THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST
TEXT: 1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
THESIS: To preach the doctrine of the precious blood of our Savior.
INTRO.:
A. We sing & talk about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior. We teach & preach about it. But I wonder if we understand what is so “precious” about it. The word “precious” is defined in Webster’s as “being of great value, costly, or of great price, usually rare.” All of these words describe Jesus’ precious blood. The Greek word translated “precious” is defined in Strong’s Concordance as “valuable, costly, honored, esteemed, beloved, dear.”
B. Peter speaks of our salvation hinging on “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ. In fact, the blood of animals or any other man, woman or child, cannot be considered “precious” in the same sense as that of our Savior.
C. No doctrine in Scripture is as maligned, misunderstood, venomously hated or so viciously attacked as belief in “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior!
👎The liberals who deny the Deity of Christ degrade His blood. Myrol J. Herrol, a missionary of the Amer. Bap. Convention said: “The blood of Jesus Christ is of no more value in the salvation of a soul than the water in which Pilate washed his hands.” (I apologize that the label Baptist is given to this blasphemer!)
👎The Catholic hierarchy claims to be able to turn bread into the “literal body & blood of Christ.” Pope Pius IV declared “If any man shall say that in the mass there is not offered to God a true & proper sacrifice, let him be accursed.” (No, God says anyone who doesn’t receive the merits of “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ will be accursed!)
👎Christian Scientists (neither Christian nor Scientific!) state: “The blood of Jesus Christ was of no more avail when it was shed upon the cursed tree than when it was flowing through his veins in daily life.”
👎John MacArthur, a nondenominationalist, evangelical (who masquerades as a Bible believer) says “It was NOT Jesus’ physical blood that saves us, but His dying on our behalf (“precious death?!”), which is symbolized by the shedding of His physical blood. If we could be saved by blood w/out death, the animals would have been bled, not killed, and it would have been the same w/Jesus.” (Doesn’t draining the blood out of a body result in death?!) He continues: “If Christ’s own physical blood, in itself does not cleanse us from sin, how much less did the physical blood of animals.” (Because the “physical blood of animals” only pictured “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ!)
👎These wicked religious leaders are all heretics & have “trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace.” But enough of this heresy, let’s just find out what God says about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD…” God says Jesus’ blood is…
I. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS PURITY:
A. It Is Pure Because It Is God’s!
ILLUS.: 🔸Christ’s blood is pure because He never sinned, but it is really pure because it came from God. You say, “Does God have blood?” Not until Jesus was incarnated.
🔸But when He became a man, He had no human father & the blood line comes from the father. His blood was pure & holy because He came, not thru human flesh or human seed, but from the Holy Ghost of God!
Mt.1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
B. It Is Pure Because He Was Sinless:
Heb. 7:26-27 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
1. If I was your priest instead of your preacher, I would have to offer up an atonement for my sins as well as yours.
2. If Jesus is your Priest, He need only offer up a sacrifice for your sins, never for His own!
II. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS RARITY:
A. It Is Rare Because He Was Virgin Born:
Is.7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Jer.31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
1. No one else had sinless blood, because no one else had been virgin born.
2. Rare is defined as “uncommon, unusually excellent, remarkably fine.”
ILLUS.: ✨Something rare is usually highly esteemed & valuable. Gold & diamonds are of great valuable because they are not readily or easily found. Yet there are literally millions of tons of gold in the world & millions of diamonds available. But there is only one virgin-born man in all of human history. That is rare!
✨The virgin birth produced a unique, rare Person with blood unlike any other human being. His blood is supernatural. It did not just “run down into the dust of the earth” at the foot of the cross; it was taken by Christ as High Priest & sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in heaven as an atonement for our sin. It is there right now, for the Scripture declares that “the blood of Jesus Christ His (God’s) Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (He is unique in that He is the only begotten Son of God…we are mere sons of God.) [The NIV uses “one & only Son” destroying the uniqueness of Christ! P.S. The NIV translators have already issued a “gender neutral” version in England & are “testing the waters” now for the U.S.! Those fundamentalists who bought into the NIV are going to be embarrassed!]
III. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS INDISPENSABILITY:
A. It Is Indispensable Because Forgiveness Hinges Upon It:
Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Heb.9:22-23 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
1. Both the Old Covenant (O.T.) & the New Covenant (N.T.) were ratified by shed blood. Heb.9:15-18
ILLUS.: In the N.T. there are 290 references to God’s love, but there are 1300 verses that speak of atonement by the blood!!! It must be important. No, indispensable!
