Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 9. The title
of the message, Four Applications of the Blood of Christ. We will
look at four applications here in the remainder of this chapter
of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. as I read this today
and I realized the book of Hebrews is as clear as any book in the
word of God on the gospel. I mean, it is so clear on the
gospel and it reaches back to the Old Testament and it really
clears up that Old Testament. It gives us a real understanding
of the types and those pictures and the light of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And today, it was impressed upon
my mind WHAT IT TOOK TO PUT AWAY MY SINS. WHAT IT TOOK TO PUT AWAY MY SINS.
IF I WERE THE ONLY PERSON THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR, HE WOULD
HAVE STILL HAD TO SUFFER THE SAME. He would have still sweat
great drops of blood in Gethsemane. He would have still had to go
to the cross and suffer the agony and the wrath of God if I were
the only one he saved. I am nothing but sin. And when
I think of the Lord Jesus Christ, his blood cleanses us, it says,
from all sin. all my thoughts, all my words,
all my actions, He's cleansed me from all sin, all of it is
gone. God through Christ has put away
my sins and your sins all our sins who believe us us who believe
He's put away our sins God said that He's put them so far away,
it's like the East is from the West. They're that far, they're
put that far away. You know, if you go East, if
you keep going East, unless you turn around, you're never going
to go West, it's never going to meet. God said He's put them
all behind His back, wherever that is. Scripture says He knows no shadow
of turning. HE PUTS IT BEHIND HIS BACK. HE
CAN'T REMEMBER THEM. HE SAYS HE REMEMBERS THEM NO
MORE. AND I THOUGHT YOU CAN'T REMEMBER
SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST. OUR SINS ACTUALLY DON'T EXIST
ANYMORE. THAT'S HOW THOROUGHLY THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST PUT THEM AWAY. NOW I KNOW THEY EXIST. I KNOW HOW SINFUL I AM. NO, I
DON'T. NOBODY HERE KNOWS HOW SINFUL You and I are, but I do know
a whole lot more about my sinful self than I used to. And he's
put that away and he remembers it no more. I do. I remember
it. I say something, I say, I wish
I hadn't said that. And sometimes it takes me for a long time before
I forget that I said it. But the Lord has put that away.
He's put that away. Isn't that something? here's
what we're going to look at and i've got this outline in my bible
henry has it in his bible lesson i think spurgeon had it it's
it's not it's not a new outline it's a strong outline it's a
good outline and here's here here's the outline i'm going
to use if you want to write it down in your bible in verses
13 through 14 we have the efficacy of his blood In verses 15 through
17 we have the NECESSITY of His blood. And then verses 18 through
23 we have the ILLUSTRATION of His blood on earth. And then
verses 24 through 28 we have the APPLICATION of His blood
in heaven. In heaven, that s how I got my
title, The Four Applications of the Blood of Christ. Now the
first one we come to is the EFFICACY of His blood. Look in verse 13,
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a
heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctify to the purifying of
the flesh, how much more? You can add that to the name
after the Lord Jesus Christ. When we say anything about the
Lord Jesus Christ, it can be, How much more? HOW MUCH MORE
EFFECTUAL IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST THAN THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS?
Look over in Romans chapter 5. In Romans chapter 5, look in verse 9, this word MUCH
MORE caught my attention. today or the last few days. Much more then, much more then, being now justified
by His blood, much more we shall be saved from wrath through Him. You know His wrath is coming?
