Sunday Service - 2025-10-12

Sunday Service - 2025-10-12

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The Blood Of Christ
Hebrews 9:16-10:18

Pastor Chris Bonner

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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And without further ado, if you could turn to Hebrews chapter nine.

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I have a feeling I just I know there's something else I need to announce, but

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those of you who went out for the Walk for Life, can I see a show of hands?

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Any of you guys out here?

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Okay, a few of you.

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Great, that was a great turnout from what I understand, tremendous.

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And I'm giving you time, I'm stalling a little bit, giving you time.

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And also, Socktober is coming up.

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And Jerry, would you give a little wave?

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Jerry's right there in the center, center left.

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And he's running our Socktober.

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And that is collecting socks for City Hall Ministry for the homeless.

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And it's a great ministry.

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If you ever want to check that out, see Jerry.

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And he'll share more about what's going on there in the coming weeks.

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So anyway, today's message is the blood of Christ.

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We're gonna dive into this soon, but I wanted to set it up.

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Because the things we're gonna read, we're gonna go right through rather than

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stopping, stopping, stopping, we're gonna read right through.

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And there's so many things in here that speak of the blood of Christ.

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And so I wanted to first kind of set this up with a lot of theological and

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a lot of spiritual things so that as we're reading this,

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these things can ring true in our hearts and minds.

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So let's pray.

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Father God, thank you for your word.

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Thank you for your Holy Spirit, Lord.

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And we know, Lord God, that you wanna do a work inside of each one of our hearts and

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minds here today, Lord.

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We don't wanna walk out of here the same way we walked in.

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We wanna walk out better.

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We wanna walk out with revelation, inspiration, Lord.

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And only your spirit, only your word can do that, Lord.

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We wanna walk out of here free of some things, Lord.

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In fact, a lot of the words in our prayer meeting before this,

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talked about liberty and freedom.

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So Lord God, we ask for freedom here in this place.

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Because of your blood, Lord God, which covers and removes all sins, Lord God,

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we know that we are truly free, we are set free.

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And when the sun sets us free, we are free indeed.

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And so Lord God, we don't wanna be held down by the things of our past.

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We wanna be cleansed of them so

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we can truly run the race that you have set before us.

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So Father God, we ask you to move powerfully in each one of us and

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corporately, so that again, we walk out of here more like you.

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And we ask this in Jesus name, amen.

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So the blood of Christ, the blood of Christ,

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the blood of Jesus takes away sins.

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And we say that a lot, but we're gonna talk more about how and why and

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what should we do in light of that.

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But the blood of Christ takes away sins.

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And he takes away all sins for all humanity.

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His blood takes away the sins of those who died before he died on the cross.

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Cuz they died in faith, his blood took away their sins.

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Even though for a time and season, the blood of sheep and goats and

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lambs, they covered over their sins, but they weren't taken away.

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Their sins were not removed until Christ died on the cross for

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them in the past.

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But how much more for everyone who comes after his crucifixion on the cross and

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died on the cross, how much more everyone else, our sins are forgiven.

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Can I get a hallelujah about that?

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Like we're just singing, hallelujah, hallelujah, amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Man, you were singing so good out there.

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I'm just like, listen, I'm like, wow, that is beautiful.

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Really, our sins are forgiven.

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The sins of the past were covered over by the blood of innocent animals, okay?

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They didn't cause the sin, but they were shed, that blood was shed to cover over.

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But it wasn't taken away, it's kind of like painting a rusted car, okay?

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You can paint it, but you know it's still rusted under there.

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That's why when you're gonna buy a used car, the first thing you do is to get

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under there and look around, or at least get a mechanic to do it, and

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they look under what's really going on behind that paint.

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Or a ceiling, like when you had a leak, okay?

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But you don't fix the roof, you just paint over it.

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What's gonna happen?

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Just gonna bleed right through again.

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Well, that's the sins of humanity, but Christ took them away.

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So there's no longer anything underneath, it's removed, amen?

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And so that's significant.

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You know, when we think about this, what the blood of Christ did.

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And of course, the blood, it wasn't just he spilled his blood, okay?

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It's that he died, and not only that he died, but he was crucified.

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He was executed by his own volition, because he laid down his life.

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But he was still murdered for all of us.

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It wasn't just shedding of blood, it was he was killed on the cross for us.

