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This week we have Reinhard Bonnke with his
message, The Blood of Jesus.
I want to share with you some of
the secrets of the things God practically taught
me in Africa, and I believe that many
of you, as a result of it, will
have a head start and plan a sailing.
But I tell you, Jesus is wonderful.
Amen.
Here this afternoon I'm going to preach the
old, old story of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, and I'm not getting tired of it.
As long as there's an unsaved soul, I'm
not getting tired of it.
Amen.
Just before the service, the Holy Spirit spoke
to me.
He said to me this.
The Lord said to me, the heart keeps
on pumping the same blood.
It's the same blood.
But that blood is just a means of
transportation, to transport oxygen and all the other
things that are needed for the fitness and
the health of the body.
And I tell you, preach the old, old
story, all right, but ever with a fresh
anointing, and you will see gigantic results.
Are you with me?
Amen.
Now we are starting.
I'm reading from Matthew.
Matthew chapter 12, verse 38.
Then certain of the scribes and of the
Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a
sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An
evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign,
and there shall no sign be given to
it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah's.
For us, Jonah was three days and three
nights in the belly of the fish.
So shall the Son of Man be three
days and three nights in the heart of
the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment
with this generation, and shall condemn it, because
they repented of the preaching of Jonah's.
And behold, a greater than Jonah's is here.
Amen.
You know, Jesus was often confronted by bunches
of Pharisees, hypocrites, and here on this occasion
again, they came and they said to him,
Master, we also will believe if you give
us a spectacular sign.
I don't know what they had in mind.
Maybe they had in mind that Jesus should
just wave his hand like that, and out
in the blue sky a host of angels
should appear, and they should sing and say,
Yes, my beloved Pharisees, you may believe that
Jesus is the Son of God.
They said, Master, we will believe if you
give us a sign.
Jesus shook his head, and he said strange
words, words one does not understand at first
when one reads them.
He said, this adulterous generation is not getting
such a sign, except one sign, the sign
of the prophet of Jonah's.
Strange, Jesus began to speak about the prophet
Jonah and the story of him being in
the belly of the fish, and he said,
this is the sign that is going to
be given.
As Jonah was three days and three nights
in the belly of the fish, so shall
the Son of Man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth.
When Jesus gave that answer, he drew a
picture of himself.
He said in other words, other words, this,
he said, you are not going to get
a sign, except for one sign, the sign
that God has sent already.
Amen.
There was the sign that God had sent
already, Jesus himself.
They were asking for signs, yet the biggest
of all signs stood right in front of
them, Jesus Christ.
They looked at the sign that God had
sent and said to him, sign, show us
a sign.
This is how ridiculous unbelief is.
Jonas, Jesus, Jesus was greater than Jonah.
Jesus is today the greatest sign that God
has given.
Say amen.
Amen.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son.
God had given, the sign had come, but
they did not understand this sign, because they
refused this sign.
This sign didn't fit into their philosophy.
They said, we don't want this Jesus.
Jesus is too humble for us.
Look at him.
He hasn't even got real estate.
Look at him.
He's Mr. Nobody.
He's just a traveling preacher.
He's a so-called false messiahs.
We don't want this Jesus.
Away with him.
This sign sent from God, we don't want.
I want to take you for a minute
or two.
I want to take you into the courtyard
of Pilate, where the Jews had met and
where Jesus was now under arrest, ready to
be tried and ready to be killed.
Pilate investigated Jesus and he said, I find
no fault with him.
I find no fault with him.
He has done nothing amiss.
He, I find no fault with him.
What shall I do with Jesus?
Barabbas or Jesus?
They wanted Barabbas free and Jesus crucified.
This Jesus, we don't want.
We reject him.
He cannot be the sign from God.
This Jesus, they said, we don't want.
I want your full attention.
I'm coming to a very, very important point
in half a minute or so.
And as the Jews were chanting, away with
him, away with him, away with him.
