The Blood Applied Pt. 2

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

Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Last week I mentioned

we were entering the Holy Season, one of the most

beautiful and important times on our calendar, and last week

I started with a message called the Blood Applied. I'm

going to continue that message tonight and finish it. I

was unable to conclude it last week, but if you

have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Hebrews

chapter ten now. Last week I spoke to you out

of the New King James Version. This week I'm speaking

out of the NLT, the New Living Translation. The New

Living Translation can take complex topics like the ones in

the Book of Hebrews and make them simpler to understand.

I just felt like I should read this out of

the NLT tonight. And of course we don't know who

wrote the Book of Hebrews. Scholars believe it was Paul.

But I will say that we know that Paul wrote

the Book of Romans, very foundational for our faith, and

I think that Hebrews complements the Book of Romans, so

it might behoove you to sit down read the Book

of Romans and then read the Book of Hebrews, and

I think it will give you a better understanding of

these particular scriptures. So I'm going to start with Chapter

ten Hebrews. Chapter ten in the NLT verse one, 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 worshipers would have been

purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt

would have disappeared. So I want to stop there and

just remind you again that the law, the Mosaic Law,

refers to the Ten Commandments. And when we talk when

Paul talks about the law, and he talks about the

law a lot in the Book of Romans, he's referring

specifically to the Ten Commandments. The Mosaic Law, and those

ten commandments were designed to show people, every person their

sin nature, and that they needed a savior. That was

the whole purpose of those commandments, so that they would

realize recognize what sin was, and that they were committing sin,

and that they had a sinful nature, and they actually

needed a savior. So the Ten Commandments, the Mosaic law

could not absolve anybody of all their sins. When the

High Priest went in on yam Kapor day of Atonement,

now he applied the blood for the nation of Israel

and for the people, which covered their sins. But it

couldn't It couldn't redeem them, It couldn't give them eternal life,

It couldn't make them righteous, It couldn't remove the sin

from their life. So that's what this is saying. The

sacrifices had to be repeated over and over, and the

blood that was used was animal blood, bulls and goats,

and so it could never ever make a person righteous.

The only blood that could do that was the blood

of Jesus okay verse three. 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. That is why when Christ came

into the world. He said to God. This is Jesus

saying to God, you did not want animal sacrifices or

sin offerings, but you have given me a body to offer.

You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings

for sin. Then I said, look, I've come to do

your will, oh God, as is written about me in

the scriptures. So Jesus is saying to his father, you

don't want animal sacrifices. You gave me a body to

make a sacrifice. And Jesus is telling his father, I've

come to do your will of God. There's no doubt

about that, and it's written about me in the scriptures.

First verse eight. First Christ said, 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 they are acquired required by the law of Moses.

Then he said, look, I've 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. So you can

see that clear dichotomy. During the time of Moses, under

that Mosaic Covenant, we have people who are going to

the temple, and the high priest is going into the

holy holies, taking the blood of bulls and goats, applying

that to the tavern, to the ark of the covenant,

and to remove or to cover the sins of the people.

And that was just kind of a temporary thing. It

had to be repeated, it didn't. It wasn't an eternal thing.

It had to be repeated. But when Jesus came and

shed his blood, he did that once for all. There

was no repeated I mean, he didn't give his life

and his body over and over again. He did it

one time, and that blood was powerful enough to take

away our sins and redeem us from sin and make

us holy. Nothing could make those people holy in the

Old Testament, but Jesus blood made us holy by his

sacrifice 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, referring to Jesus, offered himself to

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

Then he Jesus sat down in the place of honor

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

are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. For

by that one offering, he Jesus forever made perfect those

who are being made holy. 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 will put my laws

in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.

Then he says, I will never again remember their sins

and lawless deeds verse eighteen. And when sins have been forgiven,

there is no need to offer any more sacrifices. So

a great distinction between the old Covenant and the New

covenant shed. The new Covenant the blood shed by Jesus

for us to redeem us from sin and cleanse us

for all eternity. And so Jesus went, you know, we

have the privilege of now living under that new covenant,

and those laws they're they're written on our heart, they're

written inside of us, and they're written in our minds.

And we know that once we are transformed, once we're

born again, there's this desire now to serve the living God.

There's a desire to not walk in sin. There's a

desire to leave the old life. Suddenly we realize that

we don't want to go and live the way we did.

We realize that that's not what God wants for us,

and we also realize it's not what we want for ourselves.

