Absolutely unique and distinct from every other faith
that is in the world today.
Not only does it make it uniquely distinct
and different from any other faith, but this
subject that we're going to be discussing tonight
is the very element within the Christian faith
that makes it valid before God.
May I suggest tonight very boldly with a
true and honest heart before God that there
is no other faith, no other religion in
the world that has the ability and the
power to bring a person to God.
Except that faith that comes through Jesus Christ.
So, I want to encourage you if you
do have your Bibles tonight to go through
the Scriptures as we mention them.
And I certainly do not want this just
to be a teaching, but I'm asking God
to quicken and make real these truths within
our spirits tonight so that the reality and
the life of these things can be imparted
to us through the power of the Holy
Spirit.
I want to begin by mentioning that the
blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on
Calvary, the actual blood on Jesus Christ that
was shed on Calvary is the subject that
we're going to be discussing tonight.
And we're going to look at it and
exactly see what the Scriptures say regarding the
blood of Jesus and how it is through
the blood of Jesus that you and I
gain entrance into the Kingdom of God.
First of all, we're going to look at
the blood of Jesus as it was shed
on Calvary.
Now, when we speak of the blood of
Jesus as it was shed on Calvary, what
we're referring to is at that actual time
when Jesus Christ was walking on this earth
and they crucified Him and they took a
spear and they stuck it in His side
and out of His side poured water and
blood.
That's the blood that we're referring to.
That blood was distinct and different from any
other blood that was ever in a human
being because it was the blood of the
Son of God.
You see, Jesus didn't have a natural father,
but Jesus' father was God Himself.
The Bible says that Mary was found with
child, but the father of that child was
not Joseph.
It was the very God Himself.
She was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
It was a miracle.
And that immediately set Jesus apart from any
other human being that was ever born of
a woman.
So that blood that was in the veins
of Jesus Christ was not mere human blood,
but it was the incorruptible, precious, priceless blood
of God Himself.
And that was the blood that was shed
on Calvary.
And that's the blood that we're going to
be talking about tonight.
So it's not just some mere blood that's
in a human being, but we're talking about
the very blood of God Himself that was
in the very body of Jesus.
Listen, that was and is the only way
for you and I to gain entrance into
the Kingdom of God.
Now, we're going to be looking into Romans
3, verse number 25.
And we're looking at, first of all, the
blood of Jesus that was shed on Calvary
was the propitiation for our sins.
Now, that sounds like a big word, but
all it means is that the blood of
Jesus was the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Romans 3, verse number 25.
Let's begin in verse number 21.
But now the righteousness of God without the
law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets, even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
all and upon all them that believe.
For there is no difference.
For all have sinned and come short of
the glory of God, being justified freely by
His grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to
be a propitiation through faith in His blood.
God made Jesus to be the atoning sacrifice
for your sins and for my sins, and
that's what the word propitiation means.
To declare His righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past through the forbearance of
God.
To declare, I say at this time, His
righteousness that He might be just and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus Christ.
We also find in 1 John chapter 2,
1 John chapter 2, that the Apostle John
makes the same statement here.
1 John chapter 2 beginning in verse 1
and reading through to verse number 2.
My little children, these things write I unto
you that ye sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Now listen to this.
And He is the propitiation for our sins.
And not only our sins, but also for
the sins of the whole world.
Oh beloved, that rings good news in my
soul tonight.
That the blood of Jesus Christ has become
the atoning sacrifice for my sins.
Not only for my sins, but for the
sins of the world.
So that's the first beautiful, beautiful fact about
the blood of Jesus Christ.
Now listen, these are not just mere ideas.
These are not just mere possibilities.
These are facts that are forever settled in
heaven.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the atoning
sacrifice for each and every single person that
believes and trusts in Him and is born
again.
That's good news.
That means all of your sins and all
of my sins that have the potential to
send me right to hell because the Bible
says the wages of sin is death.
But the free gift of God through Jesus
Christ is eternal life.
So Jesus becoming the atoning sacrifice for our
sins means that God has removed the sins
and the offenses in my life that stood
against me, preventing me from knowing God.
God has removed them through the shedding of
His dear Son's blood, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isn't that good news?