We don't want him to have dominion over
us.
Crucify him.
The word crucify came out of their mouths.
Pilate said, washed his hands and said, I
have no part in the death of this
righteous.
And then listen.
Then the people shouted something that has made
history.
Are you listening to me?
They shouted something.
They shouted these words.
His blood come upon us and upon our
children.
And the blood of Jesus came upon them.
It came upon them.
Only in the context of this scripture did
I suddenly see something that I had never
seen before.
The blood of Jesus that is so precious
and that can cleanse us from all sins
and that has the power to heal from
all diseases.
The very blood of Jesus that is the
greatest blessing on earth is also and at
the same time, the greatest curse to those
who reject Jesus Christ.
Amen.
I've got to make the point because the
gospel is just as serious as it sounds.
Do you agree with me?
Amen.
Yes, it's the truth.
I've got such an urge in my heart
here this afternoon.
You will see a little later and I
believe that something fantastic is going to happen
here.
I preach the gospel without apology.
The blood of Jesus came upon them in
an awful way because they had rejected Jesus.
The very blood of Jesus came upon them
as a curse.
I sometimes wondered why Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
You know Jesus didn't weep often but the
Bible explicitly said that he wept over Jerusalem
and the Holy Spirit unlocked the secret to
me why Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
There he was on the Mount of Olives
looking across Jerusalem and all of a sudden
as Jesus looked across Jerusalem his eyes were
touched by the prophetic anointing of the Holy
Spirit and he didn't just see the Jerusalem
of that day but he saw the Jerusalem
of the future.
He saw how many times the city of
Jerusalem was being razed to the ground.
Jesus must have seen things that must have
horrified him.
The eyes of the seer looked into the
future.
He saw what would happen about 40 years
after the day he saw it 70 AD
under the Roman under the Roman general Titus
and the city was besieged and there was
great starvation in the city as the historian
Josephus is telling us and how they could
no longer hold the city how they had
to surrender and how the Roman armies entered
that city and slaughtered men and women and
children.
Josephus said that they cut down any tree
that was there and they began to crucify
the Jews by the thousands and as the
hammers were swinging and those poor people those
poor people were crucified I think in the
ears of some it must still have run
his blood come upon us and upon our
children.
To reject Jesus has the gravest consequence for
anyone who does it.
Hear the word of the Lord.
But the eye of Jesus didn't stop there.
I believe that the eyes of Jesus scanned
the horizons.
He penetrated the future.
He looked into our time and generation and
I believe I as a German can say
this because because we have every reason to
be very much ashamed of ourselves.
I believe that the eyes of Jesus looked
across Europe in the 30s and 40s of
the century.
I believe that Jesus when looking across Jerusalem
he must have looked into Germany and into
Poland and into the Soviet Union and into
France and all over.
He must have seen those Nazi concentration camps.
He must have seen how the children of
Abraham were herded together like cattle or worse
and how they were abused and how they
were killed.
He must have seen how they were starved
to death by the millions.
How they were pushed into the gas chambers.
How they were their bone and skin only
bone and skin and hardly were able to
stand straight anymore.
Jesus must have seen how they lifted their
bony arms up and just said this Messiah
Messiah Messiah where are you where are
you come and take us.
