1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,400 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,700 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,040 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:13,200 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:13,540 too. 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,380 This week we have Billy Graham with his 7 00:00:16,380 --> 00:00:18,540 message, The Gift of Blood. 8 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:22,260 Now tonight I want you to turn with 9 00:00:22,260 --> 00:00:25,160 me to the fifth chapter, the fifth chapter 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,380 of the book of Revelation. 11 00:00:26,380 --> 00:00:30,160 The fifth chapter of the book of Revelation. 12 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:36,520 These words, And I saw in the right 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,320 hand of him that sat on the throne 14 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,580 a book written within and on the backside, 15 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:44,420 sealed with seven seals. 16 00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:47,960 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with 17 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,740 a loud voice, Who is worthy to open 18 00:00:50,740 --> 00:00:52,610 the book and to loose the seals thereof? 19 00:00:53,770 --> 00:00:55,910 And no man in heaven nor in earth, 20 00:00:56,070 --> 00:00:58,390 neither under the earth, was able to open 21 00:00:58,390 --> 00:01:00,850 the book, neither to look thereon. 22 00:01:01,450 --> 00:01:03,950 And I wept much because no man was 23 00:01:03,950 --> 00:01:06,250 found worthy to open and to read the 24 00:01:06,250 --> 00:01:07,930 book, neither to look thereon. 25 00:01:08,730 --> 00:01:10,810 And one of the elders saith unto me, 26 00:01:10,930 --> 00:01:11,590 Weep not. 27 00:01:12,270 --> 00:01:14,470 Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, 28 00:01:15,150 --> 00:01:17,310 the root of David, hath prevailed to open 29 00:01:17,310 --> 00:01:19,750 the book and to loose the seven seals 30 00:01:19,750 --> 00:01:20,450 thereof. 31 00:01:20,450 --> 00:01:21,950 And I beheld. 32 00:01:22,670 --> 00:01:24,190 And low in the midst of the throne 33 00:01:24,190 --> 00:01:26,150 and of the four beasts and in the 34 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:29,050 midst of the elders stood a lamb as 35 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:32,190 it had been slain, having seven horns and 36 00:01:32,190 --> 00:01:34,970 seven eyes, which of the seven spirits of 37 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:37,350 God sent forth into all the earth. 38 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:39,210 And he came and he took the book 39 00:01:39,210 --> 00:01:40,570 out of the right hand of him that 40 00:01:40,570 --> 00:01:41,550 sat upon the throne. 41 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:43,890 And when he had taken the book, the 42 00:01:43,890 --> 00:01:46,470 four beasts and the twenty-four elders fell 43 00:01:46,470 --> 00:01:49,050 down before the lamb, having every one of 44 00:01:49,050 --> 00:01:52,170 them harps and golden vials full of odors, 45 00:01:52,550 --> 00:01:54,190 which are the prayers of the saints. 46 00:01:54,510 --> 00:01:58,670 And they sang a new song, saying, Thou 47 00:01:58,670 --> 00:02:00,470 art worthy to take the book and to 48 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:03,190 open the seals thereof, for thou was slain 49 00:02:03,190 --> 00:02:06,210 and has redeemed us to God by thy 50 00:02:06,210 --> 00:02:09,370 blood out of every kindred and tongue and 51 00:02:09,370 --> 00:02:10,190 people and nation. 52 00:02:11,250 --> 00:02:14,450 For thou hast made us kings and priests, 53 00:02:14,450 --> 00:02:16,590 and we shall reign on the earth. 54 00:02:17,250 --> 00:02:19,990 And I beheld and I heard the voice 55 00:02:19,990 --> 00:02:22,690 of many angels round about the throne and 56 00:02:22,690 --> 00:02:24,410 the beast and the elders and the number 57 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:27,230 of them were ten thousand times ten thousand 58 00:02:27,230 --> 00:02:30,870 and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud 59 00:02:30,870 --> 00:02:33,970 voice, Worthy is the lamb that was slain 60 00:02:33,970 --> 00:02:36,630 to receive power and riches and wisdom and 61 00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:39,490 strength and honor and glory and blessing and 62 00:02:39,490 --> 00:02:41,750 every creature which is in heaven and on 63 00:02:41,750 --> 00:02:43,910 earth and under the earth and such as 64 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:45,490 are in the sea and all that are 65 00:02:45,490 --> 00:02:48,750 in them heard I saying, Blessed in honor 66 00:02:48,750 --> 00:02:51,410 and glory and power be unto him that 67 00:02:51,410 --> 00:02:54,210 sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb 68 00:02:54,810 --> 00:02:56,050 forever and ever. 69 00:02:56,570 --> 00:02:58,430 And the four beasts said, Amen. 70 00:02:59,230 --> 00:03:01,590 And the four and twenty elders fell down 71 00:03:01,590 --> 00:03:04,730 and worshipped him that liveth forever and ever 72 00:03:04,730 --> 00:03:05,170 and ever. 73 00:03:05,950 --> 00:03:08,910 This is a picture of a scene that 74 00:03:08,910 --> 00:03:10,870 is going to take place someday in heaven 75 00:03:10,870 --> 00:03:12,470 at the throne of God. 76 00:03:12,930 --> 00:03:14,930 These twenty-four elders that you read about 77 00:03:14,930 --> 00:03:19,030 here represent the twelve apostles and they represent 78 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:20,590 the twelve tribes of Israel. 79 00:03:20,710 --> 00:03:22,830 The four beasts that it says is a 80 00:03:22,830 --> 00:03:23,730 mistranslation. 81 00:03:24,210 --> 00:03:28,230 It's for creatures, angelic beings, mighty beings of 82 00:03:28,230 --> 00:03:28,610 God. 83 00:03:28,830 --> 00:03:30,410 And they're at the throne of God. 84 00:03:31,090 --> 00:03:34,150 And God has never allowed anybody to look 85 00:03:34,150 --> 00:03:34,850 into the future. 86 00:03:36,010 --> 00:03:37,710 No one can look into the future. 87 00:03:38,850 --> 00:03:43,390 We have computers today searching in many laboratories, 88 00:03:43,550 --> 00:03:46,350 whether it's the Pentagon or the Union or 89 00:03:46,350 --> 00:03:48,810 throughout the world trying to find out what's 90 00:03:48,810 --> 00:03:49,950 going to happen next. 91 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:52,530 What is the enemy going to do next? 92 00:03:54,850 --> 00:03:56,870 God has it in that book. 93 00:03:57,610 --> 00:03:58,570 And it was sealed. 94 00:03:59,170 --> 00:04:01,850 And the reason John was weeping is because 95 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:04,590 nobody could open those seals. 