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I was trying to think of an example of how one death could change

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the history of humanity, you know?

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And as I was rummaging through, I came across this one guy.

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His name is Franz, or Franz Ferdinand, okay?

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There's a little picture of his vehicle, it's a turbo, I believe.

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But now, so he was the prince of Austria and Hungary, okay?

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He was the next in air, and he went to some diplomatic thing.

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And as he was there, he was assassinated, okay?

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And he was shot and killed.

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And as a result, it created a huge disunity in Europe,

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which caused World War I by the death of one guy.

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Like, this was the instrument that, like, this was the spark that set this whole

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thing in place of World War I.

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Then, of course, World War I, all the dynamics and

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rippling effects of World War I led to World War II.

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And then the rippling effects of all that led to the Cold War.

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I mean, one death can cause a lot of rippling effects, can it?

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There was an assassination recently, Charlie Kirk.

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You have a picture of him.

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I mean, I believe his death, and he's not God, he's not Christ, but

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his martyrdom will have rippling effects through the history of humanity.

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He's always gonna be in the history books as being significant.

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And I believe right now, he is the cause of a real revival.

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One guy, just a normal guy, just a normal guy.

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We have another picture of him there, and I love this, cuz he's pointing up, you know?

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I mean, Jesus was always pointing away from him towards Jesus Christ.

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You know, that's truly behind, I believe, his martyrdom,

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is that he was representing Christ.

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Sure, other political things and everything, but

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the most poignant message he had was Jesus Christ.

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You know, I love the fact he's pointing upward.

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A good friend of ours, some of you remember him, Mike Fichera,

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he preached his last message at our church when we were over at Christopher Dock.

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Before he went home with the Lord, he had a brain tumor.

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And you could see, you know, the Lord may be taking him.

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So many people prayed on him, but things were getting worse.

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And yet he delivered this magnificent, amazing message.

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And I'm thinking, this is right now for me a historic moment.

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A dear friend of mine who is a dynamic evangelist, I saw him at Times Square

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just preaching so boldly, talking to these huge Muslim guys,

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telling them that they're believing a lie and in love, lovingly.

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Not like, yeah, I want to fight you.

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He didn't want to fight them.

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But telling them lovingly, you need to give your life to Jesus Christ.

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And I'll never forget what Mike Fichera said.

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He said, you know, if what you're doing isn't pointing to Jesus,

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what you're doing is pointless.

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And seeing that picture of Charlie Kirk, his life was about pointing to Jesus.

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One person dying for a purpose.

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Now we have Jesus Christ, the creator of all things,

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dying on the cross for humanity.

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How much more his death and his blood being shed has significant impact for humanity.

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Now, I know a lot of us have been believers for a long time and saying,

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yeah, I know all this.

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The blood of Christ, we sing about it all the time.

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But really, today, I just really, as we dive into this,

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I really want us to grasp the importance and significance of the blood of Jesus.

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Death was never supposed to be a part of our existence, right?

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You know that, right?

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In fact, when the Lord created a garden of Eden,

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he said, even the beast will eat the plants.

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There's going to be no death here.

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And of course, when Adam and Eve chose to eat from the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil, they brought death into the world.

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In fact, all of creation is still hemorrhaging and contaminated because of their sin.

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In fact, we see this in Romans 8, 20 to 21.

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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly,

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but because of him who subjected it in hope,

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because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption

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into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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See, Jesus is going to set the record straight.

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So death was never supposed to be a part of this world's existence.

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When Adam and Eve sinned, okay, and they said, we're naked.

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Like, how did we get this way?

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Well, they're always that way,

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but suddenly there was something perverted about their awareness of their newness.

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And so they sewed those fig leaves together.

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Okay.

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Bad idea.

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They rot.

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They cause skin disease and so on.

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If you keep them on to rashes and, you know, infections and all.

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And suddenly the Lord, you know, the story, but he said,

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that's not going to cover you.

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And what did he cover them with?

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Skins of an animal.

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Something had to die.

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You see, sin always brings in the need for a sacrifice.

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And so some animal, the word doesn't say what animal,

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but some animal needed to die to be covered by skins.

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And so he, he, he put skin, he garbed, garnered them with he.

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Whatever.

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He dressed them in skins.

