? The way is all that I can do
? Please be seated. Good morning, brothers and sisters.
For our call to worship today, if you'd turn with me Revelation
chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God
shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, Neither shall there
be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, these
words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto
him that is a thirst to the fountain of the water of the life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his
God, and he shall be my son. Our most heavenly Father, we
thank you again this day for raising the candlestick here,
for allowing it to remain. Lord, we'd be so bold to ask
that it remain here many more years to come. We thank you for
Your promises, Lord, which we know are all yea and amen. You've
promised what two or three are gathered in your name that you're
here among us. Lord, cause your word to go forth. Allow us to see through a glass
darkly, if it be your will. Be with our brother as he brings
the next message. Open our hearts to receive it.
There's many among us, Lord, who suffer daily, who struggle,
You know our needs, Lord. You know that we're a needy people,
but you have given us all things through him who is all holy and
all perfect. We thank you for all these things,
our most holy and perfect name. Amen. Let's stand together and we'll
sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Hymn on the
back of the bulletin. ? And peace like a river, God hath
led my way ? ? When sorrows like sea billows roll ? ? Whatever
my lot, Thou hast taught me to say ? It is well, it is well
with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. Though Satan should buffet, though
trials should come, let this blessed assurance come true. that Christ hath regarded my
helpless estate, and hath shed his own blood for my soul. It is well with my soul It is well, it is well with my
soul. My sin, O the bliss of this glorious
thought. My sin, not in part, but the
whole. is nailed to the cross, and I
bear it no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
O my soul. It is well. It is well. it is well, it is well with my
soul. For me, be it Christ, be it Christ
hence to live. If Jordan above me shall ? No
pain shall be mine ? For in death as in life ? Thou wilt whisper
thy peace to my soul ? It is well with my soul ? It is well, it is well with my
soul ? The Lord is for thee ? For thy coming we wait ? Thus high
not to pray is our goal O trump of the angel, O voice of the
Lord, Blessed hope, blessed rest of
my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it
is well with my soul. And, Lord, haste the day when
the faith shall be sight. The clouds be molled back like
a scroll. The trump shall resound, and
the Lord shall descend. Even so, it is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul, with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. Please be seated. When the Lord speaks those precious
truths to the heart that we just sang about, then it's well. It's well. All is well. Let's open our Bibles together
to 1 Samuel chapter 14. I've titled this message, The
Blood is for God. The blood is for God. In 1 Samuel chapter 14, if you
remember from last Sunday, Jonathan, a picture of Christ, attacked
a garrison of Philistines and slew 20 men. And remember that? Those rocks
he went up between and what a glorious picture of Christ going up to
Mount Calvary and slaying the enemy of sin and defeating death
and destroying the works of the devil, which is death. And now God sends a spirit of
confusion among the rest of the Philistines. I remind you that
the Philistine army is made up of 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen. And the scripture says that the
number of footmen are as the sand of the seashore. In contrast
to that, we have the army of Israel hiding out in rocks of
600 men. impossible odds. And it is a picture of where
you and I are in terms of our spiritual enemy. We have an enemy that's stronger
than we are. We have one that cannot be defeated apart
from a miracle. God's going to send a miracle.
And the enemy, the scripture says, turns on themselves. There's
confusion and chaos among the camp of the Philistines so that
the Philistines start killing one another. A miracle of grace
that God sends in order to deliver the children of Israel. What a blessed thing it is when
God shows us that truth, reveals to us that we stand against an
enemy that's greater than we are. You know, the scripture
says in 1 Corinthians 1 that the world considers the preaching
of the gospel foolishness. And the reason they consider
it foolishness is because they don't see a need for it. They
don't see a need for it. They're not amazed that God would
love them because they think that God's obligated to love
everybody. They would never say with John, oh, what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us of all people that we
should be called the sons of God. They're not amazed by that. Why, if God's obligated to love
everybody. We're amazed. And he doesn't
love us just because he pities us. He loves us even as he loves
his own son with a perfect holy love. And he demonstrated that love
in the sacrifice that he made of his son on Calvary's cross. What an amazing thing it is. The world considers the preaching
of the gospel foolishness because though they may see that they're
not perfect, you wouldn't, you know, how many times you heard
somebody say, well, I know I'm not perfect, but God wouldn't send somebody
like me to hell, would he? Yeah, he would. Yeah, he would. And what a blessing it is. What
a grace it is. to see that you're not deserving
of God's love, that it's a gift and that you are worthy of hell
and that if God doesn't do something to save you, you won't be saved. Now that's the picture here.
