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Now here's our pastor, Todd Nibert. In Romans chapter 5, verse 9,
we read, much more than being now justified by His blood. We shall be saved from wrath
through Him. Now, I want to emphasize this
phrase, His blood. being justified by His blood. I've entitled this message, His
Blood. Now, if you would have looked
at Old Testament worship, you would have been struck by how
bloody it was. Oh, it was bloody. Sacrifice upon sacrifice upon
sacrifice. If you would have looked at the
priest doing his work, I know you've been in the market and
seen a butcher with his white apron on, and the white apron
has blood all over it where he's butchered animals. Well, a priest
wore white linen garments, and if you would have seen him, you
would have seen blood all over him. You would have seen blood
all over the paraphernalia of the Old Testament tabernacle,
and the altar, and the candlesticks, and all the different things
that were made for the tabernacle. They were always purged with
blood. They had blood sprinkled upon
them. When Adam and Eve first fell,
God slew an animal and they saw blood shedding. The very first
story after the fall, Cain and Abel, were taught that men can
only approach God with a blood sacrifice. Cain brought a bloodless
sacrifice, and he was rejected. God had no respect to him. But
God had respect and regard for Abel and his offering, his blood
sacrifice, which typified the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Under the Old Testament economy,
Millions of animals were sacrificed over the centuries. The morning
and the evening sacrifice that took place every single day.
The sin sacrifice, the trespass offering, the day of atonement
that happened once every year when the priest would go into
the Holy of Holies and the scripture points out, not without blood.
He wouldn't dare come into the Holy of Holies without blood.
He would have been put to death. I think of the Passover. The
Passover was an act of judgment. That's when sin was punished.
It was either punished in the substitute or the people themselves. And when God passed through the
land of Egypt, He said, when I see the blood, I will pass
over you. What was the one thing God was
looking for? He didn't say, when I see your faith. He didn't say,
when I see your repentance. He didn't say, when I see your
affirmation or your intentions or the things that how you're
going to straighten up your life. Only one thing God was looking
for. He said, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. He didn't say, when you see the
blood. He said, when I see the blood. Now, what is all this
blood shedding about? Is it primitive? Is it barbaric? Is it violent? What is all this
shedding of blood about? As I said, if you would have
looked at Old Testament worship, divinely inspired by God, you'd
have been struck by all the blood that was shed. Leviticus 17,
verse 11, it says, it is the blood that maketh atonement for
the soul. I can't make atonement by anything
that I do. No amount of sorrow, no amount
of crying for mercy, no amount of promises to never do those
things again, no amount of effort to straighten up and it'll be
different for me. None of that will make atonement
for the soul. It is the blood that maketh atonement
for the soul. Hebrews 9.22 says, without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. Now, what
I'm getting ready to say, when you hear it, your conscience
will verify that what I'm saying is so. God is just. Absolutely, impartially just. He will neither condemn the innocent,
nor will he clear the guilty. We read in Proverbs 17, 15, he
that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just,
even they both are an abomination unto the Lord. Exodus 34, verse
seven, God said, I will by no means clear the guilty. In Genesis 18, verse 25, Abraham
said concerning the God of glory, shall not the judge of the earth
do right? God is just, and He imposes His
righteous law. You see, there is a right and
there is wrong. There are moral absolutes, and
the reason there are moral absolutes is because God is. Now, if atheism
would be true, hey, it's survival of the fittest. You can't really
say there's a right and there's a wrong if atheism is true. Now,
I know atheism is not true. There's got to be a cause. God
is the cause. And everybody deep down knows
that. The people who are atheists want there to be no God. They
think it would be to their advantage if there were no God. But everyone,
when he lays in bed at night, he knows God is." And you can
say, I don't know that. I beg to differ. You do know
that God is. He's the first cause. He's the
cause of causes. And because God is, there are
moral absolutes because of who he is. God rewards the righteous and
he punishes the wicked. God is just. Notwithstanding
all the apparent inequalities and injustices that happen daily
in this life, notwithstanding the prosperity of the wicked
and the seeming affliction of the righteous, God is just in
all His ways. and holy in all his works, and
he will right every wrong." God is just, and it's the justice
of God that demands the punishment of sin. That's what the shedding
of blood is all about. The wages of sin is death. There is such a thing as sin,
and God's justice demands the punishment of sin. Now, the primary
reason for the punishment of sin, God's punishment of sin,
it's not to reform. Hell is not a reformatory. Prisons
are called places of reform where the criminal has tried to reform,
and I hope they are reformed. But understand this, God's punishment
is not with the intention to reform. Now we know this even
naturally when someone commits a grievous crime against humanity,
the crime must be punished. Not to reform the offender. The
punishment is punitive. He must be punished because he
committed that crime. Our conscience tells us that
this is so. When God punishes, it's not in
order to try to prevent crime. The law was not given to try
to prevent sin. As a matter of fact, when the
law is, it exposes sin to be what it is. It doesn't prevent
sin. The strength of sin, the scripture says, is the law. But
the prevention of crime is not the primary reason for God's
punishment of sin. Their rights and their wrongs,
their moral absolutes and sin must be punished. Let me use
an extreme example. Let's say there is a cold-blooded,
unfeeling, unremorseful pedophile who commits atrocious acts against
children with no sorrow for what he's done. Should he be punished?
