Whether or not you sang those words as a child in Sunday school, the truth remains the same: the power of the gospel is found in Jesus’ blood. In this message, Dr. Stanley explains the effects of sin in our lives and how Jesus’ blood redeems, justifies, and sanctifies us. Discover forgiveness and freedom at the foot of the cross.

the blood of Jesus Christ is the only

thing in existence that could ever take

care of our sin he redeemed us he bought

us back from the life of sin

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four decades ago we started in touch

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InTouch the message of the blood of

Jesus

the subject of this sermon we sing about

we don’t talk much about it and I’m not

too sure we believe all that we ought to

believe about it but it’s important that

you listen very carefully because it

affects every single one of us and you

may be one of those persons who’s never

heard it before you need to listen to it

carefully because it’ll affect the way

you live and the way you die and so when

I think about it being that serious I

think about to think that some people

shun the whole idea and they’re not just

electing it but there are those

denominations that cut these pages out

of their hem books because they’ve

decided that it’s not important that it

offends people so that all kinds of

ideas and attitudes about it but the

truth is without it you not wouldn’t be

here today so what’s the subject the

subject is the blood of Jesus Christ

and more than likely many of you who may

be listening or watching you’ve never

heard a sermon on it you’ve thought

about it you’ve wondered about it maybe

you’ve even mentioned it in your prayers

but you haven’t fully understood what

it’s all about so I’m to ask you to

listen very carefully

your whole eternal future may depend

upon it so I want to talk about that

blood of Jesus how it applies to every

single one of us so I want you to turn

if you will to the first Peter chapter

one and I want us to begin reading just

a few of the verses here beginning in

verse 17 of first Peter chapter 1 if you

address his father the one who

impartially judges according to each

one’s work conduct yourselves in fear

during the time of your stay here on

earth knowing that you were not redeemed

with perishable things like silver ago

from the Aikido way of life inherited

from your forefathers but with precious

blood as of a lamb unblemished and

spotless the blood of Christ for he was

foreknown before the foundation of the

world but as appeared in these last

times for the sake of you who through

him are believers in God who raised him

from the dead and gave him glory so that

your faith and your hope are in God now

when’s the last time you heard a message

on the blood of Jesus well it’s been a

while since I preached one and more than

likely it’s been a while since you’ve

heard one and the more I’ve thought

about it and the more the Lord began to

speak to my heart to remind me this is

the heart of the gospel that all the

things we can say about other subjects

and all that relates to it this is the

very heart of the truth of what you now

believe and it’s the message they need

to get you to heaven or you’ll lose it

miss it so I want you to listen very

carefully because I just really want to

say two things about it and the first

one is the seriousness of sin when you

sin against God especially if you keep

on sinning against God especially if you

keep on doing the same thing over and

over and over again you set yourself up

for divine chastisement and if you’ve

never trusted Christ as your Savior

you’re going to be rejected one of these

days when you stand before the judgment

sin is serious business with God because

it has eternal consequences and it

doesn’t make any difference who you are

it doesn’t make them astray you’re from

what’s your vocation how much wealth you

have you name it there is nothing that

matters sin is disobedience to a holy

God and he warns us from the beginning

of the Bible to the end that God hates

sin because of what it does

to his children to his creation and you

and I’ve read the Bible enough to know

that all through order of God sin is sin

as a destroyer a divider you name it all

the qualities that we mentioned that’s

what sin is so in light of that you say

well what’s the nature of sin and I want

you to think about this is the true

nature of sin we said it’s serious

but how serious is it so the true nature

of sin first of all it deceives it’s or

to deceive you because you and keep

doing what you’re doing if sin didn’t

deceive you that is your okay it’s all

right you gotta look you got understands

and so you just keep disobeying God and

being deceived into thinking that you

are an exception to the laws of God to

the consequences of sin you are deceived

secondly it disappoints sin always makes

big-time offers if you’ll do this you’ll

feel fantastic if you’ll do this he or

she will do this and so and so when you