Secondly, in 1 Peter 1, verse number 19.
1 Peter 1, verse number 19.
Beginning in verse number 18.
For as much as you know that you
were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver
and gold from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers, but with the precious
blood of Christ as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot.
So we find not only was the blood
of Jesus the propitiation for our sins, but
we find also that it was the very
redemption that was provided for us.
The blood of Jesus is what redeemed us.
Now the word redeem is an interesting word.
And basically what it means is to buy
back.
It's to buy something back.
You see, friends, God created you in the
beginning and He created you for Himself.
Your body, your soul, and your spirit, and
your mind was originally intended to be filled
with God's presence and filled with God's love.
But because of Adam and Eve, and because
of the sin, we were sold to sin.
We became slaves to sin.
And it was no longer God that we
were loving and worshiping, but we became slaves
and servants to ourselves and to the devil
and to the world.
But the blood of Jesus Christ has brought
us back.
It redeemed us.
It delivered us from the hold of darkness
and sin and enabled us to come back
to our God and our Creator.
We find this also in Ephesians 1, verse
number 17.
Ephesians 1, verse number...
I'm sorry, verse number 7.
Ephesians 1, verse number 7.
In whom we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins according to the riches
of His grace.
When God looks at the blood of Jesus
Christ and sees you trusting in it, God
cancels your sins because it's the buyback price.
Aren't you glad that Jesus shed His blood?
Acts 20, 28.
This is another Scripture that shows us the
high cost that God paid to redeem us.
Acts 20, verse number 28.
Here's what Paul says.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all
the flock over the which the Holy Ghost
has made you overseers to feed the church
of God, listen, which He purchased with His
own blood.
Now let's face it.
Let's bring it right down.
You purchase cars with money, don't you?
It takes a certain amount of money to
buy a car.
It takes a certain amount of money to
place a mortgage down upon a house, a
down payment.
It takes a little bit of money to
buy groceries.
Well, what did it cost to buy your
salvation?
Let me tell you something.
It didn't cost you anything.
But it cost Jesus everything.
It cost Him His very life.
Listen, He purchased your salvation through His blood.
So what's the purchase price for your salvation
and my salvation?
The blood of Jesus Christ.
How precious the blood is.
Colossians 1, verse number 20.
Not only has Christ's blood become our propitiation,
our redemption and the purchase price, but according
to Colossians 1, verse 20, and having made
peace through the blood of His cross by
Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, by
Him, I say, whether they be things in
earth or things in heaven, and you that
were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the basis
of peace in your life and my life.
Let me tell you, beloved, you'll never find
peace, as we were speaking before, you'll never
find peace outside of the blood of Jesus
Christ.
It is the basis for peace.
Now ask yourself this question.
Everybody you know, they're looking for peace.
Isn't it true?
Come on, be honest.
You're looking for peace.
You need peace of mind.
You're tired of torment.
You're tired of hurt.
You're tired of being misunderstood.
You're tired of that inner deep groaning.
What do you do?
Look to the blood of Jesus.
By it, we have peace.
Oh, such peace.
The world can't give it, and the world
can't take it away.
So the blood of Jesus that was shed
becomes our propitiation, our redemption, the purchase price
for our sins, the basis of peace.
And lastly, Romans chapter 5, verse number 9.
Romans chapter 5, verse number 9.
Beginning in verse 8.
But God commanded His love toward us, and
that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
Much more than being now, listen, justified by
His blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him.
Lastly, we find that the blood of Jesus
Christ provides the justification that we so need.
The word justification there is a word that
suggests that when God sees a sinner pleading
for the blood, asking God to wash him
by the blood, God will look at that
sinner, and because of the blood, will look
at that sinner as completely, 100% innocent
and forgiven.
Not because of what you did, but because
of what Jesus did by dying on the
cross.
100% forgiven through the blood of Jesus
Christ.
Now listen.
These heavenly, wonderful truths should be prayed through
by every believer so that God can write
these upon our heart, so that they can
become facts within us that we know, that
we understand, and that we believe.
The blood of Jesus Christ and what it
has done since it was shed on Calvary's
tree.