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And those skins are the same word for skins that,

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remember when Rebecca covered Jacob with skins

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so that he can deceive his father, Isaac, you know,

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and, and steal the blessing.

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You know, those are, so it was the skins of how something had to die.

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There's always needs to be a payment for sin.

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And that's the blood of something.

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Amen.

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I'm getting there.

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Just hang in there.

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And so he covered them.

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They're escorted out of the garden.

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And as time went on, they had children,

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Cain the firstborn, Abel the secondborn,

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and Cain was harvesting.

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He was a farmer.

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Now we already know that the ground was cursed.

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But that's what he chose to, to, to do for a living.

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And not only that, but that's what he chose to offer up to God.

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Cursed, contaminated crops.

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Right.

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But Abel, I believe, must have seen there's something about a sacrifice here.

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Because I saw the way the Lord, you know,

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I heard about how the Lord covered over my parents with the death of something.

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And he covered them over with skins.

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And so what did he do for a living?

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He raised animals.

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And what did he do with the first animal he raised?

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He brought it to God as a sacrifice.

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He offered it up to the Lord and the Lord was pleased

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because he realized that something needs to die to pay for sins.

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And even Abel had sins, right?

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And so Cain was jealous, angry.

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How come he accepted his offering and not mine?

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And I'm sure their, their attitudes and everything else were different as well.

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And so Cain was very angry.

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God approached him and said, listen, sin is waiting and it wants to have you.

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Don't let it.

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But Cain caved in to the sin craving and he killed his brother Abel.

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And so Abel dies and we're going to get into how the Lord approaches him.

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But after he dies, it's interesting because the Lord doesn't deal really with Cain.

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He just sends him away because there was no law, blood for blood, death for death.

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There was no sacrificial payment that needed to be made for Abel's death by Cain yet.

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And so we see evil just spread and spread and spread because of this evil

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that was permeating the world.

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And then finally the Lord said, I had enough.

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He sends the flood, he destroys humanity.

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And then he brings Noah on the top of the mountain

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and he actually makes a covenant with him and his family

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and their descendants that I will never again flood the earth.

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And he said, in these animals, you can eat them, but don't drink their blood.

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Okay.

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And then he says this in Genesis nine verses three to six.

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He says, every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.

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And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything,

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but you shall not eat flesh with its life that is its blood.

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Because there's life in the blood.

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And for your life blood, I will require a reckoning from every beast.

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I will require it.

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And from man, from his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

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Whoever sheds the blood of man by man,

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shall his blood be shed for God made man in his own image.

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So you see, there's a precious entity about the blood of creation.

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And you think about it because the Lord actually spoke all things into existence.

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And in a sense, his voice still speaks through the blood.

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In fact, when Cain killed Abel, okay, the Lord confronted him.

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And he said, what have you done?

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Where is your brother, Abel?

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I don't know.

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Am I my brother's keeper?

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And he says, I still hear the voice of Abel.

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And he says in Genesis 4.10, and he said, what have you done?

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The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

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So see, the blood actually has a spiritual component.

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It has a spiritual life in it.

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The life is in the blood.

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And how much more the blood of Christ, who is the creator of all life,

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his blood is precious.

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I love how this idea of the blood and the blood of Abel calling out from the ground.

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We see it again in Hebrews 12.24.

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It says, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant,

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and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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You see, his blood is more precious than all blood that ever existed on earth,

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because he is God.

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He is the word of God come in the flesh.

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And so the blood is precious to the Lord.

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And so the shedding of his blood is so precious that it removes sins.

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So are we ready to dive into this text?

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Some of you are saying it's about time.

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But no, I wanted to make sure we delved into these things.

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So you ready?

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Hebrews 9, and we'll start at verse 16.

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For where there is a testament, there must also be a necessity.

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There must also be of necessity, be the death of the testator.

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For a testament is enforced after men are dead,

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since it has no power at all while the testator lives.

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In other words, because Christ died,

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we now have an inheritance.

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Remember, the covenant is like a will and testament.

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So his will comes in force.

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So now we have an inheritance.

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In fact, Peter talks about this inheritance that we have laid up for us in heaven.

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So let's read on from there.

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Verse 18.

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Therefore, not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

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

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he took the blood of calves and goats with wood or scarlet, wool and hyssop,

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and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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saying, this is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.

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Then likewise, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.

