THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST: NO MORE EXCUSE FOR SIN (2)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Blood of Jesus Christ
a) For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14)
2. No More Excuse for Sin
a) In Paul’s time and our time many who had received salvation willingly choose to not walk in the freedom provided by the blood of Jesus. Communion is a time of remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made so that we could become one with Him. Receiving communion while still holding onto sin in your life will bring God’s judgment. Notice that the judgment here is chastisement, which is designed to bring you back into right relationship with the Lord, before you suffer total condemnation with the world. God’s judgment upon His people is to restore, not to destroy. God desires that we repent and turn from our wicked ways in word and deed.
b) Paul tells us to examine ourselves before we partake of the bread and drink of communion.
c) Examining yourself is judging yourself so that the Lord will not have to judge you. If you ask the Lord, as David did, to search your heart and reveal any wicked way in you, He will.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalms 139:23-24)
d) When the Lord reveals sin in your life apply the blood to it. Ask Jesus to cover the sin by His blood. If the sin is against another person then also make it right with that person also. If the sin is not obeying something that the Lord told you to do, then do it. Whatever it takes make sure that your heart is right before God do it.
e) Does that mean that we should avoid communion. No, that will not help you avoid the chastisement of the Lord. Anyone who has ever been a believer in Christ and accepted the sacrifice that He made on the cross has been purchased by His blood; the blood has already been applied. You have been purchased for a price and that price is the price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross when His blood was shed for you.
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
f) Chastisement from the Lord is for our benefit. Chastisement is Jesus knocking at the door of our heart in a way that is loud enough to get our attention.
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:19-21)
g) Jesus will come into a heart that is open toward Him. When He comes in He then eats with the person. That is, He receives satisfaction from us and we receive satisfaction from Him. We give Him our life and He gives us His life. We become One with Him as He is One with His Father. When Jesus sits down on His Father’s throne He does not just sit beside Him, He sits inside of Him. For those who overcome we sit inside of Jesus on His throne. He desires the most intimate relationship with us that is possible, that we become One with Him, us in Him and He in us.
This is Jesus prayer for you. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.” (John 17:20-21)
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21)
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1. The Blood of Jesus Christ a) For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14)
2. No More Excuse for Sin
a) In Paul’s time and our time many who had received salvation willingly choose to not walk in the freedom provided by the blood of Jesus. Communion is a time of remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made so that we could become one with Him. Receiving communion while still holding onto sin in your life will bring God’s judgment. Notice that the judgment here is chastisement, which is designed to bring you back into right relationship with the Lord, before you suffer total condemnation with the world. God’s judgment upon His people is to restore, not to destroy. God desires that we repent and turn from our wicked ways in word and deed.
b) Paul tells us to examine ourselves before we partake of the bread and drink of communion.
c) Examining yourself is judging yourself so that the Lord will not have to judge you. If you ask the Lord, as David did, to search your heart and reveal any wicked way in you, He will.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalms 139:23-24)
d) When the Lord reveals sin in your life apply the blood to it. Ask Jesus to cover the sin by His blood. If the sin is against another person then also make it right with that person also. If the sin is not obeying something that the Lord told you to do, then do it. Whatever it takes make sure that your heart is right before God do it.
e) Does that mean that we should avoid communion. No, that will not help you avoid the chastisement of the Lord. Anyone who has ever been a believer in Christ and accepted the sacrifice that He made on the cross has been purchased by His blood; the blood has already been applied. You have been purchased for a price and that price is the price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross when His blood was shed for you.
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
f) Chastisement from the Lord is for our benefit. Chastisement is Jesus knocking at the door of our heart in a way that is loud enough to get our attention.
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:19-21)
g) Jesus will come into a heart that is open toward Him. When He comes in He then eats with the person. That is, He receives satisfaction from us and we receive satisfaction from Him. We give Him our life and He gives us His life. We become One with Him as He is One with His Father. When Jesus sits down on His Father’s throne He does not just sit beside Him, He sits inside of Him. For those who overcome we sit inside of Jesus on His throne. He desires the most intimate relationship with us that is possible, that we become One with Him, us in Him and He in us.
This is Jesus prayer for you. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.” (John 17:20-21)
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21)
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