📌 How To Apply The Blood - Derek Prince

now when i speak about the cross i need to make it clear to you i'm not talking about a piece of metal or wood that people hang around their necks or hang on the walls of churches i have nothing against those but i just need to explain that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about what was accomplished for us by the death of jesus christ as the sacrifice for sin on the cross so i just use that simple phrase the cross to cover all of that now last night i had the privilege of being not for the first time in christchurch town hall just let me have a little check how many of you were there last night well that's wonderful that's a good representation we're sorry for those of you who missed it we had a wonderful time isn't that true not so much because of the preacher but because of the lord because the lord came in and really visited us we ended uh i think it's reverent to say on cloud nine last night i tell people don't talk about the seventh heaven because that's not scriptural but if you want to be say you're really happy it's all right to say you're on cloud nine because there are lots of clouds up in heaven i talked about the love of god revealed in the price that he was willing to pay to redeem each one of us the price was the precious blood of jesus and i showed from the old testament scriptures that god had foreshown the shedding of the blood of jesus and in the ceremony of the day of atonement recorded in leviticus 16 god had foreshown that there would be a sevenfold sprinkling of the precious blood of jesus and last night we traced this through the gospels and i just want to recapitulate briefly what we say those of you that have listened to my radio teaching will know that i'm strong on recapitulation i don't believe in saying things saying a thing once and just believing everybody got it all because most times they didn't for five years in east africa i was a trainer of teachers for the schools of africa and one thing we used to impress upon our teachers was that recapitulation is a part of good teaching so i'm going to very very briefly go through the successive seven-fold sprinkling of the blood of jesus as recorded in the gospels first of all in the garden of gethsemane as he prayed in agony his sweat fell down like great drops of blood on the ground then when they took him to the house of the high priest and began to abuse him they struck him across the face with rods brought out the blood at some point in the mistreatment of him they began to pull out the hair of his beard in tufts and of course the blood came out then he was handed over by pontius pilate to be scourged and a roman scourge was a a whip with many thongs in which were embedded pieces of bone and metal and so as the thongs fell across a man's back they literally tore open the flesh and then in mockery because he claimed to be a king they planted a crown of thorns and if you go to israel you can see the same thorns today they're long and extremely hard and tremendously sharp and they put this on his head and then they beat him on the head pressing the crown the thorns down into his scalp causing the blood to well up and run down his face and coagulate in his beard and prophetically in the 52nd chapter of isaiah isaiah predicting that said his visage was so marred more than a man and one of the modern translations says he lost even the appearance of a human being and then they nailed him to the cross and put the nails through his hands and his feet and finally after he was dead a soldier thrust a spear into his side in the area of the heart and blood and water gushed out so that's the seven-fold sprinkling that was predicted in the ceremony of the day of atonement and then i pointed out that in leviticus 17 verse 11 the lord says the life or the soul of all flesh is in the blood and he says i have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls that's another of the amazing prophecies of the old testament it wasn't just a regulation for whether the israelites should eat food with blood or without but it was a prediction of the cross the life of the soul of all flesh is in the blood and i have given it to you upon the altar of calvary to make an atonement for your souls and then in isaiah 53 12 in the great prophetic picture of the atonement isaiah says he poured out his soul unto death how did he do that in his blood the soul is in the blood and jesus poured out his soul as the sin offering for the whole of the human race his soul took the place of your soul and my soul he became the final sin offering now this morning i'm going to deal with something that's extremely practical what i've described to you is true it's wonderful but in a certain sense you don't necessarily know how to make it real in your life and your experience so this morning i'm going to teach on how to appropriate the blood of jesus how to get the full effects of the blood of jesus working in your life and by way of introduction i want to turn to revelation chapter 12 and verse 11. revelation the 12th chapter the 11th verse this is speaking about what i believe to be a great end-time conflict that lies ahead at the close of the present age a conflict in which heaven and earth are involved the angels of god are involved satan and his angels are involved and god's believing people on earth are involved and thank god that the victory goes to god and to his people and this passage describes how the people of god on earth god's believing people on this earth played their part in obtaining that victory it's a statement made by the angels but it's made about the believers