We have an enemy that's greater than we are and we need a miracle
from God in order to be delivered from certain destruction. The Lord delivers those who have
no place else to go. They cannot save themselves. The disciples said to the Lord
when he invited them to leave, I think it's interesting that
the invitation is leave if you can. It's not what religion says,
you know, inviting men to come to Christ. God doesn't invite
us to come to Christ. If we come to Christ, he made
us to come to Christ. But he invites us to leave. Leave
if you can. And what did Peter say? Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou alone hast the words of
eternal life. We know and are sure that thou
art the Christ, the son of the living God. Lord, you've shut
us up to yourself. We've got no place else to go.
We need a savior. What a blessing it is. What a
blessing it is. Saul in this story is a picture
of the flesh. As this battle turns out, the
victory was not complete because Saul put his hand to it. And the Lord makes it clear that
had Saul not gotten involved in it, it would have been a much
more glorious victory than it turned out to be. And what a
picture I see in this of our own flesh and of men of flesh
who don't have the victory over their enemy. You have your Bibles open to
1 Samuel chapter 14. Look with me at verse 19. And it came to pass while Saul
talked unto the priest that the noise that was in the host of
the Philistines went on and increased. And Saul said unto the priest,
withdraw thy hand. Saul said to the priest, we don't
need to consult God on this. We've got this. We need to strike
while the iron's hot. We don't need you to make a sacrifice.
We don't need to ask God for any help. We can handle this. Isn't that the spirit of the
flesh? Our circumstances become such
that we think, I got this. We're like Peter, when Peter
said, Lord, they might deny you, but not me, not me. The Lord said, Peter, before
the cock crows three times, you're gonna deny me. But I've prayed
for you that your faith fail not. Oh, here's the two natures. Peter had to be humbled. Peter
had to be made to see that he did need a sacrifice, that he
did need God, that he wasn't capable in the power of his flesh
to do what he thought he could do. And God let him fall on his
face. How many times has that happened
in our lives? Where we thought, I've got this. Things are going well. I can handle this and the Lord
allows us. It's kind of like Moses. You
remember when Moses at the age of 40, now Moses is the son of
Pharaoh, the most powerful man on the earth. And I can see him
dressed in all of his official garb going out among the children
of Israel who are now slaves. And he sees an Egyptian abusing
a slave and he kills that Egyptian in order to defend the slave.
What is that a picture of? It's a picture of Moses trying
to deliver God's people in the strength of his flesh. And Moses ends up having to leave
Egypt, doesn't he? And the scripture tells us that
for 40 years, Moses spends the next 40 years, from 40 to 80
years old, on the backside of the desert taking care of sheep.
Until now, God speaks to him from a burning bush, another
picture of Christ. The bush was aflame but not consumed. God speaks to him to take off
thy shoes from off thy feet for thou stand on holy ground. And
God declares to Moses that he's gonna send him back now in the
power of the Spirit of God to deliver the children of Israel.
And Moses' attitude now is completely different than it was 40 years
ago, isn't it? Lord, I can't speak, who am I? How are you
gonna? How many times we've had this
experience, haven't we? try to take matters into our
own hands, try to fix things in the strength of our own wisdom
and our own flesh. And like Saul, we say, withdraw
thy hand from the sacrifice. We don't need a sacrifice. We see the confusion of the enemy.
We see the opportunity. We're gonna take advantage of
it. What a blessing it is that we
have a God who will not allow his people to remain in that
state of unbelief. He will send, like he did to
Moses and like he did to Paul, or to Peter, I'm sorry, afflictions
in order to expose our weaknesses, in order to cause us to see our
need for a blood sacrifice. And these afflictions are a blessing.
