I want to get my subject out
of verse 24. And to Jesus the mediator of
the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better
things than that of Abel. You see there's a blood that
speaks. Talking about a blood that speaks. speaking blood. Now I read to
you what it was like to go unto, there's two different mountains
shown us here in what I read this morning. There's Mount Sinai
where the law was given, thunder and lightning, darkness, God
speaking and when Israel heard God speaking they said Moses
you go up there and talk to him. We can't stand that voice, we
can't deal with that voice, we can't deal with those commandments.
And if a beast even got close to that mountain, they had to
kill that beast. God was holy, so holy, so infinitely
holy. And he gave his law on Mount
Sinai. Moses himself stood and quaked
and shook and was afraid. It was such an awful sight. But
we've not come to that mountain. We're not coming to an old law.
We're not coming to Sinai. We're not coming to the Ten Commandments.
We're not coming to ceremonies and rituals. But look where it
says we are coming to, in verse 22. But you're coming to Malzahar. What's Malzahar? That's the church
of the living God. And under the city of the living
God. And listen to this, a heavenly
Jerusalem, things above us. Down here it was law, there it's
grace. And we've come to the heavenly
Jerusalem. And not only that, but we've
come into the presence of an innumerable company of angels. Elect angels, God's angels, Gabriel,
Michael, so many angels. And listen to this. And not only
that, but we've also come to the general assembly of the church
of the firstborn. Christ was the firstborn from
the dead. He was God's only begotten son. And there's a group of people,
a holy people, already assembled in glory. And that's where we've
come to. We've come to that. And listen to this. And to God,
the judge of all. Now wait a minute, over there
he was the God of justice and God of judgment, God of holiness,
God of righteousness, and yet we're still coming to God the
judge of all. We're still coming. And listen to this. And not only
that, but the spirits of just men made perfect. But this is
what I really, really like and really love. But we've also come
to Jesus, the mediator. the war between man and God.
And listen to this, the mediator of the new covenant, and we've
come to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than
that of Abel. Now we've seen what a great,
great difference in those two mountains are. Oh, what a difference,
what a difference. It's a sad thing to see people
go under the law in any way, any shape, any form, any fashion.
Coming to the law, and oh, it has a terrible consequences to
it. To come into the law, coming
to the Ten Commandments, coming to say that I'll face God on
His commandments. I'll face God on those Ten Commandments. And what the consequences is
unbearable. But people, they do it all the
time. But we've come to Mount Zion. We've come to the speaking
blood. We've come to Jesus. We didn't
come to Moses. We come to the mediator of the
new covenant, the blood of sprinkling that speaks. And it speaks better
than the blood of Abel. And you know the Jews, all they
ever had was blood sacrifice. All they ever had was the blood
of animals, bulls and goats and lambs. But they thought the blood
was sacred. They thought it was sacred, the
animal blood was sacred. You know why they thought it
was sacred? Because they knew one day the Messiah would come
and he'd make an end of all those sacrifices. And they saw it then
because they understood that it was the blood of the atonement,
that the atonement that would come and be fully accomplished
someday. But now there's two bloods here
that we're talking about. Two bloods. And both of them
speak. Both of them have a voice. We
have the blood of Christ that speaks, and we have the blood
of Abel that speaks. The blood of Abel that speaks.
