1 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,359 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,379 --> 00:00:24,100 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,759 --> 00:00:27,019 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:36,219 --> 00:00:41,000 And without further ado, if you could turn to Hebrews chapter nine. 5 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:45,619 I have a feeling I just I know there's something else I need to announce, but 6 00:00:47,659 --> 00:00:52,159 those of you who went out for the Walk for Life, can I see a show of hands? 7 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:53,579 Any of you guys out here? 8 00:00:53,579 --> 00:00:55,020 Okay, a few of you. 9 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:59,520 Great, that was a great turnout from what I understand, tremendous. 10 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,939 And I'm giving you time, I'm stalling a little bit, giving you time. 11 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,340 And also, Socktober is coming up. 12 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:09,299 And Jerry, would you give a little wave? 13 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:13,159 Jerry's right there in the center, center left. 14 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,340 And he's running our Socktober. 15 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,780 And that is collecting socks for City Hall Ministry for the homeless. 16 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:22,019 And it's a great ministry. 17 00:01:22,019 --> 00:01:24,620 If you ever want to check that out, see Jerry. 18 00:01:25,379 --> 00:01:29,799 And he'll share more about what's going on there in the coming weeks. 19 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,400 So anyway, today's message is the blood of Christ. 20 00:01:35,519 --> 00:01:39,700 We're gonna dive into this soon, but I wanted to set it up. 21 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:44,260 Because the things we're gonna read, we're gonna go right through rather than 22 00:01:44,260 --> 00:01:46,599 stopping, stopping, stopping, we're gonna read right through. 23 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:51,280 And there's so many things in here that speak of the blood of Christ. 24 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:59,340 And so I wanted to first kind of set this up with a lot of theological and 25 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:02,459 a lot of spiritual things so that as we're reading this, 26 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,819 these things can ring true in our hearts and minds. 27 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:06,959 So let's pray. 28 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:10,099 Father God, thank you for your word. 29 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,419 Thank you for your Holy Spirit, Lord. 30 00:02:13,959 --> 00:02:19,020 And we know, Lord God, that you wanna do a work inside of each one of our hearts and 31 00:02:19,020 --> 00:02:21,319 minds here today, Lord. 32 00:02:21,860 --> 00:02:25,000 We don't wanna walk out of here the same way we walked in. 33 00:02:25,099 --> 00:02:26,500 We wanna walk out better. 34 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,159 We wanna walk out with revelation, inspiration, Lord. 35 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,699 And only your spirit, only your word can do that, Lord. 36 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,080 We wanna walk out of here free of some things, Lord. 37 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:42,599 In fact, a lot of the words in our prayer meeting before this, 38 00:02:43,159 --> 00:02:45,020 talked about liberty and freedom. 39 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,180 So Lord God, we ask for freedom here in this place. 40 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:53,879 Because of your blood, Lord God, which covers and removes all sins, Lord God, 41 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,780 we know that we are truly free, we are set free. 42 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:00,240 And when the sun sets us free, we are free indeed. 43 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,500 And so Lord God, we don't wanna be held down by the things of our past. 44 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,139 We wanna be cleansed of them so 45 00:03:07,139 --> 00:03:10,500 we can truly run the race that you have set before us. 46 00:03:11,139 --> 00:03:15,699 So Father God, we ask you to move powerfully in each one of us and 47 00:03:15,699 --> 00:03:19,240 corporately, so that again, we walk out of here more like you. 48 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:22,099 And we ask this in Jesus name, amen. 49 00:03:23,139 --> 00:03:26,500 So the blood of Christ, the blood of Christ, 50 00:03:27,199 --> 00:03:30,840 the blood of Jesus takes away sins. 51 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:35,360 And we say that a lot, but we're gonna talk more about how and why and 52 00:03:36,079 --> 00:03:38,319 what should we do in light of that. 53 00:03:38,959 --> 00:03:42,000 But the blood of Christ takes away sins. 54 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,520 And he takes away all sins for all humanity. 55 00:03:48,539 --> 00:03:54,400 His blood takes away the sins of those who died before he died on the cross. 56 00:03:55,319 --> 00:04:00,379 Cuz they died in faith, his blood took away their sins. 57 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,199 Even though for a time and season, the blood of sheep and goats and 58 00:04:05,310 --> 00:04:10,110 lambs, they covered over their sins, but they weren't taken away. 59 00:04:10,909 --> 00:04:16,889 Their sins were not removed until Christ died on the cross for 60 00:04:16,889 --> 00:04:18,250 them in the past. 61 00:04:18,990 --> 00:04:24,149 But how much more for everyone who comes after his crucifixion on the cross and 62 00:04:24,149 --> 00:04:29,089 died on the cross, how much more everyone else, our sins are forgiven. 