think about the disappointments all of

us have had in life about different

things but sin is a disappointment

because it makes awesome promises it

cannot produce it may be temporarily

satisfying but that’s what sin if sin

had no satisfaction whatsoever

you wouldn’t be sinning it has temporary

satisfaction but it’s a deceiver and a

disappoint it is destructive all you do

you need to do is to look around and

realize how destructive sin is it takes

many many pathways but ultimately it’ll

destroy you

it destroys families it destroys

marriages it destroys jobs

it destroys future destroys the children

you name it sin is destructive by its

nature and then think about it

ultimately sin brings death

now what do I hesitate about that

because I want to say that sin

oftentimes brings death over a period of

time sometimes it’s instant

but the worst thing is that it’s eternal

and its effect

the Bible says the soul that sinneth it

shall die the wages of sin is death and

so if I had to stop right there this

would be a terrible life but thank God

we don’t have to stop there so let’s

think about this

what is the saving power that brings

about forgiveness of sin

it’s the saving power of the blood of

Jesus Christ and I want you to think

about this go back if you will to the

3rd chapter of Genesis all the way back

to the beginning and when you do here’s

what you’ll discover you’ll discover in

this perfect Garden of Eden that Adam

and Eve had everything going their way

but that had a choice God gave them a

choice and so they sinned against God

and the scripture says in the verse 20

of chapter 3 now the man called his

wife’s name Eve because she was the

mother of all living

they’d sent against God the Lord God

made garments of skin for Adam and his

wife and clothed them

he killed a lamb shed blood and covered

them the Bible says in that birth with

skins so in the very beginning of the

Bible with the first sin God shed blood

in their behalf God began in the very

beginning to say if you’re going to be

saved the blood has to be shed there is

a cost the sin the price of sin is blood

it the price of sin is the blood of

Jesus but all the way back in those days

people they knew anything about what you

and I know about

the issue was forgiveness required death

in the shedding of blood so when you

come to Jesus after he came into the

world and he’s talking about sin and you

remember what he said about he began to

talk about the blood to his disciples

and then that might of the Lord’s Supper

what’s the Lord’s Supper all about it’s

all about the blood of the Lord Jesus

Christ bringing about salvation to

reminded to us of what happened then

with that in mind I want to give you

four words there four words I want to

give you which really describe this

whole redemptive plan of God they all

have to do with the blood of Jesus

they’re all a part of that but you could

just wrap up the whole message of

salvation in four words and the first

one is redemption the one we just read

about a few moments ago Redemption and

when you think about that word and you

think about what it says listen to what

he says verse 18 of that first chapter

first Peter knowing that you were not

redeemed that is you weren’t saved with

perishable things like silver and gold

isn’t interesting that God took the most

precious things of valuable things and

say look your most valuable commodities

will do you one bit of good he said

knowing that you were not redeemed with

perishable things like silver or gold

from your futile empty way of life

inherited from your forefathers but with

precious God said it was precious blood

as of a lamb unblemished and spotless

the blood of Christ

so first word is redemption and

redemption means you you redeem

something you you pay and you get at

night the blood of Jesus Christ is the

only thing in existence that could ever

take care of our sin he redeemed us he

bought us back from a life of sin

then the second word is reconciliation

and I want you to turn to Colossians

chapter 1 if you for a moment

reconciliation chapter 1 beginning in

verse 19 listen to what he says for it

was the father’s good pleasure for all

the fullness to dwell in him that watch

this and through him to reconcile all

things to himself having made peace

through the blood of his cross through

him I say

whether things on earth or things in

heaven and although you were formerly

alienated separated from God and hostile

and mine engaged in evil deeds yet he

has now reconciled you in his fleshly

body through death in order to present

you before him holy and blameless and

the yahn reproach sin has separated

every single one of us from God and

those of us who have saved have been

reconciled we trusted the Lord Jesus

Christ as our Savior his work at Calvary

we’ve been reconciled so there is

redemption there is reconciliation

reconciliation brings people together

reconciliation base husbands and wives

the yellow have been separated they’re