Of course he should. Everyone's conscience tells them
that person should be punished. Now there must be satisfaction
to justice. That's what this shedding of
blood is all about. There must be a satisfaction
to justice before sin can be forgiven. It would be contrary
to the justice of God to merely forgive sin without the punishment
of the offender. If a man commits a crime in our
court system, does the judge say, well, I'm just gonna go
ahead and forgive you of it and put him back out into society?
No, the crime must be punished. Now, God must punish sin. If He would just indiscriminately
forgive without any satisfaction to His justice and the offender
being punished, He would be unjust. He would not be God. That's not
God-like. God's the judge of the earth.
He must do right and sin must be punished. No sin will be forgiven
without the satisfaction of justice. So how thankful I am for this
statement we read in Romans chapter five, verse nine, being justified
by his blood. You see, his blood did something.
He justified. all those for whom he died. It does not say we're forgiven
by his blood, although we are. It says we are justified by his
blood. Something has been done that
has made a way for God to be just and yet justify the ungodly. Now that's what this shedding
of blood is all about. Now our Lord came to shed his
blood. He's called the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world. If He came to this earth and
simply obeyed God's law, which is a glorious thing, and He did
do that, He never sinned. But if He came to this earth
and never sinned, and lived a perfect life, and went back to His Father,
what good would that do me or you? it wouldn't do us any good
at all. As a matter of fact, all it would
do is condemn us all the more. But he came to shed his precious
blood. He lived a perfect life. He never
sinned, and yet his blood was shed. Why? The sins of God's
people became his sins. He became guilty of those sins. When he sweat great drops of
blood in Gethsemane's garden, saying, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thine be done. His blood began to be shed. When they beat Him with a cat
of nine tails, when they ripped the beard out of His face, when
they pressed the crown of thorns upon His head, when they drove
nails through His hands and His feet to fasten Him to the cross,
when they thrust the spear through His side, blood. was shed. And without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sins. And it's not talking about anybody's
blood, but his blood. The shedding of my blood won't
remit sins. The shedding of your blood won't
remit sins. The shedding of all those millions
of animals who died could never put away one sin, but the shedding
of his blood. the shedding of His blood, there's
the actual remission of sins. Now, right before His death,
in the Last Supper with His disciples, He said, this is the blood of
the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of
sins. The blood of the New Testament
Do you know the New Testament is actually much older than the
Old Testament? You see, the New Testament is
the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The blood of the New Testament. He said, what shall I say? Father
saved me from this hour, but for this cause came I into this
hour. In Hebrews chapter 13, verse
20, we read of the blood of the everlasting covenant, the eternal
covenant. Now there's something called
the covenant of grace. It's called in the scripture,
the covenant of peace. It was a covenant that God made
with Christ before the world began. He gave Christ to people. He said, the responsibility of
their salvation is up to you. It's on your shoulders. I'm giving
you this people. You're to agree to bear, to keep
the law for them, to bear their sins, to save them. All I require
of them, I'm going to look to you for. And Christ said, I'll
do it. Now, this is the covenant David
spoke of when he said, Although my house be not so with God,
yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things,
insure, and this is all my salvation and all my desire, though he
make it not to grow out the blood of the everlasting covenant. We read in Hebrews 9, verse 12,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood. He entered once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. That which
was purposed in eternity and finished in eternity was accomplished
in time. He came and obtained eternal
redemption for us. That means he got it. He actually
obtained the redemption of everybody he died for. Now I'd like for
us to look at what the Bible says his blood actually did. Well, we've already read Romans
5, 9, being justified by His blood. Now, if I'm justified,
that means I have no guilt. That means I've always done that
which is right, and I've never done that which is wrong. It
means I stand before God's law perfect. And this is what His
blood actually accomplished. He justified everybody that He
died for. If you read the following verse
in Romans 5, verse 10, it says, What did His death do? What did
the shedding of His blood do? We were reconciled to God. Because of His death, God has
no reason for anger. Sin has been washed away. It's
been put away. We're justified, and God has
no reason for anger. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 12
says, Wherefore Jesus, that He might sanctify the people, by
His own blood suffered without the gate. Hebrews 10.10 says,
by the witch will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. Now here's what His blood did.