on earth and it says when in revelation 12 11 they overcame him who is they they as people like you and me believers in jesus christ now who is him satan that's right that's very important and you see that shows very clearly that there can be direct conflict between us and satan there's no one else in between they overcame him and then it tells us how they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and it also adds what kind of people they were they loved not their lives unto the death to say it in one word they were committed totally committed and that's the only kind of christian that frightens satan totally committed christians when it says they love not their lives unto the death what does it mean well it means for them staying alive was not priority number one priority number one was to do the will of god whether they stayed alive or not staying alive wasn't the most important thing for them the most important thing was to be faithful to the lord and do his will see we talk about being soldiers in the lord's army but i think a lot of us really have got a very vague and rather sentimental idea about what it is to be a soldier i by no choice of my own was a soldier in the british army in world war ii for five and a half years and let me tell you one thing when i i would i didn't enlist i was conscripted but anyhow when i got into this situation i didn't get a nice little certificate from the commanding officer saying we guarantee you you'll never have to live lose your life no soldiers ever joined an army on the condition that he will not be killed in fact in a certain sense any time a soldier joins an army one of his commitments is i may be killed it may cost me my life and it's just the same in the lord's army you've got no guarantee that you will not have to lay down your life the people that satan fears are those who are not afraid to lay down their not after all life is comparatively brief in it it's not going to go on forever and it's not all a bit of roses is it it would be foolish to miss eternal glory for the sake of a few brief years on earth you see i believe this is enlightened self-interest to have a proper sense of values what is more important i believe that we should say for me the most important thing in life is to do the will of god that's a wonderful statement in first john chapter 2 verse 17 the world passes away and the lust thereof that he that doeth the will of god abideth forever when you unite your will with the will of god in total commitment you become unsinkable you're undefeatable you're unshakable you're just as totally sure as god's will when you identify yourself with the will of god whether you live or whether you die is a secondary importance but you cannot be defeated now i want to consider what it means to overcome satan by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony this is one of the precious treasures of truth that god has given me over the years there's no way you could put a price on this you could offer millions of dollars but it wouldn't be sufficient there is no monetary value equal to the value of this truth i want to say it very simply and i trust i'll make it clear listen carefully we overcome satan when we testify personally to what the word of god says the blood of jesus dance for us i'm going to say that again we overcome satan when we testify personally to what the word of god says the blood of jesus does for us now rather than just leave you trying to remember that i'm going to ask you invite you to say it after me all right to fix it in your minds uh don't try and say it with me i'll say it phrase by phrase you say it afterwards all right are you ready we overcome satan when we testify personally to what the word of god says the blood of jesus dance for us now i'm going to show you just exactly how to do that but i want to take an example from the old testament first i want to take an example from the passover ceremonies recorded in the 12th chapter of exodus you'll remember that in that ceremony god through the sacrifice of a passover lamb provided total protection for all the people of israel but they had to do certain things with the lamb and with its blood to ensure that protection before we turn to exodus 12 let me just read a sentence from first corinthians chapter 5. i'm only going to read the last part of the verse it says this christ our passover was sacrificed for us in other words what paul is saying there is the old testament passover in egypt was just a prophetic picture a preview of what was to be accomplished by the sacrificial death of jesus on the cross christ is the true passover it is his blood not the blood of the passover lamb that finally assures us eternal redemption however the way that israel was instructed to apply the blood of the lamb is a wonderful pattern for us now let's go to exodus the 12th chapter exodus chapter 12 and we read from verses 21-23 i'd like to point out to you also by by the way that this ordinance of the passover is one of many illustrations in the bible of the tremendous responsibility of being a father because the only persons in israel who could obtain safety and salvation for their people were the fathers of israel if the fathers of israel had been delinquent israel would have not been protected by the passover and i personally think today the greatest single social problem that confronts us is delinquent father i've said many times in counseling parents who have problem children there are no delinquent children there are only delinquent parents all the problems that we are concerned about abortion drugs the breakup of the family and many