Next, we find the blood of Jesus not
only does all of these wonderful things, but
the blood of Jesus Christ, listen, brings us
into the very holy presence of God Himself.
The blood of Jesus brings us into the
presence of God Himself.
Hebrews 9.
Now friends, we're on a road now, and
the road is paved with the blood, and
it's the paved road of the blood of
Jesus that we're walking on.
And this is where we're heading.
How many remember the story The Wizard of
Oz?
What was the advice that was given to
Dorothy?
Follow the yellow brick road.
All these little elves and munchkins just come
running out of nowhere.
Follow the yellow brick road.
What's the yellow brick road going to lead
me to?
It's going to lead you to the wizard,
and he'll be able to give what?
Now the lion needed courage, the tin man
needed a heart, and the scarecrow, he needed
some brains, right?
He needed some brains.
And Dorothy, she needed to get home.
So what was the advice that she had
to follow in order to find the wizard?
Follow the yellow brick road.
Well friends, the Holy Ghost says tonight, follow
the blood.
Follow the blood of Jesus.
Because the blood of Jesus will lead you
to perfect forgiveness.
And then once you receive perfect forgiveness, the
blood of Jesus will lead you right into
the very presence of God Himself.
Let me say this real quickly.
The New Age movement will not lead you
to God.
The New Age movement will not lead you
into the presence of God.
The New Age movement will not make you
acquainted with God and will not give you
peace.
But the New Age movement is a lie.
It is a lie from the devil.
There's only one way that you can know
God and understand who He is, and that's
through the paved road of the blood of
Jesus Christ.
So you think about Dorothy.
And when those elves came running out saying,
follow the yellow brick road.
If you ever want to know God and
you ever want to have peace with God,
and you ever want to continue to know
God in a greater way, you follow the
blood of Jesus Christ.
And let the blood of Jesus Christ be
the basis that you call on for everything
from God.
It's because of the shed blood that we
have all of these wonderful promises in God's
Word.
Don't ever let anyone take the blood of
Jesus from you.
Hebrews 9, verse 12.
We're just going through these quickly.
The tape's going to be available.
Again, we encourage you, if you want to
really pray these things through and get them
in your spirit, get the tape and go
through it.
Study the Scriptures and ask God to write
these things upon your heart.
Hebrews 9, verse 11.
But Christ being come a high priest, a
good things to come, by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building, neither
the blood of goats and calves, but by
His own blood He entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us.
There it is, beloved.
Hebrews 9, verse 12.
Christ entered through His own blood, and by
it He entered into the Holy of Holies.
Now, check this out.
Hebrews 10, verse 19.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Beloved, you and I have entrance into the
very presence of God Himself now because of
the blood.
Now, did you know that if we couldn't
call on the blood of Jesus, not any
single human being would be able to enter
into the presence of God?
How many know why?
Because our sin hurls us outside of God's
presence.
You see, God cannot look upon sin.
He's a holy God.
But because of the blood of Jesus Christ,
we have access to the Father.
We have access to the Father.
Ephesians 2, verse 13.
Beginning in verse 11.
Wherefore, remember that ye being in time past,
Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision
by that which is called the circumcision in
the flesh made by hands, that at that
time you were without Christ, being aliens from
the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the
covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world.
Listen to this now.
Verse 13.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who were
sometimes afar off were made nigh by the
blood of Christ.
You were made nigh by the blood of
Jesus Christ.
O Beloved, I don't know of any other
place that I would like to be than
close to God.
And I could never be close to God
unless I knew that there was a blood
that was shed for me and that cleanses
me perfectly.
Focus your attention on the blood because by
it and through it we have access into
the very presence of God.
Now, Hebrews 9.18-23.
Now remember what I mentioned a few weeks
ago, Beloved.
When the Holy Spirit begins to move and
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit begins to
occur, it is for one reason and one
reason alone.
And that is to make fertile our hearts
and minds so that the reception of God's
Word is good in us.
When the Holy Spirit begins to move, the
Word of God becomes a living book, not
a dead book, not a dead letter.
Paul said, The letter killeth, but the Spirit
giveth life.
And that is why the Holy Spirit is
moving in our midst.
He's quickening us.
He's making us alive.
