The Power of the Blood

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He was new in town and he 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.760 was going door to door inviting people to come to 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.360 his church. And he knocked on this one door and 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.639 he could tell someone was there, but nobody would answer. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.680 So he took his church card out. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.559 And wrote on back the scripture reference Revelation three twenty 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.280 in left it on the door. The next Sunday after service, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.680 and Usher handed him the same card under what he 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.160 had written was the scripture reference Genesis three ten. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:15.639 Here's what they say. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.440 The pastor's words Revelation three twenty. Behold, I stand at 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.520 the door and knock. If anyone answers, I will come in. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.680 The reply was Genesis three ten. It says I heard 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.959 your voice, but I was afraid because I was naked. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.880 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.480 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.960 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.720 I can do. Today I will be talked the word 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.760 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.080 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.120 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.320 about the power of the blood. In the Old Testament, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.720 they could have forgiveness for sins was to sacrifice an 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.520 animal without the shedding of blood. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.720 There was no remission for sin. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.400 Every year, the high priest would go into the Holy 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.920 of Holies, that was the most sacred place in the Temple. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.680 He would offer a sacrifice for his sins in the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.440 sins of all the people. It was called the day 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:27.839 of Atonement. If the sacrifice was acceptable, their sins would 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.440 not be taken away, they would be covered. They were 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.600 good for another year. This was an ongoing process, and 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.200 the priest had to make sure everything was perfect, that 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.640 the animal didn't have spot or blemishes, that it was 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.160 the right age, all these requirements. If they didn't meet 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.120 the requirements, the sacrifice wouldn't be acceptable. They wouldn't have 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.200 God's blessing. This is the constant pressure they lived under. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.480 Is our sin going to be forgiven for this year? 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.480 Is the sacrifice going to be good enough? The blood 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.920 of animals only offered them temporary forgiveness. But God told 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.440 Abraham there was a day coming that he was going 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.360 to get rid of the old covenant, or the old 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.320 way of doing things. God was saying, it was fine 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.960 for a time, but I'm going to make a new 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.880 covenant to permanently take care of sin. The problem is 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.120 it couldn't happen with the blood of bulls and goats. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.080 That wasn't good enough. It was going to take a 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.680 special kind of sacrifice. One day, John the Baptist was 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.680 out ministeringing. He saw Jesus coming and said, look, the 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.560 lamb of God who. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.760 Takes away the sin of the world. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.640 John knew that Jesus was the sacrifice that God told 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:52.880 Abraham about. Jesus was God's lamb. When he died on 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.960 the cross and shed his blood. It says in Hebrews 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.160 that he went once and for all into the Holy 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.800 of Holies, not with the blood of bulls and goats, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:10.160 but with his own blood to secure a complete redemption 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:15.560 for us. All one translation says, an everlasting. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.520 Release from our sins. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.360 His blood put an end to the old system of 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.120 sacrificing again. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.839 And again hoping that we would be forgiven. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.240 Now we can live with the confidence that all of 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:31.520 our sins. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.440 Past, present, and future. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.599 Have not just been covered, not just temporarily atoned for, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.920 they have been washed away. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.279 We have an everlasting release. This is the power of 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:45.839 the blood. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.839 When Jesus hung on the cross, suspended between heaven and Earth, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.440 he took all of our mistakes, all of our failures 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.040 and weaknesses, all of the times we've blown it and 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.080 the times we ever will blow it, and he forgave it. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.000 The good news is not that God will forgive you. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.000 The good news is He has already forgiven you. Like 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.400 John declared, the lamb of God has taken away the 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.719 sin of the world. Now, this sacrifice won't do you 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.200 any good if you don't receive it. If you go 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:28.880 around guilty, condemned, trying to pay God back for your mistakes, No, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.799 the price has already been paid. Receive his mercy, receive 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.479 his love every day, Father, Thank you that I am forgiven, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.040 Thank you that I am redeemed. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.400 The accuser will tell you just the opposite. God's not 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.760 going to forgive you. Look what you've done. Look at 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.600 the way you lived. You knew better than that. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:56.000 It's easy to believe these lies go around with a heaviness, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.960 with no passion for life. I talked to a gentleman recently, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.720 and he was so down on himself, telling me all 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.960 the mistakes that he had made. Here's my question, do 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.920 you think your mistake was too much for the blood 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.400 that Christ shed? Do you think what you've done somehow 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.960 has tipped the scales? And now God is thinking, Oh, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.640 didn't see that one coming. I should have sent a 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.000 better sacrifice. I could understand this reasoning. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.760 If we were still offering the blood of bulls and goats. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.960 Maybe we didn't get the right kind of animal, Maybe 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.560 we didn't meet all the requirements. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.720 Friends, those days are gone. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.640 You've been redeemed by the sinless, spotless. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.800 All powerful son of the living God. That's not ordinary blood. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.560 That's blood that defeated the enemy. It's blood that crushed 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.320 Satan's head, blood that took the keys of death in hell, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.520 blood that causes. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.800 The demons to tremble. It's not average blood. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.240 It's blood that open blind eyes, cured the lepers, walked 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.960 on water, calmed the seas. It's the blood that restored 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.160 the woman caught in adultery. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.120 It's blood that forgave the people who crucified him. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.800 What am I saying, No mistake you've made is too 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.000 much for this blood. Shake off the guilt, Quit living condemned, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.880 feeling like you're washed up. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.800 And receive the forgiveness. We're under the better Covenant, the 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:32.520 New Covenant. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.560 No more do we have to rely on the blood 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:40.160 of bulls and goats, wondering if our sins will be forgiven, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.480 hoping we can get some kind of temporary atonement. Because 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.760 of the blood that Christ shed, our sins have been 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.320 permanently taken care of. This is what Paul said in 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.760 Second Corinthians. God is not counting your sins against you. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.680 He has blooded them out. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:03.280 Too many people live can always thinking about their past mistakes. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.840 They've asked God to forgive them every day for the 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.520 same thing for the last four years. They don't realize 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.720 the first time you asked God forgave you, he's saying, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.640 I'm not counting that against you. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.640 I've already blotted it out. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.160 If God let it go, Why don't you let it go? 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.560 Why don't you forgive yourself and move forward with your life. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.080 As long as you're looking backwards, living in regrets, beating 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.880 yourself up over past mistakes, you will never step into 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.360 the new things God has in store. It's easy to 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.000 go through life looking in the rear view mirror, thinking 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.800 about what you should have done better, what. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.000 Didn't work out. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.640 But the reason the rear view mirror is so small 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.720 and your front windshield is so big is because where 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.320 you've been is not nearly as important as. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.640 Where you're going. Get rid of the rearview mirror. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.480 You've been redeemed, you've been restored. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.160 God didn't just. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.920 Cover your sins. He blotted them out. He's not holding 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:08.840 them against you. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.240 Isaiah put it this way. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.240 Like a thick cloud, God has blotted out our sins. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.480 Think of your mistakes, your failures as a thick fog. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.520 You can barely see anything. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.200 Some mornings you wake up and you can hardly see 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.800 the house across the street. Then when the sun comes out, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.520 that fog in a few minutes burns off. It doesn't 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.280 blow away, it doesn't move to the next city. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.880 It evaporates. The sun causes it to vanish. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.720 We all make mistakes, have times that our life is 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.959 clouded by poor choices, clouded by sin. But when you 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.719 ask God to forgive you, the sun comes out, so 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.640 n he causes his light to shine and cause that 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.760 sin to evaporate. It's gone, he says, he will not 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:05.160 remember our sins anymore. My challenge, quit remembering what God 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.600 has forgotten. Quit bringing up what's already been evaporated. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.120 When you dwell on. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.520 The past and relive your mistakes, all that's doing is 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.120 causing a new cloud deform. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.360 It's real simple. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.880 God is for you, The enemy is against you. You 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.559 get to cast the deciding vote. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.280 Which direction are you going to go? 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.719 Believe the lies, live guilty. Think you couldn't be good 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.400 enough for God to accept you. It says in Ephesians 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.839 that God has already accepted you. He's already blotted out 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.120 your sins. He's already shed his blood The question is 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.160 will you receive it? Will you put your shoulders back, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.280 hold your head up, hine and start acting like a 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.760 child of the Most High God, letting the sun shine 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.720 in your life. After all that Christ has done for us, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.920 after the incredible price he paid on the cross, it 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.079 doesn't bring him any honor for us to go around 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:09.360 feeling unworthy, condemned. I can imagine God saying to the angels, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.400 I sent my son, I gave my best, he paid 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.920 the ultimate sacrifice. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.040 What more could I do? 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.800 Now, Let's do our part and start believing that we 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.199 are redeemed, that we are forgiven, that we have an 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:28.600 everlasting release from our sins. For hundreds of years, the 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.120 Israelites were enslavery, and God sent plague after plague upon 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.080 the people that were holding them, but Pharaoh wouldn't change 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.200 his mind. This last pledge was going to be very devastating. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.960 The first born male of all their captors was going 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.640 to be killed during the night, from the firstborn son 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.840 of the pharaoh down to the firstborn son of the 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.880 poorest person, even the firstborn of all their animals were 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.560 going to be destroyed. But God gave the Israelites special 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:05.080 instructions how to be protected from this plague. Each man 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.960 was to take a lamb for their family. Had to 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.839 be a one year old male without spot or blemish, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.520 and they were to sacrifice that lamb at dusk and 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.000 take some of the blood and put it on the 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.840 top of their door and. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.000 Some on the sides of the doorframe. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.959 God said, when I see the blood over your doorpost, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.080 I will know that you belong to me, and I 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.800 will pass over your house. No harm will come near 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:39.080 you when I destroy your enemies. You can imagine how 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.880 careful they must have been to follow these instructions. I 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.600 can hear the kids asking, Dad, did you put the 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.880 blood on the doorpost yet? The wife said, let's go 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.559 double check. Let's make sure it's still there. At midnight, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.640 when the death angel came through the land, wherever he 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.680 saw the blood, he passed over. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:13:59.920 They were protecting. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.680 My question today is have you put this blood over 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.199 your house? Have you taken the lamb? The sacrifice has 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.199 already been made. We don't have to do it physically 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.960 like they did. We're under the new Covenant, but the 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.760 principle is still the same. When you say, as for 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.440 me and my house, we. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.400 Will serve the Lord, what you're doing. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.600 In effect, you're putting the blood over your door post. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.160 When the enemy comes and sees the blood, he passes over. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:37.160 When you've accepted the sacrifice of Christ's salvation, that's a 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.440 place of protection. No weapon formed against you will prosper. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.600 There is a bloodline that the enemy cannot cross. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.960 If the blood of an animal. 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.200 Could keep them safe, how much more so can the 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:56.200 blood of the son of the Living God. By faith, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.120 we can say, I put the blood over my house, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.440 put the blood over my children, I put the. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:03.960 Blood over my business. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.520 When you're covered by the blood, the enemy doesn't have 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.280 a choice. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.520 He has to pass over. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.680 And I'm not saying that negative things will never happen, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.360 You'll never have a difficulty. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.240 That's not reality. I'm saying nothing. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.400 Will happen without God's permission. Because of the blood. There's 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.760 a hedge around you and your family. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.560 You don't know how many things came against you. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.360 But like the Israelites, because the blood, they had to 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.360 pass over. Maybe sickness was headed you away, but when 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:37.960 it saw. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.480 The blood, it kept on going. That accident should have 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:42.360 taken your life. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.240 But when the death angel saw the blood, he said, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.360 can't mess with them. I have no authority here. I 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:54.560 have to pass over trouble at work. Forces sent you 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.640 away to cause strife and division, discord, But when they 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.000 came to your office and saw the blood, they had 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:06.040 to keep on going. Bad habits, addictions sent towards your 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.440 children to try to get them off course caused them 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:10.640 to miss their destiny. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.840 But when they arrived at your house and saw the blood, 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.080 they had to keep on going. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.840 These forces of darkness are not moved by what family 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.400 you come from, by what church you go to, by. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.640 How many good deeds you do. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.240 What they respond to is the blood over your life. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.920 Have you put the blood over your children, over your family, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:33.960 over your health? 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.800 All through the day? Lord, Thank you that we are 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.320 covered by your blood. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.680 When I was a little boy, my father used to 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.640 travel overseas a lot. At one point, there were five 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.640 of us kids at home, all under the age of twelve. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.720 My mother had her hands full. Every time my father 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.480 went to leave on a trip. Invariably one of us 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:57.560 kids would get sick. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:58.840 For weeks. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.560 Everything be fine, as soon as he started packing up, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.080 somebody'd come down with the colder, somebody'd get hurt playing. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.320 One time, my brother Paul was jumping up and down 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.120 on his bed and falling backwards and bouncing back up. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.280 He miscalculated and went back and hit the headboard, knocked 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.400 himself out, busted his head open. Had to go get stitches, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.520 and at least now we know what's wrong with him. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.359 But that was that was right before my dad was 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.479 going to go on this major trip. It seemed like 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.080 there were all these forces trying to keep my father 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.240 from going. Daddy was so frustrating. He said, God, I'm 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:35.879 trying to go out and help the world, and my 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:37.240 own family. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:37.960 Starts falling apart. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.159 Next time he went to leave, same thing, somebody started 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.520 to get sick. This time he decided to do something 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.840 about it. He asked all of us kids to come outside. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.640 He had us get in a line, from the oldest 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.000 to the youngest, like we were forming a train. He 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.320 was leading it. He turned around and said, I want 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.040 you to follow me and say what I say. We 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.919 already marching us around the perimeter of our property, saying 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.680 we put the blood, we put the blood, we put 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:11.960 the blood. Neighbors were looking out their windows like that's 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:16.560 one weird family. Cards driving by were honking and waving. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.240 I was only five years old, and I was embarrassed. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.080 My father knew no shame. But do you know from 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.840 that day forward when he left, none of us got sick, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.840 none of us got hurt. My brother Paul didn't change, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.680 didn't fix him. But what am I saying today? Put 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.840 the blood over your life, put the blood over your family, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:40.879 put the blood. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:41.280 Over your business. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.520 You don't have to march around your house, but you 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.480 can say, Father, I want to thank you that my children, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.120 my finances, my health, my future, that we are all 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:55.320 covered by your blood. In the scripture, there was a 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.200 young lady that lived in Jericho named Rayhab. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.400 She was a prostitute. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.359 She wasn't raised in a family that knew anything about God. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.000 It looked like she would miss her purpose. All the 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:11.479 odds were against her. But God gives every person a chance. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.280 There will be destiny moments where you can make a 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.720 decision that will set you on a better course to 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.840 become who you were created to be. One day, Joshua 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.720 sent men in to spy out the city of Jericho. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.280 Word got out that the spies were there. They would 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:34.000 have been captured, except Rayhab took these men into her. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.480 Home and hid them. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 When the guards came by, she covered for them, said 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.320 that they weren't there. She saved their lives. These spies 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.119 were so grateful. They were going to come back with 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.680 the Israelites and attack the city, but they gave Rayhab 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.200 special instructions how she and her family could be saved. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:55.080 They told her. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.199 To take a scarlet cord and hang it out the 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.440 window of her house. Let it reach to the ground 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.399 so it would be easy to see. Then she was 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.800 to bring everyone into her house that she wanted to save, 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.240 her parents, her children, her family. The spies promised that 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.440 no one in that house would be harmed. The Israelites 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.440 came back to attack the city, but when they saw 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.080 the scarlet cord, they knew they had to pass over. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.720 Rayhab and her family were the only ones that were spared. See, 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.280 these spies understood the passover. They had heard stories how 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.560 their relatives had put the blood over the doorpost, how 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.680 they had been protected. That's why they told Rayhab, as 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.600 long as you stay under the scarlet cord, you'll be safe. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.919 The scarlet cord represents the blood, the same principle today. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.600 As long as you keep the blood. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:56.000 Over your life, like Rayhab, enemies will have to pass 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.040 you by Sickness will have to pass, defeat will have 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.440 to pass protected by the blood. 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:03.960 Genesis, Chapter four. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:09.000 Eve gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Over time, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.960 Cain became very jealous of Abel and eventually killed him. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.000 He came back home and acted like everything was fine. 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:19.679 But God asked him where his brother was. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.000 Cain said, I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.520 God just said to Cain, the voice of your brother's 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.840 blood is crying out to me from the ground. God 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.199 was saying, you may have killed the body, but the 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.960 blood is still speaking. You tried to shut him up. 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.800 The problem is you can't shut the blood up. There 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.480 was nobody to speak for Abel. His blood became his 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.359 own attorney. Cain thought that he had the last word. 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.240 He didn't realize the blood still speaks. When the soldiers 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.960 crucified Jesus, it looked like his enemies had finally finished 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:00.600 him off. 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.560 Hanging on the tree, bruised, beaten, wearing. 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.400 A crown of thorns, having been spit upon, mocked and ridiculed, 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:14.000 seemed like they had the last laugh. When Jesus bowed 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.879 his head and breathed his last breath, all of heaven 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:23.200 went silent. The angels quit singing, harps quit playing, dancers 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:27.520 quit dancing, No music, no praise, just an eerie silence. 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:32.080 The earth was so troubled it began to shake an earthquake. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.760 The sun turned its back and refused to look. Three 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.400 in the afternoon, darkness covered the earth. The soldiers who 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.919 crucified him said, surely he was the son of God. 