They're good. To be put in a place where we've
got nothing but Christ, to need nothing but Christ, is
the only time in our lives where we have everything. Everything
is to be found in Him. Turn with me to Psalm 119. Psalm
119. We can act just like an unbeliever
when it comes to the false hopes and confidence that we have and
the power of our flesh, but the Lord won't leave us there. The
old man, Esau, Our sin nature will serve the new man, Jacob,
our new man in Christ. And the very sin that we commit,
thinking that we can do this, is the thing that God uses to
humble us and to bring us back to depend upon Christ for everything.
Psalm 119, look at verse, Look at verse 66. Well, verse 65, thou hast dealt
well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. Teach
me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted, I went
astray, but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good, and doest
good, and teach me thy statutes. The proud have forged a lie against
me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. Their heart
is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law." Now, let me remind
you, law and precepts and commandments and word are all references to
the gospel. It's God's word. And the essence
of God's word is the gospel. And this is the word of God,
which by the gospel is preached unto you. The whole substance
and sum of the scriptures is Christ. And so what David's saying
here is, Lord, I had become confident in my flesh, and I had suggested
that I didn't need a sacrifice, and you allowed me to suffer
the afflictions of my own pride and my own self-righteousness.
And it's good for me that that's happened, because in that affliction,
you have caused me to see my need for Christ. It is good for me that I've been
afflicted. You see that in verse 71? That
I might learn my need for Christ and his sacrifice. The law of thy mouth, Christ,
is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Thy hands have made me and fashioned
me. Give me understanding that I
might learn thy commandments, that I might learn Christ. They
that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped
in Christ. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments
are right and that thou in faithfulness hath afflicted me. Let, I pray
thee, I merciful kindness be for my comfort according to thy
word. unto thy servant. Let thy tender
mercies come unto me, that I may live. For thy law, Christ, is
my delight." Oh, here's what's happening. The children of Israel
had an army against them that they could not stand up to. They
were hiding out in rocks and caves. Literally shaking in their
boots, the Philistines were least concerned about the 600 men of
Saul. God sent a miracle. And even
in that miracle of deliverance, when he turned the Philistines
against one another, the man of flesh, Saul, says to the priest,
withdraw thy hand. We've got this now. We can handle
this. The battle was not complete.
They fought the Philistines again and again. You see, our old man
will do that. And the natural man, the man
who knows not Christ, the man who only has a fleshly nature,
sees no need, sees no need for the gospel, sees no need for
salvation. He has no understanding of the
battle that's before him and the judgment that must be executed. He has no understanding of it.
What a blessing it is when the Lord makes us to be empty vessels. You remember in 2 Kings 4, there
was a widow woman who went to the prophet Elisha. And she says
to Elisha, the prophet, Her husband was one of Elisha's students
in the school of the prophets, the scripture says. Elisha had
a school of prophets and he had young men, men that he was teaching
the scriptures to. And one of those men died and
left a wife with two children. And the man left his family in
debt so that after he died, the creditors came to the wife and
demanded payment for the debt that her husband had left her
in. And she didn't have any money. And so the creditor said, well,
I'm gonna take your sons and make slaves out of them until
the debt is paid. Well, she would be left now without
any support. And so she runs to the prophet
Elisha, another picture of Christ, and she says to him, what can
I do? And Elisha said, well, what do
you have? And she says, well, all I have is a little cruise
of oil. That's all I've got. And Elisha says to her, borrow
empty vessels and borrow not a few. And so she sends her two
sons to go out into the town and gather as many empty vessels
that they can find. and they bring them into the
house. And Elisha says to her, take the little crucible oil
and begin to pour it into the empty vessels. And the oil kept pouring and
kept pouring and she filled up one vessel, then she filled up
another and filled up another until she got to the last empty
vessel, she filled it up And she said to her sons, are there
any more empty vessels? And they said, no, that's it.
