POWER IN THE BLOOD - NYOBS 85.10

Power in the Blood

Blood Power toward God – Blood Power toward Man – Blood Power toward Satan

First Word

·         Do you remember singing in church; “Would you be free from your burden of sin?  There’s power in the blood, power in the blood. – Would you over evil a victory win? There is power, power, wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb.

·         It was the last night of the revival as I walked down to the Alter in front of the whole church to give my life to Jesus. -  I was ten years of age and the Deacons talked with me at length and I emotionally confessed that I did not understand how the Power in the Blood all worked to save me from going to Hell, but I knew I wanted to follow Jesus and that night I was accepted into the fellowship to GROW in my faith.

·         This study is to help Grow your Faith in understanding the Power of the Blood of Christ.  To do this we start in the OT where God gives Moses instructions about an acceptable sacrificial offering to God that would provide temporary FORGIVENESS OF SIN by the shedding of an animal’s blood.

·         The book says EVERYONE HAS SINNED and ALL fall short of God’s glorious standard. -  God sent his only Son to pay the ransom for man and it was God that determined that His blood satisfied the atonement for sin and we cannot add to that nor take away; this concept of the satisfaction of BLOOD for the forgiveness of SIN runs throughout the Book.

·         In the OT the blood sacrifice of animals for sin offerings was only temporary, but in the NT the FINAL sacrifice of Jesus Christ’s blood made it permanent. – His spilled blood was trifold; The Blood toward God. – The Blood toward Man. – The Blood toward Satan.

Romans 3:23 – All have sinned and fall short
²³ For EVERYONE HAS SINNED; we all fall short of God’s standard.

Leviticus 1:3-4 – Accepts animal’s death in your place purify you

³ If THE ANIMAL you present as a burnt offering is from the herd, it must be a male with no defects. Lay your hand on the animal’s head, and
⁴ THE LORD WILL ACCEPT ITS DEATH IN YOUR PLACE

to purify you, making you right with him. (NLT)

John 3:16 – Everyone who believes will have eternal life
¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES in him will not perish but

HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. (NLT)

His Blood toward God

·         From our point of view, the blood of Jesus Christ was poured out for us, but primarily it was actually for God. - God cannot look on sin, He sees the blood where there was once sin.

·         Whenever you find the blood mentioned it’s about ATONEMENT, the payment for Sin.  The Jews had a Day of Atonement that was set aside once a year when purification offerings were made to the Lord for Sin. – The High Priest was symbolically a type of Christ who sprinkled the blood in the Holy place before the eyes of God and away from the eyes of man. -  The Wonder Working Power in the blood is toward God

·         It was not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to permanently take away sins, so every year they sacrificed again and again for their Sins, that’s why Christ came into the world.

·         When the death angel passed through Egypt, the Hebrews had placed blood on the lintels and their door posts and then they went inside.  They could no longer see the blood, but God could; when He saw the blood, they were passed over with JUDGMENT.  The Wonder Working Power in the blood is toward God

·         Christ has now become our High Priest, but not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood.   He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands — He entered the Most Holy Place once and for all time and secured our redemption FOREVER – The Power in the blood is toward God

Leviticus 23:28 – Day of Atonement
²⁸ Do no work during that entire day because it is the

DAY OF ATONEMENT, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with the LORD your God.

(NLT)

Leviticus 4:5-7 – Pour out the blood on the base of the alter
⁵ The high priest will then take some of THE BULL’S BLOOD into the Tabernacle,
⁶ dip his finger in THE BLOOD, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the inner curtain of the sanctuary.
⁷ The priest will then put some of THE BLOOD on the horns of the altar for fragrant incense that stands in the LORD’s presence inside the Tabernacle. He will pour out the rest of the BULL’S BLOOD at the base of the altar for burnt offerings at the entrance of the Tabernacle. (NLT)

Leviticus 1:5 – Splatter the Blood on the sides of the alter
⁵ Then slaughter the young bull in the LORD’s presence, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, will present the ANIMAL’S BLOOD by splattering it against all sides of the altar that stands at the entrance to the Tabernacle. (NLT)

Leviticus 4:35 – The Blood will purify the people and sins forgiven
³⁵ then he must remove all the sheep’s fat, just as he does with the fat of a sheep presented as a peace offering. He will burn the fat on the altar on top of the special gifts presented to the LORD. Through this process,

the priest will PURIFY THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN,

MAKING THEM RIGHT WITH THE LORD,

and THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN.

(NLT)

Hebrews 9:11-12 – His Blood secured our redemption forever
¹¹ So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world.
¹² WITH HIS OWN BLOOD—not the blood of goats and calves—

HE ENTERED THE MOST HOLY PLACE

ONCE FOR ALL TIME and

SECURED OUR REDEMPTION FOREVER. (NLT)

Hebrews 10:2-5 – Blood of Bulls and Goats cannot take away sin.
² If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
³ But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins YEAR AFTER YEAR.
⁴ For IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS TO TAKE AWAY SINS.
⁵ THAT IS WHY, WHEN CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer. (NLT)

Exodus 12:12-13 - When I see the blood, I will pass over you.
¹² On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt.