divorced and reconciliation brings

sinners to oneness in their relationship

to Jesus Christ Union reunion and

harmony then there’s a word

justification if you’ll turn to Romans

chapter 5 for a moment justification and

look if you will in that now that’s

beginning tonight let’s begin in the

eighth verse but God demonstrates his

own love toward us in that while we were

yet sinners Christ died for us so when

he talks about God’s love for us what

does he do he goes straight

– the reason the ultimate reason and the

price for God’s love for us he says God

demonstrates his love toward us in that

while we were yet sinners Christ died

for us

much more then having now been justified

by his blood we shall be saved from the

wrath of God through him now

we say something is justified it’s

declared no longer guilty that is when

God justifies us he declares us no

longer guilty be civil with us God just

say you’re not guilty you’re not guilty

you’re not yet – no it’s the blood of

Christ that makes it possible so that if

a person rejects Jesus they reject the

only person who can take care of their

sin because he’s the one who brought

justification as a reality it’s the

shedding of the blood of the Lord Jesus

Christ so he says we were redeemed

reconciled and justified and it’s not

what we do but it’s what he did for us

then there’s one of the word that’s the

word sanctified sanctification look if

you will in Hebrews chapter 13 for a

moment and I want you to notice just one

verse here Jesus the scripture says in

verse 12 therefore Jesus also that he

might sanctify the people through his

own blood suffered outside the gate that

a sanctified something is to set it

apart and so here’s what he’s saying

he’s saying he has right has redeemed us

he’s reconciled us he has justified us

and now he has sanctified us those four

words cover the Christian life and every

aspect of our life what is God doing

he’s doing something to deal with sin in

our life

let’s deal with sanctification for just

a moment sanctification is an act just

like redemption is but sanctification is

a process that goes on and on for

example somebody says well if I’ve

sinned after I’ve been saved everybody

has and God knew that every one of us

would because we’re in this flesh and we

come into this world with a bent away

from God and then we’re saved that

doesn’t mean that we’ll never sin again

but it means that God has atoned for us

then and we’re saved with his children

that name is written in the Lamb’s Book

of Life we are forever his but then

suppose we sin again all of us have

sinned in some way since we’ve been

saved so sanctification is not only

something that happens once watch this

now we are redeemed once we’re

reconciled once we’re justified once

sanctification happens not only once but

on and on it goes for example if you

turn to 1st John a passage that you know

no doubt pretty well because we’ve all

called upon God in this and I want the

job well many verses but let’s just

let’s just start with verse 7 of chapter

1 but if we walk in the light as he

himself is in the light we have

fellowship with one another listeners

and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses

us from all sin

and we talk about believers so I’ll

watch this as a believer we walk in the

light we have a believer he himself is

in the light we have fellowship one

another and the blood of Jesus his son

present and is continually cleansing us

from all sin if we say that we have no

sin we are deceiving ourselves and the

truth is not in us if we confess our

sins that means if we agree with God

about it that we’ve sinned against him

he is faithful and righteous that is he

absolutely will forgive us of our sins

and cleanse us from all unrighteousness

so that

God redeems us once and for all and he

reconciles us once and for all and he

justifies us once and for all

and we look at the scripture and his

sanctification is once an a continuing

process knowing that we weren’t going to

be perfect and couldn’t be because we

still have that’s something within us

and some people call it us and that you

whatever you want to call it we will

still have that we need his continuing

cleansing is continuing sanctifying so

therefore we can say if we confess our

sins he’s faithful and just to forgive

us of our sins and to cleanse us from

all unrighteousness watch this people

take that verse they know it so well and

so they look at the end of the day and

say well I’m sure I’ve sinned or they

can name several things but Lord you

said if I confess my sin them that

you’re faithful and just forgive us of

our sins cleanse from all watches you

knew it by heart so well and then you

just hop in the vents I’m forgiven if

you don’t take sin seriously recognizing

that every time you and I have sinned

against God and we’ve come to God and

ask for forgiveness we’re asking for

forgiveness and receiving forgiveness on

the basis that Jesus died at the cross

and shed his blood which was the once