And the scripture says, and the oil stayed. In other words, the
oil quit flowing when there were no more empty vessels. The only
time the oil of the spirit of God flows among God's people
is when there are empty vessels. and when there are no empty vessels,
the oil stays." Elisha tells her, sell the oil
and pay off your debt and live on the proceeds. So that was
a lot of oil. She was able to pay off her debt
and live her life off the proceeds of the remainder. But the point
of the story is, that God only sends the oil of his spirit to
empty vessels. And what a blessing it is when
God makes you to be empty, empty of any righteousness, empty of
of anything that would obligate God in any way to bless you,
dependent completely upon His grace and His grace alone for
everything. Empty of any knowledge of truth
apart from the revelation that He would make in your heart by
His Spirit. Empty of any strength or ability
to defeat the enemy. Though you raise your hand and
you say to the priest, withdraw thy hand, I got this. The Lord
is merciful to bring you to the end of yourself again and again
and again, and make you to be an empty vessel. He uses your sin and your unbelief
and your need to cause you to see, Lord, I don't have this. I'm completely dependent upon
thee. That is a blessing of grace and
mercy that most know nothing of. Most know nothing of. What a blessing it is when God
humbles us and causes us to cast all our care upon him who cares
for us. That's a miracle. That's a miracle
of grace that the vast majority of men know nothing about. Now I want to draw one more thing
out of this story and it's to be found in verses 31 through
34. 1 Samuel chapter 14. Saul as a picture of the flesh, made
a foolish decree. As the king of Israel, he threatened
any of his men that ate any..." Now this is the... Jonathan slays the garrisons
at night and by morning, the Philistines have turned on one
another. And Saul says to the priest, withdraw your hand, we've
got this. And then Saul makes a decree
early in the morning. And he says to his men, go after
the Philistines and if anyone eats anything before the sun
goes down, he's gonna be put to death. Now that was a foolish
decree that Saul made. And so at the end of the day,
as soon as the sun goes down, We read in verse 31 of this chapter,
and they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ajala,
Ajalan, I'm sorry, and the people were very faint. They were faint
because they'd been in battle all day. They haven't been able
to put their hand to their mouth to drink anything or to eat anything. And the people flew upon the
spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slew them on the
ground. And the people did eat them with
the blood. And they told Saul saying, behold,
the people sin against the Lord and that they eat with blood. They're eating this meat raw. They're consuming the blood of
these animals. And he said, you have transgressed. Roll a great stone unto me this
day. That stone would become an altar.
Says to his men, bring a great stone here. And Saul said, disperse
yourself among the people and say unto them, bring me hither
every man his ox and every man his sheep and slay them here
on this stone and eat and sin not against the Lord in eating
with the blood. And all the people brought every
man his ox with him that night and slew them there. And Saul
built an altar unto the Lord. And the same was the first altar
that he built unto the Lord. What is the significance of this
sin that they had committed against the Lord of eating blood? Turn with me to Genesis chapter
nine. From the time of Adam to the
time of Noah, the people were vegetarians. They didn't eat
meat. God had not given meat to men
to eat until after the flood. And now in Genesis chapter 9,
In verse one, and God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto
them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. And
the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth and upon every fowl of the air and upon them that
move it upon the earth and upon all fishes of the sea into your
hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given unto
you all things. But flesh with the life thereof,
which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And so from the very
beginning, when God gave man the permission to eat meat, For the
first time, he warned them not to eat the blood. Was this just
a health thing? Was this a dietary thing? Or
is there, like there is in all of scripture, a glorious gospel
truth to this picture? Turn with me to Leviticus chapter
three. Leviticus chapter three. And look at verse 17. And it shall be a perpetual statute
for your generation throughout all your dwellings that you eat
neither fat nor blood. Turn with me to Leviticus chapter
seven, verse 26. Moreover, you shall eat no manner
of blood, neither it be a fowl or a beast in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth
any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people." So this matter of eating blood, to be cut off means to
be condemned to an eternal hell. It means to be cut out. of the
family of Israel. They had a very serious issue,
this eating of blood. If you remember in Acts chapter
15, turn with me there, Acts chapter 15. The Jews to this
day are still very committed to this law. That's why you have
Kosher meat, meat that has been slaughtered and properly prepared
according to the law so that there's no blood to be consumed
in the meat. And they get it from the scripture,
but they completely misunderstand the meaning of it. Look with
me at Acts chapter 15 now. The gospel has gone out to the
