The Blood Applied

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. Well, it is a

lovely day and a lovely time to be with you.

We are four weeks away from Resurrection Sunday, and as

you know, it's a glorious time of year. It's a

glorious time to celebrate the death and resurrection and ascension

of our Great Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So I

will be spending these four weeks talking about things that

have to do with that particular subject. Tonight, I am

talking about the Blood applied, the blood applied. In the

Book of Exodus, Moses was instructed by the Lord to

build the Tabernacle, and there were three major parts too,

the Tabernacle, the outer court, the Inner Court, and the

Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies could only be

entered by the high priest. And inside this particular space

was the Ark of the Covenant, and seated on top

of the Ark of the Covenant, that wooden box that

was gilded with gold set the Mercy Seat. And on

the Mercy Seat were two cherubim facing each other. When

the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kipur,

day of Atonement once a year, he sprinkled the blood

of animals on the horns of the altar. The blood

was a cleansing typifying the cleansing blood of Jesus from

all our sins. Today's message will focus on that same idea,

but written about in the Book of Hebrews, and it

gives us the understanding of the better covenant and the

better promises through the blood. Yes, blood, but that blood

that was shed not by bulls and goats, but was

shed by the precious blood of Jesus. Now Peter the Apostle,

in writing in First Peter, he says to the church

chapter one, verse eighteen and nineteen. He says, knowing that

you are not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or

gold from your aimless conduct, received by tradition from your father's,

but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb,

without blemish and without spot. So we know that Jesus

redeemed us, not with silver, not with gold, not with

anything other than his precious blood, the precious blood of

Jesus as of a lamb without spot or blemish. For

Jesus was the sinless one, the holy One, the just one. Amen.

So if you will get your bibles, and if you'd

like to follow, I'm going to be reading a lot

of scripture this evening, and I'm going to be starting

in Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews. I'm reading completely out

of the new King James version this evening, and we're

starting with chapter eight. I'll be reading chapter eight, chapter nine,

and chapter ten, verses one through twenty two. And the

point of Hebrews is to now bring to your focus

that that which occurred in the Old Testament now has

been made new in the New Testament, but under a

different covenant, the covenant made with the precious blood of Jesus.

So we'll just start here chapter eight of Hebrews. Verse one. Now,

this is the main point of the things we're saying.

We have such a high priest who is seated at

the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens. Now,

I'll just stop there for a second. It was only

the high priest, as I mentioned, that could go in

and atone for the sins of the the nation of Israel.

Once a year. Jesus is now our high priest, and

he is a high priest who right now is seated

at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in

Heaven Verse two, a minister of the sanctuary and of

the true Tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man,

referring to the fact that Moses, being a man just

like you and I, Moses had the artisans erect the tabernacle,

but this tabernacle now the Lord has erected the true Tabernacle.

Now that true Tabernacle is you and I. We have

the Holy Ghost living inside of us. In other words,

he tabernacles with us inside of us. So we now

become Jesus was the true true Tabernacle. Now we are

the Tabernacle of God because we are carrying the Holy Ghost.

We are carrying the high priest Amen. So that minister

of the sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle, which the

Lord erected and not man. For every high priest is

appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is

necessary that this one capitalized one referring to Jesus, also

have something to offer. For if he, Jesus, were on earth,

he would not be a priest, since there are priests

who offer the gifts according to the law, who serve

the copy and shadow of heavenly things. As Moses was

divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle.

For he said, the Lord speaking to Moses, said, see

that you make all things according to the pattern shown

you on the mountain. But now he, Jesus, has obtained

a more excellent ministry inasmuch as he is also mediator

of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless. Referring to

what covenant he's talking about, the writer's talking about the

first covenant, that Mosaic Covenant. For if that Mosaic covenant

had been faultless, without fault, then no place would have

been sought. For a second, we wouldn't need another covernment

covenant if that one could have washed away all our

sins and made us righteous. But the law, that covenant,

that Mosaic covenant, could not do that Verse eight, because

because finding fault with them, he the Lord says, Behold,

the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will

make a new covenant with the House of Israel and

with the House of Judah, not according to the covenant

that I made with their fathers in the day when

I took them by the hand to lead them out

of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue

in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with

the House of Israel. After those days, says the Lord,

I will put my law in their mind, and I

will write them on their hearts, and I will be

their God, and they shall be my people. None of

them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying,

know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the

least of them to the greatest of them. For I

will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins, and

their lawless deeds. I will remember no more in that,

he says, a new covenant. He has made the first obsolete.

Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old, is ready

to vanish away. Then Chapter nine. Then, indeed, even the

first Covenant had ordinances of divine service, and the earthly

sanctuary for a tabernacle was prepared, the first part in

which was the lamp stand the table and the show bread,

which is called the sanction, which is called the Sanctuary,

and what was called the Inner court, and behind the

second veil the part of the tabernacle, which is called

the holiest of all, which had the golden censer and

the Ark of the Covenant overlaid on all sides with gold,

in which were the golden pot that had the Manna

Aaron's rod that butted, and the tablets of the Covenant.

And above it were the Cherubim of Glory overshadowing the

mercy seat of these things. Of these things we cannot

now speak in detail. So back in the days of Moses,

in that Holy of holies sat the Ark of the Covenant,

and in it was Manna Aaron's rod that budded, and

the Ten Commandments, or as it's referred to here as

Tablets of the Covenant verse six. Now, when these things

had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the

first part of the tabernacle performing the services. But into

the second part the high priest went alone, once a year,

not without blood, which he offered for himself and for

the people's sins committed in ignorance the Holy Spirit. Indicating

this that the way into the holiest of all was

not yet made manifest, while the first Tabernacle was still standing.

So in other words, it was it was like a

replica of what was to come in the future. It

was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts

and sacrifices are offered, which cannot make him who performed

the service perfect in regard to the conscience, concerned only

with foods and drinks and various washings and fleshly ordinances

imposed until the time of reformation. So I'll stop there

for just a second. You know, they went through all

of this what I call regamarole. They went through all

these traditions, They went through all these little ceremonial kinds

of things. But those things that they did, albeit ordered

by the Lord, requested that they do by the Lord,

they could not purge their conscience. It was a you know,

it was just a it was just a temporary system

Verse eleven. But Christ came as high priest of the

good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle,

not made with hands, that is not of this creation.

So Jesus represents, he represents everything about the arc. He's

you know that arc has a lid, and that lid

has those cherub thems sitting on it, and that lid

is called the mercy seat. Jesus is the mercy seat.

He represents everything inside that arc of the Covenant, that

gilded gold box. He was the bread of life that

came down from heaven that we call Manna. He in

his supernatural being, made Aaron's rod bud, and he wrote

those commandments the Covenant, the laws that the people were

to follow. But those laws, just remember, it is important

to remember it. The laws could not They could not

make us clean. They no one could keep the law.

In fact, the law wasn't The law was only designed

to show that we had sin That's the whole purpose

of the law. Whole purpose of those commandments were to

show us that we were sinful and that we needed

a savior. Because there was no way in our flesh

that we were able to keep those laws. It was

impossible and there wasn't any way made for us to

be able to keep those laws until Christ comes and

sheds his blood. So the law served one purpose to

show us that we were sinful, we had a sinful nature,

and that we needed a savior. So I'll read verse

eleven again. But Christ came as high priest of the

good things to come, with the greater and more perfect 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. So Christ actually entered

a so to speak, most holy place with his blood.

It was his blood was applied to that mercy seed

in heaven. And because of that he provided us and

obtained for us eternal redemption from our sins. Hallelujah, Glory

to God. Verse thirteen. For if the blood bulls and goats,

and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies

for the puring purifying of the flesh, how much more

shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit,

offered himself without spot, without a blemish, 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 eternal inheritance. The Old

Covenant had no way of providing remission of sin that

would lead to eternal inheritance, because it just wasn't designed

that way. And the High Priest then went into the

Holy of Holies once a year to atone for everyone's sin.