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:48.640 I can imagine Satan and the forces of darkness. When 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:53.200 they saw Jesus' blood dripping down into the earth, they thought, 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:57.040 finally we got rid of him, finally. 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.480 We shut him off. We have prooved. Here's his own blood. 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:04.159 What they didn't realize is two thousand years later, his 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:10.760 blood would still be speaking. They would have never crucified 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:15.320 him had they known. When we make a mistake, his 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.119 blood still cries out for mercy when we're sick. 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:23.120 His blood says, by my stripes, you were here when 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:24.080 we need provision. 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.640 His blood says, I became poor so that you could 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:28.480 become well off. 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:29.960 His blood is. 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:34.360 Still crying out for freedom, redemption, salvation, abundance. They may 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:38.240 have crucified his body, but they couldn't keep his blood 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.159 from speaking, as Satan and all the demons are up 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:47.199 there celebrating, given high fives, confetti's going off, looks like 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.360 they just won the super Bowl. They see this figure 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:54.040 start coming toward them. They can't figure out who he is. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:58.879 His eyes are like firn. His face so brilliant it 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:03.160 radiates like the makes them turn away, and Jesus says 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.159 to them, you better put the party on hold. 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:08.040 You pop the champagne. 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.159 A little bit too early, I was dead, but I 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:20.320 am alive forevermore. Jesus not only defeated Satan, but he 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:23.760 took away the keys of death and hell. The scripture 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:28.200 says he rendered him powerless. One version says he brought. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:29.879 Him to naught, not is zero. 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.800 You may be facing some obstacles, but the good news 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:37.359 is the Blood still speaks for you. The Blood says 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:40.080 you're more than a conquer The blood says you can 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:42.960 do all things through Christ. The Blood says the forces 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.800 that are for you are greater than the forces that 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.800 are against you. So when we make mistakes in life, 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:53.840 we can live guilty and condemned, or we can let 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:55.120 the Blood speak for us. 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:59.720 Father, thank you that I am forgiven. I'll receive your mercy. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.720 When we face an illness, we can accept it as 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:06.399 our lot in life, or we can let the blood speak. Father, 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:10.680 thank you that you were wounded for my transgressions. 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:11.359 By your stripes, I am healed. 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:14.360 When people come against us, we can get upset, try 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.800 to pay them back, or we can let the blood speak. Father, 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.879 thank you that you're my vindicator. You said the trap 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:22.440 the enemy sent for me, they. 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.960 Would fall in themselves. Cain was a farmer. 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:30.200 He spent his life planting seeds and working the ground. 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:34.000 He invited Abel out into his field, and that's where 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:38.280 he killed him. Abel's blood went down into the earth, 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:42.800 and God told Cain, from now on, you won't be 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:47.320 able to produce any crops on this land. Because the 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:50.879 innocent blood of your brother went into the earth. It 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.320 has put a stop to what you used to do. 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:58.040 This is symbolic of what Jesus did for us. He 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:02.560 left heaven and came into the enemy's land. When he 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:06.920 shed his innocent blood on Calvary. That blood went down 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:09.800 into the earth and what the enemy used to be 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:12.720 able to do. Because the blood. 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.080 Has been there, it's not going to work anymore. 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.639 Things that used to grow in you, so to speak. 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:22.640 Addictions bad habits, a temper. The blood has canceled that out. 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:26.000 There are seeds that were planted in us as a 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.000 child by the enemy to try to get us off 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.480 course as an adult, and normally they just grown and 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:35.320 become a part of who we are. But because the 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:38.440 blood has been there, it is put a stop to it. 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:41.800 And in instead of accepting things that you know are 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:45.320 less than God's best, why don't you start saying, Father, 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.520 I want to thank you that the blood that your 0:26:48.560 --> 0:26:53.199 son Jesus shed has canceled out every negative seed in 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:53.840 my life. 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:55.960 Father, thank you whatever it is that. 0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:59.000 Has canceled this addiction, this depression, this. 0:26:59.040 --> 0:26:59.680 Spirit of lack. 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.080 Lord, I want to thank you that I am free. 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:06.320 When you thank God for the blood, the enemies tremble. 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:10.800 The blood reminds them of their defeat. It reminds them 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:13.560 that what they used to be able to do, they 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:18.440 cannot do anymore. John said in Revelation we overcome by 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:22.080 the blood of the lad I'm asking you to keep 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:26.119 this blood over your life, over your children, over your business, 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:27.320 over your future. 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:28.399 If you'll do. 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:32.560 This, God promises he will protect you. He'll cause things 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:36.520 to pass over you. Now I believe and declare because 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:37.560 the blood. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:38.320 Is still speaking. 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:43.480 Every generational curse is being broken. Strongholds are coming down. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.280 What's held you back in the past will hold you 0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:51.840 back no more. 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