96 00:04:05,210 --> 00:04:07,850 Nobody was worthy to open these seals because 97 00:04:07,850 --> 00:04:11,990 these seals held the secret of the past, 98 00:04:12,250 --> 00:04:14,350 present and future of the human race. 99 00:04:15,970 --> 00:04:17,510 God was going to show through these seals 100 00:04:17,510 --> 00:04:19,750 what is about to come upon the earth. 101 00:04:20,589 --> 00:04:23,030 And John saw that nobody was worthy to 102 00:04:23,030 --> 00:04:23,510 open them. 103 00:04:25,090 --> 00:04:26,290 And he wept. 104 00:04:27,750 --> 00:04:30,450 Then an angel came to him and said, 105 00:04:30,570 --> 00:04:31,450 don't weep anymore. 106 00:04:32,130 --> 00:04:33,650 There's somebody here worthy. 107 00:04:34,750 --> 00:04:35,690 He is the lion. 108 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:38,950 He's a lion. 109 00:04:41,270 --> 00:04:45,110 The root of David hath prevailed. 110 00:04:47,630 --> 00:04:50,650 Then when John looked, he didn't see a 111 00:04:50,650 --> 00:04:50,890 lion. 112 00:04:51,610 --> 00:04:53,810 If somebody tells me as we're traveling along, 113 00:04:53,910 --> 00:04:55,470 there's a garden, I expect to see a 114 00:04:55,470 --> 00:04:55,750 garden. 115 00:04:55,910 --> 00:04:57,890 If somebody says there's an airplane, I expect 116 00:04:57,890 --> 00:04:58,610 to see an airplane. 117 00:04:58,770 --> 00:05:00,850 If somebody says that's a train, I expect 118 00:05:00,850 --> 00:05:01,590 to see a train. 119 00:05:02,930 --> 00:05:04,090 But he didn't say that. 120 00:05:05,490 --> 00:05:06,530 He didn't say that. 121 00:05:07,150 --> 00:05:09,370 When he looked, instead of seeing a lion, 122 00:05:09,630 --> 00:05:10,650 he saw a lamb. 123 00:05:12,910 --> 00:05:16,050 A sacrificial lamb who had died. 124 00:05:18,510 --> 00:05:21,110 And this lamb was the only one in 125 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:24,730 all of heaven, on all the earth, or 126 00:05:24,730 --> 00:05:29,150 under the earth, or in hell, that was 127 00:05:29,150 --> 00:05:31,790 able to open those seals. 128 00:05:32,530 --> 00:05:34,270 I'm writing a book right now. 129 00:05:34,430 --> 00:05:36,310 It'll be out, I hope, this fall, about 130 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:40,090 November 1st, on the four horsemen of the 131 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:40,530 apocalypse. 132 00:05:41,150 --> 00:05:42,770 And I've been working on it for many 133 00:05:42,770 --> 00:05:45,010 months, and we're getting toward the end of 134 00:05:45,010 --> 00:05:45,830 it, hopefully, now. 135 00:05:47,610 --> 00:05:50,830 And I have been amazed at the things 136 00:05:50,830 --> 00:05:53,650 that, and the research that I've done, and 137 00:05:53,650 --> 00:05:54,830 friends have helped me do. 138 00:05:56,490 --> 00:05:58,230 If what is about to happen on the 139 00:05:58,230 --> 00:06:00,410 earth, the four horsemen, I can hear their 140 00:06:00,410 --> 00:06:04,510 hoofbeats now, approaching, and so can you. 141 00:06:05,350 --> 00:06:07,050 And we see in our newspapers and on 142 00:06:07,050 --> 00:06:09,970 our television screens the evidence of these four 143 00:06:09,970 --> 00:06:10,410 horsemen. 144 00:06:10,510 --> 00:06:12,750 Well, those four horsemen come under the first 145 00:06:12,750 --> 00:06:13,130 seal. 146 00:06:14,870 --> 00:06:17,290 The seal that is to be broken, and 147 00:06:17,290 --> 00:06:19,930 God is going to pull out upon the 148 00:06:19,930 --> 00:06:20,470 world. 149 00:06:21,710 --> 00:06:22,150 Judgment. 150 00:06:23,450 --> 00:06:25,150 And the fifth chapter that I've just read 151 00:06:25,150 --> 00:06:26,630 is really one of the most thrilling in 152 00:06:26,630 --> 00:06:27,050 the Bible. 153 00:06:27,550 --> 00:06:29,370 There was a period of silence, and then 154 00:06:29,370 --> 00:06:30,070 John weeping. 155 00:06:30,430 --> 00:06:32,810 No one able to open the book, and 156 00:06:32,810 --> 00:06:35,850 out of the midst of the throne came 157 00:06:35,850 --> 00:06:37,630 the lion, but not in the form of 158 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:39,750 a lion, but a lamb which had been 159 00:06:39,750 --> 00:06:42,210 slain, and the book was opened, and it 160 00:06:42,210 --> 00:06:44,330 reveals the past, present, and future. 161 00:06:44,910 --> 00:06:46,930 The secret of the ages is out at 162 00:06:46,930 --> 00:06:51,970 last, and it says that by blood, God 163 00:06:51,970 --> 00:06:54,710 has reconciled the world unto himself through the 164 00:06:54,710 --> 00:06:56,850 death of his only begotten son. 165 00:06:57,990 --> 00:06:59,810 And they sang a new song. 166 00:07:02,110 --> 00:07:05,430 And Brother Odom and Shea and Baraz and 167 00:07:05,430 --> 00:07:07,450 the choir are going to have to learn 168 00:07:07,450 --> 00:07:08,290 a new song. 169 00:07:09,350 --> 00:07:12,690 A song they've never heard before, but it's 170 00:07:12,690 --> 00:07:14,250 going to be about the blood of the 171 00:07:14,250 --> 00:07:14,550 lamb. 172 00:07:15,690 --> 00:07:18,850 The blood that was slain, not about a 173 00:07:18,850 --> 00:07:20,130 lion, but about a lamb. 174 00:07:22,310 --> 00:07:25,430 The music of heaven has centered around the 175 00:07:25,430 --> 00:07:28,410 cleansing and redeeming power of the blood of 176 00:07:28,410 --> 00:07:29,210 Jesus Christ. 177 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:33,190 All heaven recognized at this moment that redemption 178 00:07:33,190 --> 00:07:35,170 was through and by the blood of the 179 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:35,570 lamb. 180 00:07:36,950 --> 00:07:39,750 But you know, the Bible tells us about 181 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:42,590 blood from Genesis to Revelation, and many people 182 00:07:42,590 --> 00:07:45,350 wonder why God demands blood. 183 00:07:45,870 --> 00:07:47,510 The scripture says, for the life of the 184 00:07:47,510 --> 00:07:48,490 flesh is in the blood. 185 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:50,550 You see, blood stands for life. 186 00:07:50,810 --> 00:07:53,510 When blood leaves your body, that means life 187 00:07:53,510 --> 00:07:54,130 is gone. 188 00:07:56,130 --> 00:07:58,970 The first war that I ever went to 189 00:07:58,970 --> 00:08:00,070 was the one in Korea. 190 00:08:00,770 --> 00:08:04,870 Grady Wilson and I went in that fall, 191 00:08:05,150 --> 00:08:07,950 after we had been here, and we spent 192 00:08:07,950 --> 00:08:08,750 Christmas there. 193 00:08:09,330 --> 00:08:12,330 And I'll never forget the bloody sights that 194 00:08:12,330 --> 00:08:14,470 we saw, and we were in Pusan, and 195 00:08:14,470 --> 00:08:15,950 I remember we got on a train to 196 00:08:15,950 --> 00:08:20,890 go up to Seoul at night, and they 197 00:08:20,890 --> 00:08:24,350 warned us, get down behind your baggage because 198 00:08:24,350 --> 00:08:26,130 the train will likely be shot at. 199 00:08:26,570 --> 00:08:28,950 Boy, we stayed down behind that baggage all 200 00:08:28,950 --> 00:08:29,270 night. 