Think about that, this is the truth. God's wrath sooner or
later is going to fall just like it did in the days of Noah, just
like it did on Sodom and Gomorrah. God's wrath, His FINAL wrath
is going to fall on this world and just DESTROY it. That's so. Look in verse 10 there,
so, For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of His Son, much more MUCH MORE BEING RECONCILED, WE
SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. Since we ve been reconciled,
how much more shall we be saved by the life of Christ? He lives! We don t worship a dead Christ,
do we? We worship a LIVING, REIGNING
LORD. Jesus Christ is alive and well. He died And in His death is the
death of death, and in His death is my death, is my death, and
your death, who believes, your death, and His death is our death. But my soul, we are saved by
His life, because I live you what? You shall live also. You shall live also. We'll see
here in a little bit that His death enacted the covenant of
grace on our behalf that testament it speaks of is a will and for
a will to be enforced the death of the one who made it has to
take place and since god made that covenant and i'm ahead of
myself but since it's working i'm going but since god made when god made
that covenant the stipulation of it was he had to die in order
for it to be enforced But here's the good news. He lives to enforce
it. You see, I can die. I could leave
the boys something and they can contest it or somebody can contest
it and take them to court. Nobody can contest it because
I'm not allowed to go to court and stand up for them. I'm not
alive. I'm dead. And there have been
a lot of families who've fallen out over wheels and fought in
court and lost and won. Not this one, no, no, no. The one who made it lives to
enforce it. He lives to enforce it. And then
look down in verse 15, But not as the offense, so also
as a free gift. For if through the offense of
one many be dead, much more, oh, much more the grace of God. God's grace to us is far greater
than our sin, isn't it? Where sin abounded, grace did
what? Much more abounded, and much
more. I could make a sermon just on
that word, those two words, much more. Look in verse 20 of that
chapter. Moreover, the law entered that
the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. I thought I just quoted it, but
oh my, where the law entered, sin might abound, but where sin
abounded, where did sin abound at? In my heart. In my heart,
in my life, that's where sin abounded. Sin abounded over the
whole human race, but where sin abounded, God's grace to me and
you in Christ, much more. Much more abounded. Turn over
to 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. 2 Corinthians chapter 3, look at
this in verse 9. For if the ministration of condemnation,
that's the Old Covenant, that's what that's talking about, that's
the Old Covenant, we're reading about it in Hebrews. If the ministration
of condemnation be glory, much more, that the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory, His righteousness. is righteousness. Now look in verse 11 and we'll
go back. For if that which is done away
was glorious, that old covenant had some glory to it, it pointed
to the Lord Jesus Christ, didn't it? Those types of pictures,
did they not point to Christ? They did. If that which is done
away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. It has much more glory. That
covenant of grace by which you and I are saved, the blood and righteousness of
Christ who is the who is the covenant scripture says he's
he's given us he's given as a covenant to the people how much more glorious
is that how much more so let's go back here So verse 14, How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience? The blood of goats and calves
never purged anybody s conscience. You see, it only was CEREMONIAL
and had to do with the OUTWARD, the EXTERNAL, the FLESH. This
has to do with the INTERNAL, the CONSCIENCE, the HEART, that
INNER MAN, that NEW MAN. PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD
WORKS? LEGALISM? You know, every one
of us until God saved us were a bunch of LEGALISTS. Every last
one of us were a bunch of legalists. We all believed we had to do
SOMETHING, even if it was to accept Jesus Christ as our personal
Savior, we had to do SOMETHING to add to His Work or to make
His Work effectual. See, Arminianism preaches, well,
they don t preach the gospel, but what they preach is that
your faith makes what He did effectual. THERE IS NOTHING THAT
I DO THAT MAKES THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
CHRIST, THE SALVATION OF CHRIST EFFECTUAL! You know what makes
it effectual? HIM! It's HIM! HE MAKES IT EFFECTUAL! Nobody
else makes it effectual, HE DOES! HE DOES! So HE PURGES OUR CONSCIENCE
FROM DEAD WORKS and that's just a life of sin also, and transgression. LEGALISM, TRANSGRESSION, LIFE
OF SIN. TO SERVE. Who are you serving? You're serving
somebody. I'm serving somebody. Who are
we serving? To serve the LIVING GOD, not
a god of our imaginations. We didn't conjure this one up.
This is the God of the Bible. This is the God of creation.
This is the only God there is and we serve Him. We serve Him,
and the way we serve Him is in serving one another. He said,
when I was hungry, you fed me. Thirsty, you gave me drink. When
did we see you like that? As much as you've done it to
the least of these, my disciples, my brethren, you've done it to
me. That's how we serve the Lord.