I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the LORD!
¹³ But THE BLOOD on your doorposts WILL SERVE AS A SIGN, marking the houses where you are staying.

WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I WILL PASS OVER YOU.

This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt. (NLT)

His Blood toward Man

·         God paid a RANSOM to save us from the empty life we inherited from our ancestors and THE RANSOM He paid was not mere gold or silver, but was the sinless, spotless Lamb of God, the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST.

·         God presented Jesus as the final sacrifice for sin.  People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, SHEDDING HIS BLOOD - We were made right on the basis of the finished work of Jesus Christ and through His merit alone and not by our personal attainment, nor anything we have done or promise to do; our redemption is totally satisfied by the Blood of Jesus Christ. - The Power in the blood is toward man.

·         Like the temple alter, our guilty consciences has been SPRINKLED WITH CHRIST’S BLOOD and made clean. – Our sense of guilt and our consciousness of Sin is no more, we are cleansed and truly FREE. - We have been brought near and united with Christ because of His sacrificial Blood on the cross. – It never loses its efficacy, its ability to get the job done in perfection; we are kept near every minute of every day.  Our basis of approach into the presence of God in the Most Holy Place is only on the grounds of His shed blood. –

The Wonder Working Power in the blood is toward man.

·         The Book says the human HEART is the most DECEITFUL of all things, and desperately WICKED.  - Our part is just to confess “Father, I HAVE SINNED against both heaven and you; and God has promised to give us a new heart and to put a new spirit within us. 

Jeremiah 17:9 – We need a new heart
⁹ The human HEART is the MOST DECEITFUL of all things, and DESPERATELY WICKED. Who really knows how bad it is?

(NLT)

Psalm 51:10 – Create in me a new heart – Renew a right spirit
¹⁰ CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O God.

Renew a loyal spirit within me. (NLT)

Ezekiel 36:25-26 – God will give us a new heart
²⁵ Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
²⁶ I WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (NKJV)

Romans 5:8-9 – The Blood of Christ made us right
⁸ But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
⁹ And since WE HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHT in God’s sight

by THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. (NLT)

Romans 3:24-26 People are made right when they believe
²⁴ Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
²⁵ For GOD PRESENTED JESUS AS THE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, SHEDDING HIS BLOOD. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,
²⁶ for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and

HE DECLARES SINNERS TO BE RIGHT IN HIS SIGHT

WHEN THEY BELIEVE IN JESUS.

(NLT)

Romans 5:19 – Because Jesus obedience we were made righteous
¹⁹ Because one person (Adam) disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person (Jesus) obeyed God,

MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS. (NLT)

Romans 3:9 – Jew & Gentles are ALL under the power of SIN
⁹ Well then, should we conclude that we Jews are better than others? No, not at all, for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin. (NLT)

Luke 15:18 – Confess; we have sinned against heaven and God
¹⁸ I will go home to my father and say, “Father,

I HAVE SINNED against both heaven and you, (NLT)

1 Peter 1:18-19 – God paid the Ransom with the Blood of Christ
¹⁸ For you know that God paid a RANSOM to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And THE RANSOM He paid was not mere gold or silver.
¹⁹ It was the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. (NLT)

Ephesians 2:13 – We are brought near by the blood of Christ
¹³ But now YOU HAVE BEEN UNITED with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT NEAR to him through THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. (NLT)

Hebrews 10:19 – We enter heaven because of the blood of Jesus
¹⁹ And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can

boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of

THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

(NLT)

Hebrews 10:22 – Our guilty consciences made clean by blood
²²  let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our GUILTY CONSCIENCES have been

SPRINKLED WITH CHRIST’S BLOOD to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. (NLT)

His Blood toward Satan

·         With the fall of man into sin, God separated Himself from man and man became the object of His wrath, but the payment of the sin debt with the Blood of Jesus removed the barrier and restored him to a right standing with God. – It not only freed him from sin, but from every TYPE of sin even those that are hidden; we are totally FREE.

·         The Blood of Jesus Christ satisfied God and now the blood is toward Satan the accuser of our brothers and sisters. The one who accuses us before our God day and night has been thrown down to earth. – When Satan accuses the Believer of BIG BLACK SINS or 50 shades of gray Sin, God just points to the Blood of His Son Jesus the Christ that’s covering the Believer. – The Wonder Working Power in the Blood is toward Satan.

·         Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one; for God Himself has given us right standing with Himself.  -  If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 

The Wonder Working Power in the Blood is toward Satan.

·         Who then will condemn us?  No one; for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and as our HIGH PRIEST, He entered the MOST HOLY PLACE once and for all time and SECURED OUR REDEMPTION FOREVER and is now sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, PLEADING our case for us.  God is satisfied with the blood of Christ.  

