In the Acts of the Apostles in
chapter five, we read something of the effects of the preaching
of Christ, the preaching of Jesus Christ by the apostles whom he
sent forth to preach his gospel, and the response at Jerusalem
of the priests, the high priest and the priest, the Sadducees,
the Pharisees, to the preaching of the gospel and the effects
of that gospel. In chapter 5 and verse 12 we
read, And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people, and they were all with one accord
in Solomon's porch, and of the rest does no man join himself
to them, but the people magnified them. And believers were the
more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, insomuch
that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them
on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter
passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude
out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick
folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits, and they
were healed every one. Then the high priest rose up,
and all that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees,
and were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles
and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by
night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said,
Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of
this life. And the disciples, the apostles,
went into the temple and preached. The officers were sent to the
prison to find the apostles, and they found them not. And
they came to the chief priests, and in verse 23 they say, the
prison truly found me shut with all safety, and the keepers standing
without before the doors, but when we had opened, we found
no man within. Now when the high priest and
the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these
things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. Then
came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in
prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people. Then
went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence,
for they feared the people lest they should have been stoned.
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council,
and the high priest asked them, saying, Did not we straightly
command you? that ye should not teach in this
name. And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem
with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon
us.' Then Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. The
God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged
on a tree. Him have God exalted with his
right hand, to be a prince and a savior, for to give repentance
to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses
of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God have
given to them that obey him. And what a response we see. to
the apostles preaching of Christ, they were put in prison, commanded
not to preach and yet their response was we ought to obey God rather
than man. I want this morning to draw your
attention in particular to a verse in the middle of this passage
which is as it were something of a hinge in the passage where
we read the high priest's accusation in verse 28 where he says, did
not we straightly command you that you should not teach in
this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem
with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon
us. You have filled Jerusalem with
your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. The preaching of Christ and his
gospel stirs up great opposition in the heart of man. Great opposition. Especially in the hearts of those
who are religious. These disciples, these apostles
were preaching the gospel in Jerusalem. They were preaching
in the midst of that people who should have known who Christ
was, who should have recognized Christ to be the Messiah, who
should have received Christ as their Messiah promised to them
by the prophets of old. They should have welcomed Christ
with open arms. They of all people should have
received him. They of all people should have
received his message and his gospel. They of all people should
have believed. And yet the priests, the custodians
of religion in Jerusalem, those who were given the honor of conducting
the priesthood which God had ordained of old, those who were
versed in the scriptures were those Jerusalem who were the
most filled up with indignation when they heard this message.
These people saw the success of the preaching of the apostles,
they saw these apostles who by their hands worked with many
signs and wonders, God by the hands of the apostles wrought
many signs and wonders among the people. They saw the multitudes
added to them, both of men and women. They saw the sick and
those who were vexed with unclean spirits were healed. They saw
this stirring up of the people. They saw those who would follow
and who would believe in Christ as they heard of Him. And instead
of rejoicing that many believed on the Messiah, Instead they
were filled with rage and indignation. They were jealous of the success
of these men. They were jealous that the people
were going after these men in their midst, rather than following
after them and their religion. They were filled with fury at
the effects. They were filled with fury at
the message itself. Their hearts burned with anger. They didn't want Christ. They
didn't want his message. And they didn't want his blood. Man's heart by nature is stirred
up in opposition to the message of Christ. It's stirred up in
opposition to his gospel. We don't want Christ. We don't
want his message. and we don't want his blood.