When Jesus saw that tears shot out of
his eyes he opened his arms and he
cried Jerusalem Jerusalem how often did I want
to gather even like a hen gathering her
chicks but Jerusalem you didn't want to be
gathered you didn't want to be protected Jerusalem
you reject the only one between heaven and
earth who could have ever saved you you
have rejected your savior now there is nobody
to save you anymore why do I say
all this because it touches the very bottom
line of salvation this is the main lesson
in scripture and also from history any nation
or any individual who rejects Jesus Christ as
his personal savior and lord comes under the
curse of the blood of Jesus but the
opposite is true as well and on that
I want to dwell here this afternoon glory
to God in the highest anyone receiving Jesus
Christ as his personal savior and lord comes
under the blessing of the blood of Jesus
Christ glory glory glory hallelujah yes
you see when Israel rejected the gospel the
second wave of God's offer through the apostle
Paul then God began to open the doors
of the gentiles thank God the gospel arrived
long ago in Birmingham it arrived in Europe
Lydia opened her heart the blessing of the
lord came her life was transformed and since
that time anyone in the whole wide world
who receives Jesus as his personal savior and
lord comes under the immense and great blessings
that God has provided through his son Jesus
Christ hallelujah glory to God glory to God
let's give a hand for Jesus amen now
I'm coming to the most important and the
most practical point it's one thing to talk
about history it's another thing to talk about
today and I have not much interest in
history if it is not related to today
and I tell you this message is related
to now right now amen today this very
hour a similar situation has arisen today
that sign from heaven Jesus Christ confronts you
you you in the overflow halls in the
pavilion in the forum here in the arena
and those that are watching me now on
video or on television Jesus Christ confronts you
now and it is true that the gospel
the gospel is not an alternative the gospel
is an ultimatum the ultimatum from God it's
something like a line that God is drawing
over the paths of life of people young
and old it's a line it's a line
Jesus is the sign we can learn from
the mistakes of other people of the past
if you don't believe the bible believe the
newspapers because there you can read the same
thing people who reject Jesus nations that rejected
Jesus they're coming under the curse of the
blood of Jesus but those who receive Jesus
Christ are being blessed and they will prosper
with the peace of God that passes all
understanding glory to God hallelujah oh hallelujah you
are confronted this afternoon with Jesus today you've
got to make your choice these people made
their choice then and they made the wrong
choice today you have got to make a
choice and you have got to make the
right choice that is the bottom line receive
Jesus as your savior and all the curses
will be broken the power of evil spirits
will be broken the chains of evil addictions
will be broken because when Jesus comes he
comes with power and he comes with might
receive him as your savior because deep down
in your heart you know it i heard
the testimony of a friend of mine i've
never forgotten it i heard it many years
ago i have never forgotten it because it
touched my heart absolutely i think it's a
classical example of what God can do and
how important it is not to overstep the
line he said he was a young atheist
he said at that time he believed in
Hitler he said he was a soldier of
the of the crack troops landing behind enemy
lines they landed with parachutes in the Soviet
Union and he said one day they were
caught and they were herded together and they
were ready to be shot he said every
time we went for such a dangerous mission
we sang a song we mocked God in
heaven we mocked the devil in hell we
called ourselves atheists because we didn't believe in
either neither God nor the devil well i
tell you that's a clever that's that seems
to be a smart way with some people
nowadays but i tell you if you if
you believe it or if you don't believe
it your faith change your belief changes nothing
if you believe it or not if let's
say you choose not to believe that the
Soviet Union has got the nuclear missiles directed
on our cities if you don't believe it
doesn't mean that these weapons just get dissolved
in the air these are facts and facts
are facts and even from scripture facts are
facts he said and when they were in
that camp and they were ready to be
shot they plotted to escape he said he
knew it's either run or die run or
die and if you die while you run
he thought it was a better better choice
of death and he said they run he
said we run and run and run through
the night and he said the night was
pitch black he said in the night they
saw on the sky a white cross right
in the direction in which they were running
and they were all looking at that white
cross that cross of light he said they
could not explain what would that cross mean