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And according to the law, almost all things are purified with blood

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and without shedding of blood, there is no remission.

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Remission is another word for forgiveness.

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Verse 23.

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Therefore, it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens

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should be purified with these.

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But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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

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which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself,

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now to appear in the presence of God for us.

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Not that he should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most holy place

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every year with blood of another.

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In other words, the goats and lambs and so forth.

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Verse 26.

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He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world, meaning Christ.

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But now, once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment.

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So Christ was offered once to bear sins for many to those who eagerly wait for him.

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

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Okay, now we're heading into 10.

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We're going to read the next 18 verses.

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Brace yourself, and then we're going to be finished with this section.

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For the law having a shadow of the good things to come,

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and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices,

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which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

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For then would they not have seized to be offered.

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For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

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But in those sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year.

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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

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Verse five.

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Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering you did not desire,

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but a body you have prepared for me.

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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, you had no pleasure.

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And then I said, Behold, I have come in the volume of the book.

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It is written of me to do your will, O God.

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That's a quote from Psalm 40.

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Verse eight previously saying, sacrifice and offering burnt offerings and offerings for sin

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you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them, which are offered accordingly to the law.

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And then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God.

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He takes away the first that he may establish the second by that will.

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By that, will he have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ

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once and for all verse 11 and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly

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the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

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But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down

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at the right hand of God from that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool.

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For by one offering, he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

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But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us for after he had said, I'm sorry,

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witnesses to us for after he had said before,

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this is the covenant that I will make with them.

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After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds,

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I will write them. And then he adds their sins and their lawless deeds.

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I will remember no more. Now, where there is remission of these, there is no longer

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an offering for sin. So praise the Lord. He offered himself once for all time.

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Amen. I thought it was important for us to read all those verses because it's it comprises one

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theme that his one offering took away all of our sins. You know, we were talking

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Wednesday nights, you got to come out. It's awesome. I mean, we just learned actually

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Wednesday night all about that scarlet and the cleansing and so forth.

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Jesse taught out of Numbers 19. And we had a small group breakout like we do often.

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And we were talking about, you know, can you truly forget someone's sins against you?

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And and we and we were saying, you know, well, you always remember.

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OK, but you can forgive and still not forget. And then we talk, well, how does God forget our sins?

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Can he forget your sins? But you know, the word for forget, I won't I won't show the words up there,

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but the word for forget and for remember are different words. So the word when it says he

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will remember no more, it's different than forget. God can't forget. He's all knowing.

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How can he know something at one moment and then forget at the next moment?

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But he remembers no more. And that's the idea that he does not assign your sin to you any longer.

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He sends it away. In fact, the word actually talks about it's actually like sending it away,

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like casting it away. So when he looks at Eric, he doesn't think, oh, Eric, yeah, he's the guy.

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Let me look. Yeah, he's the guy that does this, that and the other. No, no. He's like,

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I don't see any of it. I see none of it. I see an image of me. That's what God sees.

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It's no longer part of your members because he remembers it no more. It's no longer part

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of you. That is so significant, isn't it? That he chooses to remember it no more. It's not part of

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your identity. That's why we say often, I'm just a sinner saved by grace. I've said it many times,

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but that's not a verse. I don't like to say it because a sinner is identified with sin.

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You know, like in other words, you are your sin. We were sinners. We were sinners. Now we're saints.

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Okay. We are no longer identified by our sins because he took them away or identified with Christ.

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You know, we are the righteousness of Christ. Why? Because his precious blood washed away our sins.

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You know, his voice speaks louder. Remember I mentioned like in a sense, his voice is in the

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blood. Okay. Of all humanity. That's why he said, wait a minute. I hear Abel's voice calling to me

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from the grave, from the ground, right? He hears it because it was a sign. It was given.

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The blood was given by him, right? And his voice continues to speak throughout every generation,

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throughout all humanity, that it is finished. That's what his blood speaks. Thank you,

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Tosh. Man, you're on it up there. Thanks so much. I forgot about that slide. It is finished.

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That's what his blood speaks. It's no longer part of who you are. Once you come to Christ,

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we need Jesus. Like anyone who rejects Jesus isn't really anything. They're going to carry

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that sin with them into eternity and then there's going to be hell to pay for that, right?