Gentiles. It would have been very common
among the Gentile culture to worship idols, to unashamingly
participate in fornication, to eat blood. That just was part of the Gentile
culture that the Jewish culture forbid. And so when the apostles
come back to Jerusalem, there is what we know as the Jerusalem
Council where the apostles get together and they decide, well,
what sort of restrictions are we gonna put on these Gentiles? This is after Christ, obviously. and look in chapter 15 at verse
20. But we write unto them that they
may abstain from the pollution of idols. That's a reasonable
requirement that all believers ought to do, abstain from worshiping
idols. And from fornication. Sexual
sins outside of marriage abstain from that. And from things strangled. Why ought not a man to eat of
an animal that's been strangled? Because there's no shedding of
blood. There's no shedding of blood. There's gospel pictures
in all of this. spiritual idolatry of looking
away from Christ and spiritual fornication of cheating on the
Lord by finding our comfort and our love in the arms of another,
and looking to a gospel that is bloodless, an animal that's
been strangled, and then the last one, and from blood. Tell them not to eat blood. Now these believers understood
by now what this forbidding that God had made for the children
of Israel meant when he said, don't eat the blood. Don't eat
the blood. The blood is not for you. It's for God. Turn with me to
Leviticus chapter 17. Leviticus chapter 17. We know that without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission of sins. God requires a blood
sacrifice. God said to the children of Israel
where they were in Egypt, and the Lord told Moses, he said,
you take the lamb, a spotless lamb. A picture of the sinless
lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you slay him and you take
the blood and you put it on the doorpost and the lentil of the
house. What a picture of the cross and
the shedding of Christ's blood on that cross. And when I see
the blood, I'll pass by you. That's what God said. Not when
I see your devotion or your commitment or your whatever. When I see
the blood, I will pass by you. That's what the blood is. Adam's sin had to be atoned with
blood. The Lord slew, Adam tried to
cover his nakedness by sewing together fig leaves, which is
a picture of what we do to try to make ourselves acceptable
to God by covering the nakedness of our sin with the works of
our own hands. And God said, no, that's not,
he slew a lamb, he shed blood in the garden, he took the fleece
of that lamb and he gave Adam a robe of righteousness. All
these things picturing Christ. Cain and Abel. Cain brought the
fruit of his labors, that which he had worked on in the garden,
and brought them before God, and God had no respect for Cain's
offering. Abel's offering, on the other
hand, was accepted. Why? Because he took of the fattening
of the lamb, and he shed blood. God required a blood sacrifice,
and was set up for nothing else. And God forbids the children
of Israel to eat blood. Why? Because the blood is not
for you, it's for God. Turn to me, you have your Bibles
open Leviticus chapter 17. Look at verse 10. and whatsoever man there be of
the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among
you, that eateth any manner of blood, I will even set my face
against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from
among the people, 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 make an atonement for the soul." God required a
perfect blood sacrifice. We are not to eat the blood.
Because the Lord Jesus Christ did not offer his blood to us
to be accepted or rejected by our free will. He made himself
an offering to God. The blood was for God. The blood
was to be put upon the mercy seat. When the children of Israel
made sacrifices in the Old Testament, they pled with God to accept
the sacrifice. Lord, would you be pleased to
accept this sacrifice? And now that God has made the
sacrifice, men have the thought that this sacrifice now has to
be accepted or rejected by us. Is that not what the works gospel
is based upon? Is that not what the free will
gospel is based upon? Man thinking that God made a
blood sacrifice for him to be accepted or rejected by his free
will? You see, to think To think that
God requires us to accept or reject the sacrifice that Christ
made in order for him to be able to save us is to eat the blood. Is to eat the blood. The blood's not for you. The blood's for God. That's what
the Lord said. You don't eat the blood because
the blood and the fat of the lamb is to be made as an atoning
sacrifice unto God. The blood's not for you. The
blood's for God. God's the one who has to be satisfied.
God's the one who has to be pleased. God's the one to whom the sin
must be covered before his eyes. God's the one that's looking
for the blood. And God says, when I see the
blood, I will pass by you. Not when I see anything else.
The blood's for God. Let me show you that. Turn with
me to Hebrews chapter nine. Hebrews chapter nine. This is
so important. Because spiritually speaking,
eating the blood today is just as soul damning as eating the
blood was in the old covenant. You'll be cut off. You think
you can apply the blood? What do we hear people say? Well,
you know, you need to apply the blood. You need to. You need to get behind the blood.
You need to do this and do that with the blood. The blood's not
for you. It's for God. God's the one that applies the
blood. God's the one that puts us behind the blood. Look at Hebrews chapter nine.