63 00:04:29,250 --> 00:04:30,990 Can I get a hallelujah about that? 64 00:04:30,990 --> 00:04:44,490 Like we're just singing, hallelujah, hallelujah, amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord. 65 00:04:45,029 --> 00:04:47,170 Man, you were singing so good out there. 66 00:04:47,410 --> 00:04:49,889 I'm just like, listen, I'm like, wow, that is beautiful. 67 00:04:50,470 --> 00:04:53,069 Really, our sins are forgiven. 68 00:04:54,189 --> 00:05:00,129 The sins of the past were covered over by the blood of innocent animals, okay? 69 00:05:00,129 --> 00:05:06,310 They didn't cause the sin, but they were shed, that blood was shed to cover over. 70 00:05:06,930 --> 00:05:12,670 But it wasn't taken away, it's kind of like painting a rusted car, okay? 71 00:05:13,250 --> 00:05:17,209 You can paint it, but you know it's still rusted under there. 72 00:05:17,269 --> 00:05:21,009 That's why when you're gonna buy a used car, the first thing you do is to get 73 00:05:21,009 --> 00:05:25,149 under there and look around, or at least get a mechanic to do it, and 74 00:05:25,149 --> 00:05:28,509 they look under what's really going on behind that paint. 75 00:05:28,509 --> 00:05:31,670 Or a ceiling, like when you had a leak, okay? 76 00:05:31,889 --> 00:05:34,810 But you don't fix the roof, you just paint over it. 77 00:05:34,930 --> 00:05:35,610 What's gonna happen? 78 00:05:36,490 --> 00:05:38,269 Just gonna bleed right through again. 79 00:05:38,329 --> 00:05:43,430 Well, that's the sins of humanity, but Christ took them away. 80 00:05:44,110 --> 00:05:48,089 So there's no longer anything underneath, it's removed, amen? 81 00:05:49,129 --> 00:05:50,430 And so that's significant. 82 00:05:51,110 --> 00:05:53,850 You know, when we think about this, what the blood of Christ did. 83 00:05:54,410 --> 00:05:59,290 And of course, the blood, it wasn't just he spilled his blood, okay? 84 00:05:59,910 --> 00:06:04,629 It's that he died, and not only that he died, but he was crucified. 85 00:06:04,769 --> 00:06:09,910 He was executed by his own volition, because he laid down his life. 86 00:06:10,329 --> 00:06:14,189 But he was still murdered for all of us. 87 00:06:14,589 --> 00:06:21,170 It wasn't just shedding of blood, it was he was killed on the cross for us. 88 00:06:21,170 --> 00:06:26,269 I was trying to think of an example of how one death could change 89 00:06:27,450 --> 00:06:30,350 the history of humanity, you know? 90 00:06:30,750 --> 00:06:34,709 And as I was rummaging through, I came across this one guy. 91 00:06:34,930 --> 00:06:39,930 His name is Franz, or Franz Ferdinand, okay? 92 00:06:40,310 --> 00:06:44,250 There's a little picture of his vehicle, it's a turbo, I believe. 93 00:06:44,889 --> 00:06:51,310 But now, so he was the prince of Austria and Hungary, okay? 94 00:06:51,550 --> 00:06:55,850 He was the next in air, and he went to some diplomatic thing. 95 00:06:56,490 --> 00:07:00,170 And as he was there, he was assassinated, okay? 96 00:07:00,449 --> 00:07:02,189 And he was shot and killed. 97 00:07:02,850 --> 00:07:08,430 And as a result, it created a huge disunity in Europe, 98 00:07:09,129 --> 00:07:12,949 which caused World War I by the death of one guy. 99 00:07:12,949 --> 00:07:17,629 Like, this was the instrument that, like, this was the spark that set this whole 100 00:07:17,629 --> 00:07:20,389 thing in place of World War I. 101 00:07:21,149 --> 00:07:23,569 Then, of course, World War I, all the dynamics and 102 00:07:23,569 --> 00:07:27,829 rippling effects of World War I led to World War II. 103 00:07:28,750 --> 00:07:31,910 And then the rippling effects of all that led to the Cold War. 104 00:07:32,290 --> 00:07:37,089 I mean, one death can cause a lot of rippling effects, can it? 105 00:07:38,050 --> 00:07:43,310 There was an assassination recently, Charlie Kirk. 106 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:45,449 You have a picture of him. 107 00:07:47,310 --> 00:07:53,329 I mean, I believe his death, and he's not God, he's not Christ, but 108 00:07:53,329 --> 00:07:59,930 his martyrdom will have rippling effects through the history of humanity. 109 00:08:00,110 --> 00:08:03,689 He's always gonna be in the history books as being significant. 110 00:08:03,689 --> 00:08:08,149 And I believe right now, he is the cause of a real revival. 111 00:08:08,589 --> 00:08:12,589 One guy, just a normal guy, just a normal guy. 112 00:08:13,089 --> 00:08:19,529 We have another picture of him there, and I love this, cuz he's pointing up, you know? 113 00:08:20,329 --> 00:08:25,850 I mean, Jesus was always pointing away from him towards Jesus Christ. 114 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:30,149 You know, that's truly behind, I believe, his martyrdom, 115 00:08:30,149 --> 00:08:32,830 is that he was representing Christ. 116 00:08:33,230 --> 00:08:35,529 Sure, other political things and everything, but 117 00:08:36,150 --> 00:08:40,889 the most poignant message he had was Jesus Christ. 118 00:08:42,129 --> 00:08:44,490 You know, I love the fact he's pointing upward. 119 00:08:45,490 --> 00:08:49,230 A good friend of ours, some of you remember him, Mike Fichera, 120 00:08:49,649 --> 00:08:54,470 he preached his last message at our church when we were over at Christopher Dock. 121 00:08:54,830 --> 00:08:58,690 Before he went home with the Lord, he had a brain tumor. 122 00:08:59,570 --> 00:09:02,250 And you could see, you know, the Lord may be taking him. 123 00:09:02,490 --> 00:09:05,269 So many people prayed on him, but things were getting worse. 124 00:09:05,929 --> 00:09:10,669 And yet he delivered this magnificent, amazing message. 125 00:09:11,110 --> 00:09:14,909 And I'm thinking, this is right now for me a historic moment. 126 00:09:15,450 --> 00:09:21,129 A dear friend of mine who is a dynamic evangelist, I saw him at Times Square 127 00:09:21,730 --> 00:09:26,269 just preaching so boldly, talking to these huge Muslim guys, 128 00:09:26,269 --> 00:09:31,370 telling them that they're believing a lie and in love, lovingly. 129 00:09:31,590 --> 00:09:32,929 Not like, yeah, I want to fight you. 130 00:09:32,970 --> 00:09:33,889 He didn't want to fight them. 131 00:09:34,570 --> 00:09:38,570 But telling them lovingly, you need to give your life to Jesus Christ. 