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But when we come to Jesus, we are cleansed by his precious blood. Like imagine he created

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everything. He created everything with its blood in it. Imagine his blood, his blood,

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how precious that is, that never was part of any sins on earth, was never contaminated

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by any kind of wrongdoing. That's the precious blood of Christ. Amen.

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You know, if the worship team can come up, I know it's a little bit early, but if they

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can come up now, because I just have a sense that the Lord is really going to minister to us

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through the spirit about forgiveness, because I think a lot of us carry with us

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guilt and shame. This was another conversation that arose a couple of times this week.

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A few of you guys know what I mean. But a lot of times, you know, we have difficulty forgiving

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ourselves. It's easier to forgive others. I don't know if you're like that. You know,

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maybe it's easier for you to forgive yourself and not others. I hope not.

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But if I'm more of like, I just keep replaying the failures. Sometimes I just keep replaying

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the times that I sinned and I think I made amends. I'm not sure. Did I do enough?

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But you know, the blood of Christ says it is finished. His blood speaks louder than any

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condemnation in the world. Right. And I love this verse because David, of all people, he just,

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he got God and he didn't even, he wasn't even a temple, the Holy Spirit. Right. He was living

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kind of a life that was still flesh anointed by the Holy Spirit. We are new creations,

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but he still got God. You know, he, his heart was after God. He was a man after God's own heart.

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That means he was chasing after God's heart. And when he, and when he spoke and said,

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please don't, you know, take your spirit away from me, you know, the Lord could have back

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that. He won't now with us because we are the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. He was speaking

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Old Testament language. Sometimes when we say those things as a new creation,

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we don't understand the disparity between Old Testament and New Testament. And we quote

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David's words actually verbatim as though they also apply to us. But the, but the,

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the heart behind those words still ring out. And look what he says in Psalms 25, seven,

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it's just so beautiful because you know, this was during his lifetime that he had made a lot of

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mistakes. And he said, do not remember the sins of my youth. He still was committing sins in his

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middle age too. Right. Nor my transgressions.

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But according to your mercy, remember me, isn't that something like he already was understanding

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there's something new that's coming. I can't understand it yet because it hasn't happened yet.

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But that's why he all the, often prophesied about a coming Messiah because it wasn't there yet,

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but he knew it was going to come someday. Like he just knew it in his soul that there was something

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better beyond the horizon. And he was right. It was Christ dying on the cross for his sins.

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And he said, according to your mercy, remember me for your goodness sake. Oh Lord, you know,

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it's so beautiful. It just reminds you of that criminal on the cross dying his last few hours

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of death next to Jesus. And he sees Jesus and he recognizes man, he doesn't belong here. He is

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from above. He is from beyond this, you know, and he's hearing his words that he's speaking

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to his very enemies. But he was saying, Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do.

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He was seeing that, that love radiating out of Christ who had just been brutally beaten,

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pierced through with a crown around his head, embedded through his scalp, blood gushing

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everywhere. And he's heaving just like they are for his last breaths. And he still has love for

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the very people who just crucified him. And this criminal on the cross looks over at Jesus.

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He's like, man. And he sees the guy on the other side. He goes, don't you see that we belong here?

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He doesn't. He said, will you remember me when your kingdom comes? I don't see this guy here.

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See me through you. Remember me the way I can be, or will be something,

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but you could just hear the heart behind this guy saying, I don't deserve anything but this.

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But somehow, is there any way? Is there any way that you can, you could take me with you?

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And that's all of us. We're all that guy on that cross saying, Lord, remember me. And you know

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that's what he says. You know, he doesn't see you as your sins anymore. He sees you cleansed,

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cleansed. And as we just meditate here for a moment, I just want to just ask the Lord to

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maybe minister to you. If there's something that you just want to be set free of some condemnation

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that you're just holding on to. And you just feel so dirty still.

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You still feel like you just don't deserve anything.

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Because you know, the Lord is better than your sins.

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And his blood speaks louder than your blood. He says it is finished. When David

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committed adultery, arranged the death of his mistress's husband, Uriah the Hittite.

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And then because of his sin, her baby died. I mean, just that's a hard pill to swallow, right?

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You know, I know you've sinned. I don't know if you've done those things,

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but he was forgiven too, right? He was forgiven too. I mean, that's some big stuff.

