A RIVER OF BLOOD

#3 – Redeemed By The Blood

The Horror Of Slavery In Hell We cannot begin to

comprehend the horror of slavery in Hell.

We cannot begin to understand the misery one being can inflict upon another.

We need redemption.

Redeemed by The Blood

• I Peter 1:18-19 – “…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from you futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

What Is Redeemed?

• Delivered from slavery to Satan in an eternal hell.

• Pardoned for the sins we’ve committed against God.

• Resurrected from death, the penalty for sin.

Why Blood?

Leviticus 17:11 -- For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

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God’s Life In His Blood

• Acts 20:28 -- Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

1 Peter 2:24

“…and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

His body – Our sins!

What Does Blood Accomplish?

It provided for Christ’s resurrection

Hebrews 13:20 – “Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord….”

It Defeated Death

1 Corinthians 15:54-57 – “But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

It Opened Heaven

Hebrews 10:22 -- “…let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

It Enrolled Us In Heaven

Hebrews 12:22-24 – “But you have come to Mount Zion … and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.”

What Does Blood Demand Of Us?

• FAITH• Romans 3:24-25 – “…being

justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed

Communion

I Cor. 10:16 – “Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

Peace With God

Colossians 1:20 – “…and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

Nearness To God

Ephesians 2:13 – “But now in Christ Jesus who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”

Obedience

1 Peter 1:1-2 -- To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

Death To The World

Galatians 6:14 -- But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.