2. It is not just death, but a bloody death which is necessary to accomplish
this. v.18-22
3. It is interesting that everything was sprinkled w/blood: “the book, the people,…the tabernacle & all the vessels…” v.19,21
ILLUS.: Everything man-made (even if “God breathed” or “God designed”) became defiled because it was touched by sinful man. Thus it had to be “purged with blood” (v.22). The blood sprinkled on people or furniture or the Bible or the Tabernacle did not change the nature of that thing, but it changed God’s relationship to it!!!
💥(Note that “the Book” is sprinkled w/blood. Since “the life is in the blood” we have a “Living Bible.” It is a bloody Book. Often its pages are coated w/gold, like the gold overlaid furniture in the Tabernacle, speaking of Deity. It is a Divine Book. Often it is edged in red – a bloody Book. It usually has limp, black covers – speaking of sin & death.) [The new versions “dress up” their books to counterfeit THIS Book!]
IV. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS SUFFICIENCY:
A. It Is Sufficient Because Of Its Uniqueness:
ILLUS.: Nothing else in the Bible comes close as to the attention devoted to the doctrine of the ability of blood to cover or atone for sin. From the Garden of Eden in Genesis to the Wounded Lamb of Revelation, blood oozes from the pages of Script.
1. It is sufficient for salvation: Jesus’ shedding His blood on the cross was not some afterthought w/God; He was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
a. He was the Promised Seed of Genesis, the sacrificial son on Mt. Moriah, the Deliverer, Law Giver & Sacrifice in the books of the Law, the Kinsman-Redeemer of the period of the Judges, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and on through the Scriptures until because of Calvary & the precious blood shed there He sits on the throne as King of Kings in Rev.
b. He is the Subject of prophecy, the Object of preaching, the Fulfillment of the types & symbols of the O.T. & the long awaited Messiah of Israel as well as the Founder & Sustainer of the Church…all because of the
precious blood!
2. It is sufficient for cleansing: How can blood cleanse sin? (How can water quench thirst?!)
3. It is sufficient to war against Satan.
Rev.12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
ILLUS.: After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon stood before a map of Europe on which the nation of England was colored in red. He said: “Were it not for that one red spot, I would have conquered the world.” Satan too has great ambitions to conquer every believer & wars against us, and except for that “one red spot” of Christ’s precious blood, he would be victorious!
CONCL.: Salvation, cleansing & protection all come from “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior! It is not by water. It is not by works. It is not by worship. It is only through “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD”! Morality may keep a man out of jail, but only “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ can keep him out of hell! The blood is sufficient!
THESIS: To preach the doctrine of the precious blood of our Savior.
INTRO.:
A. We sing & talk about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior. We teach & preach about it. But I wonder if we understand what is so “precious” about it. The word “precious” is defined in Webster’s as “being of great value, costly, or of great price, usually rare.” All of these words describe Jesus’ precious blood. The Greek word translated “precious” is defined in Strong’s Concordance as “valuable, costly, honored, esteemed, beloved, dear.”
B. Peter speaks of our salvation hinging on “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ. In fact, the blood of animals or any other man, woman or child, cannot be considered “precious” in the same sense as that of our Savior.
C. No doctrine in Scripture is as maligned, misunderstood, venomously hated or so viciously attacked as belief in “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior!
👎The liberals who deny the Deity of Christ degrade His blood. Myrol J. Herrol, a missionary of the Amer. Bap. Convention said: “The blood of Jesus Christ is of no more value in the salvation of a soul than the water in which Pilate washed his hands.” (I apologize that the label Baptist is given to this blasphemer!)
👎The Catholic hierarchy claims to be able to turn bread into the “literal body & blood of Christ.” Pope Pius IV declared “If any man shall say that in the mass there is not offered to God a true & proper sacrifice, let him be accursed.” (No, God says anyone who doesn’t receive the merits of “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ will be accursed!)
👎Christian Scientists (neither Christian nor Scientific!) state: “The blood of Jesus Christ was of no more avail when it was shed upon the cursed tree than when it was flowing through his veins in daily life.”
👎John MacArthur, a nondenominationalist, evangelical (who masquerades as a Bible believer) says “It was NOT Jesus’ physical blood that saves us, but His dying on our behalf (“precious death?!”), which is symbolized by the shedding of His physical blood. If we could be saved by blood w/out death, the animals would have been bled, not killed, and it would have been the same w/Jesus.” (Doesn’t draining the blood out of a body result in death?!) He continues: “If Christ’s own physical blood, in itself does not cleanse us from sin, how much less did the physical blood of animals.” (Because the “physical blood of animals” only pictured “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ!)
👎These wicked religious leaders are all heretics & have “trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace.” But enough of this heresy, let’s just find out what God says about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD…” God says Jesus’ blood is…
I. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS PURITY:
A. It Is Pure Because It Is God’s!
ILLUS.: 🔸Christ’s blood is pure because He never sinned, but it is really pure because it came from God. You say, “Does God have blood?” Not until Jesus was incarnated.
