Sermon
His Blood Speaks
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Transcript
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Good evening. Welcome to a voice in the wilderness. I'm Don Noble of
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Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy.
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Well, before I begin again, I want to remind you of a
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Bible study I teach every Wednesday night, six pm, Top Hat Pools and
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Stoves, twenty two fifty eight Main Street, Wheeling, West Virginia, and
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I'll be announcing at some point, probably toward the end of summer, and
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God willing, it could even be sooner than that. But I'm going to
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start teaching a healing school, and I'm not sure what night that'll be.
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It may be a Monday night, it may be a Friday night. But
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anyway, if you live in the local area, I continue to encourage you,
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please come sit under solid biblical teaching. Wednesday's six pm. So we'd
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love to have you tonight. I want to talk to you about His Blood
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speaks. Now, we are all familiar with the Genesis account of Adam and
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Eve's sons, Cain and Abel. Cain murdered his brother Abel in the midst
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of his jealous rage over his offering being rejected by God. Cain became exceedingly
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angry and indignant and looked sad and depressed. Scripture says the Lord gave Cain
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a warning that Sin was crouching at his door and that Sin's desire was working
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on Cain, and the Lord even said to him, you must master it.
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But Cain did not heed the word of the Lord and took his life
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out in the field. When the Lord asked Cain where his brother was,
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Cain gave a smart alec answer, am I my brother's keeper. Then the
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Lord said, what have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries
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out to me from the ground. That's Genesis chapter four, verse ten.
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God said he could hear Abel's blood crying. The Hebrew word cry means to
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shriek, to proclaim, to call together. Abel's blood was shrieking and calling
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out for vengeance, proclaiming before God and man that his life was poured out
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into the ground by anger, wrath, and jealousy of his brother. It
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was a loud voice seeking justice. Hebrews chapter eleven, verse four in the
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Amplified Classic says this prompted actuated by faith able brought God a better and more
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acceptable sacrifice than Cain, because of which it was testified of him that he
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was righteous, that he was upright and in right standing with God, and
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God bore witness by accepting and acknowledging his gifts. And though he died yet
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through the incident, he is still speaking. Hebrews Chapter twelve, verse twenty
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four says this, and to Jesus, the mediator of the new Covenant,
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and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of mercy, a better and nobler
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and more gracious message than the blood of Abel, which cried out for vengeance.
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Let me make it clear. Abel's blood cries out for vengeance. Jesus'
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blood, which he presented as an atoning sacrifice for all mankind for all time,
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cries out for mercy, for forgiveness, and for justice. Listen to
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what Hebrews chapter nine, verses twenty three through twenty six say. By such
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means, therefore, it was necessary for the earthly copies of the heavenly things
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to be purified, But the actual heavenly things themselves required far better and nobler
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sacrifices than these. For Christ, the Messiah, has not entered into a
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sanctuary made with human hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the
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true one. But he has entered into Heaven itself now to appear in the
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very presence of God on our behalf. Nor did he enter into the heavenly
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sanctuary to offer himself regularly again and again, as the High priest entered the
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Holy of Holies every year with blood not of his own. For then would
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he often have had to suffer meaning Christ over and over again since the foundation
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of the world. But as it is now, he has once for all,
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at the consummation and clothes of the ages, appeared to put away and
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abolish sin by his sacrifice of himself. Now this is the cross and a
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nutshell right here he has once for all, In other words, one time.
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This is it for all, at the consummation and clothes of the ages,
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appeared to put away and abolish sin by his sacrifice of him self.
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So in the Old Testament it was the blood of bulls and goats that was
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used in the Holy of Holies to make atonement. But it was just a
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covering. That blood of bulls and goats had no power whatsoever to abolish sin.
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Uh uh. The only one with the power to abolish sin was Jesus
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and his blood. That blood abolished sin. So this set of scriptures that
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I just read to you from Hebrews are very profound, and I would highly,
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highly encourage you in this week before Resurrection Sunday to read those scriptures again
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so that you have a very good, strong understanding of what they are saying
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and what it means. Then you'll have a deeper appreciation for the Cross.
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You see. Now, I know people avoid the Book of Hebrews for whatever
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reason, But in the Book of Hebrews, I mean, you're talking the
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meat of scripture. This is not the milk, This is not elementary things.
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This is meat. This is stuff to chew on. This is stuff
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to think about. And of course Holy Week is a wonderful time to be
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thinking about the Cross. What Jesus did for you and I He abolished sin
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with his blood, hallelujah. So it took the blood of bulls and goats
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to purify the earthly vessels for the sanctuary. There were many vessels. There
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were chalices, and there was the table of showbread, and there were the
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lamp stands. Those had to be purified with blood. Well, the only
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blood that could be used to purify it was the blood of bulls and goats.