many other social evils i believe if you trace them to their source their source is delinquent fathers and i point out to you here in this context that if the fathers had failed israel would never have been redeemed god didn't have plan b plan a was his plan and it depended on the fathers now let's look exodus 12 21 then moses called for all the elders of israel and said to them pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families and kill the passover lamb and you shall take a bunch of hyssop dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the base and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning for the lord will pass through to strike the egyptians and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two door posts the lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you that's why it's called the passover because the lord said he would pass over the door that was protected by the blood of the lamb now let's consider what they had to do at a certain given moment each father had to choose a lamb of appropriate size for his family and then they had to sacrifice the lamb and they had to catch its blood in a basin its blood was very precious none of it was to be spilled on the ground now the lamb was slain the blood was in the basin it was the means of protection but in the basin it didn't protect a single person they were required to transfer the blood from the basin to the doors of their homes and to smear it or sprinkle it on the lintel and on the two side posts but never on the threshold no one was ever to walk over the blood now so everything the whole destiny of israel depended on getting the blood from the basin to the door how were they to do it very simple god said you take a little bunch of hessop now hyssop is a kind of almost a weed that grows everywhere in the middle east pluck this bunch of hissa dip the hyssop in the blood in the basin and sprinkle their blood over the door with the hesse so hyssop which was a very humble and in a sense unimportant thing nevertheless became essential to the salvation of israel and then god required one more thing he said when this blood has been sprinkled on the door you've got to stay inside your house don't you go outside because once you get outside the blood you're not protected and peter says maybe we should just keep your finger in exodus 12 if you're there let's look in first peter for a moment first peter chapter 1 verses 1 and 2 this is the greeting of peter peter an apostle of jesus christ to the pilgrims of the dispersion in pontus galatia cappadocia asia and bythinya now here's how he describes them elect or chosen according to the foreknowledge of god the father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of jesus christ notice what comes before sprinkling obedience the blood is not sprinkled on the disobedient it did not avail anybody who disobeyed and went outside of his house so bear in mind although there's perfect protection in the blood it is only for the obedient now let's go back to the passover ceremony the blood was in the basin it had to be transferred to the house they plucked a little bunch of hyssop dipped it in the blood and then sprinkled it on the door they were safe now paul says christ is our passover who was sacrificed for us in other words christ has been slain 19 centuries ago to use the terms of the analogy the blood is in the basin but the blood in the basin doesn't protect anybody we have the same situation as israel we've got to get the blood from the basin to the place where we live then we're protected provided we're obedient so the question is how do we get the blood from the basin the blood of jesus to the place where we live now we go back to revelation 12 11. they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony you remember what we said we overcome satan when we testify personally to what the word of god says the blood of jesus does for us what is it that gets the blood from the basin to where we live our testimony that's right testimony is a very simple thing it's just saying a few words according to the scripture it's like the little hyssop but it saves us it's it's our protection i cannot over emphasize for you here the importance of your testimony there's another scripture that we could take with it that is very closely related in hebrews chapter 3 and verse 1. therefore holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling considered the apostle and high priest of our confession christ jesus the writer of hebrews calls jesus the high priest of our confession you know what confession is confession means literally saying the same as so for us as believers in the bible and in jesus christ confession means we say the same with our mouth as god says in his word we make the words of our mouth agree with the word of god and jesus is the high priest of our confession brothers and sisters no confession no high priest he can only advocate on your behalf when you make the right confession so whether you call it testimony or whether you call it confession it is absolutely indispensable for you to receive the salvation of god jesus said by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned you settle your destiny by the words you speak james said the tongue is like the rudder on a ship it's a very small part of the ship but it determines exactly where the ship will go and we determine the course of our lives by the way we use our tongues you can say the right thing and make the words of your mouth agree with the word of god or you can say the wrong thing and cause your life to go off course and you'll either come safely to