other offerings for sin. It's about me doing your will God,

because it's written about me in the scriptures. You did

not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings, or burnt offerings

or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them,

though they are required by the law of Moses. Then

he said, look, I have come to do your will.

So Jesus cancels the first covenant in order to put

the second into effect. For God's will was for us

to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body

of Jesus Christ, once for all time. And that's probably

the key Jesus' sacrifice was to make us holy once

for all time, to give us, to provide for us

eternal life Verse eleven. Under the Old Covenant, the priest

stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering

the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take

away sins. But our High Priest offered himself to God

as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time.

Then he sat down in play in the place of honor,

at God's right hand. There he waits until his enemies

are humbled, and made a footstool footstool under his feet. Now,

you know, sometimes we can just gloss over things and

you know, not really pay attention. But see, this is

so important because when it says our High Priest to is,

Jesus offered himself to God as a single sacrifice, one time,

one person, for all sins, and it was good forever.

So those are key things. Jesus offered himself as a

single sacrifice to God for all sins, for all time, forever.

And then after he did that, he sat down at

God's right hand verse fourteen. For by that one offering,

he Jesus forever made perfect. Those who are being made

holy that's you and I. So his blood sacrifice. Through

that blood sacrifice, he made us holy. He made us

perfect those who are being made holy and verse fifteen.

And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so.

For he says, this is the new covenant I will

make with my people. On that day, says the Lord,

I'll put my laws in their hearts, and I'll write

them on their minds. And then he says, I will

never again remember their sins and lawless deeds. Well, that's

a whole radical new concept, this new covenant. You know,

why is it a better covenant with better promises? Because

we don't have we don't have a stone that has

all these commandments on written on them and you know,

hanging in the kitchen, and we look at those every

day and we go, okay, yeah, okay, I didn't commit

that one. Yeah, No, I didn't kill anybody. No, I

didn't steal. No. He says, his laws are now inside

of our heart, and they're written inside of our on

our mind. So it's a whole different ballgame. It's not

about works, it's about loving God. It's about now having

a transformed life and wanting to do the will of God,

not out of compunction, not out of because it's written

over there in those tablets of stone. No, now it's

written on my heart, and I want to do everything

I can to please the Lord Verse eighteen. And when

sins had been forgiven, there is no need to offer

any more sacrifices. So those sacrifices were the blood of

the bulls and the goats being sacrificed. That was to

forgive the people's sins. Well, when Jesus died and shed

his blood on the cross, that took care of our sins.

We became forgiven. So Jesus didn't have to die again,

didn't have to offer his body again. It didn't have

to happen over and over and over repeatedly. No one time,

one time. And in that one action on the cross,

that one shedding of blood on the cross removed our

sins forever. He says, I will never again remember their

sins and lawless deeds. Now, you know, you go back

to Romans eight one. Now, therefore there is no condemnation

to them who are in Christ Jesus, and that is

the truth. When Jesus said, I don't remember their's sins

and lawless deeds anymore, it's done. Then, how is it

that after we get born again we still sin. Are

we condemned? No? No, because scripture says now therefore there

is no condemnation, no condemnation. We're not condemned anymore. We

have been made free, we have been made holy. But

the Holy Spirit does convict us of sin. And if

we keep sinning, it's because our mind is not renewed.

We have to have a renewed mind. And you can

only get a renewed mind by reading God's word. It

renews your mind Verse nineteen. And so, dear brothers and sisters,

we can boldly enter Heaven's most holy place because of

the blood of Jesus. Jesus brought that blood with him

to the holy place in heaven. And guess what you

and I. Scripture says we can boldly come to the

throne of grace. I mentioned last week when Jesus took

his last breath, and that curtain in the temple came

just separated in two, like as if it were just

sliced open with a machete from top to bottom. Supernaturally.

That signified access. That signified I don't need a man

going into a little room with blood for me any longer,

because Jesus accomplished that with his death on the cross.

Now I have complete access. Now listen to the scripture

verse twenty. By his death, Jesus opened a new and

life giving way through the curtain into the most holy place.

So now this is so important. Now we have access

to Jesus. I don't have to go through the high priest.

I don't have to have the blood of bulls and

goats and all that stuff. No, no, no, that's the

old system. Jesus has a better covenant. I can just

come boldly to the Throne of Grace. I can bring

my concerns to him. I have access to him. I

don't need to go through any human being to access Jesus.

Now I have freely been given access a new and

life giving way through that curtain into the most holy place.

That's amazing. Think about that. See, we kind of take

that for granted that we can just, you know, in

our prayer time, you know, boldly come to the Lord,

boldly come to that throne of grace. Well, those people

under the old law could not do that. Ever, they

had to have that high priest go on their behalf. Well,

that system is over with. We have a better way,

a new covenant, new life giving. It's a new and

living way that Jesus provided. And then he says in

verse twenty one, and since we have a great high

priest who rules over God's house, let us go right

into the presence of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting him.

For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood

to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed

with pure water, pure water. I mean, there you have it.

We can go right in to the presence of God.

Because Jesus is now our high priest. He already accomplished

that whole thing. And now I and you and every

other believer in Christ can go right into the presence

of God with a sincere heart, fully trusting him, knowing

that He's for us and not against us. And our

guilty conscience has been sprinkled with the blood to make

us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

So we've been made holy. Our consciences have been cleaned.