Look over at Hebrews 11, four. You know, Christ's blood speaks
better things than that of Abel. So it tells you if Christ's blood
speaks, then Abel's blood speaks. But look what it says here in
verse four. By faith, Abel offered unto God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness,
who witnessed it? God did, that he was righteous. God testified of his gifts, and
by it, he being dead, yet speaketh. So he speaketh. Now, so we got
two bloods, and both these bloods have a voice. They're speaking
blood. And you've got the, and I want
to show you a contrast between the blood of Christ and Abel's
blood. And there's also two meanings
here. First of all, it's talking about
the blood of Abel's sacrifice. His sacrifice. The blood that
he offered as a sacrifice in Genesis. And also the blood of
Christ that was offered as a sacrifice. And then the second meaning is
this. The blood of murdered Abel, and it speaks, and it speaks
to God. And then the blood of Christ,
who was crucified by wicked hands, and was murdered at the hands
of sinful men. And if they got an opportunity
to do it again, they'd do it all again. If Christ came and
done just exactly what he'd done before, he would still, still
be crucified, and still do with him. So let's look at the difference,
the contrast between the offerings of Abel and the offerings of
Christ that Christ presented to God. Abel presented a sacrifice
to God. He presented blood to God. Christ
come along and he presented blood to God. And so let's look at
the contrast between the two offerings. Abel's offering, let
me give you a description. Now look with me here, we're
in Genesis chapter four. Let's look together in Genesis
chapter four. We have a, you know, we don't have to wonder
about what happened here. Let's look at offerings, Abel's
offering, a description of it. There's two men, they come at
the same time and they're offered a sacrifice. They were brothers. And let's look what it said in
verse one, Genesis four. Adam knew Eve, his wife, and
she conceived in barren Cain. And she said, I've gotten a man
from the Lord. She honestly thought that she
had had the Savior. She thought this first man was
gonna be her Savior. And she again bared his brother
Abel. And Abel was a keeper of the sheep, but Cain was a tiller
of the ground. And in process of time, time
went on, and it came to pass, it's time to come to bring offerings.
And Cain brought the fruit of the ground, an offering unto
the Lord. And Abel he saw so brought of
the firstlings of his flocks, and the fat thereof, and the
Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. But unto Cain
and his offering he had not respect, and Cain was very angry, and
his countenance fell. Oh, God said to him, said, Cain,
If you'd done well and you brought the right sacrifice, you brought
an offering like your brother Abel, you'd be accepted. You'd
be accepted, but sin sets at your door. You love sin, you
like sin, you're not a sinner, you brought a thank offering,
you brought the offerings of the works of your hands, and
God said, I will not have it. And then look what he said. And
then Cain talked with his Abel, his brother, in verse eight,
and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose
up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. and slew him. And
his brother's blood began to cry. But you see Abel's offering
was a lamb. He brought a lamb And Isaiah
showed us there that he brought a lamb. Cain and Abel made two
offerings. One was an offering made by the
hands and works of a man. The other one was a sin offering.
What's the difference in the two of them? Cain was not a sinner. Cain did not regard himself as
a sinner. Cain didn't think he needed a
blood offering. He didn't need a sacrifice that
God would accept. But Abel knew what he was. He
was a sinner from the top of his head to the sole of his feet,
and he understood that if God accepts me, I've got to bring
blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin. And oh my, so listen, here's
the thing about it. Do you know why people don't
want Christ and don't want His blood? It's because they're not
sinners. If God ever makes you a sinner,
nothing will ever satisfy you but the blood of Christ. And
Abel, he brought blood because he was a sinner. He believed
that promise. That he said that when God told
him that Adam and Eve in the garden, he said I'm going to
put enmity, told Satan I'm going to put enmity between thy seed
and the seed of the woman. And then God himself provided
them an offering. He shed the blood and offered
a sacrifice and he shed blood and he covered Adam and Eve's
nakedness. And Abel knew that. He understood
that. He said, I've seen what God did.
And my father told me that it had to be blood that God shed
to cover my naked. It had to be blood that washed
my sins away. And so Abel, being what he was,
a sinner, he brought a lamb. He brought a lamb. And oh my. Abel's sacrifice, let me tell
you something, is the first sacrifice recorded in the Bible. First
sacrifice ever, ever recorded in the Bible. But you compare
it to the sacrifice of Christ, it don't amount to nothing. When you offer, you compare it
to what our Lord Jesus Christ offered, and the blood of Abel
absolutely means nothing. when you talk about the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Abel had confidence and faith
in a coming Messiah. What did he bring? He brought
a sacrifice. Showed the necessity of blood
shedding. But our Lord Jesus Christ brought
the blood shedding Himself. Huh? Abel taught the world by
His sacrifice that it took a sacrifice, it
took a blood offering, a sin offering, that put away sin. Christ brought the actual sacrifice
that put away sin, once and for all, by the sacrifice of himself.