harbor or end in shipwreck according to the use that you've made of your tongue many many of us as christians are very careless and delinquent in the use of our tongues people say i'm dying to see you don't ever say that americans say i was tickled to death don't say that no it's not a laughing matter i can understand you can love but never say anything about yourself that you wouldn't want jesus to make happen don't don't underestimate yourself because god thinks you're precious he invested the blood of jesus in you when you are quote humble and criticize yourself what you're really doing is criticizing god's handiwork because the bible says we are his workmanship how dare you criticize the workmanship of god pride is a tremendous problem with christians but another problem that's just as great is underestimating ourselves not for what we are but for what god has made us so now i'm going to give you a practical demonstration of how to transfer the blood of jesus from the basin to the place where you live to your life obviously you cannot testify as to what the word of god says about the blood of jesus unless you know what the word of god says so one essential requirement is knowing what the bible teaches about the blood of jesus now i've pointed out already that the new testament indicates there was a seven-fold sprinkling of the blood of jesus this morning i'm going to consider with you a seven-fold application of the blood of jesus in our lives there are seven major ways in which the new testament reveals the blood of jesus works for us the first is redemption we'll turn to a couple of scriptures ephesians chapter 1 verse 7. ephesians 1 7 in him that's jesus we have redemption through his blood redemption means being bought back we were in the hands of the devil jesus brought us back with his blood and then in first peter chapter 1 verses 18 and 19 first peter 1 18 and 19 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptable or perishable things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fondness but with the precious blood of christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot unnoticed the word lamb again takes us back to the passover the passover lamb jesus was without blemish he was without original sin he was without spot he was without personal sin and we have been redeemed by his blood now in that context i like also to turn to psalm 107 and just verse 2 psalm 107 verse 2 let the redeemed of the lord say so whom he has redeemed out of the hand of the enemy who's the enemy satan that's right but if we are redeemed what we have to do about it we have to say so no say so no redemption you understand it's your confession it's your testimony that makes it work for you otherwise the blood remains in the basin now let's think of what we can say i'll give you a little example this is not the only way it could be said but my personal testimony is through the blood of jesus i have been redeemed out of the hand of the devil brothers and sisters i have no doubt about where i was when jesus met me i was in the hand of the devil there's no question in my mind about that but i'm not there today because i have been redeemed by the blood of jesus out of the hand of the devil now i want to invite you to have the blessing of saying that with me this is going to be a very practical message i'm going to show you how to do a whole lot of things and you'll only get as much blessing as you actively cooperate with so i'll say it first phrase by phrase say it after me not with me okay through the blood of jesus i have been redeemed out of the hand of the devil well that was good now let's see if we can say it together okay through the blood of jesus i have been redeemed out of the hand of the devil now that's wonderful you're looking so intelligent at me but it's really very important to say it to somebody else so i want to suggest that each of you turn to your neighbor somewhere look them right between the eyes don't be embarrassed don't be religious and say through the blood of jesus i have been redeemed now don't miss out find somebody to say it too that's right okay all right some of you are free in a way you've never been before because of that something's happened to you all right we'll go on to the second provision of the blood of jesus which is cleansing and we'll turn now to 1 john chapter 1 and verse 7. first john chapter 1 verse 7 but if we walk in the light as he is in the light that he is jesus we have fellowship one with another and the blood of jesus christ his son cleanses us from all sin now in the original language all the verbs in that verse are in the continuing present tense it's important to see that if we continue walking in the light we continue to have fellowship one with another and please note that the evidence that you're walking in the light is that you have fellowship and if you get out of fellowship you get out of the light and if you get out of the light the blood doesn't cleanse in the dark that's a tremendously important fact the blood does not cleanse in the dark all right if we continue walking in the light we continually continue having fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus his son continually cleanses us from all sin it's a continuing provision no matter where we are if we're in the light we may be in the most defiling circumstances we may be amongst the most wicked people there may be countless evil pressures against us but as long as we are walking in the light the blood is continually cleansing us from all sin let me show you another beautiful picture keep your finger in one john will come back turn to