132 00:09:39,190 --> 00:09:42,529 And I'll never forget what Mike Fichera said. 133 00:09:43,789 --> 00:09:48,309 He said, you know, if what you're doing isn't pointing to Jesus, 134 00:09:49,509 --> 00:09:51,350 what you're doing is pointless. 135 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:58,309 And seeing that picture of Charlie Kirk, his life was about pointing to Jesus. 136 00:09:59,210 --> 00:10:02,090 One person dying for a purpose. 137 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:07,789 Now we have Jesus Christ, the creator of all things, 138 00:10:08,590 --> 00:10:10,470 dying on the cross for humanity. 139 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:18,110 How much more his death and his blood being shed has significant impact for humanity. 140 00:10:18,669 --> 00:10:22,429 Now, I know a lot of us have been believers for a long time and saying, 141 00:10:22,549 --> 00:10:23,669 yeah, I know all this. 142 00:10:23,870 --> 00:10:25,870 The blood of Christ, we sing about it all the time. 143 00:10:26,269 --> 00:10:28,870 But really, today, I just really, as we dive into this, 144 00:10:28,950 --> 00:10:36,190 I really want us to grasp the importance and significance of the blood of Jesus. 145 00:10:37,649 --> 00:10:41,389 Death was never supposed to be a part of our existence, right? 146 00:10:41,490 --> 00:10:42,370 You know that, right? 147 00:10:42,730 --> 00:10:44,490 In fact, when the Lord created a garden of Eden, 148 00:10:44,750 --> 00:10:47,230 he said, even the beast will eat the plants. 149 00:10:47,950 --> 00:10:49,470 There's going to be no death here. 150 00:10:49,950 --> 00:10:54,309 And of course, when Adam and Eve chose to eat from the tree 151 00:10:54,309 --> 00:10:59,450 of the knowledge of good and evil, they brought death into the world. 152 00:10:59,730 --> 00:11:06,029 In fact, all of creation is still hemorrhaging and contaminated because of their sin. 153 00:11:06,169 --> 00:11:10,210 In fact, we see this in Romans 8, 20 to 21. 154 00:11:10,669 --> 00:11:14,389 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, 155 00:11:14,389 --> 00:11:18,610 but because of him who subjected it in hope, 156 00:11:18,929 --> 00:11:24,690 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption 157 00:11:24,690 --> 00:11:28,009 into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 158 00:11:28,490 --> 00:11:31,950 See, Jesus is going to set the record straight. 159 00:11:32,129 --> 00:11:36,769 So death was never supposed to be a part of this world's existence. 160 00:11:38,029 --> 00:11:42,889 When Adam and Eve sinned, okay, and they said, we're naked. 161 00:11:42,889 --> 00:11:45,350 Like, how did we get this way? 162 00:11:45,429 --> 00:11:46,509 Well, they're always that way, 163 00:11:46,590 --> 00:11:50,269 but suddenly there was something perverted about their awareness of their newness. 164 00:11:51,830 --> 00:11:54,649 And so they sewed those fig leaves together. 165 00:11:54,909 --> 00:11:55,110 Okay. 166 00:11:55,429 --> 00:11:56,049 Bad idea. 167 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:56,669 They rot. 168 00:11:56,950 --> 00:11:59,330 They cause skin disease and so on. 169 00:11:59,350 --> 00:12:03,490 If you keep them on to rashes and, you know, infections and all. 170 00:12:03,970 --> 00:12:06,090 And suddenly the Lord, you know, the story, but he said, 171 00:12:06,190 --> 00:12:07,950 that's not going to cover you. 172 00:12:08,129 --> 00:12:09,649 And what did he cover them with? 173 00:12:10,850 --> 00:12:12,129 Skins of an animal. 174 00:12:12,889 --> 00:12:15,029 Something had to die. 175 00:12:15,870 --> 00:12:20,450 You see, sin always brings in the need for a sacrifice. 176 00:12:21,570 --> 00:12:24,330 And so some animal, the word doesn't say what animal, 177 00:12:24,750 --> 00:12:29,029 but some animal needed to die to be covered by skins. 178 00:12:29,330 --> 00:12:34,769 And so he, he, he put skin, he garbed, garnered them with he. 179 00:12:35,990 --> 00:12:36,149 Whatever. 180 00:12:36,429 --> 00:12:37,610 He dressed them in skins. 181 00:12:38,429 --> 00:12:41,309 And those skins are the same word for skins that, 182 00:12:41,309 --> 00:12:45,549 remember when Rebecca covered Jacob with skins 183 00:12:45,549 --> 00:12:48,549 so that he can deceive his father, Isaac, you know, 184 00:12:48,690 --> 00:12:50,450 and, and steal the blessing. 185 00:12:50,610 --> 00:12:54,649 You know, those are, so it was the skins of how something had to die. 186 00:12:54,809 --> 00:12:58,370 There's always needs to be a payment for sin. 187 00:12:59,590 --> 00:13:01,649 And that's the blood of something. 188 00:13:01,850 --> 00:13:01,990 Amen. 189 00:13:03,470 --> 00:13:04,210 I'm getting there. 190 00:13:04,389 --> 00:13:05,049 Just hang in there. 191 00:13:06,169 --> 00:13:09,190 And so he covered them. 192 00:13:09,210 --> 00:13:10,649 They're escorted out of the garden. 193 00:13:11,309 --> 00:13:13,389 And as time went on, they had children, 194 00:13:14,029 --> 00:13:15,730 Cain the firstborn, Abel the secondborn, 195 00:13:16,289 --> 00:13:19,889 and Cain was harvesting. 196 00:13:20,129 --> 00:13:20,950 He was a farmer. 197 00:13:21,289 --> 00:13:23,590 Now we already know that the ground was cursed. 198 00:13:24,529 --> 00:13:28,070 But that's what he chose to, to, to do for a living. 199 00:13:28,190 --> 00:13:31,429 And not only that, but that's what he chose to offer up to God. 200 00:13:32,029 --> 00:13:33,970 Cursed, contaminated crops. 201 00:13:34,509 --> 00:13:34,690 Right. 202 00:13:35,590 --> 00:13:40,210 But Abel, I believe, must have seen there's something about a sacrifice here. 203 00:13:40,210 --> 00:13:43,350 Because I saw the way the Lord, you know, 204 00:13:43,429 --> 00:13:49,049 I heard about how the Lord covered over my parents with the death of something. 205 00:13:49,509 --> 00:13:51,950 And he covered them over with skins. 206 00:13:52,629 --> 00:13:53,950 And so what did he do for a living? 207 00:13:54,070 --> 00:13:55,590 He raised animals. 208 00:13:56,529 --> 00:13:58,870 And what did he do with the first animal he raised? 209 00:13:59,289 --> 00:14:01,529 He brought it to God as a sacrifice. 