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And when David finally just got discovered by Nathan, he just, he confessed. He's like, you know,

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you got me. He was almost glad you could just hear, like he was almost, finally this burden

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is being lifted because I can admit it. And he said, you know, only against you have I sinned.

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And he wrote a couple of Psalms. He wrote Psalm 51, but he also wrote this Psalm

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capturing this moment. And in Psalm 32, one to two, he said, blessed is he whose transgression

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is forgiven. This is David after, after sleeping with another man's wife and not just any man.

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This is one of the mighty men. You know, Uriah the Hittite was a mighty man. He was one of the

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many mighty men that is listed as one of David's formidable, mighty men of valor who went to battle

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for David. I mean, that's betrayal, man. That's like bad, right? Like Uriah was a treasure to Israel

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and yet he slept with his wife.

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And that's, that's bad, right? Would you say that's bad, right?

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Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity

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and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Like he's like claiming forgiveness from God for himself.

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Like he's saying, yes, Lord, if you're doing, giving it, I'm receiving it. I want to receive it.

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You know, some of us are still carrying that guilt around and not confessing it. Somehow

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we're going to try to keep overcoming it with more good deeds or we're going to try to overcome

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it with drinking or smoking or whatever we're going to do to kind of numb it. You know,

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I don't want to remember that. I got to block it out. I got to, you know, I can't remember

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what I did. You know, there's only one way that can be mitigated and that's the blood of Christ.

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His blood takes away your sins. It doesn't cover over, it removes it.

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And then he goes on from there in verses three to five.

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When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long for day and night.

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Your hand was heavy upon me. My vitality was turned into the drought of summer.

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Maybe that's you right now. Maybe, maybe you're just feeling the heavy weight of your sins.

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And the Lord isn't going to let you go. He has his hand on you. He's like,

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come on man, will you just turn to me? Will you just return to me? You know, come back.

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You're not going to run away and fix anything. You have to come to me. That weight of the Lord

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just heavy on you saying, will you just confess? There's no freedom until you confess.

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To the Lord and get set free. Let his blood just wash away your sins.

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Because look what he says next. I acknowledge my sin to you and my iniquity I have not hidden.

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I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sins.

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This is old Testament. Do you know how much more a believer in Jesus Christ, a new creation.

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We already have the cleansing spirit within us. All we have to do is just say, Lord,

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I confess to you right now these things and I want to be cleanse, set free from them once and for all.

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Just set me free. Now, if you're here, you've never accepted Jesus Christ. That has to come first.

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It does because you're not forgiven until you claim the blood of Jesus.

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You have to receive Jesus Christ. There's only one way to heaven. There's only one way. You know,

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there's other churches preaching Unitarianism and all these other, there's many, maybe possible

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other way. No, there's one way. I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father

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except through me. I am the narrow gate. Broad is the gateway that leads to destruction

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and many go through it. But there's only one way to the Father and that's through Jesus Christ.

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There's only one. It's the precious blood of Jesus Christ shed for you. That's the only one

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who can cleanse you of your sins. And I want to beg to you right now. Just receive Jesus as your Lord

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and Savior. There's probably someone in here who's never done that. And I just plead with you,

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don't waste any more time. Life is short. There's so much living to be done this side of heaven.

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Why not embrace it now than waste any more time? And all you have to do is pray a prayer

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like this. Father God, I know I'm a sinner and I need you, I need my Savior to take away my sins.

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Lord, I claim your blood that you shed on the cross for my sins, becoming sin on the cross for me.

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I claim that for myself. I receive forgiveness from you. I give you my life.

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Today I surrender my life to you and I ask you for your life for me.

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Fill me with your Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen. You know, if you did that, the word says you're saved.

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But for the rest of us, maybe we need to just say, Lord, I want to surrender this thing. I want to,

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I want to like confess this just as David did when Nathan said, David, you're the man.

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Maybe the Lord is saying to you today, you know what it is that needs to be cleansed.

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Confess it now.

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Father God, I know all of us have things here that we need to be cleansed from.

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But your sacrifice was once forever.

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We want to claim your blood for us, Lord God, we want to claim the mighty blood of Christ

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that takes away our sins.

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Lord, we acknowledge our sin.

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We ask you to forgive our sins.

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Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and Lord, God, may your righteousness rise up in us to overcome

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in this world as we are in heaven in Jesus name. Amen.

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