That's huge, But that was accomplished with blood. That could

only have happened because of the blood of Jesus being shed.

So I hope. You are now beginning to understand the

power of His blood. It redeemed you from death, from

hell and from the grave, because you're never going to die,

You're never going to hell, and you have eternal life.

So that's the power of the blood of Jesus, the

redeeming power of the blood. Hallelujah. Verse twenty three. I

just want to do twenty three to twenty five, and

then we're gonna switch over here. The writer says, let

us hold tightly without wavering, to the hope we affirm,

for God can be trusted to keep his promise. I mean,

if there's anybody that can keep a promise, it's God.

Most people can't keep a promise. Very few people can

keep a promise. But God can be trusted to keep

his promise. Let us think verse twenty four of ways

to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

And let us not neglect our meeting together as some

people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the

day of his return is drawing near. Okay, now I

want to read from Ephesians Chapter one, verses three through seven,

and the new King James blessed be the God and

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us

with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ, just

as he chose us in him before the foundation of

the world, that we should be holy and without blame

before him in love, having predestined us to adoption as

sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good

pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory

of his grace, by which he has made us accepted

in the Beloved. In him, we have redemption through his blood,

the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.

So the fact that Christ died on the cross, that

was according to the good pleasure of his will, and

he made us accepted in the Beloved, and we have

redemption through his blood. The forgiveness is so sins are

forgiven because of his blood. So it really does hurt

my heart when I think of the current day Church

that just really neglects the power of the blood. It

doesn't give it its proper emphasis in the teaching and

the preaching of the Word. And because of that, you know,

there's so many Christians who are spiritually anemic, their guilt

ridden you know, from one Sunday to the next, and

they don't realize that their heavenly Father actually provided a

supernatural ability for them to overcome all the affairs of life.

We don't have to live like that. We're supposed to

live a victorious life while or here on the earth, okay,

And they can't access that ability because it's through the faith.

You have to have faith in the power of Jesus blood.

So their lack of knowledge about the blood prevents them

from believing and receiving all the benefits of the blood.

You know, faith comes by hearing Romans ten seventeen. Faith

comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Therefore,

faith in the blood comes from hearing the word about

the blood. So what is the Blood saying to you

and I as believers today, Well, we've been forgiven. I

just read that to you in Ephesians one. You're forgiven

and you're accepted in the beloved because if Jesus shed blood,

we have forgiveness of sins. And you know what, the

devil can't do anything about that. He is powerless to

change that powerless. So forgiveness is freedom, it's deliverance, it's liberty.

It's release from bondage and imprisonment. And so through the

blood of Jesus, we have been freed from the false

guilt and sin induced failures that once held us in bondage.

We're free. So we've been delivered from thee Think about this,

You've been delivered from the fear of eternal punishment. Got

to give you some peace, not how to you know,

settle you down. See, we don't have to live a

life filled with struggle, turmoil, dread, hopelessness. Now we have

been freed from all sin, all guilt, all shame. We're

free from that now. If you still feel those things,

let me just say this. If you still feel any

of that, then you don't understand God's word, and nobody's

teaching you properly because Romans eight one. Now, therefore there

is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

So if you're condemning yourself with you know, guilt and

shame and whatever, then you don't understand. You're a new

creator created in Christ Jesus, a new creation. The old

man is dead, dead dead dead, Okay, so why are

you still doing these things? Because you haven't renewed your mind.

And because someone hasn't taught you about the power of

the blood, nor have they taught you about how to

renew your mind. So I'm just trying to help you

here today. Really, and then the blood applied to us

means that we can now enter into rest. God rested

on the seventh day, and on that day the earth

man's home was finished. God provided mankind with everything to

live a victorious, abundant and blessed life. That's where we

should be today. We should be living this abundant, victorious

and blessed life because He completed his work, he entered

his rest, and and you and I have because of

being born again, because of the blood shed on Calvary,

we get to enter that rest. See, by faith we

can step into all that God has provided through the death, burial, resurrection,

and ascension of Jesus. By faith and through his blood,

we can enter into the rest of right standing with God,

knowing or complete in Jesus. He's blessed us with every

spiritual blessing in heavenly places. And when you know that

you're forgiven, there's rest for your soul. Right if you

know you are completely forgiven, and you are if you've

made that step, then you have rest for your soul.

You don't have to struggle in your own flesh. And

I don't know about you, but to me, that's man,

that is that is peace, that is rest. You know.

Isaiah one to eighteen says it this way. Though your

sins be a scarlet, they shall be as white as snow,

Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

That means, no matter how soiled, No, there's no struggle,

struggle for cleansing. All you have to do is receive

this by faith. Just by faith. It's like getting a fresh, clean,

hot shower. You know it's wonderful. Then you know that's

how you can live every day. When Jesus said on

the cross it's finished, he provided a cleansing for you

and for I on the inside. He knew, he knew

you couldn't wash that part of yourself. You needed help.

And so forgiveness is a covenant promise that's been ratified,

approved of by the blood. It is settled, it is finish.

Agree with what has been done. Amen, Well this is down, noble.

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