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But there was a far better and nobler sacrifice than bulls and goats,
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and that was the blood of Jesus. And the sanctuary that Jesus entered,
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that heavenly sanctuary. It was not made with human hands like the sanctuary that
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was made during Moses' time. No, no, no, Jesus entered into
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the very presence of God. He became the mercy seat. And that mercy
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continues to cry out two thousand years later. Yes, that blood of Jesus,
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scripture says, speaks better things. Oh you bet, it speaks better
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things. It speaks excellent and superior things about you and to you. That
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voice of Jesus blood is proclaiming mercy, mercy, more mercy, above and
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beyond what you could think or ask. As Jesus hung on the cross,
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massive visualize this in your mind. Visualize him hanging on the cross. Massive
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amounts of blood had dripped from his head, his face, his back,
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his wrists, his feet, and when the Roman soldier pierced the side of
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Jesus with his sword, more blood and water fell onto the ground. The
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earth was saturated with the blood of Jesus. And let me tell you,
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just one drop, one drop, one tiny drop of jesus blood would have
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been enough to abolish all the sins of the world, let alone the massive
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amounts of blood that Jesus lost that day, And the voice of his blood
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was resounding throughout heaven, throughout earth and hell. Make no mistake, the
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veil in the temple tore into and his blood cried with justice. Now,
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now we had been given access to the throne, Imagine, imagine coming to
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the throne of grace. It reminds me of the parable of the persistent widow
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and the unjust judge. She kept hounding him until he finally gave in to
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her request. This judge was refusing to provide justice because he was an uncaring,
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unfit, and ungodly judge. Now, aren't you thankful that because of
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Jesus' blood that cries out for mercy, forgiveness and justice, we receive the
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whole package, not because we deserve it, not because we've earned it,
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just because God loves us. So, jesus blood is crying out for those
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who are far away, hidden in the darkness of addiction, those who are
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ravaged by sexual assault, those who have lost their way into New age satanic
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or witchcraft, lifestyles, those who have no belief that God exists, and
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those who have given themselves over to the LGBTQ movement. Mercy awaits them,
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forgiveness awaits them. Justice is waiting this holy season. I'm sure you know
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of folks, family and friends who need the loving arms of the Savior.
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Would you pray and invite them to church for Easter. It's they say that
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people if they were just invited to eat church on Easter, they would come.
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So I encourage you to do that. Jesus uttered these powerful words as
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he was about to take his last breath. He said, Father, forgive
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them, for they know not what they're doing. See, they just didn't
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know. But boy, oh boy, his whole visage on that cross cried
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out mercy, mercy, mercy instead of vengeance. Jesus Blood speaks of life
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and freedom. So many people are tied up in so much bondage. Even
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many Christians are tied up in a lot of bondage. But Jesus Blood gave
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us life, not death. There's such a strong spirit of death that has
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overwhelmed the people of our nation and of course the whole world. So many
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young people contemplating suicide look at what Hebrews chapter nine, verse twelve says.
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It says he Jesus went once for all into the Holy of holies of Heaven,
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not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves, by which to
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make reconciliation between man and God, but by his own blood, having found
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and secured a complete redemption, an everlasting release for us. Verse fourteen,
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same chapter Hebrews nine says this, how much more surely shall the blood of
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Christ, who, by virtue of his eternal spirit, his own pre existent
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divine personality, has offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our
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consciences from dead works and lifeless observance observances to serve the ever living God.
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Well, you see that blood of Jesus made reconciliation between man and God,
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and those who receive Christ receive that peace, and they are no longer enemies
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of the Cross, enemies of Jesus. And not only that his blood purifies
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our conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the living God. So
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the whole point is to give us eternal life with Him. I want to
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conclude sharing scriptures from Romans, the book of Romans, Chapter five, verses
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eight through twenty one, and this is from the amplified Classic. But God
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shows clearly. But God shows and clearly proves his own love for us by
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the fact that we were still sinners, Christ the Messiah, while we were
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still sinners, that anointed one died for us. Therefore, since we are
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now justified, which means acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship
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with God by Christ's blood, how much more certain is it that we shall
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be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. For if while
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we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his son,
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it is much more certain now that we are reconciled that we shall be saved
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daily delivered from Sin's dominion through His resurrection life. Not only so, but
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we all also rejoice and exultingly glory in God, in his love and his
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perfection, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received and
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enjoy our reconciliation. Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man,
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Adam, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to
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all men, no one being able to stop it or escape its power because
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all men sinned. To be sure, sin was in the world before ever
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the law was given. But sin is not charged to men's account where there
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is no law to transgress. Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses,
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the lawgiver, even over those who did not themselves transgress a positive command as
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Adam did. Adam was a type, a prefigure of the one who was
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to come in reverse, the former destructive, the latter saving. But God's
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free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass. His grace
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is out of all proportion to the fallen man. For if many died through
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one man's falling away, his lapse, his offense, much more profusely did
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God's grace and the free gift that comes through the the undeserved favor of the
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one man Jesus Christ, abound and overflow two and for the benefit of many.