You don't and I don't. We're filled with indignation
when a preacher stands in our midst and preaches Christ and
his gospel. We don't like the accusation
that such a message brings against us. We don't like to hear of
our state We don't like to hear that we are sinners in need of
salvation. We don't like to hear that we
are nothing, that we are helpless, that we are weak. We don't like
to hear that we have no strength or ability in ourselves. We don't
like to be stripped bare. We don't mind the message which
comes and boosts us a bit. But we don't like the message
of the gospel which says that man is nothing and that man's
salvation is entirely in the hands of God. We don't want to
hear about Christ and what he did to save a people. We don't
want to hear about his blood. We're filled with indignation. These priests were filled with
indignation. They were filled with indignation
at the success of these apostles in their midst. they were filled
with indignation that the people were drawn after them and they
were filled with indignation at the directness of that message
for the apostles did not beat about the bush they did not come
into the midst of jerusalem and to these priests and preach a
nice message to them they did not coat it with candy They did
not speak only of the love of God, but they spake plainly to
those that nailed their Lord to a cross. They stood up to
these priests and declared in verse 30, the God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree. whom you
slew and hanged on a tree. If a preacher comes to you this
day and says to you directly, plainly, that God raised up Jesus
Christ from the dead, whom you slew and hanged on a tree, what
is the reaction of your heart? but indignation. What was the reaction of the
apostles to the response of the priest to them? The priest took
them and put them in the jail. But the angel of the Lord by
night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and sent
them forth again saying, go stand and speak in the temple to the
people all the words of this life. they went back to the temple
and they preached and the officers came again and brought them to
the chief priest who accused them you've filled jerusalem
with your doctrine and you intend to bring this man's blood upon
us what did peter and the apostles answer we ought to obey god rather
than men we ought to obey God rather than
men. Don't think that that was easy
for Peter to say. He knew that the people before
whom he stood could easily put him to death as they put his
Lord and Master to death. He knew that by declaring this
message in Jerusalem in the temple where the priests were, where
the scribes and pharisees were. He knew that he was stood as
it were in the lion's den. He knew that he could be bound
at any moment, that he could be executed. And naturally, naturally
the heart of man would find a way of trying to appease the accusers,
of trying to escape their grip, of perhaps finding a way of declaring
the message so that it wouldn't be so cutting, so that it wouldn't
bring the opposition. But God so wrought in Peter,
and God so wrought in the apostles, that he gave him and them such
faith, such boldness, that Peter could stand up and say, we ought
to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised
up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him have God exalted
with his right hand to be a prince and a savior, for to give repentance
to Israel and forgiveness of sins. Yes, the apostles obeyed
God. not man. They weren't motivated
by the fear of man or by the desire to please man. They weren't
motivated by the applause of man or the acclaim of man. They
didn't preach to be praised of man. They didn't preach to gain
themselves a large audience or a large following, whether many
believed or whether few believed, whether they lived or whether
they died. whether they had the freedom
to preach Christ for many years to come, or whether they would
preach their last message on this day before they were executed
at the hands of these who held them, they declared boldly, with
God-given faith, we ought to obey God rather than man. And obey God rather than men
is what they did. Their message wasn't welcome.
and it's not welcome today. But preach it, they did, for
they were sent to preach it, and preach it they must. When
the angel delivered them from the prison, the angel of the
Lord sent them forth again and said, go, stand and speak in
the temple to the people all the words of this life. They
were sent to the people to preach all the words of this life. They were sent and they were
sent with a message of life. The words of life, the word of
life. They knew that this message with
which they were sent was that and only that by which the people
might be brought out of death into life. out of death into
everlasting life they knew that it was this message which had
saved them and it is this message which God would use to save others
so they were bold in their declaration for they were sent they weren't
invited the priest hadn't invited them to Jerusalem The priests
hadn't said, why don't you come and preach in the temple this
Sunday morning? They hadn't been booked. There
wasn't an appointment of man. God sent them there. God sent
them into the midst of this people to declare that which the people
needed to hear. And that which filled the priests
with indignation such that they took them by the hands to slay
them. If these apostles had waited
to be asked, the people would have never heard. They didn't
bring a message at man's invitation. And if we wait to be asked to
preach the gospel in our day, we'll never be heard. Dead men,
lost sheep aren't queuing up to hear this message. They don't
want to know. We don't bring a message at man's
bidding. We bring a message at God's sending,
at his command, by his declaration. God sends his preachers to his
lost sheep in Israel to preach a message of salvation unto those
who are his, those who are lost, those who are dead by nature.