psalm 51 for a moment psalm 51. this is the great penitent psalm of david after he had been convicted convicted of his two terrible sins of adultery and murder he came he turned to god with this tremendous cry of repentance and plea for mercy we can't go into it all but let's just look at what he says in verse 7 purge me with hyssop and i shall be clean wash me and i shall be whiter than snow and you notice the use of the word hyssop what did he have in mind the passover what was he thinking on the blood that's right purge me with hyssop and i shall be clean wash me and i shall be whiter than snow what a privilege it is to know where to go when you're guilty i suppose every one of us in this room has that privilege brothers and sisters stop for a moment and think about the billions of people who are guilty and don't know where to go can you imagine what it'd be like to have a guilty conscience to be tormented with the reality of your sin and not know where to go to find forgiveness and peace that's the condition of half humanity today all right what are we going to say we'll go back to one john 1 7 and i'll give you a little pattern i don't have all this work done in advance it's more or less impromptu i've done it several times before but let me think let me say it this way while i walk in the light the blood of jesus cleanses me now and continually from all sin see why i say now because i want to make it very here and now right at this moment but not only at this moment from this moment on as long as i'm walking in the light all right you like to say that after me while i walk in the light the blood of jesus cleanses me now and continually from all sin all right let's see if we can say that together now while i walk in the light the blood of jesus cleanses me now and continually from all sin all right the next great provision is justification a justification is a theological word which upsets some people but it's not really that bad greek word in its basic form means to make righteous but it has a lot of different shades of meaning let's go to the scripture first that's romans 5 9. much more then having now been justified by his blood the blood of jesus we shall be saved from wrath through him so we have been justified by his blood let me try and convey it to you this way um you're on trial in a court of law for a capital offense your life is at stake and then the verdict comes out not guilty that's justification you've been acquitted okay it means more you've been reckoned righteous with the righteousness of jesus christ not with your own but with the righteousness of jesus christ but it also means you've been made righteous it has all those meanings acquitted not guilty reckon righteous made righteous and then this is a little way that we have to fix it in your mind i'm justified means i'm just as if i'd never sent why because i've been made righteous with the righteousness of jesus christ and he never sinned he had no guilt he had no past to be covered up see your own righteousness will never get you to heaven brothers and sisters isaiah says all our righteousness is our filthy rags but let those filthy rags go and let the blood of jesus impart to you the righteousness of jesus then the devil has no way to accuse you there's a beautiful scripture in just keep your finger in romans we may come back people tell me i expect them to have too many fingers in isaiah 61. isaiah 61 verse 10 i will greatly rejoice in the lord my soul shall be joyful in my god for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation he has covered me with the robe of righteousness there's two things you get salvation righteousness when you trust in jesus christ and his sacrifice on your behalf you'll be clothed with a garment of salvation but then stop there you'll be covered with a robe of righteousness one of the translations says he has wrapped me around with a robe of righteousness you're totally covered with the righteousness of jesus christ the devil has got nothing he can say against you if he tells you you've done a whole lot of things wrong you know what to do agree with him say you're quite right satan but all that's in the past and i am clothed with the righteousness of jesus christ see if you can find anything wrong with that all right let's uh go back to romans 5 9 and let's see i'll i'll i'll do a run-through and then we'll see where we get to listen to me now carefully through the blood of jesus no don't say it yet i'll do it once because i'm not quite sure where i'm going yet through through the blood of jesus i am justified acquitted not guilty reckoned righteous made righteous just as if i'd never sinned all right now don't try and say it with me the first time say it after me through the blood of jesus i am justified acquitted not guilty reckoned righteous made righteous just as if i'd never sinned i'll take a deep breath and say thank you god all right we'll go on the next is sanctification sanctification we'll turn to hebrews 13 and verse 12. hebrews 13 12 therefore jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered outside the gate now to sanctify in the original is directly related to the word for holiness actually sanct it's the same word that we have in english saint so to sanctify is to make saintly or to make holy it's got two aspects one is negative we're set apart from sin and from everything that defiles and then we're made holy with god's own holiness in the 12th chapter of hebrews well we might read that for a moment talking about god's chastisement it says in hebrews 12 10 our human fathers chastised us for a short period of our lives according