201 00:08:30,070 --> 00:08:31,770 But there was a reporter on that train 202 00:08:31,770 --> 00:08:33,510 that didn't, and he had his hand a 203 00:08:33,510 --> 00:08:35,070 little bit up and got his finger shot 204 00:08:35,070 --> 00:08:35,370 off. 205 00:08:36,990 --> 00:08:39,330 But somehow we survived it when the guerrillas 206 00:08:39,330 --> 00:08:39,950 did attack. 207 00:08:41,650 --> 00:08:44,430 And then during the Vietnam War, several Christmases 208 00:08:44,430 --> 00:08:46,950 we spent there with our service men. 209 00:08:47,610 --> 00:08:49,070 And I remember I was on an aircraft 210 00:08:49,070 --> 00:08:50,490 carrier, I think it was a Kitty Hawk, 211 00:08:51,770 --> 00:08:54,350 the night before Christmas, and Bob Hope sent 212 00:08:54,350 --> 00:08:54,810 a wire. 213 00:08:55,990 --> 00:08:58,290 And Bob said, would you come and be 214 00:08:58,290 --> 00:09:00,850 with us and I forget the name of 215 00:09:00,850 --> 00:09:02,230 the town, the next day, and be on 216 00:09:02,230 --> 00:09:04,870 the base the next day and be on 217 00:09:04,870 --> 00:09:05,510 our program. 218 00:09:05,610 --> 00:09:08,930 Well, it was zero, zero outside. 219 00:09:09,130 --> 00:09:10,110 You couldn't see anything. 220 00:09:10,230 --> 00:09:12,470 They'd grounded all the planes, or at least 221 00:09:12,470 --> 00:09:13,730 they were all on the aircraft carrier. 222 00:09:13,810 --> 00:09:14,530 They couldn't leave. 223 00:09:15,070 --> 00:09:17,910 But finally, the admiral decided that he'd let 224 00:09:17,910 --> 00:09:19,410 us go, or the captain. 225 00:09:20,370 --> 00:09:22,390 And we took the cod and took off. 226 00:09:22,810 --> 00:09:25,890 Somebody said it's the world's greatest slingshot, and 227 00:09:25,890 --> 00:09:27,050 it shot us right off. 228 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:31,930 We were real low over this base. 229 00:09:32,190 --> 00:09:33,870 And the mountains were real high, it seemed 230 00:09:33,870 --> 00:09:34,230 to me. 231 00:09:34,790 --> 00:09:37,710 And so I took the microphone and said 232 00:09:37,710 --> 00:09:40,210 to the captain, the pilot of the plane, 233 00:09:40,310 --> 00:09:42,790 I said, if you fellas don't just have 234 00:09:42,790 --> 00:09:45,790 to land down here, I said, if I 235 00:09:45,790 --> 00:09:47,370 were going there to preach, but just to 236 00:09:47,370 --> 00:09:49,550 be with Bob Hope, I said, you can 237 00:09:49,550 --> 00:09:51,470 just keep on going to some other town 238 00:09:51,470 --> 00:09:52,170 where it's clear. 239 00:09:54,250 --> 00:09:57,030 And this man that was the pilot said, 240 00:09:57,090 --> 00:09:59,450 don't worry, Dr. Graham, I'm a big coward. 241 00:09:59,930 --> 00:10:01,490 I was delighted to hear that. 242 00:10:03,710 --> 00:10:06,210 But we finally landed, and we were on 243 00:10:06,210 --> 00:10:09,630 Bob Hope's show, that Christmas show that he 244 00:10:09,630 --> 00:10:10,230 put on. 245 00:10:11,210 --> 00:10:13,730 And we were there a number of times 246 00:10:13,730 --> 00:10:18,470 and had some interesting and very teary and 247 00:10:18,470 --> 00:10:22,130 brokenhearted times with servicemen during the war. 248 00:10:22,250 --> 00:10:24,490 And I'm so delighted to see so many 249 00:10:24,490 --> 00:10:26,250 here tonight, and we are so honored to 250 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:29,590 have them here from the various bases, both 251 00:10:29,590 --> 00:10:33,470 from the Air Force and the Navy and 252 00:10:33,470 --> 00:10:34,130 the Army. 253 00:10:35,230 --> 00:10:37,450 How many bases we've been to, I don't 254 00:10:37,450 --> 00:10:38,790 know whether we could ever count them up, 255 00:10:38,810 --> 00:10:41,910 all over the world, to minister and to 256 00:10:41,910 --> 00:10:44,210 greet them, and they've always encouraged us wherever 257 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:44,910 we've gone. 258 00:10:46,050 --> 00:10:48,590 And we ought to support those people who've 259 00:10:48,590 --> 00:10:51,810 dedicated their lives to defending our freedom and 260 00:10:51,810 --> 00:10:53,770 defending our way of life. 261 00:11:09,130 --> 00:11:12,090 Now, from the third chapter of Genesis, when 262 00:11:12,090 --> 00:11:14,690 man was in the Garden of Eden, and 263 00:11:14,690 --> 00:11:16,950 he broke God's law, and he rebelled against 264 00:11:16,950 --> 00:11:19,410 God, and he found out that he was 265 00:11:19,410 --> 00:11:21,550 naked, and God went out in the field 266 00:11:21,550 --> 00:11:23,730 and slew some animals and shed some blood 267 00:11:23,730 --> 00:11:25,890 in order to take their skins and cover 268 00:11:25,890 --> 00:11:26,690 their nakedness. 269 00:11:26,910 --> 00:11:30,010 From that moment on, blood has been shed 270 00:11:30,010 --> 00:11:32,930 as a symbol of our salvation. 271 00:11:32,930 --> 00:11:34,350 Cain and Abel. 272 00:11:35,170 --> 00:11:38,470 Cain and Abel had apparently been instructed as 273 00:11:38,470 --> 00:11:41,130 to how to worship God, and Cain paid 274 00:11:41,130 --> 00:11:41,730 no attention. 275 00:11:42,490 --> 00:11:44,730 He brought some vegetables to God as an 276 00:11:44,730 --> 00:11:45,070 offering. 277 00:11:45,470 --> 00:11:46,490 God rejected it. 278 00:11:47,210 --> 00:11:51,130 Abel brought a blood sacrifice, a calf, and 279 00:11:51,130 --> 00:11:53,650 offered it to the Lord, and God accepted 280 00:11:53,650 --> 00:11:53,950 it. 281 00:11:54,490 --> 00:11:57,570 And Cain grew very angry and very jealous 282 00:11:57,570 --> 00:12:03,110 of his brother, and he slew him, and 283 00:12:03,110 --> 00:12:04,570 he was the first blood that was shed 284 00:12:04,570 --> 00:12:05,250 in anger. 285 00:12:06,090 --> 00:12:08,750 And war has been going on between brothers 286 00:12:08,750 --> 00:12:10,930 in the human race ever since, and Jesus 287 00:12:10,930 --> 00:12:13,010 said there'll be wars and rumors of wars 288 00:12:13,010 --> 00:12:14,350 till the end of time. 289 00:12:15,550 --> 00:12:17,490 And then we move over again, and we 290 00:12:17,490 --> 00:12:20,370 see when Moses was down in Egypt trying 291 00:12:20,370 --> 00:12:22,670 to get the people out of Egypt and 292 00:12:22,670 --> 00:12:24,430 trying to get them into the Promised Land, 293 00:12:25,230 --> 00:12:27,410 and he was having these debates with Pharaoh, 294 00:12:28,490 --> 00:12:30,630 and you remember that God said, all right, 295 00:12:30,730 --> 00:12:32,110 tell them that I'm going to kill the 296 00:12:32,110 --> 00:12:35,670 firstborn and all of Egypt tonight, and tell 297 00:12:35,670 --> 00:12:38,490 the people, the Jewish people to go out 298 00:12:38,490 --> 00:12:42,990 and slay a lamb without blemish and put 299 00:12:42,990 --> 00:12:44,850 the blood on the doorpost, and when I 300 00:12:44,850 --> 00:12:46,550 see the blood, I will pass over. 301 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:49,450 Not when I see their good works, and 302 00:12:49,450 --> 00:12:50,970 that was the beginning of Passover. 