and for all sacrifice for all sin of all

time for all people everywhere sin is a

serious business and it’s so serious it

cost God His only begotten Son so the

cross isn’t all about bullshitting of

some blood and we celebrate needs to

know it’s about it’s about holy God

looking at all of humanity and knowing

that every single one of us would sin

against him and we would all be

separated eternally from me unless he

did something about it which he started

in the Garden of Eden with the first

couple atoning for their sin by shedding

blood and he’s been doing it ever since

all through the Old Testament all for

the New Testament and you and I don’t

have to look forward to something it’s

going to happen we can look back to

across everybody from the Garden of Eden

till Jesus was crucified was looking

forward everybody from the cross on

we’re looking back and we’re looking

back at the cross of Jesus Christ

it isn’t watches it isn’t something we

just deal with it Easter it’s something

we deal with daily Jesus died and

suffered on the cross in order that you

and I could have a relationship with God

even in our weakness in their frailty

we’d be forgiven because God’s love has

no end it’s ever flowing in our behalf

in our direction and so when you say

well I want to get right with God within

you have to end up at the cross there’s

no other place you sell I don’t believe

in that cross and all that blood then

you’ll never be saving you that without

Christ and be lost forever

that’s the making difference who you are

you say but God understands just what

God understands that from the beginning

of time when sin entered humanity in

this present moment only one thing

atones takes care brings about

forgiveness of our sin the blood of one

man the person Jesus Christ’s shedding

his blood atone for the sin of the

entire world now somebody says well

what’s another choice there is no other

choice from beginning to end this book

talks about his coming this book talks

about what happened and his and the book

talks about what’s gonna happen again

he’s coming again and the question I

would have for you is this is

everybody’s time in your life when you

got serious about your sin you’ve been

joking about it playing around the baton

fouling up your life

messing up other people’s lives have you

ever come to grips with your sinful

lifestyle and tell God that you’re a

sinner you desperately need him in your

life and you’re asking

to forgive you on the basis that his son

died and paid your sin debt in full and

you’re asking him to forgive you of your

sin and surrendering your life to Him

has it ever happened or has it not well

if it’s never happened the last thing

you want to do is to die until you’re

willing to confess your sinfulness and

recognize listen

forgiveness isn’t cheap forgiveness cost

God His only begotten Son the shedding

of his blood as the own is the only

atonement for sin and so I would ask you

today are you willing to ask him to

forgive you of your sin not because

you’re gonna be better but because Jesus

died for you because after you trust him

as your Savior he sends the Holy Spirit

the third person of the Trinity into

your life to enable you to live above

sin enabled you to be righteous and

godly he reminds you that he’s willing

to forgive you of your sin God didn’t

just save us and leave us he indwells us

with the Holy Spirit to enable us to

live out the life of a godly person it

has the gospel one sermon if you died

today you will have heard the truth it’s

all about the blood of Jesus it’s all

about forgiveness it’s all about

cleansing it’s all about God’s awesome

restoration of our life writing our name

in the Lamb’s Book of Life and being his

child forever there is only one thing

through one person at one time in all of

history they can get you to heaven and

that is the sacrificial substitutionary

death of Jesus Christ the Son of God who

died in your behalf so you would not

have to die in your sin that is the

gospel

and so if you’re one of those persons

who’s here or somebody who’s listening

or watching this is your opportunity

let’s pray together father I pray for

somebody here who is unsaved don’t know

anything about a Redemption a

reconciliation or any of these terms

that we’ve used

they just know their sin in their life

and they’re separated from you I pray

right now in Jesus name they would ask

you to forgive them of their sin

surrender their life to you and let it

be the beginning of a brand new life and

you said you would see ellas as your

children and so I pray that there would

be confession and the surrender of that

life to Christ and today they’d make it

known to someone that their life was

changed on this Sunday morning when they

trusted Jesus Christ as their personal

Savior and then Lord for all the rest of

us that we would not forget this message

and Lord we get serious about living

godly lives and we pray this in Jesus

name Amen

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