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For a program that will help
you with making life-changing decisions, listen now to Chapel
Echoes. Today's message was preached
by the Executive Vice President of Bob Jones University, Dr. Bob Wood, during a recent chapel
service held on the university campus. To have your Bibles this
morning, turn with me to the book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, one
of the most fascinating books in the New Testament. A book
that tells us about better things to come under the new covenant,
the New Testament. Hebrews chapter 9, I'd like to
read verse 11 through verse 15. Christ being come a high priest
of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify
to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve a living
God. And for this cause, he is the
mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. That passage of scripture is
explaining to us the importance of the once and for all sacrifice
of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're taught even in
the Old Testament in Leviticus 17, 11, for the life of the flesh
is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon
the altar, for it is the blood which maketh an atonement for
the soul. As we think about God's sacrifice
of his son, the Lord Jesus, we must think about the blood of
Christ. This is a great mystery to me,
a mystery which I enjoy very much thinking about and meditating
on, because God's told us in Acts 20, 28, take heed, therefore,
to yourselves and the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made
you overseers to feed the church of God which he hath purchased
with his own blood." I've read in some of the later medical
journals and books on physiology about the formation of the blood
and the great mysteries in the formation of the blood in the
human body seems to be triggered in the embryo sac by Some red
cells that have been transmitted in the testosterone, which means
the father, seems to furnish the agent that creates the beginning
of the production of blood within a human fetus. I'm told in Guyton's
textbook of medical physiology it's a rare thing and an anomaly
if the cells of the mother or the cells of the baby are intermingled
during pregnancy, that they're completely separate. As I think
about all those technical things, I find often in these medical
research books statements like, we don't understand this or this
process has not yet been identified. We cannot explain it. Now, if
the brightest minds in medicine have the courage to say there
are those things beyond human comprehension. Certainly, the
theologians who study the God that made the laws of science
should be able to say there are some things that are totally
beyond our human comprehension. I have a tendency to believe
very strongly that the literal blood of Christ was the blood
of God and that there is efficacy in the literal blood of Christ.
I am concerned. Because the scripture teaches
us that there literally is a curse from God upon those who would
minimize the efficacy of the blood of Christ. And though I
don't understand all the mysteries of the virgin birth, I believe
it. And though I don't understand
all the mysteries of the blood of Christ, I believe in its efficacy
and that it is the completion of the acts of God toward man
in the sacrifice of that blood on Calvary. But let me tell you
what I do understand this morning and what I want to spend a few
minutes showing you that the Scripture teaches us clearly,
undeniably, and without argument. I know that the blood of Christ
purchases us. It is the price that God paid
for our souls. Those of us who are born again
are twice gods, we're gods by creation. He made us. And therefore,
we're his, but then we're his by purchase through the shed
blood of the son. First Peter 1, 18 and 19, for
as much as you know that you were not redeemed are purchased
back with corruptible things as silver or gold from your vain
conversation received from your fathers, but. You were redeemed
or purchased back by the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without
blemish and without spot. Think of the price God placed
upon your soul. Any item has its value established
by what a person is willing to pay for it. I've watched some
of these foolish auctions that are taking place of memorabilia
from movie stars and that sort of thing. And you take a $9 pair
of shoes and they bring $90,000 because somebody wants to buy
the shoes that belong to a movie star like Marilyn Monroe. Well,
they have set a value on that item, however inflated it might
be. But the value is in the eyes
of the person willing to write that check and make that purchase. When God looked upon a human
soul, His creation, the highest entity of His creation, mankind. He set the highest value possible
on it in giving the shed blood of His Son, Jesus Christ, for
us. That is an overwhelming mystery
to me, why an infinite God would love a finite person and place
that kind of value on us. But that's the choice of God.
And I'm overwhelmed that he chose to purchase my redemption through
this wonderful price. It not only purchases us for
God, it pardons us. Ephesians 1, 7, in whom we have
redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according
to the riches of his grace. It is the blood of Christ that
causes us to have the imputed righteousness of God in our life
so that God looks upon us as without sin positionally in the
shed blood of Christ. Listen, a pardon as if we'd never
sinned. This is an overwhelming thought
that God would take a creature who by his very nature is sinful
and that's mankind and we don't have to go too far to prove that
point. and would provide for us the
complete pardon, our forgiveness of our sins through the shed
blood of His Son, the Lord Jesus. That is very significant. Why? Because God's forgiveness
is not like man's forgiveness. God's forgiveness is perfect. In total, it's absolutely perfect. And it's complete. How do we
handle people who've offended us? We can say to them, well,
you've asked for forgiveness and I forgive you. But every
time we see that person, is there not kind of a check in our spirit
and is it not a strained relationship? Do we not remember the offense
that was against us? God not only forgives our sins,
he forgets our sins, an act of deity, something that God can
do. And it's a mystery to me how
he does that, but something that man does not do. Our forgiveness
is not perfect. It's rarely complete and it's
never forever because those things keep coming back to haunt us.