We must have the quickening, moving Holy Spirit
in our midst in order for the Word
of God to become active and quick and
living and powerful and sharper than any two
-edged sword.
And as the Holy Spirit moves in your
life, these things that we are reading will
become life to you.
They will become life in Jesus.
It will revolutionize you.
And absolutely set you free.
Hebrews 9 Beginning in verse 18.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to
all the people, according to the law, he
took the blood of calves and of goats
with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and
sprinkled both the book and all the people,
saying, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto you.
Now I want to invite you to go
to verse number 23.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of
things in the heavens should be purified with
these, but that the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these.
For Christ is not entered into the holy
place made with hands, which are the figures
of the true, but into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God for
us.
And it's through the shedding of Christ's own
blood applied to our heart and applied to
our minds that causes us to enter in
to the very holy presence of God Himself.
Now lastly, we want to look at the
blood of Jesus in 1 John 1.7.
1 John 1.7 The Bible says in
1 John 1.7, But if we walk
in the light as He is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
us from all sin.
So we have perfect, continuous cleansing from all
sins through and in the blood of Jesus
Christ.
See, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is
to reveal, what does John say?
To reveal the things of Christ.
What are the things of Christ?
The beautiful things that He has done for
us.
The shedding of His blood.
The removing of our sins.
What's going to be the central theme in
the hearts of people who begin to experience
a revival and who begin to experience an
outpouring of God's Spirit?
You know what the central theme becomes?
Not crazy visions and dreams and tangents and
glorifying of people and flesh and ministries and
prophecies and tongues and interpretation, although they can
very well happen.
But that's not the theme.
That's not the centrality of it.
When God's people become filled with the Holy
Ghost and God starts moving in the midst,
the blood of Jesus becomes precious.
The exaltation of the person of Jesus Christ
becomes preeminent.
People start falling in love with Jesus, singing
songs about the blood, making melody in their
heart, rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what begins to happen.
See, God quickens the Word when the Spirit
begins to fall.
And people begin to get rooted and grounded
in the work of God as is recorded
in the Bible.
That's what I want.
Is that what you want?
You see?
And these things become written upon our hearts.
And that's what we want.
That's what we need.
See, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit doesn't
throw us into what one person said, La
-La Land.
You know, where you just walk around in
La-La Land.
But listen now, the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit will bring you to an incredible love
for the Word of God and the incredible
work that Jesus Christ has done for you.
But listen, it becomes more than intellectual theology.
It becomes living reality and experience.
And that is what makes the difference.
God gets ahold of you, and the Word
of God gets ahold of you.
And the truth in the Word becomes life
in your soul.
That's what we're in need of, beloved.
That's what the church is in need of
today.
Such an outpouring of the Holy Ghost so
that God's Word becomes a book of life
and people get infatuated by it.
And the truth in God's Word becomes so
living and so real.
And the person and work of Jesus Christ
will become preeminent in all of our lives.
And the person and work of the Holy
Spirit will become so precious.
Did you know eternal God dwells with you
and wants to cause you to be an
overcomer in all things?
This is what He's doing.
This is what He's doing in this hour
that we're living in.
So the blood of Jesus Christ has recorded
not all the Scriptures.
I just took a Strong's and found the
major themes about the blood of Jesus Christ.
This is what the blood of Jesus has
done for you and I.
I love the blood of Jesus.
I thank God for the blood of Jesus.
Amen?
I thank God for it over and over
again because it's by the blood and through
the blood that I am justified.
I am declared innocent.
I am cleansed.
And then I am brought nigh to God.
And I enjoy fellowship with God.
Well, how many want to look into another
subject?
Are you weary?
Are you tired?
Can you go for another 15 minutes?
20 minutes?
Sure.
Because now this is the blood.
Now listen, most Christians understand the blood.
But there's another subject that very few people
understand and this is why there's so much
struggle in the Christian life.
You know what this is?
The cross of Jesus.
Did you know that God not only called
you to participate in the blood that was
shed, but God has called you to participate
in the cross?
Now most Christians know nothing about the cross.
You know what the cross is to the
believer?
We'll show you.
I'm not going to give you my opinion.
I'll show you right in the Word.