210 00:14:01,889 --> 00:14:04,370 He offered it up to the Lord and the Lord was pleased 211 00:14:04,370 --> 00:14:09,490 because he realized that something needs to die to pay for sins. 212 00:14:09,490 --> 00:14:12,009 And even Abel had sins, right? 213 00:14:12,850 --> 00:14:16,909 And so Cain was jealous, angry. 214 00:14:17,629 --> 00:14:20,070 How come he accepted his offering and not mine? 215 00:14:20,210 --> 00:14:23,889 And I'm sure their, their attitudes and everything else were different as well. 216 00:14:24,730 --> 00:14:26,669 And so Cain was very angry. 217 00:14:26,789 --> 00:14:30,889 God approached him and said, listen, sin is waiting and it wants to have you. 218 00:14:31,250 --> 00:14:32,070 Don't let it. 219 00:14:32,590 --> 00:14:38,730 But Cain caved in to the sin craving and he killed his brother Abel. 220 00:14:39,849 --> 00:14:45,009 And so Abel dies and we're going to get into how the Lord approaches him. 221 00:14:45,149 --> 00:14:51,529 But after he dies, it's interesting because the Lord doesn't deal really with Cain. 222 00:14:51,629 --> 00:14:57,429 He just sends him away because there was no law, blood for blood, death for death. 223 00:14:57,549 --> 00:15:05,889 There was no sacrificial payment that needed to be made for Abel's death by Cain yet. 224 00:15:06,689 --> 00:15:13,649 And so we see evil just spread and spread and spread because of this evil 225 00:15:13,649 --> 00:15:15,289 that was permeating the world. 226 00:15:15,389 --> 00:15:17,190 And then finally the Lord said, I had enough. 227 00:15:17,629 --> 00:15:19,830 He sends the flood, he destroys humanity. 228 00:15:20,389 --> 00:15:25,129 And then he brings Noah on the top of the mountain 229 00:15:25,129 --> 00:15:30,350 and he actually makes a covenant with him and his family 230 00:15:30,350 --> 00:15:35,590 and their descendants that I will never again flood the earth. 231 00:15:35,889 --> 00:15:39,830 And he said, in these animals, you can eat them, but don't drink their blood. 232 00:15:40,590 --> 00:15:40,610 Okay. 233 00:15:41,029 --> 00:15:44,210 And then he says this in Genesis nine verses three to six. 234 00:15:44,389 --> 00:15:48,210 He says, every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. 235 00:15:48,850 --> 00:15:52,190 And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything, 236 00:15:52,190 --> 00:15:57,049 but you shall not eat flesh with its life that is its blood. 237 00:15:57,049 --> 00:15:58,870 Because there's life in the blood. 238 00:15:59,610 --> 00:16:05,070 And for your life blood, I will require a reckoning from every beast. 239 00:16:05,070 --> 00:16:06,309 I will require it. 240 00:16:06,490 --> 00:16:12,909 And from man, from his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 241 00:16:13,230 --> 00:16:17,029 Whoever sheds the blood of man by man, 242 00:16:17,129 --> 00:16:21,649 shall his blood be shed for God made man in his own image. 243 00:16:22,009 --> 00:16:28,450 So you see, there's a precious entity about the blood of creation. 244 00:16:29,190 --> 00:16:33,070 And you think about it because the Lord actually spoke all things into existence. 245 00:16:33,990 --> 00:16:39,210 And in a sense, his voice still speaks through the blood. 246 00:16:40,450 --> 00:16:48,289 In fact, when Cain killed Abel, okay, the Lord confronted him. 247 00:16:49,289 --> 00:16:51,009 And he said, what have you done? 248 00:16:51,889 --> 00:16:53,590 Where is your brother, Abel? 249 00:16:53,889 --> 00:16:54,629 I don't know. 250 00:16:54,750 --> 00:16:55,509 Am I my brother's keeper? 251 00:16:56,929 --> 00:17:01,389 And he says, I still hear the voice of Abel. 252 00:17:01,389 --> 00:17:05,130 And he says in Genesis 4.10, and he said, what have you done? 253 00:17:05,529 --> 00:17:10,009 The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 254 00:17:10,569 --> 00:17:14,329 So see, the blood actually has a spiritual component. 255 00:17:14,890 --> 00:17:16,990 It has a spiritual life in it. 256 00:17:17,130 --> 00:17:19,289 The life is in the blood. 257 00:17:19,390 --> 00:17:24,190 And how much more the blood of Christ, who is the creator of all life, 258 00:17:24,609 --> 00:17:27,009 his blood is precious. 259 00:17:27,569 --> 00:17:35,069 I love how this idea of the blood and the blood of Abel calling out from the ground. 260 00:17:35,269 --> 00:17:37,549 We see it again in Hebrews 12.24. 261 00:17:38,789 --> 00:17:42,130 It says, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, 262 00:17:42,670 --> 00:17:47,769 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 263 00:17:48,089 --> 00:17:52,650 You see, his blood is more precious than all blood that ever existed on earth, 264 00:17:52,650 --> 00:17:54,190 because he is God. 265 00:17:54,789 --> 00:17:57,529 He is the word of God come in the flesh. 266 00:17:58,230 --> 00:18:00,990 And so the blood is precious to the Lord. 267 00:18:01,569 --> 00:18:07,069 And so the shedding of his blood is so precious that it removes sins. 268 00:18:07,430 --> 00:18:09,410 So are we ready to dive into this text? 269 00:18:09,849 --> 00:18:11,609 Some of you are saying it's about time. 270 00:18:12,089 --> 00:18:16,130 But no, I wanted to make sure we delved into these things. 271 00:18:17,190 --> 00:18:17,950 So you ready? 272 00:18:19,609 --> 00:18:22,910 Hebrews 9, and we'll start at verse 16. 273 00:18:24,190 --> 00:18:28,250 For where there is a testament, there must also be a necessity. 274 00:18:28,930 --> 00:18:34,089 There must also be of necessity, be the death of the testator. 275 00:18:34,789 --> 00:18:38,349 For a testament is enforced after men are dead, 276 00:18:38,890 --> 00:18:42,990 since it has no power at all while the testator lives. 277 00:18:43,089 --> 00:18:46,470 In other words, because Christ died, 278 00:18:47,090 --> 00:18:49,250 we now have an inheritance. 279 00:18:49,430 --> 00:18:51,730 Remember, the covenant is like a will and testament. 280 00:18:52,190 --> 00:18:53,869 So his will comes in force. 281 00:18:54,410 --> 00:18:55,609 So now we have an inheritance. 282 00:18:55,809 --> 00:19:00,289 In fact, Peter talks about this inheritance that we have laid up for us in heaven. 283 00:19:00,829 --> 00:19:02,069 So let's read on from there. 284 00:19:03,109 --> 00:19:03,690 Verse 18. 