It's how we serve Him. Now that was verse 13 through
14 there. So what we see in these two verses
is the ineffectiveness of those old sacrifices. They wanted to
hold to them. They thought they were effectual.
They were not effectual. NOW I BELIEVE THOSE WHOM THE
LORD SAVED, THEY SAW CHRIST THROUGH THEM. THEY LOOKED TO CHRIST JUST
LIKE, YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM. ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD. DAVID.
HE LOOKED TO CHRIST. ALL THOSE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS
WHOM THE LORD SAVED, THEY LOOKED TO HIM. THEY DIDN'T LOOK TO THAT
ACTUAL ANIMAL. THEY KNEW BETTER THAN THAT. GOD
TAUGHT THEM BETTER THAN THAT. BUT EVERYONE ELSE, MOST OF THE
WHOLE NATION, They looked at the CEREMONIES,
that's what they looked at. They looked at the CEREMONIES,
and as long as they did the CEREMONIES, everything was alright. No, it's
not. The blood of bulls and goats
provided only CEREMONIAL CLEANSING. They held back the wrath of God.
Example, in Egypt, they took the blood of that lamb, put it
over the door and the two side posts, and God said, When I see
the blood, I'll pass over you." But it was only typical, that's
all it was, it was ceremonial, that's all it was. It could not
cleanse the conscience, it could not transform the heart, it could
not reach the inside, it was only external, that's all it
was, it was all external. And these were just types and
shadows of Christ who is the ultimate sacrifice, He's the
ultimate sacrifice. Our Lord's blood is superior
to theirs, to the blood of those bulls and goats. Christ's blood
purifies the soul. It purifies the soul. You know what? I don't have a
soul. I am a soul. I am a soul. That's what I am.
Adam became a what? A living soul. That's what he
is. I'm a soul. I don't just have one. I am one. And He purified me. When it says
He purifies the soul, He purified ME and everyone that He did this
for, not just the body but the soul. And His offering was spiritual.
It says He was offered through the Eternal Spirit. Aaron didn't
do that. Aaron didn't offer up the blood
of bulls and goats through the Eternal Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Our Lord did. Our Lord did. It was a spiritual
offering. CHRIST OFFERED HIMSELF! Listen,
it says He offered Himself, and I mentioned this last week, He
offered Himself to God! The offering is to God, not us.
You know, the Scripture says that the gift of God is eternal
life. It doesn't say the offering of
God is eternal life. The gift, He gives you eternal life. He
doesn't ask if you want it, He gives it to you. That's the gift. Christ offered Himself without
spot to God, a PERFECT SACRIFICE! And here s the power of it, it
CLEANSES THE CONSCIENCE! It cleanses the conscience. Does
your conscience bother you? Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ,
look to the Lamb of God, His blood when you really understand
the gospel. Now listen, when you really understand
the gospel, then you can look to Christ with confidence and
know that which is bothering you has been put away. It's been
atoned for. That's real faith. That's real
genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ when you can look to Him
and know. And there's nothing wrong with
knowing. There's not a thing wrong with having assurance.