God sends He sends his message and he puts boldness in the hearts
of those whom he sends. Woe is me if I preach not the
gospel, Paul said. Woe is me. Paul was constrained
to preach the gospel. He was constrained. He was moved
in his heart. God sent him. He was constrained. What constrained him? The love
of Christ. shed abroad in his heart. He
could not but preach, and he went wherever God sent him to
preach. Whatever the people might say,
whatever opposition he might face, however stern the looks
might be, however full the eyes might be filled with hatred,
he was sent. Peter was sent to this people.
and the chief priests, the priests, the Jews were filled with indignation. They said behold you have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine, look at the tumult you're bringing,
everybody's listening to it, everybody's speaking this heresy
that you're bringing here, you've filled Jerusalem with your doctrine
and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us, You intend
to bring this man's blood upon us. Consider this accusation. How full of meaning this is.
You intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Yes, these people knew that they
had put Christ to death. They knew that they had handed
him over to the Romans. and had fabricated a fake trial
to have him nailed to the tree, to have him crucified. They fought
to do away with him. They thought that by slaying
Christ, this leader of this band in Galilee, that they would put
an end to this in their midst, that they would put an end to
this teaching, an end to this following of this man from Galilee. They thought that by his death,
that would be an end of things. And here they are, weeks later,
and those who followed Christ, his disciples, the apostles,
were now continuing to preach in Jerusalem. A multitude were
following. Many were believing. They filled
Jerusalem with their doctrine. Not only had they not brought
an end to this, but this thing was multiplying in their midst.
It was growing. And with its growth was the growth
in the accusation against them. Those who were brought to believe
on Jesus knew that Jesus had been unlawfully put to death,
and they knew who had done it. And in rage, the high priest
says, you intend to bring this man's blood upon us. The people
will be baying for our blood. They'll be saying that we're
the guilty ones. What are you doing? What are
you trying to stir up? Be silent. Take your message
elsewhere. Go away. We don't want to hear
it. They didn't want to hear of that
man's blood. They didn't want to know. And
yet, The very thing that they didn't want to come about was
the very thing that they needed. They said, you intend to bring
this man's blood upon us. In those words, they meant that
they didn't want the guilt and the accusation upon their heads. And yet those words described
just what they needed for salvation. They did indeed need this man's
blood to be upon them. The apostles intended the blood
of Christ to be upon those who heard his gospel and who believed
in Christ for salvation. They preached Christ and him
crucified. They preached the efficacy of
Christ's blood in washing away the sins of his people. They
preach repentance and the forgiveness of sins. They preach that God
had exalted Christ to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance
to Israel and the forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness of sins
through His blood, which washes away sins. Yes, indeed, the apostles
intended this man's blood to be upon those who believed on
Him. And with wonderful irony, the
high priest says of this man, that you intend to bring this
man's blood upon us. And that's just what they needed.
It's just what you need. You may not want to hear his
gospel. You might not want to hear of
his death. You certainly don't want to hear
that you're guilty of his death because of your sins, because
of your despising of him, because of your rejecting of him. This
people trampled his blood underfoot. They trampled the son of God
underfoot. And yet he is what they needed.
And this blood is what they needed. or what is your reaction to Christ
and his gospel? When a preacher comes with his
message, do you say, oh be quiet, go away with your religion. I
don't want to know. You're just out to convert me. You're just out to proselytize.
I don't need your Jesus. I don't need your religion. I
want to live my life how I want to live. I want to be free, I
don't want any of your restrictions, any of your talking about good
and evil. Everything's okay to me, I want
to do what I like, go away. I don't want to know about it. Is that your reaction? Is that
your heart? Is your heart set upon other
things, upon pleasure? upon your life, upon your things,
what you want to do with your life, the success of your life,
your career, your school, your entertainment, your sport, your
pleasures, what you're going to do. Me, me, me. Oh no, we don't want to know. We don't want to know of that
doctrine. We don't want to know that gospel. We don't want to know that blood.
You filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and you intend to bring
this man's blood upon us. We don't want to know. And yet
these priests, these Jews, by their deed in slaying Jesus,
Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree, by their very deed
in slaying him. God did indeed bring his blood
upon a people called out from amongst the Jews, as well as
the people called out from amongst the Gentiles. His blood, his
blood was brought upon many of the Jews. though at first they
did not want it. It is that blood which they needed.
And by their deed in slaying him, his blood is brought upon
all his people throughout all the ages, whether they be Jews
or Gentiles. If you believe Christ this day,
it's by their deed in slaying him on a tree. as they were moved
of God to bring about the counsel of God that he purpose from all
eternity. It's by that deed that his blood,
this man's blood is brought upon even you. Yes, his blood was brought upon
them. His blood was brought upon all
of them in one way or another. in slaying him his blood was
indeed brought upon them, either to cover their sins as they're
brought to faith to see that he was the one that bore their
sins and took their sins away, or to judge them for slaying him
and rejecting him whom God has exalted to be a prince and a
savior. This blood is indeed brought
upon all of us, either in judgment of us, as those who are guilty
of the slaying of this one, as those who are guilty of the bringing
forth of this blood, or by the mercy and grace of God, to wash
us in that blood, to give repentance and the forgiveness of sins.
Oh, this blood, this blood. Yes indeed the apostles intended
to bring this man's blood upon them, their message did indeed
bring that man's blood upon them, either to judge them for their
sins or to justify them by the shedding of his blood which washes
from sins. Oh the preciousness of this blood
what do you know of this man's blood this man's blood how precious is the blood how
precious is the blood of christ how precious oh what a wonderful
thing to hear of the blood of christ that blood which christ
shed upon the tree to wash away the sins of all his people, to
wash away all the sins of all his people. Oh what blood is
this that can wash away sins, what sort of blood is this that
washes away every sin, What sort of blood is this that can cleanse
a man who is black and guilty from head to toe? What sort of
blood is this that can take a leper and make him clean and make him
perfect? What sort of blood is this that
can wash away every sin? O precious blood! Hebrews 9.22
tells us that without shedding of blood, there is no
remission of sins. Without the shedding of blood,
under the sacrifices in the Old Testament, which were all figures
and pictures of that one sacrifice of Christ to come for sins, the
priest would sacrifice and would offer up the blood of a lamb,
the blood of a sacrifice, And as it says in Hebrews 9.22, almost
all things are by the Lord purged with blood, and without the shedding
of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that
the pattern of things in the heavens should be purified with
these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices
than these. For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the
true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest entreath into the holy place
every year with the blood of others, for then must he have
often suffered since the foundation of the world. But now, once in
the end of the world have he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment, So Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation. Yes, he shed his blood once and
for all. He only needed to shed it once,
and when his blood was shed, the sins of his people were truly
washed away. When the priests of old shed
the blood of the sacrifices, that blood was but a figure.