285 00:19:04,250 --> 00:19:08,170 Therefore, not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. 286 00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:14,029 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, 287 00:19:14,029 --> 00:19:19,910 he took the blood of calves and goats with wood or scarlet, wool and hyssop, 288 00:19:20,490 --> 00:19:24,049 and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 289 00:19:24,529 --> 00:19:28,849 saying, this is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you. 290 00:19:29,230 --> 00:19:35,730 Then likewise, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. 291 00:19:36,470 --> 00:19:41,029 And according to the law, almost all things are purified with blood 292 00:19:41,670 --> 00:19:45,849 and without shedding of blood, there is no remission. 293 00:19:47,009 --> 00:19:49,390 Remission is another word for forgiveness. 294 00:19:50,250 --> 00:19:50,930 Verse 23. 295 00:19:51,809 --> 00:19:56,650 Therefore, it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens 296 00:19:57,430 --> 00:19:59,410 should be purified with these. 297 00:20:00,089 --> 00:20:04,789 But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 298 00:20:05,130 --> 00:20:10,009 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, 299 00:20:10,009 --> 00:20:14,130 which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, 300 00:20:14,890 --> 00:20:18,250 now to appear in the presence of God for us. 301 00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:24,410 Not that he should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most holy place 302 00:20:24,410 --> 00:20:27,250 every year with blood of another. 303 00:20:27,490 --> 00:20:30,910 In other words, the goats and lambs and so forth. 304 00:20:31,349 --> 00:20:32,029 Verse 26. 305 00:20:32,549 --> 00:20:37,970 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world, meaning Christ. 306 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:46,849 But now, once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 307 00:20:47,910 --> 00:20:52,829 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment. 308 00:20:53,029 --> 00:21:00,529 So Christ was offered once to bear sins for many to those who eagerly wait for him. 309 00:21:01,029 --> 00:21:06,789 He will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. 310 00:21:07,970 --> 00:21:09,670 Okay, now we're heading into 10. 311 00:21:10,130 --> 00:21:13,809 We're going to read the next 18 verses. 312 00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:18,829 Brace yourself, and then we're going to be finished with this section. 313 00:21:19,309 --> 00:21:23,349 For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, 314 00:21:23,849 --> 00:21:29,289 and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, 315 00:21:29,769 --> 00:21:35,490 which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 316 00:21:36,289 --> 00:21:40,009 For then would they not have seized to be offered. 317 00:21:40,769 --> 00:21:47,309 For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 318 00:21:47,970 --> 00:21:52,529 But in those sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year. 319 00:21:53,150 --> 00:21:59,390 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 320 00:22:00,369 --> 00:22:00,890 Verse five. 321 00:22:00,890 --> 00:22:07,309 Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering you did not desire, 322 00:22:07,809 --> 00:22:10,549 but a body you have prepared for me. 323 00:22:11,410 --> 00:22:15,589 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, you had no pleasure. 324 00:22:16,509 --> 00:22:20,490 And then I said, Behold, I have come in the volume of the book. 325 00:22:20,890 --> 00:22:24,369 It is written of me to do your will, O God. 326 00:22:24,950 --> 00:22:26,730 That's a quote from Psalm 40. 327 00:22:26,730 --> 00:22:32,970 Verse eight previously saying, sacrifice and offering burnt offerings and offerings for sin 328 00:22:32,970 --> 00:22:38,789 you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them, which are offered accordingly to the law. 329 00:22:39,569 --> 00:22:43,869 And then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. 330 00:22:44,609 --> 00:22:50,730 He takes away the first that he may establish the second by that will. 331 00:22:51,690 --> 00:22:58,369 By that, will he have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 332 00:22:58,369 --> 00:23:07,789 once and for all verse 11 and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly 333 00:23:07,789 --> 00:23:12,049 the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 334 00:23:12,769 --> 00:23:20,589 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down 335 00:23:20,589 --> 00:23:27,089 at the right hand of God from that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. 336 00:23:27,630 --> 00:23:34,430 For by one offering, he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 337 00:23:35,269 --> 00:23:42,109 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us for after he had said, I'm sorry, 338 00:23:42,950 --> 00:23:47,069 witnesses to us for after he had said before, 339 00:23:47,629 --> 00:23:50,569 this is the covenant that I will make with them. 340 00:23:51,210 --> 00:23:58,250 After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds, 341 00:23:58,529 --> 00:24:04,190 I will write them. And then he adds their sins and their lawless deeds. 342 00:24:04,410 --> 00:24:13,369 I will remember no more. Now, where there is remission of these, there is no longer 343 00:24:13,369 --> 00:24:22,309 an offering for sin. So praise the Lord. He offered himself once for all time. 344 00:24:23,410 --> 00:24:28,630 Amen. I thought it was important for us to read all those verses because it's it comprises one 345 00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:36,789 theme that his one offering took away all of our sins. You know, we were talking 346 00:24:37,450 --> 00:24:41,450 Wednesday nights, you got to come out. It's awesome. I mean, we just learned actually 347 00:24:41,450 --> 00:24:47,130 Wednesday night all about that scarlet and the cleansing and so forth. 348 00:24:47,309 --> 00:24:54,849 Jesse taught out of Numbers 19. And we had a small group breakout like we do often. 