The Wonder Working Power in the Blood is toward Satan.

Romans 3:23 - Everyone has sinned & fall short of God’s glory
²³ For EVERYONE HAS SINNED; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. (NLT)

Titus 2:14 – Christ’s blood freed us from every kind of sin
¹⁴ He gave his life to FREE US FROM EVERY KIND OF SIN, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds. (NLT)

Revelation 12:9-11 – Satan defeated by the blood of the Lamb
⁹ This GREAT DRAGON —The ANCIENT SERPENT

called THE DEVIL, or SATAN, the one deceiving the whole world

was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.
¹⁰ Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, “It has come at last— salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the ACCUSER of our brothers and sisters HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN to earth— the one who ACCUSES THEM before our God day and night.

¹¹ And they have defeated him by THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. (NLT)

Romans 8:31-34 - If God is for us, who can ever be against us
³¹What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
³³ WHO DARES ACCUSE US whom God has chosen for his own?

NO ONE—for God himself has given us right standing with himself.
³⁴ WHO THEN WILL CONDEMN US?

NO ONE—for CHRIST JESUS died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, PLEADING FOR US. (NLT)

Romans 4:8 – Blessed are those who sins have been forgiven
⁸ Blessed is the one whose SIN the Lord

will never count against them.” (NIV2011)

Hebrews 9:12 – Our High Priest sits in the Most Holy Place
¹² With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the MOST HOLY PLACE once for all time and

SECURED OUR REDEMPTION FOREVER. (NLT)

The Take Away

·         Our very first initial approach to God was on the basis of the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ and each time we approach the throne room it will be on the very same basis until the Lord returns; our entrance is based only on the finished work of the Blood of Christ.

·         While we do not understand everything about the Power in the blood, we do know it has satisfied God and that is all that matters; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin. – THERE IS WONDER WORKING POWER IN THE BLOOD.

·         Jesus Christ our High Priest, our advocate has been sitting at the right hand of God the father for 2,000 years pleading our case.  Every time we sin, His mercy and grace becomes greater; the blood was payment enough for our sins, it is sufficient to satisfy God, past, present and future. – Our “conscious” can no longer condemn us, it’s also covered by the blood. - We do not answer the accuser, God does; even Michael the Arc Angel said God will rebuke Satan. The Blood of Jesus Christ satisfied God; it is finished. – It’s in the Book   

Jude 1:9 – We don’t answer the accuser - God deals with Satan
⁹ But even MICHAEL, ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST OF THE ANGELS,

did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said,

“THE LORD REBUKE YOU!” (This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses’ body.) (NLT)

Romans 4:8 - Blessed is the man who is forgiven of sin
⁸ blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

John 19:30 – The Plan of Salvation is finished
³⁰ When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “IT IS FINISHED!” Then he bowed his head and released his spirit. (NLT)

Revelation 21:6 – I am the beginning and the end
⁶  And he also said, “IT IS FINISHED! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End.

TO ALL WHO ARE THIRSTY I WILL GIVE FREELY

FROM THE SPRINGS OF THE WATER OF LIFE. (NLT)

In the multitude of counselors,

there is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:14

I am grateful to those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical

information, and scripture verses.  Because of them I can stand on their shoulders

                         and see further that I otherwise ever could have.              

                                                                                                                                     

A Commentary; Critical, Experimental and Practical - Eerdmans

Antiquity of the Jews – Flavius Josephus Matthias

Apocrypha – Goodspeed

Baker Commentary on the Bible – Elwell

Bible Almanac; The – Packer-Tenney-White

Bible Commentary – F.B. Meyer

Bible Dictionary – Harper and Row

Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s

Dake’s Annotated Bible – Dake

English Standard Version Bible – ESV

Expositor’s Bible Commentary – Frank E. Gaebelein

Forgotten Books of Eden; The – World

Gospels Interwoven; The – Karmit Zarley

Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale

Interlinear Greek-English New Testament – Baker

Invisible War; The – Donald Grey Barnhouse

King James Version Bible – KJV

Lost Books of the Bible; The - World

Lost Books of the Bible; The - Bell

Matthew Henry’s Commentary - Zondervan

Missing Books of the Bible; The – Halo Press

Mysteries of the Bible – Readers Digest

Nag Hammadi Library; The – James M. Robinson

Nave’s Topical Bible - Zondervan

New International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Douglas - Tenney

New International Version Bible (2011) – NIV

Normal Christian Life; The – Watchman Nee

Now that’s a Good Question – R.C. Sproul

NOTE: The “new” NIV has been corrupted & made GENDER NEUTRAL.  AVOID IT.

New Living Translation Bible - NLT

Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls – Hugh J. Schonfield

Thru the Bible – J. Vernon McGee

Vincent’s Word Studies of the New Testament – Mac Donald

Who’s Who in the Bible – Paul D. Gardner

Wycliffe Bible Commentary; The – Pfeiffer & Harrison

Wikipedia –

Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The – Tenney