SUFFICIENT II

 

What Jesus’ Blood Did for Us

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from you aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

 

EX. OVERACHIEVER

 

I.               THE UNIQUENESS OF BLOOD 

 

1.     Life is in the Blood

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 atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

 

a.     Carries oxygen and nutrients to every cell  

b.     Removes carbon dioxide and waste from cells,

c.     Regulates bodies pH balance

d.     Regulates body temperature

e.     Contains messages (ex. Doctors determining what’s wrong from your blood)

f.      Blood is 8% of your body weight

g.     Adults have 5.8 quarts of blood

h.     Circulatory system circulates 2000+ gallons of blood per day

i.      Blood cannot be replaced or synthetically made

j.      Blood in our veins is Whole Blood in plasma

k.     55% of the Whole Blood is Plasma

l.      Plasma is 90% water with 10% hormones, glucose, clotting factors, electrolytes and oxygen.

m.   RBC’S make up 45% of your total blood volume. They carry oxygen and carbon dioxide from lungs to cells and from cells to lungs

n.     WBC’S and Platelets 1% of blood. They protect against viruses, bacteria and toxins

 

2.     Blood has a perpetual voice

Gen 4:9-10

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother? He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”¹⁰ And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Hebrews 12:24

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

 

3.     The Earth records blood shed

Genesis 4:11

So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

 

II.              SIN ALWAYS REQUIRES BLOOD

 

1.     Garden of Eden; Gen 3:21

2.     Abel’s Offering; Gen 4:2-5

3.     Noah’s Reconstruction; Gen 8:20-21

4.     Abraham on Moriah; Gen 22:13

5.     Exodus in Egypt Passover

6.     Tabernacle and temple blood from morning till evening; Exodus 22:29-30

 

WHAT DID IMPERFECT BLOOD DO?

 

1.     Burnt Offering

·      Spotless Animal

·      Laid hands on animal

·      Animal killed and offered as a whole burnt offering

 

2.     Temporary covering for sin

a.     Animal had to be spotless

b.     The person offering had to identify with the animal

c.     The person had to be involved with killing the animal

d.     This provided a temporary covering for sin

It did not purge the conscience

 

3.     Sin Offering

·      High Priest

·      Once per year

·      2 male goats for a sin offering

·      Ram for a burnt offering

 

4.     Forgiveness and removal of Sin

a.     Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16)

b.     One goat sacrificed for a sin offering for the people of Israel (Lev. 16:15)

c.     Second goat released into the wilderness (Lev 16:20-22)

d.     Sin offering provided forgiveness

e.     Other goat provided removal of sin

 

III.            JESUS THE PERFECT LAMB

 

John 1:29

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world

 

Hebrews 9:26-28

but now, once at the end of the ages, He (Jesus) has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself… so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many

 

IV.            WHAT DID JESUS DO WITH HIS BLOOD?

 

1.     Entered into the Holy Place. 

Heb 9:12

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

 

                      Redemption – lytrosis – set free, liberate, deliver, ransom, release

 

2.     Became Mediator of the New Covenant. 

Heb 12:24

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel

 

3.     Reconciliation

To change. It deals with relationship. We are restores or changed back to right relationship with God.

Col 1:20

and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

·      Brings you into peaceful relationship with God

·      Gives free access to God and all of is resources

·      We are united with Jesus in His Death and risen in His resurrection 

·      We are a new creation and all has become new

·      Saved from penalty of sin (death) and the power of sin (enslavement)

 

4.     Justified us 

Rom 3:24-25

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.

 

Rom 5:9

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him

 

Justification is the free and underserved act where God forgives all our sins, declares us free from any guilt and accepts us as righteous in his sight

 

Record expunged

Jesus became our substitute and paid the price for us

 

On the cross God treated Jesus as if He lived your life so He can treat you as if you lived His life

 

“When God looks at the cross He sees you and when he looks at you he sees Jesus”

 

·      Justification means peace with God

·      Justified from everything law of Moses couldn’t do

·      Sets us free from Condemnation

·      No one can bring any charge against us

·      We are saved from God’s Wrath

·      We shall reign in life through Jesus Christ

 

5.     He Bought us

1 Cor 6:20

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

 

Agorazo – 

(agora) – to buy in a market

Agorazo – To buy in a slave market (We were slaves sold under sin Rom 6:23; Rom 7:14)

Exagorazo – to buy out of the market by purchasing and removing from sale.

 

Gal 3:13

Christ has redeemed (exagorazo) us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

 

6.     Brought us near 

Eph 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

 

            WHAT

 

The Blood is our only Plea

Rev 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

 

 

TRUST

 Psalm 139:1-18

O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

²     You know my sitting down and my rising up;

You understand my thought afar off.

³     You comprehend my path and my lying down,

And are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴     For there is not a word on my tongue,

But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.

⁵     You have hedged me behind and before,

And laid Your hand upon me.

⁶     Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain it.

⁷     Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

⁸     If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

⁹     If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰   Even there Your hand shall lead me,

And Your right hand shall hold me.

¹¹   If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”

Even the night shall be light about me;

¹²   Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,

But the night shines as the day;

The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

¹³   For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴   I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

¹⁵   My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶   Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me,

When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷   How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸   If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.

 

 

I.               JESUS ASKS US TO FOLLOW HIM

 

Matthew 4:18-19

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. ¹⁹ And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

 

Matthew 8:19-22

¹⁹ And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow you wherever you go. ²⁰ And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. ²¹ And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. ²² But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

 

Matthew 16:24-26

²⁴ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. ²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

 

II.             FOLLOWING IS AN ASPECT OF TRUST

 

Ex. Illustration of various paths

 

Ex. My Example – College

 

Ex. Severe Test before promotion   -  Jesus on Mount Matthew 4:1-

 

Ex. King David same test

            Acts 13:22

²² And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

 

a.     Tested and found faithful in small things

b.     Tested with early success

c.     Tested with hardship and difficulty

d.     Tested 1/12^th of his promise

e.     Zion – full release of His promise

 

1. Can’t please Him without it

Heb 11:6

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 

 

2. We must live by it  

Rom 1:17

3. Our Eternal Salvation Depends on it
4. Our quality of life depends on it.

Mark 11:22-24

²² And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. ²³ For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. ²⁴ Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 

 

5. Fulfilling our Destiny Depends on it

Numbers 13:32 – 14:14

 

ALL WHO MESSED UP BIBLICALLY IT WAS BECAUSE A LAPSE OF TRUST

 

1. Adam and Eve eating fruit. Gen 3:6

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ⁵ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make onewise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

 

2. Abraham with Hagar

Genesis 16:1-4

Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. ² And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. ³ And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. ⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

 

3. Israel rejecting the promised land

 

4. Israel in choosing a King.

 

1 Samuel 8:4-9

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, ⁵ And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. ⁶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. ⁷ And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. ⁸ According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. ⁹ Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

 

 

HOW

 

1.     Learn how intimately Acquainted with us He is

 

Searched me – Searched me out

 

Known me – Come to full intimate conclusions about me

 

You – Emphatic in Hebrew

 

Downsitting and Uprising -  Actions

 

Thoughts – Motivations

 

Thoughts - Long before forming and while in the developmental stage of forming

 

Compassest – sifted

 

Hand upon me – To uphold me and restrain me

 

Afar -  refers to time not to space

            

Covered in Mothers Womb -  woven, knitted

 

Path and Lying Down - Daily Activities –

 

Word in my tongue – (Millah) What I am about to say

 

Altogether (completely)

 

Thine eyes did see my substance - Embryo

 

2.     How much He likes us

 

All Gods dealings with us are voluntary