349 00:24:55,910 --> 00:25:01,069 And we were talking about, you know, can you truly forget someone's sins against you? 350 00:25:01,650 --> 00:25:05,109 And and we and we were saying, you know, well, you always remember. 351 00:25:05,109 --> 00:25:13,250 OK, but you can forgive and still not forget. And then we talk, well, how does God forget our sins? 352 00:25:13,569 --> 00:25:22,910 Can he forget your sins? But you know, the word for forget, I won't I won't show the words up there, 353 00:25:23,970 --> 00:25:31,789 but the word for forget and for remember are different words. So the word when it says he 354 00:25:31,789 --> 00:25:38,650 will remember no more, it's different than forget. God can't forget. He's all knowing. 355 00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:42,849 How can he know something at one moment and then forget at the next moment? 356 00:25:43,890 --> 00:25:54,150 But he remembers no more. And that's the idea that he does not assign your sin to you any longer. 357 00:25:54,289 --> 00:25:59,130 He sends it away. In fact, the word actually talks about it's actually like sending it away, 358 00:25:59,130 --> 00:26:04,910 like casting it away. So when he looks at Eric, he doesn't think, oh, Eric, yeah, he's the guy. 359 00:26:05,009 --> 00:26:08,670 Let me look. Yeah, he's the guy that does this, that and the other. No, no. He's like, 360 00:26:08,670 --> 00:26:16,910 I don't see any of it. I see none of it. I see an image of me. That's what God sees. 361 00:26:17,289 --> 00:26:23,690 It's no longer part of your members because he remembers it no more. It's no longer part 362 00:26:23,690 --> 00:26:33,130 of you. That is so significant, isn't it? That he chooses to remember it no more. It's not part of 363 00:26:33,130 --> 00:26:41,529 your identity. That's why we say often, I'm just a sinner saved by grace. I've said it many times, 364 00:26:42,029 --> 00:26:51,150 but that's not a verse. I don't like to say it because a sinner is identified with sin. 365 00:26:51,790 --> 00:26:59,390 You know, like in other words, you are your sin. We were sinners. We were sinners. Now we're saints. 366 00:27:00,150 --> 00:27:10,869 Okay. We are no longer identified by our sins because he took them away or identified with Christ. 367 00:27:11,609 --> 00:27:18,829 You know, we are the righteousness of Christ. Why? Because his precious blood washed away our sins. 368 00:27:18,829 --> 00:27:26,930 You know, his voice speaks louder. Remember I mentioned like in a sense, his voice is in the 369 00:27:26,930 --> 00:27:32,769 blood. Okay. Of all humanity. That's why he said, wait a minute. I hear Abel's voice calling to me 370 00:27:32,769 --> 00:27:38,630 from the grave, from the ground, right? He hears it because it was a sign. It was given. 371 00:27:38,829 --> 00:27:46,250 The blood was given by him, right? And his voice continues to speak throughout every generation, 372 00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:54,029 throughout all humanity, that it is finished. That's what his blood speaks. Thank you, 373 00:27:54,150 --> 00:28:00,490 Tosh. Man, you're on it up there. Thanks so much. I forgot about that slide. It is finished. 374 00:28:01,549 --> 00:28:08,210 That's what his blood speaks. It's no longer part of who you are. Once you come to Christ, 375 00:28:09,450 --> 00:28:15,190 we need Jesus. Like anyone who rejects Jesus isn't really anything. They're going to carry 376 00:28:15,190 --> 00:28:21,210 that sin with them into eternity and then there's going to be hell to pay for that, right? 377 00:28:21,609 --> 00:28:29,269 But when we come to Jesus, we are cleansed by his precious blood. Like imagine he created 378 00:28:29,269 --> 00:28:35,609 everything. He created everything with its blood in it. Imagine his blood, his blood, 379 00:28:35,769 --> 00:28:42,210 how precious that is, that never was part of any sins on earth, was never contaminated 380 00:28:42,690 --> 00:28:48,490 by any kind of wrongdoing. That's the precious blood of Christ. Amen. 381 00:28:50,089 --> 00:28:54,009 You know, if the worship team can come up, I know it's a little bit early, but if they 382 00:28:54,009 --> 00:28:59,029 can come up now, because I just have a sense that the Lord is really going to minister to us 383 00:28:59,470 --> 00:29:05,569 through the spirit about forgiveness, because I think a lot of us carry with us 384 00:29:06,009 --> 00:29:11,089 guilt and shame. This was another conversation that arose a couple of times this week. 385 00:29:11,089 --> 00:29:17,049 A few of you guys know what I mean. But a lot of times, you know, we have difficulty forgiving 386 00:29:17,049 --> 00:29:22,369 ourselves. It's easier to forgive others. I don't know if you're like that. You know, 387 00:29:22,450 --> 00:29:26,230 maybe it's easier for you to forgive yourself and not others. I hope not. 388 00:29:27,709 --> 00:29:35,069 But if I'm more of like, I just keep replaying the failures. Sometimes I just keep replaying 389 00:29:35,069 --> 00:29:41,230 the times that I sinned and I think I made amends. I'm not sure. Did I do enough? 390 00:29:42,569 --> 00:29:48,630 But you know, the blood of Christ says it is finished. His blood speaks louder than any 391 00:29:48,630 --> 00:29:56,690 condemnation in the world. Right. And I love this verse because David, of all people, he just, 392 00:29:57,250 --> 00:30:02,470 he got God and he didn't even, he wasn't even a temple, the Holy Spirit. Right. He was living 393 00:30:02,470 --> 00:30:10,250 kind of a life that was still flesh anointed by the Holy Spirit. We are new creations, 394 00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:18,970 but he still got God. You know, he, his heart was after God. He was a man after God's own heart. 