But a general statement to sum it up
is the blood to the believer is that
precious cost that God paid to take all
your sins away so you can stand happy
in God and say, I'm forgiven.
But the cross to the believer is the
place where your old life is crucified and
the new life of Jesus begins to come
forth.
Many believers want to cling to the blood,
but they don't want anything to do with
the cross.
They want a glory in the fact that
God forgave them and forgives them.
But they don't want anything to do with
getting a revelation on the need to take
up their cross daily.
That just simply means affirm that when Jesus
died on the cross, you died with Him.
Not just your sins, but your self-life
was crucified with Him.
And when a believer is brought by revelation
of the Holy Spirit not only to enjoy
and claim the blood of Christ, but to
begin to enjoy and claim the cross of
Christ, something begins to happen.
The self-life is dealt with.
Let me tell you something.
The blood of Jesus cleanses you from sin,
but doesn't cleanse you from self-life.
How many here still have self-life?
Oh, what's wrong?
Didn't the blood just take it all away?
Why not?
Because God didn't intend the blood to take
the self-life away.
Guess what the self-life is destined to?
Crucify.
Your self-life cannot be cleansed.
It's got to be crucified.
It can't be cleansed.
It's got to be crucified.
See, you can't make your self-life holy.
You can't try and make it religious.
There's only one place for self-life, and
that is identifying itself with Christ on the
cross.
Now listen, just like applying the blood is
something that only you can do as the
Holy Spirit shows you, likewise, listen, only as
you become interested and willing to go on
with God will the Holy Spirit begin to
come to you and show you how to
appropriate by faith the fact that you have
been crucified with Christ.
Now listen, isn't it a fact that your
sins have been forgiven in Christ?
It is a fact.
Joel said it is.
Okay, now listen, now that fact is appropriated
when?
When you cry out to God and you
say, Oh Lord, have mercy on me.
Then the fact that your sins are forgiven
becomes a subjective reality to you and you
suddenly experience the release of your sin.
Hallelujah.
Yes Lord, your blood does cleanse me.
Your blood does make me whole.
Thank you Lord.
And see, the fact of ever-present cleansing
becomes a subjective reality every time you call
upon the Lord, right?
It's the same thing with the cross life.
See, once you are certain that the blood
cleanses from sin, then anytime you sin, you
confidently come to God and say, Lord, cleanse
me.
And you experience the cleansing.
Because you have become certain that your sins
have been forgiven through the blood of Jesus.
Now listen, now listen, work with me here.
If you, through God's revelation, through the working
of the Holy Spirit, can become just as
certain that your old life was crucified with
Christ, just as you are certain that your
sins were forgiven by the blood of Jesus
Christ, you can experience the same victory over
self-life as you can over the grief
of sin.
By calling upon the Lord.
Listen, to work the cross in your life.
Just like you call upon Him to work
the blood and it forgives you, learn how
to call upon the Lord to work the
cross in your life in order to put
the self-life where it belongs, on the
cross, and in its place, newness of life
in Jesus Christ.
Now you say, where's the Word?
Right here it is.
The cross as seen in the Scriptures.
You say, well, where did you get this?
I got it in the Bible.
The Strongs.
You just get in the Bible and find
all the references that refer to the cross
and start praying over them.
You pray long enough and all of a
sudden you'll go, oh, wow, God wants this
stuff to become real in me.
Okay, now watch this.
The cross, 1 Peter 2.
1 Peter 2.
Now listen, every single gift that was given
to us in Christ can be studied like
we're doing tonight.
Listen, we've been studying the old man.
How many remember the old man?
The new man?
We've been studying that for weeks now.
Now we're getting into the blood.
Now we're getting into the cross.
What other subject in the Christian life does
the Holy Spirit want us to understand?
This is how you study it.
You get your Strongs.
You find out all the references in the
New Testament that refer to that subject and
you start praying over them.
Start praying.
Start saying, now Lord Jesus, what does this
mean?
Open this up to me.
And you know what will happen?
He'll do it.
It's as simple as that.
He'll do it.
That's why the Holy Spirit's come to teach
us.
Oh boy, this is exciting stuff because this
will transform people.
You know why?
Because it's the Word.
It's the Word.
1 Peter 2.
Verse 24.