So those two, see that Abel's sacrifice spoke, that God only
accepts blood. And he'll only accept a sinner
by a sacrifice of blood. And it taught us that God will
only do that. But when Christ offered his sacrifice,
Abel's blood never put away, that sacrifice never put away
sin. Christ's blood when he came, it spoke and it said sin is put
away once and for all by the sacrifice of himself. Huh? Abel, all he did was bring the
type. He brought the figure. His lamb
was nothing but a picture of the Lamb of God. And John stood
there one day on Jordan, he saw the Lord Jesus Christ coming,
and he says, behold, there's the Lamb of God. There's that
Lamb that God promised Abraham that he would sin. There's that
Lamb that's gonna take away the sin of the world. There's that
Lamb that's gonna have to come and die on Calvary's cross for
us. But Christ himself was that Lamb. Now I'll tell you something
else about Abel's sacrifice in this blood that speaks. Abel's
sacrifice did not have any merit in it whatsoever. It had no merit
in it. It was the blood of an animal,
blood of a bull and a goat. Look in Hebrews 10, 11, 10, excuse
me, 10, 4. The cross says over here. It had no merit in it. It never
put away one sin. Not a one sin. Look what it says
there in verse four. For it's not possible that the
blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. Oh my. Abel's blood had no merit in
it. And God asked this question in Micah, chapter six and verse
seven. Would God be pleased with 10,000
rivers of oil Would he be pleased with the sacrifice of your own
son, the son of your loins? Would he be pleased with that?
No, he would not. But I tell you what, the blood
of Christ, you're talking about merit, you're talking about worth,
you're talking about valuable. Let me tell you something about
the merit of Christ. You see, we have no merit. In
fact, we do merit it. We're demerited. We never had a merit in our life.
We never done anything good in our lives. We never thought a
good thought. We never said a word that was
worth listening to outside of Christ. But Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he offered himself a sacrifice to God, his blood said this,
that my blood has got such merit in it, it is so worth and it's
got so valuable and such merit before God that it will take
away the sin of a multitude that no man can number. Huh? The only merit I could ever possibly
have All the sins of God's elect,
from murdered Abel, all the way to the last sheep that'll ever
be saved. Christ has such merit in His
blood that His blood took care of all their sins for all eternity
and made them acceptable of God Almighty forever and ever and
ever. Huh? And then people tells us, you
know that you can't make the blood of Christ effectual. You
can't make it worth anything unless you add your faith to
it. You can't make it worth anything unless you add your repentance
to it. You've got to have faith. Christ's blood won't save you
if you don't have faith to it. Christ's blood can't save you
if you don't offer your free will to it. Christ's blood won't
save you unless you accept it. No, no, Christ's blood saves
everyone for whom he died. And he gonna save everyone for
whom he died that ain't even been born yet. They're gonna
have a baby here pretty soon. And I pray that God Almighty
in his sovereign mercy will make that child one of his elect and
that Christ died for that baby. And I tell you what, if you're
ever gonna have a baby, you pray, God, make that baby one of my,
oh God, please make it one of your elect. Don't let me have
a child unless it's one of yours. Oh, I tell you what, coming out
of the womb, being one of God's elect, grow up, be one of God's
elect, grow up, and the blood of Christ being applied to your
soul, oh my, wouldn't that be something? Oh, what a difference, what a
difference in the blood of Christ and the blood of Abel. And then
let's look at, that's the blood that speaks. And oh my, the comparison
between them. Now look here. Just look at the
speaking blood of Abel. Murdered Abel now. Murdered Abel.
You know when God said to Cain, He said, Where's your brother
at? He said, Am I my brother's keeper?
He said, Cain? Cain? You know here's the thing
about Abel offering the first sacrifice and his brother murdered
him because his deeds were evil and Abel's was righteous. And
there's always been a difference between Cain and Abel and there
always has been and always will be. But anyway, God said, your
voice, your brother's blood cries unto me, cries unto me. From where? From the ground.
There that blood was soaking in the ground. Already soaked
into the ground. You probably couldn't see where
the blood was. It already soaked into the ground.
But God says your brother's blood cries unto me out of that ground. What was he crying about? Well
Christ's blood speaks too. But his blood speaks better things
than that of Abel. Let me tell you, what's the difference
then between these two ways? First of all, murdered Abel,
his blood spoke in heaven. It spoke in heaven. And you know
what it cried out for? Revenge. Revenge. My blood has to be avenged. My blood, and that's what God
said, your brother's blood cries unto me, and Cain, I tell you
what I'm gonna do for you. I'm gonna put a mark on you,
and you're gonna go through this world, and you're gonna have
a mark on you, and nobody's gonna touch you. He said, my sin is
greater than I can bear. In other words, he said, I'm
hopeless. Why? He murdered his brother. And
that blood of his murdered brother cried unto him. Cried unto him. Oh my. He cried from revenge. And the second thing it does,
it speaks to us. It speaks to men. Why does it
speak up to us? It speaks to us that we really
truly are our brother's keeper. and do anything. You know our
Lord said it'd be better that a millstone be put around a man's
neck and him thrown into the depths of the sea that he should
offend one of these little ones for whom I died. So you imagine
what it is to murder one of God's elect. What it is to murder them. Murder them with your mouth.