395 00:30:19,089 --> 00:30:25,289 That means he was chasing after God's heart. And when he, and when he spoke and said, 396 00:30:25,369 --> 00:30:30,210 please don't, you know, take your spirit away from me, you know, the Lord could have back 397 00:30:30,210 --> 00:30:37,150 that. He won't now with us because we are the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. He was speaking 398 00:30:37,150 --> 00:30:42,789 Old Testament language. Sometimes when we say those things as a new creation, 399 00:30:43,029 --> 00:30:48,329 we don't understand the disparity between Old Testament and New Testament. And we quote 400 00:30:49,009 --> 00:30:55,029 David's words actually verbatim as though they also apply to us. But the, but the, 401 00:30:55,670 --> 00:31:02,490 the heart behind those words still ring out. And look what he says in Psalms 25, seven, 402 00:31:02,670 --> 00:31:10,009 it's just so beautiful because you know, this was during his lifetime that he had made a lot of 403 00:31:10,009 --> 00:31:20,789 mistakes. And he said, do not remember the sins of my youth. He still was committing sins in his 404 00:31:20,789 --> 00:31:25,650 middle age too. Right. Nor my transgressions. 405 00:31:27,509 --> 00:31:33,630 But according to your mercy, remember me, isn't that something like he already was understanding 406 00:31:33,630 --> 00:31:39,190 there's something new that's coming. I can't understand it yet because it hasn't happened yet. 407 00:31:39,690 --> 00:31:44,890 But that's why he all the, often prophesied about a coming Messiah because it wasn't there yet, 408 00:31:44,890 --> 00:31:50,650 but he knew it was going to come someday. Like he just knew it in his soul that there was something 409 00:31:50,650 --> 00:31:58,450 better beyond the horizon. And he was right. It was Christ dying on the cross for his sins. 410 00:31:59,109 --> 00:32:06,269 And he said, according to your mercy, remember me for your goodness sake. Oh Lord, you know, 411 00:32:07,349 --> 00:32:13,910 it's so beautiful. It just reminds you of that criminal on the cross dying his last few hours 412 00:32:13,910 --> 00:32:22,309 of death next to Jesus. And he sees Jesus and he recognizes man, he doesn't belong here. He is 413 00:32:22,309 --> 00:32:27,210 from above. He is from beyond this, you know, and he's hearing his words that he's speaking 414 00:32:27,210 --> 00:32:36,049 to his very enemies. But he was saying, Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do. 415 00:32:36,049 --> 00:32:43,410 He was seeing that, that love radiating out of Christ who had just been brutally beaten, 416 00:32:44,109 --> 00:32:49,369 pierced through with a crown around his head, embedded through his scalp, blood gushing 417 00:32:49,369 --> 00:32:55,769 everywhere. And he's heaving just like they are for his last breaths. And he still has love for 418 00:32:55,769 --> 00:33:02,150 the very people who just crucified him. And this criminal on the cross looks over at Jesus. 419 00:33:02,150 --> 00:33:09,650 He's like, man. And he sees the guy on the other side. He goes, don't you see that we belong here? 420 00:33:09,849 --> 00:33:20,009 He doesn't. He said, will you remember me when your kingdom comes? I don't see this guy here. 421 00:33:21,329 --> 00:33:29,250 See me through you. Remember me the way I can be, or will be something, 422 00:33:29,250 --> 00:33:35,809 but you could just hear the heart behind this guy saying, I don't deserve anything but this. 423 00:33:36,789 --> 00:33:43,329 But somehow, is there any way? Is there any way that you can, you could take me with you? 424 00:33:44,470 --> 00:33:59,230 And that's all of us. We're all that guy on that cross saying, Lord, remember me. And you know 425 00:33:59,230 --> 00:34:06,670 that's what he says. You know, he doesn't see you as your sins anymore. He sees you cleansed, 426 00:34:09,110 --> 00:34:16,190 cleansed. And as we just meditate here for a moment, I just want to just ask the Lord to 427 00:34:16,190 --> 00:34:22,289 maybe minister to you. If there's something that you just want to be set free of some condemnation 428 00:34:22,289 --> 00:34:29,510 that you're just holding on to. And you just feel so dirty still. 429 00:34:31,409 --> 00:34:36,050 You still feel like you just don't deserve anything. 430 00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:46,190 Because you know, the Lord is better than your sins. 431 00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:55,909 And his blood speaks louder than your blood. He says it is finished. When David 432 00:34:58,190 --> 00:35:08,090 committed adultery, arranged the death of his mistress's husband, Uriah the Hittite. 433 00:35:09,289 --> 00:35:20,110 And then because of his sin, her baby died. I mean, just that's a hard pill to swallow, right? 434 00:35:21,030 --> 00:35:23,849 You know, I know you've sinned. I don't know if you've done those things, 435 00:35:24,969 --> 00:35:30,469 but he was forgiven too, right? He was forgiven too. I mean, that's some big stuff. 436 00:35:32,929 --> 00:35:41,210 And when David finally just got discovered by Nathan, he just, he confessed. He's like, you know, 437 00:35:41,329 --> 00:35:48,829 you got me. He was almost glad you could just hear, like he was almost, finally this burden 438 00:35:48,829 --> 00:35:56,710 is being lifted because I can admit it. And he said, you know, only against you have I sinned. 439 00:35:56,710 --> 00:36:01,929 And he wrote a couple of Psalms. He wrote Psalm 51, but he also wrote this Psalm 440 00:36:01,929 --> 00:36:11,869 capturing this moment. And in Psalm 32, one to two, he said, blessed is he whose transgression 441 00:36:11,869 --> 00:36:20,110 is forgiven. This is David after, after sleeping with another man's wife and not just any man. 442 00:36:20,269 --> 00:36:24,389 This is one of the mighty men. You know, Uriah the Hittite was a mighty man. He was one of the 443 00:36:24,389 --> 00:36:35,869 many mighty men that is listed as one of David's formidable, mighty men of valor who went to battle 444 00:36:35,869 --> 00:36:45,369 for David. I mean, that's betrayal, man. That's like bad, right? Like Uriah was a treasure to Israel 445 00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:49,349 and yet he slept with his wife. 446 00:36:51,530 --> 00:36:54,550 And that's, that's bad, right? Would you say that's bad, right? 447 00:36:57,469 --> 00:37:05,210 Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity 448 00:37:06,009 --> 00:37:14,449 and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Like he's like claiming forgiveness from God for himself. 