to their best judgment but god does it in a different way hebrews 12 10 40 they indeed that's human parents for a few days chastened us as seem best to them but he for our profit that we may be partakers of his holiness notice not our holiness any more than our righteousness but his holiness how do we partake of his holiness through the blood of jesus all right so jesus that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate let me try to show you how you apply that operation of the blood through the blood of jesus i am sanctified separated from sin set apart to god made holy with god's holiness i'm not sure if i can remember that but i'll try this time you follow me through the blood of jesus i am sanctified made holy set apart to god separated from sin made holy with god's holiness understand you can change the words a little as long as you get the facts that's what man is all right now what we've been doing every time so far dipping the hyssop in the basin and sprinkling it over us you understand okay now we're going to go on we've so far dealt with redemption cleansing justification and sanctification now we're going to go to life i once heard a preacher say that all the provisions of the blood of jesus were only negative they only saved us some from something i think that's a very dangerous statement and i can't think of anything more positive than life let's look for a moment in leviticus 17 11 which is the passage i quoted earlier leviticus 17 and verse 11 for the life of the flesh is in the blood and i have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul so the life of god is in the blood of jesus god's own life the life of the creator our human minds have no way to calculate the potential of that statement because the creator is infinitely greater than all that he's created the entire created universe is just a snap of his finger you see if we could grasp what's in the blood of jesus i've said there's more power in one drop of the blood of jesus than there is in the whole kingdom of satan because we've got the eternal uncreated measureless life of god himself a life that existed before anything was ever created in the blood of jesus with that in mind let's turn to john chapter 6. john chapter 6 and we're going to read from verse 53 through verse 57. john 6 beginning at verse 53 then jesus said to them most assuredly i say to you there are two levels of emphasis in the teaching of jesus if you have the old authorized version sometimes he said verily and sometimes he said verily verily verily means it's important verily verily means it's super important now in this translation they say assuredly and most assuredly so this is one of the super important statements i like i think i'll go back to verily verily verily verily i say to you unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and i will raise him up at the last day for my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and i in him as the living father sent me and i live because of the father so he who feeds on me will live because of me now i'm sure there are various ways to apply that but i began my christian ministry in 1946 in an arab town called ramallah just north of jerusalem it's no longer a town it's a big it's a much bigger city today and at that time with my first wife and the children the language of our home was arabic and uh there's certain things that you get into you that you never get out of you and i always whenever i think of the communion service or taking the lord's supper or the eucharist whatever you want to say i always think of what the arabs said khalina nishrib let us drink the blood of jesus that was not some strange super spiritual phrase that was their way of talking about the communion and there may be many ways to apply this but for me when i take the communion i eat his flesh and i drink his blood now that's a stumbling block for some people how can i help that we have been taught some of us that we do it just as a memorial that's not what jesus said he said you're eating my flesh and you're drinking my blood we do it in memorial too sure we do but that's not all we are actually partaking of the body and blood of the lord jesus christ there's no reason to change those words now there's a lot of different opinions as to how it becomes the body and the blood the catholics and the liturgical churches believe it's through consecration by a priest frankly that's not what i believe i believe it come becomes through faith when i receive it in faith believing what jesus said in his word it becomes to me precisely what he said it would be please don't argue with me because i'm happy let's uh look for a moment in first corinthians chapter 10. i believe we have here both baptists and brethren that's probably divine providence well brothers i remember a brethren preacher saying once to some of his fellow christians he said jesus said as often as you drew it but you do it to seldom all right let's look in first corinthians 10 for a moment verse 16 the cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of christ communion sharing in the blood of christ the bread which we break is it not the communion or the sharing in the body of christ and then he goes on in chapter 11 and he reminds them of the way the lord's supper was instituted in verses 23 and following he says for i received from the lord that which also i delivered to you that the lord jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took brain and when he had given thanks he broke it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you or which is for you do this in remembrance of me now it's perfectly