Murder them with your attitude. Murder them with your actions. And oh my, and he said, oh it
speaks to us. It speaks to us in two ways.
It speaks to us that there's only one way to approach God,
and the second way is you be very, very careful how you treat
God's people. I'll tell you what, it's gonna
be, you know, if a person, and I've said this so many times,
if you hear the gospel, just hear it one time, You hear about
Christ and His blood and His sacrifice and His offering and
His righteousness one time. You hear the gospel one time.
And it'll be better for you than anybody anywhere on this earth,
than for you to hear it and not believe it. Cain said, my sin's greater than
I can bear. You know there's only two places
where your sins can be borne. Either Christ's gonna bear him
away, or you're gonna bear him for eternity. And there's no
middle ground. Christ is gonna bear your sins
away in his own body on the tree. And you're gonna have that blood
of Christ and the blood like murdered Abel to face God with
one of these days. And I'll tell you something else
he spoke to. His third thing he spoke to.
He spoke to Cain's conscience. Cain's conscience tormented him
the rest of his life. How do you know? God said it
would. Cain, he said, I'm putting a mark on you. He said, well,
somebody will kill me. Somebody will kill me. Somebody
will come and kill me. He said, there ain't nobody going
to touch you. You're going to go through life
hopeless, helpless, trembling, scared. You know, you're going
to be fleeing all the days of your life and when you get to
the end of it, you're going to have to face me for killing your
brother. And not only killing your brother,
but you're going to have to face me for bringing your miserable,
miserable, wretched works into my presence. Eternity is a long, long time. And let me tell you something,
you know, I want to be saved and why I
want to be saved is not that I'm afraid of judgment and that,
I'm not, you know, it's because I want to know Christ. I want to know that I know Christ.
I want to know that I'm trusting Christ. Not some doctrine, but
Christ. Not some sincerity, but Christ. Not morality, but Christ. Oh, He speaks to the conscience.
Conscience of Cain. Oh my. And I tell you what, I hope Oh, and I tell you what,
Christ's blood speaks in a three-fold way too. But Aaron, our text,
it said his speaks better things than that of Abel. As Abel's
blood spoke in heaven, Christ's blood speaks in heaven too. But oh, what a better thing it
speaks than the word of Abel. Christ's blood's speaking right
now. You know that? It speaks in heaven. Oh, look in Hebrews 9. Let me show you this. You've
seen this before, but let's look at it again. Oh, Christ's blood
speaks in a three, four minute. It speaks in heaven. It speaks
such better things than that of blood of Abel. And look what
it says here. Hebrews 9 and verse 11. But Christ, being come a high
priest of good things to come, that was nothing good under the
law, but a greater and more perfect tabernacle. What was that tabernacle? It was one that was made with
hands. It wasn't this building on earth. And neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in
once into the holy place, having eternal life. obtained eternal
redemption for us. Christ, I believe that what is
on that cross in that three hours of darkness, I'm going to quit
preaching and tell you what I think. It's just my opinion that that
three hours of darkness Christ by the Spirit took His blood
into the holy place in heaven. Just like the high priest took
that blood behind the veil once a year And the first thing he
had to do, he had to sprinkle it seven times before him so
he'd have a standing. He couldn't even stand before
that mercy seat without blood. Seven times, perfection. Then
he stepped up there. And then he took that blood and
sprinkled it seven times on that altar, on that mercy seat. And
then he came out from behind there and everybody rejoiced,
said God accepted him because God didn't kill him. Well, our
Lord Jesus Christ, he went into the holy place in heaven itself. And there's no veil up there.