303 00:12:52,990 --> 00:12:55,750 The slaying of those animals and the blood, 304 00:12:55,910 --> 00:12:57,470 God didn't say when I see their good 305 00:12:57,470 --> 00:12:59,210 works or even when I see your ethnic 306 00:12:59,210 --> 00:12:59,670 background. 307 00:13:00,170 --> 00:13:02,790 When I see the blood, when I see 308 00:13:02,790 --> 00:13:04,250 the blood, I will pass over. 309 00:13:04,770 --> 00:13:07,050 Now there are several great words on the 310 00:13:07,050 --> 00:13:08,910 power and value of the blood around which 311 00:13:08,910 --> 00:13:11,410 the music of the angelic host in this 312 00:13:11,410 --> 00:13:14,290 fifth chapter of Revelation is gathered. 313 00:13:14,430 --> 00:13:15,790 The first word is redemption. 314 00:13:16,690 --> 00:13:18,070 For as much as you know that you 315 00:13:18,070 --> 00:13:20,270 were not redeemed with corruptible things such as 316 00:13:20,270 --> 00:13:22,570 silver and gold, but with the precious blood 317 00:13:22,570 --> 00:13:24,830 of Christ, a lamb without blemish. 318 00:13:25,990 --> 00:13:30,690 You go to a pawn shop and a 319 00:13:30,690 --> 00:13:32,830 time limit is set and the failure of 320 00:13:32,830 --> 00:13:35,110 the borrower to reimburse with interest, the pawn 321 00:13:35,110 --> 00:13:38,710 shop automatically releases the article to the public 322 00:13:38,710 --> 00:13:41,570 and any person putting up that amount required 323 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:43,510 is able to buy out of the pawn 324 00:13:43,510 --> 00:13:46,910 that article and this is called redemption. 325 00:13:47,910 --> 00:13:50,730 We redeem it out of the pawn shop. 326 00:13:51,290 --> 00:13:53,010 Now the Bible teaches that we as a 327 00:13:53,010 --> 00:13:54,810 human race are in the pawn shop of 328 00:13:54,810 --> 00:14:01,230 the devil and by disobedience unable to redeem 329 00:14:01,230 --> 00:14:04,890 ourselves and Christ died on the cross and 330 00:14:04,890 --> 00:14:09,090 paid the price for our salvation and redeemed 331 00:14:09,090 --> 00:14:11,510 us by the giving of his own blood. 332 00:14:12,070 --> 00:14:13,990 I read about a Roman slave girl who 333 00:14:13,990 --> 00:14:16,410 was given her freedom and the girl jumps 334 00:14:16,410 --> 00:14:18,770 on the ground and says you've redeemed me 335 00:14:18,770 --> 00:14:20,670 and I will serve you faithfully the rest 336 00:14:20,670 --> 00:14:21,470 of my life. 337 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:26,450 Fallen man and women are on the auction 338 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:28,630 block with no one to redeem us. 339 00:14:30,170 --> 00:14:30,470 We're lost. 340 00:14:30,850 --> 00:14:32,650 We're going to judgment and hell. 341 00:14:32,790 --> 00:14:33,610 What are we going to do? 342 00:14:34,950 --> 00:14:37,250 That's where Jesus Christ came and died and 343 00:14:37,250 --> 00:14:40,450 shed his blood and gave his blood to 344 00:14:40,450 --> 00:14:43,350 pay for our sins and to redeem us 345 00:14:43,350 --> 00:14:45,690 and if you are not under the blood 346 00:14:45,690 --> 00:14:47,630 you're not going to go to heaven. 347 00:14:48,730 --> 00:14:50,270 You must be under the blood. 348 00:14:50,770 --> 00:14:52,970 Are you sure that that experience has been 349 00:14:52,970 --> 00:14:53,290 yours? 350 00:14:53,510 --> 00:14:55,370 You have to repent of sin and receive 351 00:14:55,370 --> 00:14:56,650 Christ into your own heart? 352 00:15:01,150 --> 00:15:04,270 Matthew 26 For this is my blood of 353 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:06,170 the New Testament which is shed for many 354 00:15:06,170 --> 00:15:09,330 for the remission of sins and we go 355 00:15:09,330 --> 00:15:11,550 back again to the Old Testament Hebrews quotes 356 00:15:11,550 --> 00:15:13,690 it and almost all things are by the 357 00:15:13,690 --> 00:15:16,110 law purged with blood and without the shedding 358 00:15:16,110 --> 00:15:17,570 of blood there's no forgiveness. 359 00:15:18,530 --> 00:15:20,470 The blood you see is a shatter and 360 00:15:20,470 --> 00:15:22,510 a type in the Old Testament and it 361 00:15:22,510 --> 00:15:24,830 was sprinkled on the tabernacle the vessels, the 362 00:15:24,830 --> 00:15:28,990 book the congregations annually and this action enabled 363 00:15:28,990 --> 00:15:30,450 God to forgive sin. 364 00:15:31,110 --> 00:15:35,110 Divine justice was satisfied and divine mercy extended 365 00:15:35,550 --> 00:15:39,190 through the types of blood and Jesus in 366 00:15:39,190 --> 00:15:41,830 his death on the cross made possible the 367 00:15:41,830 --> 00:15:44,610 forgiveness of sins and the extension of mercy 368 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:45,790 at the same time. 369 00:15:46,450 --> 00:15:49,270 Holiness was left pure and while mercy and 370 00:15:49,270 --> 00:15:53,630 love provided the demands of justice this is 371 00:15:53,630 --> 00:15:54,650 the heart of the gospel. 372 00:15:55,290 --> 00:15:56,950 There is no gospel but this. 373 00:15:57,990 --> 00:15:59,910 I read about a daughter of a poor 374 00:15:59,910 --> 00:16:00,150 widow. 375 00:16:00,310 --> 00:16:02,650 She left home to go out into sin 376 00:16:02,650 --> 00:16:04,430 for three years she was gone and when 377 00:16:04,430 --> 00:16:07,330 she came back stumbling back having been beaten 378 00:16:07,330 --> 00:16:09,930 up by her boyfriend she came to the 379 00:16:09,930 --> 00:16:11,710 back door and expected it to be locked 380 00:16:11,710 --> 00:16:13,530 but it was open and she opened the 381 00:16:13,530 --> 00:16:14,870 door and she went in and her mother 382 00:16:14,870 --> 00:16:22,010 was sitting there reading the Bible and the 383 00:16:22,010 --> 00:16:24,090 mother said my darling ever since that night 384 00:16:24,090 --> 00:16:25,990 you walked out that door has been open. 385 00:16:27,310 --> 00:16:29,150 God stands ready to forgive. 386 00:16:30,150 --> 00:16:31,790 You see God doesn't have to get ready 387 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:32,630 for you to repent. 388 00:16:33,390 --> 00:16:34,850 He doesn't have to get ready for you 389 00:16:34,850 --> 00:16:35,870 to come to the cross. 390 00:16:36,130 --> 00:16:37,550 He doesn't have to get ready for you 391 00:16:37,550 --> 00:16:40,710 to be forgiven but thou art a God 392 00:16:40,710 --> 00:16:43,510 ready to pardon gracious and merciful slow to 393 00:16:43,510 --> 00:16:46,630 anger and in great kindness the scripture says. 394 00:16:47,110 --> 00:16:48,450 God's ready right now. 395 00:16:48,450 --> 00:16:51,070 He's standing here with open arms and saying 396 00:16:51,070 --> 00:16:54,810 Jim, Bill, Suzy, Mary come you that are 397 00:16:54,810 --> 00:16:56,830 watching by television right now can pick up 398 00:16:56,830 --> 00:16:58,490 a telephone and call the number on the 399 00:16:58,490 --> 00:17:01,470 screen and talk to a counselor about your 400 00:17:01,470 --> 00:17:04,869 own spiritual need and about Christ coming into 401 00:17:04,869 --> 00:17:05,970 your heart right now. 402 00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:12,310 Redemption, remission, then there's another word associated with 403 00:17:12,310 --> 00:17:13,710 the blood and that's justification. 