🔸But when He became a man, He had no human father & the blood line comes from the father. His blood was pure & holy because He came, not thru human flesh or human seed, but from the Holy Ghost of God!
Mt.1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
B. It Is Pure Because He Was Sinless:
Heb. 7:26-27 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
1. If I was your priest instead of your preacher, I would have to offer up an atonement for my sins as well as yours.
2. If Jesus is your Priest, He need only offer up a sacrifice for your sins, never for His own!
II. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS RARITY:
A. It Is Rare Because He Was Virgin Born:
Is.7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Jer.31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
1. No one else had sinless blood, because no one else had been virgin born.
2. Rare is defined as “uncommon, unusually excellent, remarkably fine.”
ILLUS.: ✨Something rare is usually highly esteemed & valuable. Gold & diamonds are of great valuable because they are not readily or easily found. Yet there are literally millions of tons of gold in the world & millions of diamonds available. But there is only one virgin-born man in all of human history. That is rare!
✨The virgin birth produced a unique, rare Person with blood unlike any other human being. His blood is supernatural. It did not just “run down into the dust of the earth” at the foot of the cross; it was taken by Christ as High Priest & sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in heaven as an atonement for our sin. It is there right now, for the Scripture declares that “the blood of Jesus Christ His (God’s) Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (He is unique in that He is the only begotten Son of God…we are mere sons of God.) [The NIV uses “one & only Son” destroying the uniqueness of Christ! P.S. The NIV translators have already issued a “gender neutral” version in England & are “testing the waters” now for the U.S.! Those fundamentalists who bought into the NIV are going to be embarrassed!]
III. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS INDISPENSABILITY:
A. It Is Indispensable Because Forgiveness Hinges Upon It:
Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Heb.9:22-23 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
1. Both the Old Covenant (O.T.) & the New Covenant (N.T.) were ratified by shed blood. Heb.9:15-18
ILLUS.: In the N.T. there are 290 references to God’s love, but there are 1300 verses that speak of atonement by the blood!!! It must be important. No, indispensable!
2. It is not just death, but a bloody death which is necessary to accomplish
this. v.18-22
3. It is interesting that everything was sprinkled w/blood: “the book, the people,…the tabernacle & all the vessels…” v.19,21
ILLUS.: Everything man-made (even if “God breathed” or “God designed”) became defiled because it was touched by sinful man. Thus it had to be “purged with blood” (v.22). The blood sprinkled on people or furniture or the Bible or the Tabernacle did not change the nature of that thing, but it changed God’s relationship to it!!!
💥(Note that “the Book” is sprinkled w/blood. Since “the life is in the blood” we have a “Living Bible.” It is a bloody Book. Often its pages are coated w/gold, like the gold overlaid furniture in the Tabernacle, speaking of Deity. It is a Divine Book. Often it is edged in red – a bloody Book. It usually has limp, black covers – speaking of sin & death.) [The new versions “dress up” their books to counterfeit THIS Book!]
IV. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS SUFFICIENCY:
A. It Is Sufficient Because Of Its Uniqueness:
ILLUS.: Nothing else in the Bible comes close as to the attention devoted to the doctrine of the ability of blood to cover or atone for sin. From the Garden of Eden in Genesis to the Wounded Lamb of Revelation, blood oozes from the pages of Script.
1. It is sufficient for salvation: Jesus’ shedding His blood on the cross was not some afterthought w/God; He was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
a. He was the Promised Seed of Genesis, the sacrificial son on Mt. Moriah, the Deliverer, Law Giver & Sacrifice in the books of the Law, the Kinsman-Redeemer of the period of the Judges, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and on through the Scriptures until because of Calvary & the precious blood shed there He sits on the throne as King of Kings in Rev.
b. He is the Subject of prophecy, the Object of preaching, the Fulfillment of the types & symbols of the O.T. & the long awaited Messiah of Israel as well as the Founder & Sustainer of the Church…all because of the
precious blood!
2. It is sufficient for cleansing: How can blood cleanse sin? (How can water quench thirst?!)
3. It is sufficient to war against Satan.
Rev.12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
ILLUS.: After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon stood before a map of Europe on which the nation of England was colored in red. He said: “Were it not for that one red spot, I would have conquered the world.” Satan too has great ambitions to conquer every believer & wars against us, and except for that “one red spot” of Christ’s precious blood, he would be victorious!
CONCL.: Salvation, cleansing & protection all come from “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior! It is not by water. It is not by works. It is not by worship. It is only through “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD”! Morality may keep a man out of jail, but only “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ can keep him out of hell! The blood is sufficient!