there they slept in the day by night
they got alive and they run there was
the cross again running running in the direction
of the cross that was on the sky
he said the third night the cross appeared
and he said oh he said all of
a sudden he thought by himself what if
the story of the cross is real what
if there is a god in heaven he
said the fourth night the cross was there
again all of them saw it he said
and the conviction grew in his heart that
there is a god throning above all a
god to whom he owes to whom he
owes a kind he said after so and
so many days they reached the german lines
he said we were exhausted we wanted to
sleep we nearly fell just just fell on
the ground and slept they were absolutely exhausted
they went into a farmhouse and they said
we are going to sleep he said i
can't sleep i must find somewhere a man
of god i want i want to meet
god he said his friend slept
and he was looking around for someone that
knew how to pray he found by the
grace of god he found a man of
god who knew how to lead him to
jesus yeah he said he received salvation he
received forgiveness of his sins he was rejoicing
in the name of the lord said and
then he went home to sleep to the
farmhouse when he came back to the farmhouse
he said he couldn't believe it the shell
had hit that house and his friends were
all dead but man has become a preacher
of the word of god i'll tell you
i'll tell you this moment is the moment
of decision today if you hear his voice
open your heart i challenge you you must
give your heart to jesus today as a
matter of fact the holy spirit told me
for some year it's today or never because
here are some ears that hear the call
of the gospel for the last time today
here is the sign jesus christ here is
the line the border the border there is
something like a border remember noah's ark the
same hand that locked noah and his family
in had locked the other people outside the
same hand the same hand in jesus name
don't ask for a fancy sign just to
receive jesus christ as your savior and lord
and it will be well with your soul
amen hallelujah hallelujah oh hallelujah
oh blessed be the name of the lord
hallelujah blessed be the name of the lord
jesus is here jesus is here right now
i also want to speak to the backsliders
somebody said to me yes i am had
backslidden because of some christians in the church
they didn't treat me well i said my
god why why why did you turn your
back on jesus yet jesus has never done
you any wrong you have no right to
backslide because of anybody because jesus is more
than faithful say amen amen jesus is faithful
jesus is faithful here is the line here
is the line here is the sign come
and receive jesus as your savior and lord
and he's going to set you free and
you will go home as a new creation
in christ jesus amen you know we evangelists
we are like that but i'm preaching the
gospel for decades now and i have seen
things you would be surprised if i would
tell you what i have witnessed with my
own eyes there is something like a too
late there is something like a too late
you cannot keep on postponing postponing why not
because you don't know whether tomorrow belongs to
you you only know that the now belongs
to you that's why the bible says now
is the day of salvation not tomorrow now
now now in jesus name now
oh hallelujah now jesus is calling now jesus
is calling now jesus is calling now i'll
never forget i'll never forget this when i
was preaching the gospel and many people responded
to salvation the power of god was flowing
and moving and at the end of the
service a young lady a young girl i
should say 17 years of age just passed
me while she passed i didn't even know
who passed me holy spirit spoke to me
and said speak to that person i turned
around and i got her by her arm
i said to a young lady are you
already a child of god tears gushed out
of her eyes she said no but i
know i need jesus i want jesus but
i can't receive him i said why on
earth can't you receive him she said because
of my boyfriend she said my boyfriend hates
jesus i said young lady if you have
a boyfriend that hates jesus you've got the
wrong boyfriend all together all together because
the bible says how can light have fellowship
with darkness and i want to say that
to all young girls here today stick to
the word of god and you will save
yourself immense headaches and i say the same
to the young man you cannot violate the
principles of the word of god and think
it will all be well we need the
rock of the word of god under our
feet she said my boyfriend hates jesus my
boyfriend hates jesus i say you've got the
wrong boyfriend but she said i love him
so much i love him so much i
can't leave him i love him so much
i said young lady i don't know i
didn't know you but the holy spirit told
me that i should tell you privately and
personally that you must receive jesus as your
savior now she pulled herself loose crying she
left early next morning somebody came running to
me and said have you heard i said
what that girl was run over by a
car this morning she's dead i tell you
i fell on my knees and i cried