Everything's wrong with doubting. Everything. We should never doubt
God. If I don't doubt God, I doubt
my salvation. That's doubting God. Who is your
salvation? You or God? It's God. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. There's
enough things about me to doubt, but I don't doubt Him. And I know my faith's not perfect
because there are times when we all doubt everything. I know
that. But His blood, listen, His blood
cleanses the conscience, it enables true worship, it enables heartfelt
service to God as Paul wrote to Timothy, Timothy 3.9, holding
the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. Is there such a thing
as a pure conscience? Well, Paul wrote to Timothy and
said there was. THAT PURE CONSCIENCE IS GIVEN
BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. ONLY CHRIST'S BLOOD CAN GIVE
PEACE TO OUR GUILTY SOUL AND ENABLE REAL SPIRITUAL WORSHIP. ONLY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST CAN
QUIET AN ACCUSING CONSCIENCE. ONLY CHRIST. Secondly, the necessity
of the blood, 15 through 17, and for this cause He is the
Mediator of the New Testament, this New Covenant, New Testament,
that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the First Testament, those Old Testament saints, they
which are called CALLED BY THE GRACE OF GOD, CALLED BY THE POWER
OF GOD, CALLED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE
OF ETERNAL INHERITANCE. Listen, God made that covenant,
God made that covenant with Christ concerning me and you, but that
covenant is not effectual until He dies on that cross. Now with
God, it's sure, It sure is going to happen, but it is not effectual
until He dies. And when He died, that's when
all our sins, Old Testament saints, New Testament saints, from Adam
to the first one saved, from the fall of Adam to the last
one saved, their sins were put away at Calvary. They were put
away at Calvary. That's why, listen, that's why
the grace of God can come to me, because God's satisfied with
me. That's why God can call me, God can love me, God can justify
me, because He's satisfied. Christ died. Christ put away
my sins. He put away my sins. Now God
can have something to do with me, a wretch like me. because
He cleared the way. Christ said, I m the way, and
He cleared the way for God to be a just God and a Savior to
save a wretch like me. Now, let me go back here. Go to verse 16, For where a testament
is, or for where a will is, I can read it that way too, there must
also of necessity be the death of the testator, FOR A TESTAMENT
IS A FORCE AFTER MEN ARE DEAD, OTHERWISE IT IS OF NO STRENGTH
AT ALL, WHILE THE TESTATOR LIVETH. MAN MAKES A WILL, YOU MAKE A
WILL, THAT WILL IS NOT ENFORCED UNTIL YOU DIE. UNTIL CHRIST DIED, THAT NEW TESTAMENT, THAT NEW
COVENANT, which is really the oldest covenant, it's just last
revealed. that Old Covenant in the Old
Testament was first revealed, then the New Covenant, which
we speak here of the New Covenant, it was made before the foundation
of the world. It was older than the Old Covenant, but it s called
that because it s newly revealed after that Old Covenant was,
after those types and pictures, after God gave us that as pictures
and types and taught us and gave the Law as a schoolmaster to
bring us to Christ, and then when Christ came, all that s
GONE! But this covenant, this New Testament,
is as old as eternity, it really is. But the Testament is a force
after men are dead, otherwise it is of no strength at all while
the testator liveth. So here is the necessity of His
blood, here is the necessity of His death, is that that covenant
of grace will be now or can now be enforced. THE BLESSINGS OF
IT CAN COME TO US NOW! IT CAN COME TO US NOW! BECAUSE
ALL THAT GOD WILLED, ALL THAT HE WILLED CAN NOW COME TO US BECAUSE THE
ONE WHO MADE IT DIED! WELL, WHO MADE THAT COVENANT?
GOD DID! GOD DID! GOD CAN'T DIE! GOD CAN'T SHED HIS BLOOD, HE
DOESN'T HAVE ANY, GOD IS A SPIRIT, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS, GOD IS SPIRIT. HERE'S THE MYSTERY, GOD BECAME
A MAN, GREAT IS THE MYSTERY, WHERE IS THAT, I GOT THAT WRITTEN
DOWN, TURN OVER TO FIRST TIMOTHY. FIRST TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3, VERSE
16, And without controversy, great
is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on the world, and received. God was received
up into glory. Oh, here s the necessity of it.
In order for that new covenant TO BE IN EFFECT, PUT INTO EFFECT,
THE TESTATOR, THE ONE WHO MADE IT, HAS TO DIE. Well, God came
into this world, took born-in-flesh and died. Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
went to the cross and died. He didn't quit being God on the
cross. Brethren, this is a great mystery. I know that God Himself Can't
die, I know that. But when He took upon Him flesh,
when He took upon Him human nature, a real soul, a real soul, a real
body, it died. It died. I think it was Scott
Richardson that said that God is every bit God as if He were
not a man and every bit of man as if He were not God and yet
He's one undivided person. YOU KNOW, WE ARE MADE UP OF BODY,
SOUL, AND SPIRIT. BUT WHAT DO YOU SEE HERE? YOU
SEE ONE PERSON, DON'T YOU? YOU ARE NOT LOOKING AT THREE
DIFFERENT THINGS, YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE PERSON. JESUS CHRIST,
GOD IN HUMAN FLESH IS ONE PERSON. HE WENT TO THE CROSS, WENT TO
THE CROSS. NOW TURN TO ACTS CHAPTER 20.