404 00:17:14,650 --> 00:17:21,150 In Romans 5 but God commended the cross 405 00:17:21,150 --> 00:17:23,450 much more than being justified by his blood. 406 00:17:24,190 --> 00:17:26,750 We shall be saved from wrath through him 407 00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:31,130 again the blood and the dictionary defines justification 408 00:17:31,130 --> 00:17:33,850 to be free from blame to be proven 409 00:17:33,850 --> 00:17:34,710 to be innocent. 410 00:17:35,590 --> 00:17:36,670 We cannot do it ourselves. 411 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:38,450 It's impossible. 412 00:17:38,690 --> 00:17:40,690 You can work all your life and do 413 00:17:40,690 --> 00:17:42,610 good works and pay money to the church 414 00:17:42,610 --> 00:17:44,330 but that won't justify you. 415 00:17:44,550 --> 00:17:50,510 The only thing that will justify you is 416 00:17:50,510 --> 00:17:53,670 the blood of Jesus Christ and justification means 417 00:17:53,670 --> 00:17:55,210 just as though you'd never sinned. 418 00:17:57,550 --> 00:17:59,330 Wouldn't it be wonderful as though you'd never 419 00:17:59,330 --> 00:18:01,210 committed a sin in your whole life? 420 00:18:01,450 --> 00:18:03,430 Well that's what can happen tonight when you 421 00:18:03,430 --> 00:18:04,390 come to the cross. 422 00:18:05,230 --> 00:18:06,850 That's the power of the blood. 423 00:18:08,990 --> 00:18:13,770 The physiological and psychological and spiritual all convict 424 00:18:13,770 --> 00:18:17,550 man of guilt being justified freely by his 425 00:18:17,550 --> 00:18:17,890 grace. 426 00:18:18,030 --> 00:18:19,050 Notice his grace. 427 00:18:21,650 --> 00:18:22,610 That's something I don't deserve. 428 00:18:22,770 --> 00:18:24,610 I don't deserve my sins forgiven. 429 00:18:25,010 --> 00:18:26,430 I don't deserve to go to heaven. 430 00:18:26,690 --> 00:18:27,810 I'll be honest with you. 431 00:18:27,870 --> 00:18:28,890 I don't deserve it. 432 00:18:28,970 --> 00:18:29,970 I deserve hell. 433 00:18:31,970 --> 00:18:33,910 Someone asked me a few moments ago before 434 00:18:33,910 --> 00:18:35,570 I came on the platform don't you feel 435 00:18:35,570 --> 00:18:37,550 very good about all this and all that? 436 00:18:37,650 --> 00:18:39,370 I said I feel like Martin Luther did. 437 00:18:39,570 --> 00:18:41,670 He was born 500 years ago this year. 438 00:18:42,930 --> 00:18:44,630 He said when I come into the presence 439 00:18:44,630 --> 00:18:46,150 of God I feel like a worm. 440 00:18:47,590 --> 00:18:49,770 I feel like a worm all the time. 441 00:18:51,650 --> 00:18:52,610 I don't deserve anything. 442 00:18:54,030 --> 00:18:59,690 But I receive forgiveness and justification and my 443 00:18:59,690 --> 00:19:01,070 name written in the book of life. 444 00:19:01,310 --> 00:19:05,430 I'm going to receive heaven forever because the 445 00:19:05,430 --> 00:19:06,250 blood was shed. 446 00:19:07,070 --> 00:19:08,830 A little girl was asked by her mother 447 00:19:08,830 --> 00:19:11,410 if she was afraid to die and she 448 00:19:11,410 --> 00:19:12,270 said no mother. 449 00:19:12,970 --> 00:19:15,010 On what are you depending the mother asked. 450 00:19:15,650 --> 00:19:17,990 On the justice of God said the little 451 00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:18,330 girl. 452 00:19:18,910 --> 00:19:21,030 Oh you don't mean the justice of God 453 00:19:21,030 --> 00:19:22,390 you mean the mercy of God. 454 00:19:23,070 --> 00:19:24,270 No mother said the daughter. 455 00:19:24,550 --> 00:19:26,210 I mean the justice of God. 456 00:19:26,570 --> 00:19:28,630 You know mother all my sins were laid 457 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:31,170 on Jesus and he bore my punishment and 458 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,870 God in his justice is not going to 459 00:19:33,870 --> 00:19:34,650 punish me too. 460 00:19:35,310 --> 00:19:36,570 He's not going to punish. 461 00:19:36,790 --> 00:19:38,530 He's not going to let Christ down the 462 00:19:38,530 --> 00:19:42,770 cross and you'd be lost if you believe 463 00:19:42,770 --> 00:19:45,990 in Christ and put your trust in him. 464 00:19:46,510 --> 00:19:49,590 And then another word associated with blood blood 465 00:19:49,590 --> 00:19:50,490 is cleansing. 466 00:19:50,710 --> 00:19:52,790 First John 1 7 but if we walk 467 00:19:52,790 --> 00:19:53,850 in the light as he is in the 468 00:19:53,850 --> 00:19:56,490 light we have fellowship one with another and 469 00:19:56,490 --> 00:19:59,730 the blood of Jesus Christ his son continues 470 00:19:59,730 --> 00:20:01,490 to cleanse us from all sin. 471 00:20:01,730 --> 00:20:03,390 When you come to the cross not only 472 00:20:03,390 --> 00:20:06,390 does he cleanse all the past sins but 473 00:20:06,390 --> 00:20:08,730 that blood is available for any present or 474 00:20:08,730 --> 00:20:09,510 future sins. 475 00:20:10,850 --> 00:20:16,310 So that you stand before God justified ready 476 00:20:16,310 --> 00:20:17,110 to go to heaven. 477 00:20:17,110 --> 00:20:19,730 That's a marvelous thing to have happen to 478 00:20:19,730 --> 00:20:19,910 you. 479 00:20:20,490 --> 00:20:23,270 You see fire is a cleansing power. 480 00:20:23,950 --> 00:20:26,390 The jewelers often called upon to refashion some 481 00:20:26,390 --> 00:20:30,030 old silver or gold and the article is 482 00:20:30,030 --> 00:20:32,530 placed in a pot over an alcoholic on 483 00:20:32,530 --> 00:20:35,630 alcohol flame and allowed to remain there for 484 00:20:35,630 --> 00:20:40,530 several hours and the boiling process cleanses corrosion 485 00:20:40,530 --> 00:20:42,530 and dust and other metals come to the 486 00:20:42,530 --> 00:20:44,530 surface and are dipped off it's called dross 487 00:20:45,790 --> 00:20:48,310 and that's what God's what the blood of 488 00:20:48,310 --> 00:20:50,430 Christ does it cleanses. 489 00:20:50,770 --> 00:20:54,230 It takes all those bad elements out and 490 00:20:54,230 --> 00:20:57,790 leaves you standing before God justified and pure. 491 00:20:58,210 --> 00:21:00,470 God can no longer see your sins. 492 00:21:01,370 --> 00:21:03,570 You can take some brown sugar and dip 493 00:21:03,570 --> 00:21:05,450 it in the blood from animals and it 494 00:21:05,450 --> 00:21:07,410 obliques the sugar next to the snow and 495 00:21:07,410 --> 00:21:08,090 its whiteness. 496 00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:10,970 We are cleansed by blood in the spiritual 497 00:21:10,970 --> 00:21:11,530 realm. 