to god that's why i've got such a
urge in my heart you have waited long
enough now jesus is waiting for you you've
got to respond yes to jesus means life
everlasting no to jesus is eternal damnation you
can't get away from it and i know
i'm standing here today as a messenger of
god in the name of jesus amen amen
i want to argue with you the precious
people of israel the seed of abraham they
are special to god until today and until
forever make no mistake if god could not
spare his chosen people do you think he's
going to spare you if you make the
same mistake namely rejecting jesus god is a
god of love but he is also a
righteous god and god made all the provisions
for your salvation but you must come and
you must come now in jesus name say
amen remember fire conference ray remember two years
ago we had the fire conference in zimbabwe
ray was preaching that evening people came forward
for salvation he's coming the first one i'll
tell you the power of god is going
to set that young man free give me
your hand oh bless you he's the first
one he's the first one he's the first
one oh hallelujah oh hallelujah young people
jesus is calling you i hope you are
sick and tired of being a backslider if
i would know that jesus is my savior
i wouldn't want to go to bed tonight
until i had settled that case i wouldn't
want i would rather want to die than
to be without jesus because he's the fountain
of everlasting life oh hallelujah power
of god is here i can feel the
presence and the anointing of the holy spirit
oh i'll tell you the holy spirit is
going to shake you here tonight shaking you
shaking you shaking you shaking you god
bless you sir god bless you sir is
that terrific that is terrific let
my people go saith the lord that they
may serve me you will come out of
egypt's bondage and you will come into the
freedom of the son of the living god
god bless you madam god bless you too
power of god is here holy spirit is
speaking to me he says here's someone to
whom the lord has already spoken three times
before and three times you answered with an
excuse the lord says today you hear my
call for the fourth time which is the
last time come now i will deliver you
from the darkness that has hung upon you
i will break the chains that have bound
you and today saith the lord i will
set you free in one moment if you
respond to the call of my love don't
leave this hall don't overstep the line in
the name of jesus i charge you for
your own salvation sake come forward i would
like to shake your hand if i've had
an opportunity but i know one thing light
will burst over you here and you're going
to see the glory of god and you
will walk you will walk to heaven in
jesus name amen let's sing once more come
unto jesus wherever you are just come forward
even if you are a non-christian you
belong to another religion jesus loves you come
on he's going to save you and he
will demonstrate the glory of the gospel of
jesus come forward come forward don't miss the
last call in jesus name come come
quickly
let
it
okay
come a bit closer come a bit closer
many more come jesus
i tell you god is in this place
people of god i want you to pray
in the holy ghost god is in this
place me
oh my god how many of you can
sense the mercy of god just flooding this
place like water can you sense it as
well isn't that terrific isn't that terrific and
the blood of jesus the power of the
blood of jesus and the blessing of the
blood of jesus is going to swing into
action right now right now right now jesus
is also delivering muslims say amen hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah i love the muslim people because when
the muslim becomes washed in the blood of
jesus becomes a first-class christian amen there
are many more people that need to come
and respond i want to start praying and
i want you to respond come now because
i'm starting now in jesus name in jesus
name you buck sliders come slide back to
jesus amen come quickly slide back to jesus
in jesus name young people especially young people
that have ungodly and unholy relationships i call
you to repentance now in jesus name i
call you to repentance now if you want
to be set free from anything the devil
binds you with whether it's cigarettes or whether
it's drugs or whether it's any other rotten
thing of the devil throw it up here
on the platform just throw it on the
platform because after now you will no more
need it you will no more need it
i'll put my foot on it in the
name of jesus and the power of god
is going to set you free just throw
it up here in jesus mighty name just
throw it just throw it in jesus name
glory to god glory to god in jesus
name in jesus name in jesus name in
jesus name in jesus name in jesus name
hallelujah hallelujah holy
spirit speaks to my heart please bear with
me but i don't want to be accused
one day when i sat before the throne
of god that i didn't do what god
told me to do here's a young man
the holy spirit tells me he has heard
the word of god today he just came
to please his girlfriend here and he has
never been in such a meeting and he