true we do it in remembrance of him but what do we do in remembrance of him we take his body in the same manner also he took the cup after supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord's death till he come now i want to say very emphatically that i don't recommend everybody to be like ruth and me there's a wonderful liberty in the body of christ we can do within certain limits what god leads us to do but this has become so important to me and i so tremendously feel my need of the life of god and let me say i think i can say it with humility i think i'm something of an advertisement for the life of god most of you wouldn't guess i'm 71 years old and i think part of that is living on the body and the blood of jesus for me this is no doctrine theory this is a living reality so this is the way we do it and please i'm not suggesting that anybody should do what we do but we take communion together as husband and wife every morning and every morning i say the same things lord jesus now what do i say remind me yes that's right i break the bread yes i break the bread and i say lord jesus we receive this bread as your flesh and then we share a tiny little cup and i say lord jesus we receive this cup as your blood and i say as we do this we proclaim your death until you come you see we do it mainly maybe in jerusalem where christians are less than one percent of the population what a privilege to proclaim the lord's death every day in the city where he died some a a great bible expositor of the last century commented on this you do show or proclaim the lord's death until he come he said when we come to this ordinance whatever you want to call it he said we're out of the whole context of immediate time we have no past but the cross no future but the coming we proclaim his death until he comes and every time we do that we remind ourselves he's coming again now let's just how are we going to confess this let's just do it by faith we're not going to take any communion service i'm not ever recommending that to any of you let's just say let me think how we'll say it lord jesus when we receive your blood in it we receive your life the life of god divine eternal endless life all right if i can remember that say it after me lord jesus when we receive your blood in it we receive your life the life of god divine eternal endless life thank you lord let's take a moment to worship him shall we just just receive it right now let let's let the sense of divine life fill you your heart your mind even your physical body paul said in due course death will be swallowed up by life but i think that's a process of ongoing death in our bodies sickness decay so on which can be swallowed up by the life of god day by day paul said though our outward man perishes our inward man is renewed day by day and there's enough life in the inward man to keep the outward man going until our task is finished amen all right we want to talk about just two more effects of the blood of jesus the sixth one is intercession we'll turn to hebrews chapter 12. and we'll read verses 22 through 24. hebrews 12 22 i want you to notice the tense it begins with the words we have come we're not going to come in the spirit not in the flesh but in the spirit we have come eight things are listed to which we have come we have come to mount zion that's number one number two the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem not the earthly jerusalem the heavenly jerusalem number three an innumerable company of angels and i prefer the translation which says in festival array i can't go into all the reasons why you can translate it either way but i think the niv says an innumerable company of angels in festival array they've put on their best clothes for our benefit i mean seeing an innumerable company of angels in any guys would be wonderful but in festool array ruth and i were in belfast about what three years ago now we were in a little group of leaders meeting in a home and the presence of god moved in amongst us as we humbled ourselves before the lord before one another and for about 10 minutes ruth saw an innumerable company of angels just passing passing us then one of them came into the room and after that she closed her eyes this is not you know this is all within the bounds of our possible experience today we are no different from the people in the new testament they were no different from us all right we have come to mount zion the heavenly jerusalem an innumerable company of angels in fester lorraine the church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven those who have been born again whose names are written in heaven number five god the judge of all thank god there's more than god the judge there brothers and sisters otherwise we'd never make it number six to the spirits of just men made perfect i believe that's the old testament saints who through a lifetime walk of faith achieved what we achieve through the new birth or what we don't achieve through the new birth what is given to us through the new birth number seven to jesus the mediator of the new covenant that's why we can be there if it were only god the judge we'd never get there but god the judge there is also meet jesus the mediator of the new covenant and finally the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of abel the sprinkled blood of jesus that speaks on our behalf in heaven contrasted with the blood of abel there are three main points of contrast abel's blood was shed against his will blood jesus willingly gave his blood abel's blood was sprinkled on earth jesus blood is sprinkled in the holiest of all abel's blood