There's no veil. He went there with his own blood,
and he put that on his own mercy seat. He put it there in the
presence of God and said, here! And God said in He and Isaiah
53, I am satisfied. He made His soul an offering
for sin, and I saw the travail of His soul, and I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. Oh, my. It speaks in heaven, blood hath
a voice to pierce the skies, reveals the blood of Abel Christ,
but the rich blood of Jesus slain speaks peace from every vein. Oh, I tell you, when the blood
of Christ speaks in heaven, you know what the first thing it
says? Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're
doing. It pleads for mercy. It pleads
for mercy. Oh, ain't you thankful the blood
of Christ pleads mercy for you? That Christ answers for you? Old timers used to say, you know,
plead the blood, plead the blood. Well, whose blood are you pleading?
If you plead the blood of the blessed Son of God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and say, Father, accept me for the blood that
was shed, wash me in the blood. It's the blood of Christ that
washes away all our sins. I'll tell you something else
about Christ's blood speaking in heaven. His blood is for many,
many, many offenses. What does that mean? That means
for multitude, a multitude of sins. Huh? Oh my! His blood peats for many offenses
and it pleads for justification for all of them. Every single
one of them. Huh? Oh my! Well, there's sin
abounded. What happened? Grace does much
more about it. Do you know how many sins do
you reckon we commit in one day? How many? You don't have to leave
your house. You don't have to get out of
your chair. You don't even have to get out of bed. And how many sins do you reckon
you commit? It don't make any difference.
Christ's blood put away every one of them. Ain't you thankful for that?
Well, what are we going to do? Are we going to go out and continue
to sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How can we, how can
we who've been justified by the blood of Christ have this righteousness,
His blood taking away our sin? How can we go and go against
that? Christ our Lord's blood pleads for peace, for forgiveness,
for grace, for acceptance. It speaks so many better things
than that of Abel's. And I'll tell you another thing
that Christ's blood speaks for. Not only does it speak in heaven,
it speaks to men. It speaks to men. Oh, it speaks
to the whole world. The Gospels went all over the
world. When God's prophets and God's people in the Scriptures
and His prophets, they speak while they were alive. And even
not only what they said, but what they did. They speak to
us. You take Noah. You take Noah. He spoke to the world at that
time 120 years. And then when that ark was finished,
he spoke by, preached righteousness for 120 years. And he preached
that they said, what are you building that ark for? He said,
that's fixing the rain. God's judgment's fixing the fall. That old man's a fool, ain't
he? He's a fool. There ain't going to be no judgment.
There ain't going to be no judgment. There's not going to be no rain.
What's he talking about? He spoke. He spoke. He spoke of the only place of
safety, the only place of hiding, the only refuge that there was.
And there's only one way in, one door to get in that ark.
And God said, come in. And that's the way He tells us,
come to His Son. And He goes one door, and He
went in that door, and the scripture said God shut Him in. God shut
Him in. He spoke to us. Enoch spoke to
us. He walked by faith. He believed
God and then he was not for God took him. That means that we
have an eternal inheritance. That one of these days God's
gonna come and take us and take us to glory. How'd he do it?
He walked by faith. And they all spoke of one to
come. And I'll tell you Abel, he sealed
his blood Abel's blood speaks this way. He sealed his blood,
sealed his testimony with his own blood. Do you know that?
Abel died for his profession. Abel died for his profession.
We've not yet resisted unto blood. But Abel sealed his testimony
with his blood. He died for his profession. I
wonder if we'd be able, you know, we can't hardly stand it if somebody
looks at us with a hard look. It upsets us. I heard a preacher
say one time, he said, he said, truth is constant, never changes. He said, all it takes to destroy
a fellow's liberty is somebody just look at him odd. It's gone
that quick. But the truth never changes.
Now our liberty, it can change just like that. But I wonder,
I wonder, I can't help but wonder this. We sang that song, where
he leads me I'll follow. Where he leads me I'll follow.
What if he led us to the time when we'd have to seal our profession
with our blood? I wonder how many of us would
do it, or we would put our fingers behind our back and cross them
and say, Lord let me get out of this mess some way. Our Lord's blood speaks better
things than that of Abel. He had a testimony too. What
was it? He testified of a work that the
Father gave him to do. He testified of a covenant of
grace. You know what? He came and he
says, my father gave me a work to do. He said, Lord, we want
you something to do. He said, my means to do the will
of him that sent me. Finish the work that he gave
me. He said, Father, I've kept every one that you gave me. He
told all of them. He says, you know, all that the
Father gives me, they're going to come to me. He talked about
a covenant. He talked about God giving him
a people. God giving him a people and him
coming to represent those people. To live for those people. To
die for those people. To give his life a ransom for
those people. To shed his blood for those people.