never dreamt of giving his heart to jesus
and the lord says today my holy spirit
has cornered you you are to receive my
mercy and my forgiveness i will break the
power of satan in your life and you
shall be turned from a soul to paul
because i have a plan for your life
his name his name is andrew come forward
andrew in jesus name and i want his
girlfriend to come forward with him where are
you i want to shake your hand and
pray with you throw it god bless you
my goodness you know how to throw it's
gone forever honey it's gone forever amen in
jesus name in jesus name pass it on
pass it on pass it on yes in
jesus name i want to speak to you
and i want to speak to the people
in the overflow halls i've asked the lord
today for a thousand souls to be saved
and i believe there are almost a thousand
now because there are hundreds also in the
pavilion that have gathered there i understand and
hundreds in the forum isn't that terrific jesus
also delivers from tobacco i thought this was
something for the sore throat oh amen
we are now going to call on the
name of jesus say amen i wonder where
andrew is andrew i want to shake your
hand where is andrew where's that andrew put
your hands down andrew stretch forth your hands
james father i thank you that you are
doing a mighty miracle in his life and
that he will turn from a soul to
a power in jesus name and that all
the chains of the devil are cut now
and that his name will be written today
in the lamb's book of life in jesus
name god bless you god bless you go
and stand there as well you can go
down and stand there in jesus name hallelujah
are you happy amen now the most holy
moment has come look to me please see
many of you have cried tears you have
done well i also cried my tears i
also cried my tears and i came to
jesus don't be ashamed of them because these
tears are counted in heaven one by one
they're not tears of self-pity they're tears
of repentance and tears of repentance are precious
you people in the other halls your tears
of repentance are precious in the eyes of
god they are worth more than diamonds say
amen hallelujah what must we do to be
saved the word of god says he that
calls on the name of the lord shall
be saved when god says shall be then
you will be young people i'm rejoicing with
you you're not just going to be washed
from sin but you're going to be filled
with the holy spirit amen and you will
go home and your parents will say what
has happened to you and you will say
i am born again through the spirit of
god hallelujah amen and that's only the beginning
of the blessings because the blessing of the
blood of jesus is unending unending unending in
jesus name we are casting out devils here
even you know when the holy spirit comes
i tell you i explain that to you
when the holy spirit moves if someone has
got an evil spirit that evil spirit senses
the presence of the holy spirit and feels
feels as if he gets choked and that's
when they manifest but when they start manifesting
it's already a sure sign that they are
on their way out out hallelujah
so don't be afraid when that happens don't
be afraid when that happens because satan is
conquered in jesus name he's under our feet
the word of god says and you are
going to be victorious you're going to rule
and dominate over sin say amen now we
will call upon the name of the lord
and we will call on the name of
the lord the blood of jesus will fall
into you amen it will wash you that's
one thing at the same time the holy
spirit will just blow over you breathe the
breath of god will breathe over and into
you and this moment is the moment of
salvation amen you now receive jesus christ as
your personal savior amen i would like everybody
now to lift his or her hands please
and i want everybody to repeat this prayer
after me in support of those who pray
it now here in say amen hallelujah i
want us all to pray now close your
eyes lift your hands and repeat after me
now but when you repeat it i want
you to just mean it with all your
heart say dear lord jesus christ dear lord
jesus christ i am coming to you i
am coming to you in response to your
call of love i repent of my sin
i repent of my sins wash me now
with your precious blood break the chains of
satan in my mind in my heart in
my body in my home in my family
in the name of jesus i renounce the
sin of the world in the name of
jesus i call upon you jesus christ
son of god save my soul i now
put my faith in you now i believe
with my heart what i confess with my
mouth jesus christ is now my savior i
have received eternal life i am a child
of god i am a child of god
i believe it i receive it and i
thank you for it in the name of
jesus in the name of jesus in the
name of jesus and now we will all
open our mouths and praise the lord if
you know how to praise him in the
spirit do it because the spirit of god
is breathing over these people here in front
you're now going to receive the witness of
the holy spirit that you are indeed a
son a daughter of the most high god
open your spirit for the spirit of god
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