498 00:21:11,530 --> 00:21:14,810 The process is that of repentance and faith 499 00:21:14,810 --> 00:21:18,090 to all who would forsake sin God offers 500 00:21:18,090 --> 00:21:18,930 a new chance. 501 00:21:19,450 --> 00:21:22,310 There was a student co-ed I read 502 00:21:22,310 --> 00:21:24,990 about the other day at 19 years of 503 00:21:24,990 --> 00:21:25,290 age. 504 00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:28,950 She got into the Guinness Book of Records 505 00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:31,690 this year by standing in the shower for 506 00:21:31,690 --> 00:21:34,450 a consecutive 121 hours. 507 00:21:35,590 --> 00:21:36,590 Think of that. 508 00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:39,390 When you know back when I was a 509 00:21:39,390 --> 00:21:42,610 boy they used to see how many goldfish 510 00:21:42,610 --> 00:21:46,510 they could swallow and then they'd see how 511 00:21:46,510 --> 00:21:49,110 many kids could get in a telephone booth 512 00:21:50,230 --> 00:21:52,050 and we had all kinds of or how 513 00:21:52,050 --> 00:21:55,210 you could sit on a pole how long 514 00:21:55,210 --> 00:21:56,810 you could sit on a pole then they 515 00:21:56,810 --> 00:21:58,330 had what they call the walk-a-thons 516 00:21:58,330 --> 00:22:00,110 they would go all over the country and 517 00:22:00,110 --> 00:22:02,250 people would see how long they could dance 518 00:22:02,250 --> 00:22:04,110 and some of them would dance for 3 519 00:22:04,110 --> 00:22:06,510 and 4 and 5 weeks night and day, 520 00:22:06,650 --> 00:22:10,330 night and day never sleeping, dancing and the 521 00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,450 one that lasted the longest would get maybe 522 00:22:12,450 --> 00:22:13,070 $75. 523 00:22:17,490 --> 00:22:20,830 But tonight you can be cleansed by the 524 00:22:20,830 --> 00:22:23,830 blood of Christ and you don't have to 525 00:22:23,830 --> 00:22:26,650 take a 121 hour shower. 526 00:22:28,690 --> 00:22:30,870 It can happen tonight, right now. 527 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:39,470 It's an instant thing with Christ. 528 00:22:39,570 --> 00:22:41,670 He promises to blot out all the old 529 00:22:41,670 --> 00:22:44,670 sins and make the record begin with a 530 00:22:44,670 --> 00:22:47,550 new start wouldn't that be wonderful a brand 531 00:22:47,550 --> 00:22:50,250 new start in life to be born from 532 00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:53,370 above to be born anew to start over 533 00:22:54,170 --> 00:22:57,230 and all the past forgiven that's what God 534 00:22:57,230 --> 00:22:58,030 offers you tonight. 535 00:22:59,970 --> 00:23:03,410 Then there's another word there's redemption and remission 536 00:23:03,410 --> 00:23:07,310 and justification and cleansing then there's peace peace 537 00:23:07,310 --> 00:23:09,270 in the midst of a world filled with 538 00:23:09,270 --> 00:23:11,590 war we're told that there are 40 wars 539 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:14,490 going on right now in the world and 540 00:23:14,490 --> 00:23:18,090 there's all sorts of wars in families all 541 00:23:18,090 --> 00:23:23,290 sorts of wars between friends going on in 542 00:23:23,290 --> 00:23:25,430 Colossians 1.20 it says and having made 543 00:23:25,430 --> 00:23:27,930 peace through the blood of his cross by 544 00:23:27,930 --> 00:23:32,210 him to reconcile all things unto himself because 545 00:23:32,210 --> 00:23:34,310 of that blood we can have peace there 546 00:23:34,310 --> 00:23:35,910 are three types of peace spoken of in 547 00:23:35,910 --> 00:23:39,830 the Bible first is peace with God you 548 00:23:39,830 --> 00:23:42,730 see God says that because of our sins 549 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,330 we're at war with him he makes peace 550 00:23:45,330 --> 00:23:48,210 at the cross then there's the peace of 551 00:23:48,210 --> 00:23:51,050 God that the Holy Spirit produces in you 552 00:23:51,050 --> 00:23:52,950 when you come to Christ you have a 553 00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:55,210 peace that you've never known before think of 554 00:23:55,210 --> 00:23:58,070 the restlessness in the world today among so 555 00:23:58,070 --> 00:24:00,470 many of us the pressures that we live 556 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:02,610 under but to think of having peace in 557 00:24:02,610 --> 00:24:05,730 the midst of it all and then there's 558 00:24:05,730 --> 00:24:08,210 peace between nations and that's going to happen 559 00:24:08,210 --> 00:24:11,510 someday when Jesus comes back again and reign 560 00:24:11,510 --> 00:24:13,130 as King of Kings and Lord of Lords 561 00:24:13,130 --> 00:24:17,290 I'll talk about that Sunday afternoon there's absolute 562 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:19,870 harmony in heaven because of the shed blood 563 00:24:21,090 --> 00:24:23,150 I heard about a famous incident in the 564 00:24:23,150 --> 00:24:26,470 First World War a terrible battle had taken 565 00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:28,830 place and there were two wounded soldiers one 566 00:24:28,830 --> 00:24:30,490 was a German and the other was French 567 00:24:30,490 --> 00:24:33,050 and as they lay near each other on 568 00:24:33,050 --> 00:24:34,870 the field the Frenchman gave his enemy a 569 00:24:34,870 --> 00:24:37,950 drink of cool water for his tongue then 570 00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:43,430 they clasped hands and they prayed and the 571 00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:48,290 dying German said there'll be no war on 572 00:24:48,290 --> 00:24:50,850 the other side and in a few moments 573 00:24:50,850 --> 00:24:54,030 they were both on the other side and 574 00:24:54,030 --> 00:24:58,230 there's no war there peace but you can 575 00:24:58,230 --> 00:25:01,350 have that peace here and now in the 576 00:25:01,350 --> 00:25:04,010 midst of the troubles and trials and discouragements 577 00:25:04,010 --> 00:25:06,330 of life and the pressures of life you 578 00:25:06,330 --> 00:25:08,130 can have the peace of God that passeth 579 00:25:08,130 --> 00:25:13,890 all understanding right now there's no war going 580 00:25:13,890 --> 00:25:15,890 on in the heart of those who really 581 00:25:15,890 --> 00:25:19,390 know Christ if you surrender to Him not 582 00:25:19,390 --> 00:25:21,630 only is there peace but there's also another 583 00:25:21,630 --> 00:25:27,970 word access access but now in Christ Jesus 584 00:25:27,970 --> 00:25:30,230 ye who were far off are made nigh 585 00:25:30,230 --> 00:25:32,730 by the blood of Christ we can come 586 00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:34,890 straight into the presence of God we don't 587 00:25:34,890 --> 00:25:38,090 have to come through a third person having 588 00:25:38,090 --> 00:25:40,870 therefore brethren boldness turned unto the holiest by 589 00:25:40,870 --> 00:25:43,050 the blood of Christ by a new and 590 00:25:43,050 --> 00:25:47,070 