So it's a new life. You think about the transformed

life you're talking about, probably one of the most powerful

things that can actually happen in a human being is

when they become born again. They are transformed by the

power of the blood of Jesus. That blood is immediately

applied to a person's life the minute they accept Christ

as savior. So that's an amazing thing. And you see,

that's when we talk about the blood applied. It's the

power of that blood applied to a person's life that

literally transforms them. How many testimonies, I'm sure you've heard

as many as I have about the person who was homeless,

a drug addict, an alcoholic, They found Jesus, received him

as Lord and savior and their life was dramatically transformed

and they came out of addiction, they came out of

homelessness to serve the living God, married, had children and living,

you know, a wholesome holy life. Now that cannot happen

without the blood applied. So when people make fun of

Christians and Christianity and Jesus and the blood, I mean,

they have no clue whatsoever of what they're missing. They're

missing the great opportunity to have a life fulfilled, to

have a life of goodness to you know, and that

life can certainly change many other lives. So it's the

blood applied to a person's heart when they get born

again that is actually the catalyst to make them take

a different direction in life, to help them see that

that old life is worthless. It's not worth going back

to that old life. No, it's pursuing now what is

in them. They now have the Holy Spirit living in them.

They can now begin to be doing what God has

actually destined them to do. From the foundation of the world,

before they were ever in their mother's womb, God had

a future, a hope, a destiny, a plan, and it's

a good plan. Jeremiah says, it's a good plan for

their for their life. So it's a great opportunity when

a person has the blood applied to their heart to

fulfill all the wonderful things that God had planned eons

a go for them, and they had no awareness of that.

How about the people that well, let's just say, like

a person on skid row that has no hope is

addicted day after day. It's it's a terrible life. They

get born again. Suddenly they discover that they have an

artistic ability and they can create art or they can

create you know, artistic ability can be manifested in many ways.

It doesn't have to be manifested in painting a picture.

It can be manifested in creating and designing machines or

you know, designing houses, being an architect. So there's so

much dormant, lying dormant in people who don't know Christ.

That that goodness, that destiny, that future is inside of them,

and it lies dormant until the blood is applied. When

the blood is applied they receive Christ, everything changes and

all the hopes and all the dreams that have been

stuffed way down inside them come alive, and they become alive.

They're actually spiritually alive now to Christ. The scriptures say,

you know, we were dead. We were a dead person,

so to speak, kind of like the walking dead. But

once you get born again, you come alive. To Christ,

everything changes. It's like putting on those what they when

they say, putting on those rose colored glasses. You know,

everything looks different. Everything looks green and fresh and healthy

and alive. That's what applying the blood does. That's what

applying the blood accomplishes. So it's important. Okay, let's uh,

let's look at verse Let's look at verse eight again. First,

Christ said, 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, Jesus said, look, I've

come to do your will. He cancels the first covenant

in order to put the second in to effect. I'm

going to stop there. When Jesus said, look I have

he says to his father, I've come to do your will.

He already knew what that was. He already knew that

his body was going to become a sacrifice for the

entire world. But he was willing to do the will

of his father. And it was a one time sacrifice,

one time. Verse eleven says, 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 Jesus offered himself

to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for

all time. He offered himself. There wasn't a fight about it.

There wasn't an argument about it. Jesus offered himself to

God as the single sacrifice, sacrifice for sins that would

be good for all eternity. Then he, Jesus, sat down

in the place of honor at God's right hand. And

there at the place of God's right hand, he waits

until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under

his feet. For by that one offering he forever made perfect.

Those who are being made holy, that's you and I.

That's you and I. We have been made holy. If

you're born again, you have been made holy. You may

not feel holy, you may not look holy, you may

not even act wholly. But the scripture says, you've been

made holy because our sins. When we got born again

were washed away, cleansed by the blood applied to us

from Jesus. It's as if we become a clean slate.

Now we do have a responsibility once become born again,

to live a holy life. And holy just means set apart,

consecrated for God, set apart for the purposes of God's

will and plan in our life. That's what being holy

is all about. So yes, we can we can observe

a person's actions and behaviors and we can say, boy,

they don't seem to kind of line up with scripture.

Their life is in turmoil, their life is a mess.

I actually know a lot of those people, and you

would think in your head, oh my gosh, they can't

be born again. They are born again, but they're not living,

you know, they're not seeking first the Kingdom of God

and his righteousness, and their minds have not been renewed

by the Word of God. So there's many things involved.