called out for vengeance jesus blood pleads for mercy this is such a beautiful revelation i wouldn't want any of you to be deprived of it there are times when we are weak when we're under pressure we just can't pray we just wonder if we're going to be able to draw the next breath it's good to know that those times that the blood of jesus sprinkled in the immediate presence of god is always speaking on our behalf calling out for mercy let's make a little confession just to appropriate this truth i'll do it i mean i haven't thought this out in advance but thank you lord that even when i cannot pray the blood of jesus is pleading for me in heaven all right are you ready to say that thank you lord that even when i cannot pray all right i thought you were going to say it after me you're ahead of me all right we'll go back we'll say it together all right thank you jesus thank you lord that even when i cannot pray the blood of jesus is pleading for me in heaven and say that once again we weren't very certain i was the one that was thank you lord that even when i cannot pray the blood of jesus is pleading for me in heaven amen and finally we have access through the blood of jesus these last two provisions of the blood take us out of the realm of time and into the heavenly and eternal realms which is where we want to end up anyhow turn back to hebrews chapter 10 verse 19 and following uh significantly this verse has already been quoted in the worship here this morning i think that was part of god's provision hebrews 10 beginning at verse 19 therefore brethren having boldness or confidence that greek word means freedom of speech it's very important that our boldness gives us freedom of speech in other words let's remember it's our testimony if we don't testify we don't have it therefore brethren having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of jesus by a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh and having a high priest over the house of god let us draw near that's into the holiest of all with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water and let it note the next words let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering hebrews 3 1 says jesus is the high priest of our confession hebrews 4 14 says hold fast your confession but hebrews 10 23 says hold it fast without wavering what does that tell you well then you're in an airplane and they say buckle your seat belts what do you expect turbulence that's right when the word of god says make the confession hold fast the confession and hold it fast without wavering that's like god saying buckle your seat belts because there'll be turbulence but don't let the turbulence cause you to unbuckle your statement keep on making the right confession even when it seems totally contrary to everything around you god's word is true all right you notice that we have access into the bow into the holiest by new and living way go back for a moment to the scene in leviticus 16 where the high priest entered once every year what did he do he entered with us with a sensor full of incense that cast a fragrant cloud and covered the mercy seat that's worship but he also entered with the blood of the sacrifice and he sprinkled it seven times between the veil and the mercy seat once twice three times four times five times six times seven times and then he smeared it on the east side the front side of the mercy seat and when the writer of hebrews says we have boldness through the blood of jesus by a new and living way he's thinking about that sevenfold sprinkling of the blood and the blood on the mercy and we can approach the throne of almighty god and the holiest place in the universe with boldness because of the blood of jesus we have access what are we going to say about ourselves say this thank you lord that through and i'll say it first because i don't even know what i'm going to say yet thank you lord that through the sprinkled blood of jesus i have access into the presence of almighty god into the holiest place in the universe do you think i can say that again that's true thank you god that through the sprinkled blood of jesus i have access into your presence into the holiest place in the universe all right let me just close by recapitulating the seven provisions it could be possible to give them in a different order although i think this is a logical order redemption cleansing justification sanctification life intercession and access sprinkled seven times works in us in seven different ways but remember we overcome satan by the blood of the lamb and by what the word of our testimony let's say that together and we'll close but don't forget to add and we love not our lives unto the death all right are you with me we overcome satan by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony and we love not our lives unto the dead now there's only one logical thing we can do now in the light of all that is to praise god if we don't praise him we just don't believe it

Channel: Derek Prince

Views: 709,432

Rating: 4.8574657 out of 5

Keywords: how to apply the blood of jesus bible study, applying the blood derek prince, how to apply the blood of jesus sermon, how to apply the blood of jesus to your life, bible study on the power of the blood of jesus, how to apply the blood of jesus in prayer, sermon on the power of the blood of jesus christ, the power in the blood sermon, the power in the blood scriptures, the power in the blood of jesus sermon, power in jesus name scripture, Victory in jesus power in the blood

Id: RtT6gz3DHTk

Length: 71min 53sec (4313 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 13 2014