a living way says Hebrews 10 from the 591 00:25:47,070 --> 00:25:51,130 cross the Lord said it is finished the 592 00:25:51,130 --> 00:25:54,410 veil in the temple was rent in twain 593 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,090 there was a veil between the people and 594 00:25:57,090 --> 00:26:00,550 God but when Christ died that veil was 595 00:26:00,550 --> 00:26:03,130 rent in two and it's been rent ever 596 00:26:03,130 --> 00:26:06,870 since and this was symbolic of the veil 597 00:26:06,870 --> 00:26:08,810 between God and man that had kept fallen 598 00:26:08,810 --> 00:26:11,510 man from having access to the Father and 599 00:26:11,510 --> 00:26:14,550 Sir Walter Scott was speaking one day and 600 00:26:14,550 --> 00:26:16,670 he's once speaking about the veil of the 601 00:26:16,670 --> 00:26:18,810 temple being rent in two and a man 602 00:26:18,810 --> 00:26:20,190 in the back stood up and said how 603 00:26:20,190 --> 00:26:23,250 big was that hole and Sir Walter Scott 604 00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:25,070 said it was big enough for any sinner 605 00:26:25,070 --> 00:26:28,630 to get through yes it's big enough for 606 00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:29,970 any sinner to get through and you can 607 00:26:29,970 --> 00:26:32,430 come directly into the presence of God with 608 00:26:32,430 --> 00:26:37,750 boldness I heard about a prisoner who was 609 00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:40,270 brought up to trial in England under the 610 00:26:40,270 --> 00:26:42,830 reign of Charles the first and throughout the 611 00:26:42,830 --> 00:26:47,070 proceedings the condemned man remained calm and people 612 00:26:47,070 --> 00:26:49,790 couldn't figure out because everything was going against 613 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:51,970 him they knew the judge was going to 614 00:26:51,970 --> 00:26:53,370 pronounce him guilty and they knew that he 615 00:26:53,370 --> 00:26:55,930 was going to be condemned to hang and 616 00:26:55,930 --> 00:26:57,370 he was so calm and he had such 617 00:26:57,370 --> 00:26:59,930 peace it seemed and so the sentence of 618 00:26:59,930 --> 00:27:03,370 death was passed and he reached in his 619 00:27:03,370 --> 00:27:05,010 pocket and he pulled out a paper and 620 00:27:05,010 --> 00:27:07,370 handed it to the judge it was a 621 00:27:07,370 --> 00:27:10,570 pardon from King Charles the first he already 622 00:27:10,570 --> 00:27:15,070 had it if you have pardon from God 623 00:27:16,270 --> 00:27:18,630 you can stand before anything in this world 624 00:27:18,630 --> 00:27:21,210 with peace in your heart because if you're 625 00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:24,650 ready to die you're ready to live and 626 00:27:24,650 --> 00:27:28,510 you've already been pardoned because of Christ so 627 00:27:28,510 --> 00:27:30,090 in the day of judgment if we have 628 00:27:30,090 --> 00:27:33,090 Christ's free pardon for sin we're not afraid 629 00:27:33,090 --> 00:27:36,730 of anything at the judgment when I see 630 00:27:36,730 --> 00:27:40,410 the blood I read about in a hospital 631 00:27:40,410 --> 00:27:42,870 in Pennsylvania recently a fellow died in the 632 00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:45,630 hospital because he was given the wrong kind 633 00:27:45,630 --> 00:27:49,910 of blood the blood of Jesus Christ God's 634 00:27:49,910 --> 00:27:51,930 son shed on the cross for us was 635 00:27:51,930 --> 00:27:54,090 the right type of blood to cleanse and 636 00:27:54,090 --> 00:27:57,390 infuse every person in this room tonight with 637 00:27:57,390 --> 00:28:04,510 life we've been reading a lot about a 638 00:28:04,510 --> 00:28:06,710 new disease that people are frightened about and 639 00:28:06,710 --> 00:28:09,470 it gets in the blood stream through transfusion 640 00:28:11,330 --> 00:28:13,370 there's no pollution in the blood of the 641 00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:16,810 Lord Jesus Christ it's pure it'll cleanse from 642 00:28:16,810 --> 00:28:20,570 every sin no matter what it is the 643 00:28:20,570 --> 00:28:29,050 blood accomplishes three things it satisfies God who 644 00:28:29,050 --> 00:28:30,970 was delivered for our offenses and was raised 645 00:28:30,970 --> 00:28:36,670 again for our justification you see we sometimes 646 00:28:36,670 --> 00:28:39,530 refuse to rest where God rests when the 647 00:28:39,530 --> 00:28:42,870 atonement has been made God was satisfied nothing 648 00:28:42,870 --> 00:28:44,730 needs to be added to the demands of 649 00:28:44,730 --> 00:28:48,110 His holy nature divine justice was completely satisfied 650 00:28:48,110 --> 00:28:50,890 we're constantly seeking to add merit or to 651 00:28:50,890 --> 00:28:53,190 combine work along with what Christ did on 652 00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:54,690 the cross we're constantly seeking to add merit 653 00:28:55,490 --> 00:28:58,050 but you don't have to it was all 654 00:28:58,050 --> 00:29:01,190 done at the cross and in the resurrection 655 00:29:03,070 --> 00:29:04,710 are you ready to meet Him though your 656 00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:07,110 sins were scarlet they shall be as white 657 00:29:07,110 --> 00:29:09,330 as snow though they were red like crimson 658 00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:12,050 they shall be as wool so we can 659 00:29:12,050 --> 00:29:13,850 say with Paul I live yet not I 660 00:29:13,850 --> 00:29:16,990 but Christ liveth in me the second thing 661 00:29:16,990 --> 00:29:20,290 the blood does it saves sinners like you 662 00:29:20,290 --> 00:29:24,850 and me I'm a sinner, yes a sinner 663 00:29:24,850 --> 00:29:27,070 in hell, yes but for by grace so 664 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:28,610 you say through faith in that and out 665 00:29:28,610 --> 00:29:30,370 of yourselves it is the gift of God 666 00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:34,050 oh there's a tremendous sense of relief when 667 00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:36,810 I realize that He gave it to me 668 00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:38,930 that my name is written in the book 669 00:29:38,930 --> 00:29:40,910 of life that I know that I'm going 670 00:29:40,910 --> 00:29:45,150 to heaven it liberates you from anxiety and 671 00:29:45,150 --> 00:29:47,230 fear and how many of us live in 672 00:29:47,230 --> 00:29:50,410 anxiety and fear today if I had the 673 00:29:50,410 --> 00:29:53,130 ability to sing like Doug Odom or Bev 674 00:29:53,130 --> 00:29:56,610 Shea I would burst forth right now in 675 00:29:56,610 --> 00:30:01,330 amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved 676 00:30:01,330 --> 00:30:03,950 a sinner like me but it also does 677 00:30:03,950 --> 00:30:09,670 one other thing it silences the devil the 678 00:30:09,670 --> 00:30:11,590 Bible says who shall lay