Once you become born again. You can't just kind of

live by the wayside and think this is all going

to work out well for you. You have to be

engaged and with a body of Christ, perhaps a wonderful

church that teaches the whole counsel of God. I have

really seriously have no use for churches. And there's plenty

of them that don't teach the whole counsel of God.

They just don't. They pick and choose what they want

to believe, and they pick and choose how they think,

you know, they should teach the congregation. There's no picking

and choosing. The Word of God is the word of God.

It's complete. Peter even said that he said, all scripture, all, all,

all scripture was given for correction, for repute, excuse me,

for reproof, for correction and righteousness. And so all scripture

is important to us. If it talks about healing, if

it talks about prophecy, if it talks about praying in tongues,

that's the whole ball of wax. We can't ignore pieces

and parts. Okay. So Jesus really provided an incredible opportunity

for us to live a righteous, holy life. In fact,

if you read Romans, you'll begin to understand what being

righteous means. First of all, it's a position in Christ.

We're seated in heavenly places with Him. We've been made

righteous and we that just means we've been made in

right standing with God. It also means we are no

longer an enemy of God. So the applied blood to

our life encapsulates a whole lot of a whole lot

of stuff 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 will put my laws in their

hearts and I'll write them on their minds. Then he

says I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds. Well,

those are two big things. When he says I'm going

to put their I'm going to put my laws in

your heart, and I'm going to write them on your mind.

The people under the Mosaic Covenant didn't have that. They

sow the laws, they saw the Ten commandments. Those things

were not written in their heart, wasn't written in their mind.

They just knew, oh, I have to live by that,

and if I break that law, then I've done a

bad thing. And they didn't. You know, when it says

here I will never again remember their sins and lawless

deeds when we are born again, Jesus isn't remembering the

sins past. He's not even remembering anything because it's under

the blood. Remember the blood was applied at your new birth,

and everything is under the blood. If we sin, we

confess our sins, and He cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

And he doesn't remember any of that. You remember it

because the enemy will bring it up to you. He'll

remind you of the ugly sin that you committed, or

the ugly thing you said, or the action that was wrong.

But God said, I will never again remember their sins

and lawless deeds verse eighteen. And when sins have been forgiven,

there is no need for any more sacrifices. So Jesus

didn't have to die over and over. That was a

one time thing to make us holy and forgive us

our sins. He redeemed us with his precious blood. Peter said,

silver and gold couldn't redeem us. But it was the

precious blood of Jesus that redeemed us. So the writer

of Hebrews and Verse nineteen says, and so, dear brothers

and sisters, we can boldly enter Heaven's most holy place

because of the blood of Jesus. Oh wait, remember in

the Old Testament, who was the only person that could

enter Heaven's most Holy Place, or the I should say,

the most holy place on earth. Only one individual, the

High Priest. No other person, no other priest could enter

the Holy of Holies except the High Priest. But this says,

we as believers, boldly enter Heaven's most holy place because

of the blood of Jesus. So simply by the death

of Jesus we have been granted. I mean, in fact,

I think we take for granted what has been granted

to us as believers. Verse twenty says by his death,

Jesus opened a new and life giving way through the

curtain into the most Holy Place. And of course you

know that when Jesus took his last breath on the cross,

Scripture tells us that the curtain between the Holy Place

and the Most Holy Place, which scholars believe, was about

as thick as your hand, in other words, from your

wrist to the end of your fingers, so that veil

would have been about that thick and about sixty feet high.

When Jesus took his last breath, that curtain literally split

into creating a way to enter into the Holy of Holies.

Now that that is amazing. That should excite you because

now you know, think about it again. The only person

that could enter through that curtain was the high priest.

But now jesus blood is applied and that curtain is

torn into and it means everybody who has the blood

applied can enter the most holy place. He opened it

says here Jesus opened a new, a new and life

giving way through the curtain into the most holy place.

That literally means we have access to Jesus. Twenty four

to seven. I can go to Jesus if I'm driving

in my car, I can go to Jesus. I'm standing

in the shower, I can go to Jesus if I'm lying.

You know, if I were a car mechanic and I'm

lying underneath of a car, we can access Jesus. Those

people access Jesus in a space capsule. So there's no limit,

there's no boundary, there's no curtain, there's nothing keeping us

from Jesus now because of the blood applied. While I

have run out of time, this is don Noble Gosh.

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