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Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of
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that one man's sin. For the sentence following the trespass of one man brought
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condemnation, whereas the free gift following many transgressions brings justification, an act of
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righteousness. For if because of one man's trespass, lapse, and offense,
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death reigned through that one. Much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing
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grace, unmerited favor, and the free gift of righteousness, putting them into
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right standing with Christ, reign as kings in life through the one Man,
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Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Mashiak, the anointed One. Well,
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then, as one man's trespass, one man's false step and falling away led
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to condemnation for all men, so one man's active righteousness leads to acquittal and
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right standing with God and life for all men. For just as by one
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man's disobedience, failing to hear heedlessness carelessness, the many were constitututed sinners,
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so by one man's obedience, the many will be constituted righteous, made acceptable
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to God, and brought into right standing with him. But then law came
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in, only to expand and increase the trespass, making it more apparent and
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exciting opposition. But where sin increased and abounded, grace, God's unmerited favor
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has surpassed it and increased the more and super abounded, so that just as
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sin has reigned in death, so grace his unearned and undeserved favor might reign
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also through righteousness right standing with God, which issues in eternal life through Jesus
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Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed wan our Lord, who I'm telling you
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those scriptures Romans eight, excuse me, Romans five, eight through twenty one.
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That's enough to just give a shout of hallelujah. Two. And you
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see what Paul did. Because Paul was like a lawyer, he made the
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comparison. He was always comparing in these scriptures Adam sin, Christ's redemption,
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Adam's falling, Jesus giving us undeserved favor. I love this. I'm gonna
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read this again. I love this verse fifteen. But God's free gifts.
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See, salvation is a free gift. You can't earn it, you can't
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deserve it, there's nothing, there's nothing you can do. It's a free
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gift. And the scripture says it is not at all to be compared to
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the trespass or sin, because his grace is completely out of proportion to the
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fall of man. See, the sin of Adam was great, absolutely great,
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changed everything. But God's grace is so much more greater than that that
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Paul saying here that you can't even compare the two, because grace is way,
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way, way, way way out of proportion to the fall of man.
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In other words, it's just greater. So the free gift of salvation,
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that grace is so profound. It goes on to say, it says,
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for if many died through one man's falling away, referring to Adam,
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Adam had a lapse, he had an offense, he sinned. And it
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says, for if many died through one man's falling away, much more profusely
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did God's grace and the free gift that comes through the undeserved favor of the
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one man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to for the benefit of many. And
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so when I'm talking about all of these unsaved people, and you you know
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many of them, and many of them fall under the categories that I share
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tonight, look at look at this God's grace and free gift it comes.
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You can't deserve it. It's undeserved favor that Jesus gives. And I love
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this. It says, it's abounding, it's overflowing to that individual, and
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it's for the benefit of the many. And nor is the free gift at
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all to be compared to the effect of that one man's sins. See,
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there's no comparison. Paul's telling you you can't compare them. It's it's so
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beyond actually, so beyond our comprehension. Amen for the sentence following the trespass,
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the sin of one man Adam brought condemnation, whereas the free gift that
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followed from Christ many transgressions or sins brought justification, an active righteousness. That's
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what Jesus Blood did for us. It made us righteous. It gave us
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an opportunity to do something we could never have dreamed of. We could never
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have figured it out in a million gazillion years. That's why I say,
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if you take the time to meditate on these scriptures, boy oh boy,
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you're gonna get excited about being a Christian. Hallelujah. So Jesus Blood is
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speaking to you today. It surely is speaking to you today. And if
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you don't know Jesus, he wants to give you the gift of eternal life.
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Just believe in him. Just believe in him. If you confess with
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your mouth that Jesus is Lord and Savior, and you believe in your heart,
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God raised him from the dead. You shall be saved. Wow.
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Wow, isn't that exciting. I'll close with this, I am wishing each
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and every one of you listening the most joyous and blessed resurrection Sunday ever,
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ever, ever, And just enjoy the mere fact of what his blood is
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speaking to you, your loved ones, your unsafe family, your unsafe neighbors,
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coworkers, friends. Wow. That's power. Blessings to you, to
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all of you in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Well, you
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can go to ww dot pure heart dot today to listen to this podcast again.
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two six o six Oh well, I look forward to being with you again
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next week. This is Don Nobles saying, shalloam, shalloam? Peace be unto you