anything to the 679 00:30:11,590 --> 00:30:13,730 charge of God's elect it is God that 680 00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:17,130 justifies you see the Bible teaches a strange 681 00:30:17,130 --> 00:30:18,910 thing and I don't quite understand all this 682 00:30:18,910 --> 00:30:22,050 now I'll get some clergyman here to explain 683 00:30:22,050 --> 00:30:25,350 it to me sometime but Satan is standing 684 00:30:25,350 --> 00:30:28,430 daily before the throne of God accusing us 685 00:30:28,430 --> 00:30:30,930 he's the accuser of the brethren he's saying 686 00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:32,490 look at that Billy Graham you see that 687 00:30:32,490 --> 00:30:35,010 he didn't do that he did that he 688 00:30:35,010 --> 00:30:36,750 did this he did that he's accusing us 689 00:30:36,750 --> 00:30:43,050 all the time but Jesus Christ is our 690 00:30:43,050 --> 00:30:47,330 advocate He's my lawyer at the right hand 691 00:30:47,330 --> 00:30:49,790 of God the Father He answers the devil 692 00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:54,190 and He reminds the devil that when he 693 00:30:54,190 --> 00:30:57,270 died on the cross that took care of 694 00:30:57,270 --> 00:31:00,110 Billy Graham's sins and there came a day 695 00:31:00,110 --> 00:31:02,990 when Billy Graham repented of his sins and 696 00:31:02,990 --> 00:31:06,970 received Christ as his own Savior and Jesus 697 00:31:06,970 --> 00:31:10,530 said look at that and the devil has 698 00:31:10,530 --> 00:31:14,070 to back away and says yes he's under 699 00:31:14,070 --> 00:31:16,310 the blood when I see the blood I 700 00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:20,270 will pass over is the blood tonight sprinkled 701 00:31:20,270 --> 00:31:25,070 on the door of your heart will the 702 00:31:25,070 --> 00:31:27,490 judgment of God pass over you or are 703 00:31:27,490 --> 00:31:28,990 you going to have to face the judgment 704 00:31:28,990 --> 00:31:30,510 of God which is it going to be 705 00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:34,670 you say well Billy I'm really not sure 706 00:31:34,670 --> 00:31:38,470 I'm a member of the church I'm a 707 00:31:38,470 --> 00:31:40,830 deacon in the church I'm the pastor of 708 00:31:40,830 --> 00:31:46,130 a church but I'm really not sure I 709 00:31:46,130 --> 00:31:47,890 had a bishop come to me sometime ago 710 00:31:47,890 --> 00:31:51,350 of a great church and he said you 711 00:31:51,350 --> 00:31:53,110 know I've been through a theological school in 712 00:31:53,110 --> 00:31:59,150 England I'm a bishop in my denomination but 713 00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:01,710 he said I really don't know for sure 714 00:32:01,710 --> 00:32:05,630 that I know Christ I want to know 715 00:32:06,450 --> 00:32:08,550 and I talked to that bishop in his 716 00:32:08,550 --> 00:32:10,850 home as though he were a little child 717 00:32:10,850 --> 00:32:13,350 even though he held a doctor's degree in 718 00:32:13,350 --> 00:32:19,190 theology from Cambridge University and he got on 719 00:32:19,190 --> 00:32:21,230 his knees with tears coming down his cheeks 720 00:32:21,470 --> 00:32:25,390 he confessed before God how many people here 721 00:32:25,390 --> 00:32:28,310 tonight are in the church but you're a 722 00:32:28,310 --> 00:32:34,270 long way from full fellowship with Christ Jesus 723 00:32:34,270 --> 00:32:35,930 said you can serve me with your lips 724 00:32:35,930 --> 00:32:40,250 but your heart is far from me tonight 725 00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:42,550 is the night you may never have another 726 00:32:42,550 --> 00:32:45,230 moment like this we've seen hundreds of people 727 00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:48,050 every night come forward to make their commitment 728 00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:51,050 to Christ and to be sure I'm going 729 00:32:51,050 --> 00:32:53,110 to ask you to do that tonight I'm 730 00:32:53,110 --> 00:32:54,510 going to ask hundreds of you to get 731 00:32:54,510 --> 00:32:55,610 up out of your seats in a few 732 00:32:55,610 --> 00:32:57,770 moments and come and stand in front of 733 00:32:57,770 --> 00:32:59,710 this platform and as you come and stand 734 00:32:59,710 --> 00:33:03,310 here quietly and reverently I'm going to say 735 00:33:03,310 --> 00:33:04,490 a word to you and have a prayer 736 00:33:04,490 --> 00:33:05,990 with you and give you some literature and 737 00:33:05,990 --> 00:33:07,530 you can go back and join your friends 738 00:33:08,090 --> 00:33:10,270 if you're with friends or relatives or come 739 00:33:10,270 --> 00:33:13,070 in a bus they'll wait on you but 740 00:33:13,070 --> 00:33:15,550 Christ paid the price on the cross for 741 00:33:15,550 --> 00:33:18,070 you and shed his blood certainly you can 742 00:33:18,070 --> 00:33:20,070 come a few steps to make your commitment 743 00:33:20,070 --> 00:33:22,070 to him you say Billy why do you 744 00:33:22,070 --> 00:33:25,130 ask us to come publicly because every person 745 00:33:25,130 --> 00:33:27,030 that Jesus called in the new testament he 746 00:33:27,030 --> 00:33:30,990 called publicly publicly he said if you're not 747 00:33:30,990 --> 00:33:33,110 willing to acknowledge me before men I'll not 748 00:33:33,110 --> 00:33:34,910 acknowledge you before my father which is in 749 00:33:34,910 --> 00:33:39,930 heaven so it's biblical and it's psychologically sound 750 00:33:39,930 --> 00:33:42,770 for you to come publicly and make your 751 00:33:42,770 --> 00:33:45,370 commitment to Christ husbands and wives and whole 752 00:33:45,370 --> 00:33:48,270 families need to come sweethearts need to come 753 00:33:49,130 --> 00:33:52,110 and surrender to him tonight and say tonight 754 00:33:52,110 --> 00:33:54,370 I want to leave here knowing that my 755 00:33:54,370 --> 00:33:56,610 sins are forgiven and that I'm going to 756 00:33:56,610 --> 00:34:00,370 heaven if you're with friends they'll wait I 757 00:34:00,370 --> 00:34:02,630 said no one leave the stadium now this 758 00:34:02,630 --> 00:34:04,750 is the holy moment ask us to be 759 00:34:04,750 --> 00:34:08,630 bowed in prayer everyone praying as people come 760 00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:10,210 you get up and come right now quickly 761 00:34:10,210 --> 00:34:12,310 we're going to wait hundreds of you from 762 00:34:12,310 --> 00:34:16,770 everywhere and make this commitment to Christ you 763 00:34:16,770 --> 00:34:18,770 have been listening to the From the Pulpit 764 00:34:18,770 --> 00:34:21,870 and Classic Sermon series this week you heard 765 00:34:21,870 --> 00:34:24,550 Billy Graham with his message The Gift of 766 00:34:24,550 --> 00:34:27,710 Blood tune in next week to hear Chuck 767 00:34:27,710 --> 00:34:30,670 Smith talk about The Worship of False Gods 768 00:34:30,670 --> 00:34:33,670 on From the Pulpit and Classic 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