Good Friday: "The Life is in The Blood"

I am speaking at Joy Community Church, Clinton Twp MI, this Friday April 2, 2010, at 1pm if you can make it. Here is the message. I Hope you like it.

Good Friday
“The Life is in The Blood”
4-2-10
1 Peter 1:18-19 (King James Version)
ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, 19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Pray
Leviticus 17:11 (King James Version)
11For 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.
Genesis 3:15 15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
 First time we here of talk of a substitutionary death, burial and resurrection
Genesis 3:21 (King James Version)
Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, our sin
21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
 1st Blood Sacrifice
 1st time an animal would be used as the substitutionary sacrifice to cover and atone for man’s sin,
 later on with Abraham’s sacrifice, he believed that God, would provide Himself a lamb
 after Adam sinned, instead of immediate physical death, He experienced immediate spiritual death
No longer covered with the Glory of God, but warm, wet, bloody sacrifice of the creation of God, an animal
 this new covering different from the previous one, made through a horrible and ugly occurrence, an animal was slaughtered before their eyes
 the Lord impressing on this new couple the utter ugliness of sin and the wages it pays: death
 In a similar manner our Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, The Anointed one, provided our payment for the penalty of sin
 We deserved to drink that cup and experience the power of the curse
 But Jesus death was VICARIOUS, totally for another, than Himself
 His substitutionary death was the great exchange for our sinful lives and eternal deaths
 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh
Isaiah 52:14 14 But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
1. God required the shedding of blood for payment of sin
 Heb 9:22 without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins
2. The sinner must be covered with the blood
3. God provides the sacrifice
4. God Himself covers the sinner
 Not only provides the sacrifice, but made covering of skins for Adam and Eve,
 They did not cloth themselves
 When it comes to that robe of righteousness and the garment of salvation, we do not put it on ourselves
 The Father dresses us, He clothes us with righteousness Isa 61:10
 Talking about Jesus, God is the regenerator, He provides and clothes on the basis of the Blood of Christ
5. The innocent dies for the guilty-the just for the unjust
6. God brings judgment upon the sacrifice-the fire always falls on the blood
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrated His love toward us while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us
The life is in the blood!
 Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body, while the white blood cells fight disease
 Picture of Jesus carrying life to His Bride, the Church, while fighting the disease of sin and death
The life is in the Blood!
 At Passover Exodus 12
 The firstborn was commanded to die for the sins of Pharoah and Egypt
 they were to apply the blood on the doorposts and sides and bottom,signifying a cross
 and when the death angel saw the blood he would pass-over that house
The blood to us makes our God a living God
 David wanted to build a temple for God, but God told him no, he had too much blood on his hands, his own labors
The life is in the blood
 Heb 8:6 ratified by better blood
 That blood is holy, pure, innocent, living, rare, precious, and incorruptible blood not subject to moral or spiritual degeneration
 Costly valuable highly esteemed, honorable ,beloved, not redeemed with corruptible things
 We are serving an uncorruptable God with incorruptible blood
 David did not want to offer anything to the Lord that didn’t cost him
 His son Solomon had the privilege of offering sacrifices to God when he had built this incredible temple
 The sacrifices dedicating the temple to God cost over $13 million in todays economy-offering 22,000 oxen, and 120,000 sheep
 The blood from 3 oxen would have filled a bathtub full of blood, and there were 22,000! 7,334 bathtubs full of blood.
 When God sent the fire, the power of God was so strong that the Priests could not even stand to minister!
 And that is the power of God that is resident within 1 drop of the blood of Christ
 Jesus was worth more than all the animal sacrifices that Solomon could produce
Highway to Hell
 And then it happened, the story picks up with Jesus rising from the last supper and inviting the disciples to pray with Him,
 That night would truly be His last meal on Earth, and the night before was that was His last night of sleep
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 Mat 26:41 watch and pray that enter not into temptation, that temptation was going to persevere as all the disciples would soon betray him and run
 Jesus begins to feel the weight of the world on Him and therefore sweating drops of blood because of the amount of stress He is under