HE WENT TO THE CROSS AND HE DIED This is why we can be justified,
we are cleansed by the blood of God. In Acts 20, look at this in verse
28, 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock,
over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers. TO FEED
THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH HE HATH PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD."
Who purchased the church with his own blood? God did. That's
what it says. That's what it says. God did. Now you tell me this, that being
so, and I know you believe the gospel, but if anybody reads
that verse and then believes that a person can perish and
go to hell for whom God Almighty in human flesh died for, And for somebody to stand and
preach that? Man, that's just... Man, they're
in for a rude awakening when they die. That's for sure. But listen here, Christ is the
Mediator of that New Covenant. He's the Mediator of that New
Covenant because of His perfect sacrifice, and He MEDIATES a
better covenant. AND HIS DEATH COVERS THE OLD
AND NEW TESTAMENT SAINTS, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE! He's not
waiting to see who's going to accept Him. Christ is not waiting
to see who's going to accept Him. He's going after His sheep. He's looking for His sheep. And
the Holy Spirit is going to bring them in. They're going to hear
the Gospel. They're going to be one fold
in what? One Shepherd. That's what you're going to be. Now this old covenant was conditional,
it was do this and live, but that new covenant is based on
Christ, His obedience, and not ours. It's based on His death,
His blood, and not mine. Not mine. We are heirs. We are
heirs of the covenant. We are heirs of Christ. We're
not contractors, we're heirs. Heirs, we receive the blessings,
we don't earn them, He earned them, He did. Salvation is a
work, His work, not mine, not yours. Thirdly, we have the blood
illustrated on earth, 18 through 23. Whereupon neither the first
testament was dedicated without blood, When Moses had spoken
every precept to all the people according to the law, he took
the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and
hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying,
This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined to you.
Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the
vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by
the law purged with blood. And without shedding the blood
there is no remission, no forgiveness. It was therefore necessary that
the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with
patterns. That s what it is, the patterns
were purified with patterns. But the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these. This is the blood illustrated
on earth. God gave us a beautiful picture all these years. He s painting this picture for
us, for us. BEFORE HE SENT CHRIST AND CHRIST
WILL DO HIS WORK, HE PAINTS THIS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE THAT WE WOULD
BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE REDEMPTIVE WORK
AND PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD DID THAT, AND HE
PUT IT IN THE SIMPLEST FORMS. MOSES DEDICATED THE COVENANT
WITH BLOOD EARTHLY SYMBOLS ILLUSTRATED THE NEED FOR CLEANSING AND ATONEMENT
CONTINUALLY BECAUSE THEY OFFERED THEM CONTINUALLY, AND THE BLOOD
WAS NECESSARY BECAUSE SIN DEMANDS DEATH. THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. THAT'S WHY HIS BLOOD IS NECESSARY.
THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD SHOWS THAT IT IS NECESSARY, THAT SIN DEMANDS
DEATH. And the blood on earth pointed
forward to the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it
was pointing to. There's no salvation in that. If you missed Christ, you missed
it. You missed it. You see, symbol, all these types
have limitations. They're not perfect. They have
their limitations, but they have their message. Christ is their
message. Christ crucifies the message.