And what the writer's saying here in verse thirteen and fourteen,

if blood and bulls, if the blood of bulls and

goats and ashes are sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies the purifying

of the flesh. How much more think about that? If

back then the blood of these animals could purify the flesh,

and the you know, they sprinkled blood on everything in

that tabernacle, all of the you know, the lamps stand

that everything got sprinkled with blood to purify it. The

blood purified it. But how much more the blood of Christ,

who offers himself to God, cleans our conscience from dead

works to serve the living God. Because back under the

Old Covenant, nothing could clench your conscience from dead works

to serve the living God. Fifteen. And for this reason,

he is the mediator of the New Covenant by means

of death. It was his death. If Jesus had never

died and shed his blood, there would be we wouldn't

be talking about any of this. There wouldn't be salvation.

There wouldn't have been remission of sin. It took the

shedding of his blood because he was holy, He was sinless,

without spot, without blemish, for the redemption of the transgressions

or sins under the First Covenant, that those who are

called may receive the promise of eternal life, eternal inheritance.

That's what you and I gain with the death of

Christ when we believed in him Verse sixteen. For where

there is a testament, there must also, of necessity be

the death of the testator. For a testament is in

force after men are dead, since it has no power

at all while the testator tongue twister. Here testator lives. Therefore,

not even the First Covenant was dedicated without blood. Oh no,

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people,

according to the law, listen to this, he took the

blood of calves and goats with water, scarlet, wool, and hissip,

and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying,

this is the blood of the Covenant, which God has

commanded you then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the

tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And according

to the law, almost all things are purified with blood.

With and without shedding of blood, there is no remission. Therefore,

verse twenty three, it was necessary that the copies of

these things in the heavens should be purified with these.

But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands,

which are copies of the true. No, he went into

heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God.

For us not that he should offer himself often, over

and over once a year day of atonement yam kapor No,

as the high priest enters the most holy place every

year with the blood of another. He then would have

had to suffer often since the foundation of the world.

In other words, Jesus would have had to die over

and over and over and over again. But now once,

at the end of the ages, he has appeared to

put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as

it is appointed for men to die once. But after

this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear

the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him.

He will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation.

Hallelujah for the law having a shadow of the good

things to come. And that's you know, that's that was

another part of why the law was given. It was

a shadow of good things to come, and not the

very image of the things. Can never with these same

sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make those

who approach perfect. Now, the law could not make people perfect,

for then they would not have ceased to be offered,

for then would they not have ceased to be offered.

For the worshippers, once purified, would have no more consciousness

of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder

of sins every year. For it is not possible that

the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore,

when he Jesus came into the world, he said, sacrifice

an offering you did not desire, but a body you

have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for

sin you had no pleasure. Then I said, behold, I

have come. In the volume of the book, it is

written of me speaking. He's speaking of himself. Jesus is

speaking of himself. To do your will, he's speaking to

his father. It was written in the book, in the

volume of the book, it was written of me Christ,

to do your will, O God, previously saying, sacrifice an offering,

burnt offerings and offerings for sin. You did not desire,

nor did you have pleasure in them which are offered

according to the law. And then he said, Jesus said, behold,

I have come to do your will, Oh God. He

takes away the first that he may establish the second.

In other words, Jesus took away the first covenant so

that he could establish this new covenant. By that we

will have been sanctified through the offering of the body

of Jesus Christ once for all. So we have been

made holy. We have been set apart for the things

of God through the offering of the body of Jesus

Christ once and for all. Jesus didn't have to go

into it some holiest holy place and keep offering himself

as sacrifice. It was done once, and it was done

through his body and the shedding of his blood. That

we have been sanctified, set of part, made holy, made righteous.

That's amazing. Now I'm not going to go any further

because there's no way I can I can finish this,

but we'll take this up next week. We'll start with

verse eleven, chapter ten, Verse eleven of Hebrews and finished

through twenty two. But let me just say in closing

that that precious blood, as Peter talks about, that was

shed for us. That blood, you know, it was so holy,

it was so pure. There's no there's nothing comparable. You

can't compare the blood of Jesus to the blood of

bulls and goats. But when that blood of Jesus was applied, Wow,

every every everything changed. Amen, everything changed. Hallelujah. We give

glory to God. And we'll get into that more next week.

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Don Nobles saying Shaloam, Shaloam, Peace be unto you