Temporarily, God would count the people as having been forgiven. He would turn away from judging
them in a temporary sense. But that was really but a figure,
a picture that pointed those who were given faith to that
sacrifice that was to come, even to Jesus Christ. to that blood
that would be shed upon the tree, which would truly take away their
sin, which would truly wash their sins away. For that was their
need then, that their sins would be washed. And that, my friend,
is your need today, that your sins are washed. We're sinners
by nature. We're guilty. We've offended
God in every way. We've broken his law in every
way. We've stolen. We've lied. We've lusted. We've sought after
our own things. We've coveted. We've not worshipped
God with all our hearts and all our minds. We've not praised
him. We've not rendered under him
that which is his. We've sought our own ways and
our own things. We are utterly guilty. and our
sins are mounted up above our heads and they need to be taken
away, they need to be washed, we need to be cleansed, cleansed. And here is blood, this man's
blood, Christ's blood, Jesus' blood, here is blood. which if
it's brought upon us, can cleanse us from every sin, all our sins,
past, present, and future. Oh, this is precious blood. Is
this blood upon you? Or is the guilt of its being shed
upon you? Who in your heart put Christ
to death? who in your heart puts Christ
to death this day? Do you put him to death in your
heart this day? Or has the Spirit melted you
and broken you and caused you to look for him who washes sin
away by such blood? O precious blood! Why blood? Why is sin remitted through blood? Why blood? Well not only does
blood speak of life and the taking away of life when it is shed
for sin brings upon itself condemnation and the penalty of sin the penalty
of a broken law is death and we will either die for our sins
or one must take that penalty upon himself and he must die
in our stead And it is Christ who has the substitute of his
people who took the penalty of their sin upon his head and died
in their stead. And his shed blood was a witness
of that death, that he had truly died. He had truly died. Yes, the blood witness to his
death. not only does blood witness to
death but blood is also that which comes from the heart it
flows out from the heart and it goes through all the body
it gives that life in all the body it flows from the heart
and it is blood which is pictured in the scripture as that which
washes away man's sin for it is man's sin which comes out
of man's heart Out of the heart proceed all forms of wickedness. Man's problem is his heart and
what flows out of his heart. And man needs to be cleansed
of that which flows out of his heart. As Christ says in Matthew
chapter 15 verse 18, those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart and they defile the man. For out
of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile
a man. These are the things. These things
flow forth from the heart, from the volition of man, from his
will, from his thoughts and intentions, which flow forth from his heart. These are those sins which defile
and corrupt a man. These are those things which
need cleansing. And so it is blood that flows
forth from the heart, even out of the heart of Christ, which
God takes to cleanse the guilty sinner. And the blood of Christ
cleanses from every sin, every sin. and the apostles went forth
in jerusalem to declare christ and his blood and his gospel
and they filled jerusalem with his doctrine and as the high
priest said they intended to bring this man's blood upon them
or with this man's blood upon you is it don't trample this
blood underfoot Don't despise it. Don't count it as an unholy
thing, a common thing. For as we read in Hebrews 10
and verse 28, he that despised Moses' law died without mercy
under two or three witnesses of how much sore a punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be fought worthy who have trodden underfoot
the Son of God and have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith
he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despise unto the
Spirit of grace. For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense hath the Lord. And again, the Lord shall judge
his people. It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God. A fearful thing. Now don't despise the Son of
God. and don't despise this man's
blood don't trample the son of God underfoot don't trample his
blood underfoot you don't need that blood under you you need
it upon you you need to be covered by this blood covered by this
blood and if God purposes to cover you by this blood, I tell
you, you will be. You will be. Whatever you might
do to try to resist it, whatever you might do to this blood, whatever
you might do to the Son of God in your heart, however you might
trample Him underfoot in your heart, however far away from
Him you might seek to run, however indulged you might be in your
own thoughts and desires, However far off from God you might be,
if God purposes to cover you in this blood, you will be covered. These priests put Christ to death. They slew him and hung him on
a tree. But what they did brought about
the salvation of a great multitude. What they purpose for evil, God
purpose for good. When God purposes to save, He
saves. It's all of God you see, it's
all of God. What man did, you and me included,
was to reject Christ. But what God did, by the very
same act, both then 2000 years ago, at the literal hands of
the Jews and the Romans, and now, each and every day in the
hearts of rebellious sinners as they put the Son of God to
death afresh in their hearts. What God did by that act and
by these acts in those whom he pleases to save, is he turned
that sin around. They put his son to death, but
God turned it around and used it to accomplish his eternal
purpose. We mean it for evil, But God
meant it for good. Now where is the will and work
of man in that? It did the very opposite. God
turned the work of these evil men around and he used it to
bring the salvation of all his own. All his own. They could not stop it. They
could not stop Christ. They put him to death, but they
could not stop him. He rose again the third day. His gospel went forth in power. He sent forth his disciples. By the hands of the apostles,
many signs and wonders were wrought among the people. Multitudes
believed, both of men and women. They tried to put them back in
prison, but the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors
and sent them forth again. Go stand and speak in the temple
to the people all the words of this life. God brought about
his purpose. They could not contain it. Jerusalem had been filled with
their doctrine. Who intended to bring this man's
blood upon them? In the end, Gamaliel stands up
before this people. And he tells them, he gives them
words of wisdom. He tells them that if this is
of God, you cannot stand against it. He tells them of a person
called Theodosius, who boasted himself to be somebody who had
several hundred people follow him, who at one time was slain. And then the people were scattered
and it came to nothing. And Judas of Galilee again, Had
a people follow him, but he perished, and they with him. And yet, he
says, refrain from these men, these apostles, and let them
alone. For if this counsel or this work
be of men, like it was with Fewardus and Judas, it will come to naught. But if it be of God, you cannot
overthrow it, lest happily you be found to fight against God.