449 00:37:15,369 --> 00:37:21,769 Like he's saying, yes, Lord, if you're doing, giving it, I'm receiving it. I want to receive it. 450 00:37:22,170 --> 00:37:27,250 You know, some of us are still carrying that guilt around and not confessing it. Somehow 451 00:37:27,730 --> 00:37:32,690 we're going to try to keep overcoming it with more good deeds or we're going to try to overcome 452 00:37:32,690 --> 00:37:37,590 it with drinking or smoking or whatever we're going to do to kind of numb it. You know, 453 00:37:37,650 --> 00:37:41,210 I don't want to remember that. I got to block it out. I got to, you know, I can't remember 454 00:37:41,210 --> 00:37:47,449 what I did. You know, there's only one way that can be mitigated and that's the blood of Christ. 455 00:37:48,630 --> 00:37:55,289 His blood takes away your sins. It doesn't cover over, it removes it. 456 00:37:56,489 --> 00:37:59,670 And then he goes on from there in verses three to five. 457 00:37:59,670 --> 00:38:12,110 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long for day and night. 458 00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:21,909 Your hand was heavy upon me. My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. 459 00:38:22,650 --> 00:38:28,469 Maybe that's you right now. Maybe, maybe you're just feeling the heavy weight of your sins. 460 00:38:30,070 --> 00:38:35,730 And the Lord isn't going to let you go. He has his hand on you. He's like, 461 00:38:35,929 --> 00:38:43,789 come on man, will you just turn to me? Will you just return to me? You know, come back. 462 00:38:44,789 --> 00:38:51,630 You're not going to run away and fix anything. You have to come to me. That weight of the Lord 463 00:38:51,630 --> 00:38:59,090 just heavy on you saying, will you just confess? There's no freedom until you confess. 464 00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:06,889 To the Lord and get set free. Let his blood just wash away your sins. 465 00:39:08,950 --> 00:39:17,230 Because look what he says next. I acknowledge my sin to you and my iniquity I have not hidden. 466 00:39:18,250 --> 00:39:27,570 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sins. 467 00:39:28,230 --> 00:39:40,190 This is old Testament. Do you know how much more a believer in Jesus Christ, a new creation. 468 00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:47,230 We already have the cleansing spirit within us. All we have to do is just say, Lord, 469 00:39:47,969 --> 00:39:55,469 I confess to you right now these things and I want to be cleanse, set free from them once and for all. 470 00:39:55,469 --> 00:40:02,489 Just set me free. Now, if you're here, you've never accepted Jesus Christ. That has to come first. 471 00:40:03,389 --> 00:40:07,190 It does because you're not forgiven until you claim the blood of Jesus. 472 00:40:08,389 --> 00:40:14,969 You have to receive Jesus Christ. There's only one way to heaven. There's only one way. You know, 473 00:40:15,030 --> 00:40:21,289 there's other churches preaching Unitarianism and all these other, there's many, maybe possible 474 00:40:21,289 --> 00:40:28,170 other way. No, there's one way. I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father 475 00:40:28,170 --> 00:40:34,929 except through me. I am the narrow gate. Broad is the gateway that leads to destruction 476 00:40:34,929 --> 00:40:41,250 and many go through it. But there's only one way to the Father and that's through Jesus Christ. 477 00:40:41,610 --> 00:40:48,190 There's only one. It's the precious blood of Jesus Christ shed for you. That's the only one 478 00:40:48,190 --> 00:40:55,570 who can cleanse you of your sins. And I want to beg to you right now. Just receive Jesus as your Lord 479 00:40:55,570 --> 00:41:02,070 and Savior. There's probably someone in here who's never done that. And I just plead with you, 480 00:41:02,590 --> 00:41:10,369 don't waste any more time. Life is short. There's so much living to be done this side of heaven. 481 00:41:10,869 --> 00:41:17,250 Why not embrace it now than waste any more time? And all you have to do is pray a prayer 482 00:41:17,250 --> 00:41:26,630 like this. Father God, I know I'm a sinner and I need you, I need my Savior to take away my sins. 483 00:41:28,369 --> 00:41:35,289 Lord, I claim your blood that you shed on the cross for my sins, becoming sin on the cross for me. 484 00:41:36,230 --> 00:41:41,989 I claim that for myself. I receive forgiveness from you. I give you my life. 485 00:41:41,989 --> 00:41:47,769 Today I surrender my life to you and I ask you for your life for me. 486 00:41:48,630 --> 00:41:56,510 Fill me with your Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen. You know, if you did that, the word says you're saved. 487 00:41:58,090 --> 00:42:05,110 But for the rest of us, maybe we need to just say, Lord, I want to surrender this thing. I want to, 488 00:42:05,110 --> 00:42:13,190 I want to like confess this just as David did when Nathan said, David, you're the man. 489 00:42:13,949 --> 00:42:19,349 Maybe the Lord is saying to you today, you know what it is that needs to be cleansed. 490 00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:25,030 Confess it now. 491 00:42:29,660 --> 00:42:37,559 Father God, I know all of us have things here that we need to be cleansed from. 492 00:42:42,619 --> 00:42:45,380 But your sacrifice was once forever. 493 00:42:48,460 --> 00:42:53,159 We want to claim your blood for us, Lord God, we want to claim the mighty blood of Christ 494 00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:56,099 that takes away our sins. 495 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,079 Lord, we acknowledge our sin. 496 00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:08,639 We ask you to forgive our sins. 497 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:19,519 Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and Lord, God, may your righteousness rise up in us to overcome 498 00:43:19,519 --> 00:43:25,039 in this world as we are in heaven in Jesus name. Amen. 499 00:43:29,059 --> 00:43:34,519 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss His word. 500 00:43:35,159 --> 00:43:40,679 Don't forget to join us for worship live Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube. 501 00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:43,780 Be blessed and have a great day!