Hebrews chapter nine. Look with me at verse 12. Well, verse 11, but Christ being
come a high priest of good things to come by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not
of this building. Now, the Lord is comparing the
tabernacle of the flesh of Christ and the spiritual tabernacle
and mercy seat that's in heaven to the physical tabernacle that
he gave to the children of Israel as a picture of that. Those Old
Testament tabernacles were just a type pointing to the spiritual
tabernacle, which is not made with the hands of men. Neither
by the blood of bulls and of goats and of calves, but by his
own blood. He entered in once unto the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. You see, if
you think that applying the blood or eating the blood or somehow
doing something with the blood to make it effectual for you,
it is denying his glory. He's the one who ascended into
glory. He's the one who took his blood
and put it on the mercy seat. He's the one who obtained, past
tense, eternal redemption for his people. He did it all. For if the blood of bulls and
goats and of calves and the ashes of heifers sprinkled the unclean
sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, here again, he's talking
about the picture of the priest taking this blood and sanctifying
things. for the purpose of worship, setting
them apart by the sprinkling of the blood. How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself
without spot. Who did he offer himself to?
He offer himself to you? for you to take the blood, eat
the blood, apply the blood? You see, on the cross of Calvary,
God was doing business with God. God the Son was presenting himself
not as a sacrifice to us, Not as an offering to us to be accepted
or rejected by us. That is eating the blood. And
that is what most men do. They think, well, you know, the
blood's being available and if I take it and apply it and make
a decision about it. He offered himself to God. to purge your conscience from
dead works. Applying the blood or thinking
that you can do something to make the blood effectual. That
you can make a decision. You can take of the cup and drink
the blood and that's going to make what Jesus did on Mount
Calvary work for you. That's a dead work. That's a
dead work. Only as we're brought by the
Spirit of God to believe that what the Lord Jesus Christ did
was He offered Himself without spot to God is the conscience
made clear of dead works. Lord, I'm an empty vessel. If the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't
take His blood and take it to heaven, and put it on the mercy
seat on my behalf, I won't be saved. All my hope is in Him. I've got no place else to go. Old Testament saints pleaded
with God to accept the sacrifice. And now that God makes a sacrifice, men have the idea that God's
pleading with them to accept the sacrifice. How foolish. Oh, won't you accept Jesus? Won't
you let Jesus come into your heart? He's in the heavens wringing
His hands, wishing that you would let Him have His way. That's
drinking the blood. That's eating the blood. The
blood's not for you. The blood's for God. And when
God the Son made Himself a sacrifice for the sins of His people to
God, God saw the travail of His soul and God said, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. I've seen his
blood. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, I'll pacify you. Oh, it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, it is of God that showeth mercy. All
our salvation, all of it was accomplished by the Lord Jesus
Christ. Free will, that's the strong
delusion that God has sent. That is the lie that men universally
believe. I mean, you hear it all the time.
Free will, free will. God's given us free will. You
gotta make a decision. You gotta do something in order
for him to be able to save you. The Lord Jesus Christ went to
Calvary's cross. He took his blood. He put it
on that mercy seat in heaven. And God said, I see the blood. I pass by you. Number 232, 232, Tom's gonna
come and lead us in this hymn. Let's stand together. Sing this a cappella. ? Christ our Redeemer died on the
cross ? ? Died for the sinner, paid all his due ? ? Sprinkle
your soul with the blood of the Lamb ? ? And I will pass, will
pass over you ? When I see the blood, when I see the blood,
when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass over you. ? Chiefest of sinners, Jesus
will save ? All he has promised, that he will do ? Wash in the
fountain, open for sin ? And I will pass, will pass over you
? When I see the blood When I see the blood, when I see the blood,
I will pass, I will pass over you. Judgment is coming, all
will be there, each one receiving justly his due. Hide in the saving, sin-cleansing
blood, and I will pass will pass over you when I see the blood,
when I see the blood. When I see the blood, I will
pass, I will pass over you. Oh, great compassion. Oh, boundless love. Oh, loving
kindness, faithful and true. Find peace and shelter under
the blood, and I will pass, will pass over you when I see the
blood, when I see the blood. When I see the blood, I will
pass, I will pass over you. Please be seated. For the Lord's
table, we'll sing number 17 in your spiral handbook, number
17.