You can't overthrow it. You can't prevail against it,
for when God purposed to work, it's irresistible. When He brings
His grace to bear upon a man, it's invincible, it's irresistible,
it's overwhelming. If God purposes to bring about
your salvation, if He purposes to wash you, even you, in the
blood of Christ, if this man's blood is brought upon you, You'll
be overwhelmed by the grace of God. You'll be overwhelmed by
His love. You can kick against it all you
like, but there comes a time when your heart, even your heart
will be made willing in the day of His power. Made willing. Grace is invincible. It's invincible. What grace Christ showed unto
this people, even unto the Jews here. Though they slew his son,
he brought the gospel to Jerusalem. Though the Jews rejected his
son, he still declared the gospel in their midst, and he saved
many of them. He saved many of them. He did
wondrous works. He overwhelmed them with his
mercy. He overwhelmed them with his
love. overwhelmed them with his grace.
When God works, nothing can let it, nothing can prevent it, nothing
can stand in its way. You fill Jerusalem with your
doctrine and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us. If
God purposes to bring this man's blood upon you, you will be covered
from head to toe by blood that is so precious, so powerful,
so efficacious, that it will cleanse you from all your sin,
and all your guilt, and all your waywardness, and all your unbelief,
and every objection, every opposition every excuse will be taken away
and you'll be brought to your knees in awe and wonder at the
long-suffering the grace the love and the mercy of God even
unto you a wayward lost sheep a rebellious sinner that he should
die for you that Christ should give his life even for you yes
when God works nothing can let it and if that is the case child
of God child of God, believer, if that's the case, then know
you that whatever opposition might come your way, like these
disciples, whatever persecution you may suffer, whatever trials
you may face and have to bear, whatever might come your way,
nothing, nothing will prevent or withstand the work of God
in you and for you. Nothing will prevent God from
keeping you. from feeding you, from leading
you, from protecting you, from watching over you, from caring
for you, each and every day of your life, until you pass from
this scene of time and step into the glorious passes of eternity. Yes, child of God, nothing can
stand in the way of God's grace, either to bring you to salvation
or to keep you to the end. You're in God's hands. What of
your sin, your failings, your doubts, your fears? Won't they,
can't they come between you and your God? You say guilty, feeling
guilty, feeling down because you've fallen and sinned. Won't
God be angry with me? Can't this come between me and
Him? Might this ruin me in the end? No. If this blood is upon
you, if this man's blood is upon you, if you're in Christ, if
you're His, then you're His forever. And the Father looks upon you
as He looks upon Him. He looks upon you as He looks
upon Christ as His own Son. And He looks and He looks for
your sins. And He can't see one. He looks
to the East and to the West, to the North and the South, and
not one sin is found nowhere ever they're all gone they've
been blotted out they're clean gone there's not a speck there's
not a blemish you are covered in his blood this man's blood
is upon you child of God if you are in Christ and you are perfect
in Christ Jesus perfect What do you know of this blood? Are
you in Christ? Do you know that you are perfect
in Christ? Perfect? How? Why? Because by his gospel, by
his gospel, by this doctrine, by this gospel, the Lord intended,
child of God, to bring this man's blood upon you. This man's blood. Amen.