But the forgiveness or pardon that's been bought for us through
the shed blood of Christ, is perfect, complete, and forever. Young people, we need to recognize
what we have in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It would make
you think more highly of your salvation. It would make you
more grateful for what God has done for us in the shedding of
the blood of His Son. Not only that, it gives us peace. Hebrews 9.14. How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself
to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve a living
God? The entity which allows us to
go on in life with a cleansed conscience. This thing of conscience
is just very mysterious to us. And yet every person God created,
he created with a conscience. Lost people have a conscience.
It's trainable. Parents train it. It should be
trained by scripture as we make the divisions of that which is
right and wrong. This still small voice inside
of us that helps us reason morality, that helps us reason what's correct
and what's incorrect, helps us understand The difference in
holy things and profane things, it's an overwhelming thought
to me that God has allowed us to train the consciences of our
children. But it's a necessary responsibility. And in cleansing that conscience,
we can go on to serve a living God because we can have a relationship
with a perfect God, with a cleansed conscience. I exercise myself
to have a clear conscience with God and with man. It's part of
my everyday life. And the ability to cleanse or
clear our conscience comes to us in our salvation through the
shed blood of Jesus Christ. I ask you about your conscience.
Is it clear? You can't really serve the living
God nor worship the living God without a conscience cleared. But the ability to do that is
given to us by God. The other thing it does, the
blood of Christ justifies us. Romans 5, 9. Much more than being
now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
Him. The Scripture teaches us we are
justified through His blood. The books are added up. And an accounting reconciliation
has been done and God has paid our debt and brought our account
balance up to zero. And in that, there should be
gratitude that causes us not only to love him, but to work
for him, to give our lives to him. He should be the central,
most important thing in our lives. The doctrine of justification
is another one of those big doctrines that in human reasoning is very
difficult for us to grasp all of the wonderful insights to
this thing we call justification. The old Puritans used to say
it's God's way of making us just as if we'd never sinned. That
might be a stretch on the theology of it, but the idea is still
close. to the fact that he has justified
our weights and balances. What does this do to the religions
that believe man is saved by his good works? That somehow
or another, God's got this giant set of balances up there in heaven. And all day long, he's assigned
angels to take our good deeds and put them on one side and
our bad deeds and put them on the other side. Well, I'm glad
the Scripture doesn't teach that. I'm glad that's not the way it
really is. I'm glad that God has balanced
those scales through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and I'm
justified by Him. That's exciting and important. It sanctifies Hebrews chapter
13 and verse 12, wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify
His people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Sanctification,
another great big Bible doctrine. Really not as complicated as
we try to make it. It's the act whereby we're drawn
closer and closer to God and further and further from the
world. That's a simple statement you can all understand. Sanctification
is the process where we leave worldly things, we get out of
our lives, These things that would encumber our relationship
with God, and we're being cleansed and set apart for a holy calling.
Now, another overwhelming thought to me in theology is the fact
that God can and does use men to do his work. Just a couple of weeks ago, I
was in a place where I had an opportunity to sit for a while
and just meditate and think. I was thinking about God, the
nature and character of God. And I thought about all the ways
God could have presented His plan of salvation. He could have
put on a great display in the heavens, meteorites. He could have put on great displays
of natural phenomena on earth and had a booming voice from
heaven come and say, For God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son. All the methods that he could
use to tell men about himself. But you know what God did? He
chose to take redeemed men and make them a mouthpiece for deity. Is that not an overwhelming thought
to you? That a perfect God will use us
to teach His Word? will use us to tell other people
about Him. Why? Because the whole truth
of the gospel is wrapped up in the fact that it is a relationship. It's relational. It's our relationship
with our God. Who better can testify to our
relationship to God than we? Just think about it for a minute.
It's established through the shed blood of Christ, this relationship
whereby we're adopted into the family of God and receive all
the benefits of the Lord. And we ought to testify to that,
we should be excited about that. And God not only allows us, but
challenges us to be his spokesman. He uses us. And that's another
of the entities which should cause us to want to have a cleansed
life, to want to be drawn further and further from the world and
closer and closer to the Lord. You know, Satan is the second
most intelligent being in the universe. How he hates sanctification,
how he hates our ability through the blood of Christ to be drawn
closer to God. and further from this system.