The Earthly Sanctuary was a PATTERN, it wasn't a REALITY, that's why
a PATTERN can be sanctified by a PATTERN. But the HEAVENLY THINGS
THEMSELVES, what are the HEAVENLY THINGS
THEMSELVES? Well, it's our PERSON, it's our PRAYERS, it's our PRAISE,
our SINGING, we SING IN HIS PRAISES, it's our SERVICE, These are all
the heavenly things themselves. They are all purified by the
blood of Christ. This service tonight is purified by the blood
of Christ. The entire Old Testament system
shows the urgency and need of Christ's blood and righteousness
and of His work for us in heaven and not on this earth. Then we have the blood applied
in heaven, and I'll try to wind this down. In verse 24-28, And therefore
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true. He didn't go into that
tabernacle that was made, or the temple made by Solomon and resurrected later on by, I can't
think of his name, Zerubbabel, I think it was, but into heaven
itself. NOW TO APPEAR IN THE PRESENCE
OF GOD FOR US, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER HIMSELF OFTEN, AS THE HIGH
PRIEST ENTERETH INTO THE HOLY PLACE EVERY YEAR WITH BLOOD OF
OTHERS. FOR THEN MUST HE OFTEN HAVE SUFFERED
SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." If his ministry was no different
than that of Aaron's, he would have had to suffer HE WOULD HAVE
HAD TO SUFFER MILLIONS OF TIMES SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,
BUT NOW ONCE IN THE END OF THE WORLD, AND WE ARE IN THE END
OF THE WORLD, HE JUST TOLD US WE ARE IN THE END OF THE WORLD,
HATH HE APPEARED TO PUT AWAY SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF,
AND AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO ME, AND WANTS TO DIE AFTER THIS JUDGEMENT,
AND I AM SURE GLAD THAT DOES NOT END WITH A PERIOD, BUT CHRIST
WAS ONCE OFFERED TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY, and unto them that
look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto
salvation." Here's the blood in heaven, Christ entered heaven
itself, He left this earth and the disciples watched Him go
up into heaven, go up right up into the clouds and into heaven,
they watched Him. He didn't go into a man-made temple, He went
into heaven. He now appears in the presence of God as a high
priest on our behalf. Why would God we get a hold of
that more than we do? I wish we would. And His sacrifice,
listen, His sacrifice is not going to be repeated because
it was sufficient, it was effectual. He got the job done. And listen, here's the return
of Christ in verse 28, 28 And unto them that look for him shall
he appear the second time without sin and true salvation. What
are you looking for? We're all looking for something. WE OUGHT TO GET UP, I?M SERIOUS,
WE OUGHT TO GET UP EVERY MORNING LOOKING FOR HIM, WHETHER HE RETURNS
OR WHETHER WE?RE JUST LOOKING FOR HIM FOR FELLOWSHIP, LOOKING
FOR HIM TO BE INSTRUCTED BY HIM. ?FOR THOSE CLEANSED BY HIS BLOOD,
HIS RETURN BRINGS FINAL SALVATION.? I don't know if you noticed this,
but there's three appearances of Christ mentioned here in verse
24, 26, 28. Look here in verse 24, where
Christ has not entered into the holy place made with hands, which
are the figures of the truth, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us. That's his first. He appeared in the presence of
God on our behalf. Here s a second appearing, look
in verse 26, For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the world
hath he appeared. He appeared in this world two
thousand years ago. He appeared in this world, and
He appeared in this world to put away sin, and He did so by
the sacrifice of Himself. And here s the third appearing.
So Christ was once offered in verse 28, Christ was once offered
to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall
He appear. That's who He's coming for, those
looking for Him. He will appear, He shall appear,
He shall appear. The blood of Christ, the blood
of Christ is powerful enough to literally PURIFY OUR SOULS. He is able to present us before
God SPOTLESS, UNBLAMEABLE, UNREPROVABLE IN HIS SIGHT. His BLOOD IS NECESSARY
TO SECURE OUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE. It answers the Covenant. It answers
the Covenant. And then His blood is illustrated
in the Old Testament, but it?s fulfilled when Christ died on
Calvary?s tree. And last of all, Christ?s blood
is applied in Heaven even now, even now. And it will usher in
our salvation when He returns to get us, when He returns to
get us.