Provide for them a life that they could not possibly live.
And of death they couldn't die. And oh my. Now He told us of being given
to Him, and then when He cried from the cross, you know what
He said? He said, it is finished. What
was finished? The covenant. What ratified it? What sealed it? He sealed it
with His own blood. Oh my. All in God's covenant. Everyone in God's covenant He
made with His Son. God didn't make a covenant with
us. And I ain't gonna make no vows to God. You can make them
all you want to. You can make promises all you want to. I ain't
never kept a promise to myself hardly, much less one to God. But oh no, don't make no vows
to God. Don't make no promises. Huh? Don't need to make no promises. Christ doesn't make the promise.
He fulfilled the promise. Huh? And I tell you, however
one for whom God gave to Christ in that covenant of grace, they'll
every one of them be washed in His blood. And that blood will
purge our conscience, purge it from everything we ever hoped
in, ever trusted in, ever believed in before Christ came. Oh, it
speaks peace, rest, and sin gone. And Abel's blood spoke to the
conscience of Cain, You killed your brother, your mother's son.
What did he do to you? And let me tell you, Christ's
blood speaks to our conscience. I think it's... Yes. Hebrews 10.22. Look at this
with me. Look at this. The blood of Christ
speaks to our consciences. And it tells us to come by a
new and living way. Look what it says, since we have
a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with
a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience. Oh, sprinkled from an evil conscience. And let me show you one other
thing, you know. First Peter chapter one, verse two. You know the blood of Christ,
as Abel's blood spoke about Cain's conscience, and he was without
any hope from then on. The blood of Christ purges our
conscience from dead works, purges an evil conscience, purifies
our conscience. And look what it said here in
verse 2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, listen to this, unto
the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Christ. Whose
obedience? Not ours. Unto Christ's obedience
and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit
takes that blood, sprinkles it on our conscience. You remember
that story in Pilgrim's Progress when Bunyan
was in the City of Destruction. he had a burden on his back that
he couldn't bear. And he had a book in his hand
told about judgment. He said, I can't bear the sin
and I can't bear the judgment. So he started to the narrow way. First thing he did, he come up
to Mount Sinai. He said, well, I'm going to live
right. I'm going to do better. I'm going to live right. Moses
came to there and just went to beating him with a stick. beating
him with his rod, beat, beat, beat. He run back down off that
mountain. Still had that burden on his
back, that sin. Had that book that told him that judgment's got to come. Well,
he got, evangelist got him and told him, said, you go right
through that gate right there. Go through that gate and stay on
that narrow way. He went through that straight gate and he went
through that narrow way. And he got up there and he saw
a cross. He saw a cross, and a bleeding man on that cross. And he saw two shining ones standing
beside him. And he said, when I looked at
that cross, I saw that bleeding man on that cross. That burden
fell off my back, and it rolled away. And it was gone. And that book in my hand said,
And my sins are gone. Judgment's been wrought. And
he said, oh, he said, and then a shining one come, and he took
a robe, and he put this robe on me, covered me with this wonderful
robe. And somebody told me, they looked
at him and said, boy, you've got the most beautiful robe I
believe I've ever seen. I've never seen anything so shiny
and so pretty as that. You know what it was? It's the
same robe that God put on us and had God put on the prodigal
when he got home. That righteousness of Christ.
It covers you. It covers your mind. It covers
your thoughts. It covers your eyes. It covers
your ears. It covers your words. It covers your heart. It don't leave nothing uncovered. It covers it all. Our Father, blessed name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for allowing us to be here today.
Thank you for your precious, precious gospel. Gospel of blood,
covenant of blood. The blood shedding that washes
away our sin. And Lord, if you accept it, have
respect to Abel's offering. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ's blood.
Oh, what better things. Oh, what better things. Thank
you for him. Thank you for our Lord Jesus.
Thank you for our salvation. Thank you for the blood that
washes us and purges our conscience. And Lord, do for this people
what only you can do. We ask in Christ's name. Amen.