 A medical term hemitidrosis, where the capillaries in the brain begin to burst under intense stress and pressure literally breaking through the skin
 From there He is led to Caiaphas the high priest where He is spit on, blindfolded and beaten, by the priests and religious leaders!
 After being handcuffed, beaten, spit on and up all night, He is transferred to Pilate, the governor
 Pilate says I find no fault in Him, who do you want Jesus or barrabas?
 Even Jesus in His weakened state on the way to the cross, saves Barrabas from another painful night in Prison, by taking His place
The Whipping Post
 Pilate delivers Jesus to the whipping post, to be whipped with the cat of nine tails, a whip with 3in pieces of metal and glass sharply arrayed with teeth to literally rip the flesh from the body
 Now Jesus has been up for almost 2 days, sweat drops of blood, beaten, swollen, spit on, and now whipped
 The flesh around His back now blowing like ribbons in a noon day breeze
 After 40 stripes, His bones are exposed and He is delivered to band of soldiers in the common hall
The Common Hall
 Roman Band of soldiers 600 men
 They strip Him of what little He had left on
 The bones of His entire backside exposed, from the shoulders to the ankles are exposes from the whipping post
 Standing naked in front of 600 men, being spit on mocked, punched, kicked,
 They put a scarlet robe on Him, jam the crown of thorns into His head with 3” thorns they have pierced His skull and scraping His brain,
 They mock Him, torture Him, strip Him, beat Him
Via Delorosa
After His torturing He is led into the via delorosa, a 1/3 mile walk to Calvary, the hill of Golgotha, the place of the skull
 Jesus is so weak at this moment, where are the miracles Jesus, where is the power now? He can’t even stand…to hardly bare His own cross.
 He had just about been beaten to death, moments before, so a black man, Simon the Cyrene helps carry Jesus’ cross.
 Angels are crying, God it’s enough, it’s too much, He can’t take this
 But God said that it pleased the Lord to bruise Him Isa 53.
 God was saying just a little while longer, 6 hours to be exact.
The Cross
 At 9am they nailed Jesus to the cross
 12-3pm Darkness covered the entire earth
 While men mocked Him, laughed, even one crucified next to Him mocked and demanded his own way
 But a 3pm Jesus heart began to fail as He began to drown in His own fluids as His heart filled with fluid, all His bones were out of joint from being beaten, whipped and now crucified
He cried with a loud voice my God my God, why have you forsaken me?
 At that moment God turned His head from Jesus, as He became sin for us, every disease, sin, stain of this world was put on Him
 Angels cried, is it enough now God?
 Jesus words echoed in Eternity as He in concert with God cried out with a loud voice, “it is finished” !!!
 At that moment an earthquake hit the world as Jesus descended to hell, sheol hades, preparing His Exodus with the righteous dead, and defeating the daming powers of death and hell
The Veil
 After the earthquake the veil in the temple was ripped in 2 from the top to the bottom, that way no man could say that man did it
 Now Heb 10:19 declares to enter boldly into Holiest by the blood of Jesus with a new and living way, through the veil of His flesh
 The blood gives us cleansing from dead works
 Reason why we don’t enter in is we seek it for ourselves, other than to minister directly to Him
 Before Jesus, we are told enter not, but after the veil was torn we are told to enter in!
Come through the blood
 When Jesus side was pierced, when He ripped the veil ripped
 Ripped not so God could get out, but so we could get in
 Ripped so it couldn’t ever be closed again
 The tabernacle veil kept us out, other than the priest
 But now He has ripped that veil just for you to come in, to enter boldly,
 Now He says to draw near to Him and He will draw near to you.
Enter boldly by the blood of the Christ
 Now we can enter in, not with our own labors, not because our own blood, but because of the efficacious, substitutionary, sacrificial blood of the lamb, of the risen Christ!




He died and rose again on the 3rd day burst forth from the tomb,
 God gave Jesus an exit sign written in red, called the blood
 Jesus burst from the tomb, death couldn’t hold Him down
 Put 1 foot on the crumbling empire of death and hell, and the other on devils
 He declared to be the son of God with power, by saying all power is given unto me in Heaven and Earth
 Lifted up His hands to the Father and said, I am alpha and omega
 Beginning and the ending
 What you call the end is just the beginning.
Revelation 1:5
Jesus Christ loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Conclusion
All I can say is thank you, I am not worthy, but God demonstrated His love toward us while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He calls us to remember His death till He comes again, and before He returns, we need salvation.
That veil was ripped for you. Time to come in.
Look for Salvation/Repentance-
Prepare for Communion-
Read Isa 53:1-12