And how many Christians are fooled? How many of you are still involved
in all these worldly things in your life at the same time you're
trying to serve God? How many of you haven't grasped
this concept of sanctification? It's not the kind of thing you
do in anger and hostility and judgment. It's the kind of thing
you do in love. Because God loved you so much,
He purchased you with the blood of His Son. He has allowed you
to be His witness, to testify for Him. You should love Him
so much that you want to get this worldly system away from
you. You want to be a testimony as
to what it means to serve a living God, to have a relationship with
a living God. My young friends, This is a wonderful
book with great truth in it. And peace and joy will come to
your life when you understand how wonderful it really is. And
you understand these great Bible doctrines and the truth of these
great Bible doctrines. Not only sanctifies and satisfies
us, the blood of Christ gives us a holy place. Hebrews chapter
10 and verse 19, having therefore brethren boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus. A process by which the individual
believer is allowed direct access to God. You look at the images
in the Old Testament, you study the temple, you see this place,
holy of holies. Everyone was overwhelmed in awe
and reverence and fear of the Holy of Holies. This great veil
was stretched across the Holy of Holies and only the high priest
went in just once a year. He wore bells on the hem of his
garment so the people outside could tell that he was still
alive, that he went in with a heart cleansed and a clear conscience
and he made intercession for people and he offered prayers.
Sacrifices before the mercy seat. What a wonderful picture. But
something happened on the day that the blood of Christ was
shed on the cross of Calvary. When that great once and for
all sacrifice was given for your sins and for my sins, God reached
down over the battlements of heaven and the darkness of the
night that covered the crucifixion And he rent the veil and twain
from the top to the bottom, and the Holy of Holies was opened
up to man, and God no longer said, Stay out. Now he said,
Come in. You're welcome. Not one special
priest. Everyone that accepts the blood
of Christ is a priest. Every believer, a priest, every
believer, an access to the Holy of Holies. Come and present your
own petition. Come and offer your own prayers. Come and have a personal relationship
with your God. Talk to Him. Allow Him to talk
to you. Wow! This is an overwhelming
fault that I've been invited as a finite man to enter the
very presence in the throne room of my God, and I can boldly,
not by anything I've done or anybody that I am, but by the
shed blood of Christ, I am a child of the King. I can offer my petition
directly to God through Christ, my Mediator." Do you know what
that means, young people? Do you know the awesome wonder
of being invited into the presence of the God that simply spoke
the universe into existence? What an overwhelming thought.
It is the blood of Jesus Christ that ultimately gives the Christian
victory. Revelation chapter 12, verse
10 and 11. And I heard a loud voice in heaven
saying, Now has come salvation and strength, and the King of
our God and the power of His Christ. For the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused," or that word in the
Greek can literally mean nagged, them before our God day and night. They overcame Him by the blood
of the Lamb and by the word of His testimony. And they loved
not their lives unto death. Ultimate victory. will come through
the shed blood of Christ and because of the shed blood of
Christ. God will be victorious. God's
plans will be accomplished. We will have eternity with him.
The Lord tells us. As he left his earthly ministry,
Jesus Christ said, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go
to prepare a place for you, surely I will come again to receive
you unto myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. A place of complete peace, no
sorrow, no death, for the former things that we know here in this
sin-cursed world will all be gone. There'll be no presence
of sin, no power of sin in eternity. Can you imagine a life with the
total absence of sin, selfishness, or self-centeredness? That's
what's reserved for all of us for eternity, that know and love
Christ. No, young people, I don't understand
all the technicalities of the blood of Christ, but I do know
the power that's in it. I do know that these seven things
are given to me through the shed blood of Christ. And I do know
God purchased me not with something corruptible that just washed
away, but with something perfect. I hope you'll try to live your
life in light of the wonderful gifts that come to you through
the shed blood of the land without spot and without blemish. I'm I'm a queen and watch, I'm great,
I will be thine all the hour, all the hour. Jesus, praise thy God, all the
way, my God. In the land of dreams and faith,
we watch thee, white as snow. For nothing good have I, Whereby
thy grace should fail. There was my garments white,
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stand before the Lord, I'll stand before the Lord, Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain
in me, O Spirit, now I have no The chapel message you've just
heard was preached recently at the summer session on the campus
of Bob Jones University by the Executive Vice President, Dr. Bob Wood. Today there seems to
be much confusion concerning the Holy Spirit. He is often
referred to as an influence and is blamed for various experiences
and revelations. But what does the Bible teach
concerning the Holy Spirit? In the message entitled, The
Holy Spirit, the founder of Bob Jones University, Dr. Bob Jones,
Sr., discusses the biblical teaching concerning the work and ministry
of the Holy Write today for your free copy of the booklet, The
Holy Spirit. Write to Chapel Echoes, Bob Jones
University, Greenville, South Carolina, 29614. Listen again next week when Dr. Wood brings us another message
from God's Word. Chapel Echoes comes to you from
the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
The Blood Of Christ
| Sermon ID | WMUU0000000419 |
| Duration | 29:41 |
| Date | |
| Category | Radio Broadcast |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 9:11-15 |
| Language | English |
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