His blood justified me. His blood reconciled me, and
His blood sanctified me. His blood actually makes me holy. Everybody He died for is holy. Wherefore, by one offering, He
hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. His blood actually
makes the person He died for holy, so that God says they're
holy. That's what His blood actually
accomplished. Acts chapter 20, 28, Paul said,
feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. I've been purchased. I've been
bought with a price. I'm not my own. I've been bought
with the precious blood of Christ. Ephesians chapter 1, verse 7
says, in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness
of sins. All of my sins are forgiven sins
because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even the sins that
I've not yet committed are forgiven sins because I've been redeemed
by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians chapter 1
verse 20 says, having made peace through the blood of His cross. Now the blood of His cross made
my peace with God. God's at peace with me. He has
no reason to be angry with with me. He has no reason to pour
His wrath out upon me. He's at peace with me because
the blood of Christ has put away my sin, and God is at peace with
me." Somebody says, have you made your peace with God? No,
I haven't. Christ made my peace with God, and God is at peace
with me. Revelation 1.5 says, He washed
us from our sins in His own blood. They're not on me anymore, they've
been washed away. You put something dirty in the,
whatever it is you put dirty clothes in, I can't even remember
what the name of it is for something, washing machine, how I forgot
that, I don't know, the washing machine, it's dirty. You put
it in, you pull it back out, the dirt is gone, it's washed
away. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
washes away the sins of His people. Revelation 7.14 speaks of those
who washed their garments and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. Now, I was passive in this thing
of my sins being washed away, but here we read of people actually
washing their garments and making them white in the blood of the
Lamb. Now, how do you go about doing that? You do that by pleading
the blood. Lord, make me clean through the
blood. There's no other way I can be
clean except through the blood of your son. I look to him only
as the only way I can be clean. We read in 1 John 1, verse 7,
the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleanseth us from all sin. The word cleansed is also translated
purged and purified. I don't know of a scripture I
love any better than this one, Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3, when
he had by himself, with no help from me, with no help from you,
he had no creature aid, when he had by himself purged our
sins. They're gone. They're purged
away. When he had by himself purged
our sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Why did he
sit down? Because there was nothing left
for him to do. He got the job done. He said,
it is finished. Sin was purged away. That's what he did by his blood.
In Hebrews, I mean, Ephesians chapter two, verse 14, we read,
we've been made nigh by the blood of Christ, near to God, close
to God, not far away, but made nigh, near, so near to God, nearer
I cannot be. For in the person of his dear
son, I'm as near to God as he dear, so dear to God, dearer
I cannot be. For in the person of his dear
Son, I am as dear to God as he." Hebrews chapter 10 verse 19 says
we have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Where does that boldness come
from? the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ." It's not some kind of
presumption. It's boldness through the blood
of Christ. He says, we have boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living
way. That word new means freshly slaughtered. The blood of Christ is always
powerful, always poignant to the Father. It's never old. It's just as if He was just slain. What satisfaction to the justice
of God there is in His blood. And our boldness to enter into
God's presence, into the very presence, the holiest of holies,
is through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'd like to read
a passage of scripture from the book of Revelation that gives
us some idea of the preciousness and greatness of His blood. We
read in verse 9, was cast out that old serpent
called the devil. And Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom
of our God and the power of his Christ. For the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God night
and day." And that's what the devil is called, the accuser
of the brethren. Oh, he accuses God's people to God. They did
this. They thought that. This was their
motive. And everything he says is true. He's not making up things. The
accusations he makes are true. He did this. I saw him. I was an eyewitness. He thought
that. He intended this. Everything
he says is true. He accused them before God night
and day. And verse 11 says they overcame
him by the blood of the Lamb. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justified them.
Who is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died. They overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb. What's all this bloodshed about?
Oh, His blood is everything. It's the subject of the eternities.
Before time began, he was the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. And when time is no more, the
song of glory will be worthy as the lamb that was slain. Now in Romans 3, verses 24 and
25, we read whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood. I want to ask you a question.
Do you have faith in his blood? Do you believe that His blood
is all that's needed to make you pure and holy and accepted
before God? And then in John 6, verse 53,
we read, except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His
blood, you have no life in you. Now, you live by what you eat
and drink. Is His flesh and blood, His broken
body what you live by and only what you live by? I love that
song, What Can Wash Away My Sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my pardon, this I see, nothing but the blood of Jesus. For my
cleansing, this my plea, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing
can for sin atone, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Not of good
that I have done, nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all
my hope and peace. nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Now Hebrews 9.12 says, for if the blood of goats and calves
and the acids of a heifer, sprinkling to the unclean, sanctify to the
purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot
unto God. Now you purge your conscience
from dead works. Purge your conscience from doing.
Hebrews 10, verse 18 says where the remission of these is, there's
no more offering for sin. Don't you dare try and bring
one. Look to the one offering for sin, the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and purge your conscience from anything else
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