1 Peter 2.
Verse 24.
"...who His own self bear our sins in
His own body on the tree, that we
being dead to sin should live unto righteousness
by whose stripes ye were healed."
Number one, the objective fact that the cross
of Jesus Christ is the place where sin,
the sin bearing, He bore our sins on
the cross.
The cross became the place where our sins
were placed on the body of Jesus Christ.
Friends, do you know what that means?
That means that your sins were brought to
the cross and God remembers them no more.
1 Peter 2.
Verse 24.
Romans 5.
Verse 10.
Now remember, this is the objective fact.
This happened already.
It's not happening.
It happened already.
Just like your sins have been forgiven already.
Romans 5.
Verse 10.
For if when we were enemies we were
reconciled to God by the death of His
Son, much more being reconciled, shall we be
saved by His life.
The blood of Jesus Christ is the place
where God took our sins or the cross
of Jesus is the place where God took
our sins and on the body of the
Lord Jesus Christ He placed them.
So the cross becomes the sin bearing place
of your sins and my sins.
Now listen.
Now we're going to be reading some Scriptures
that we have to ask God to give
us the reality on because this is just
as true.
Now watch this.
Secondly, the cross of Jesus Christ becomes the
place, listen, where the old man is crucified.
Was crucified.
Romans 6.
Let's begin in verse 1.
What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may
abound?
God forbid.
How shall we that are dead to sin
live any longer therein?
Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
into His death?
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism
into death that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk
in newness of life.
Now listen to this.
For if we have been planted together in
the likeness of His death, we shall be
also in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing
this, that our old man was crucified with
Him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Listen.
For he that is dead is freed from
sin.
Beloved, the Word of God is clear.
The Word of God is true.
The cross of Jesus Christ represents the place
where the believer's old life was crucified.
Now listen.
Just like the believer must get understanding from
God in regarding the absolute assurance that the
blood constantly cleanses, likewise, if the believer would
spend time on his knees and get the
revelation from God's Word that your old life
was crucified objectively, it was crucified.
You were on the cross with Jesus.
It was killed.
It's crucified.
That's what it says.
Now let's go on.
Let's go on.
Galatians 5, verse 24.
Now remember, self-life can't be cleansed or
made holy.
It can only be crucified.
And it was crucified with Christ.
Galatians 5, verse 24.
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.
They that are Christ's have crucified.
Now listen.
This is the believer's identity with Christ on
the cross.
The believer's identity with Christ on the cross.
Galatians 6, verse 24.
Nope.
That's a wrong reference.
That's alright.
We'll just skip that reference.
Galatians 2, verse 20.
Now we've read this Scripture many, many times.
Listen to this.
I am crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live.
Yet not I, but Christ lives in me.
And the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
Your old life was crucified with Christ.
We have no right to our old life.
It's been crucified.
When you see this as a fact that
has already happened, you will forever forsake the
old man and wholly pursue after that new
man who according to God has been created
in righteousness and true holiness.
This isn't something you confess and confess and
confess until suddenly it's yours.
Beloved, it's a fact.
It's a fact that can only be realized
as God gives it to us.
Galatians 5.24, Galatians 2.20, and Romans
6.6. Galatians 6.13 and 14.
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep
the law, but desire to have you circumcised
that they may glory in your flesh.
But God forbid that I should glory except
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
by whom the world is crucified to me
and I unto the world.
Thank you, George.
Now, beloved, we just read Scriptures that explain
the fact, the objective fact about your old
life.
Now listen, just like the fact that Jesus'
blood cleanses us, just like the fact of
that becomes real which enables us to what?
Experience daily cleansing because we are certain of
the fact.
Now just like the cross, the fact is
our old life was crucified.
As that fact becomes fixed in your heart,
listen, it enables you to daily appropriate that
and experience a daily putting down of self
-life and a daily experiencing of the new
life in Christ.
That's found in Romans 6.
We read a little bit of it before.
Romans 6.
This is the practical application to the fact
of what has occurred in the believer's life.
Romans 6, verse 2.
How shall we who are dead to sin
live any longer therein?
Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into His death?
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism
into death that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of
the Father, listen, even so we should also
walk in newness of life.
When God makes real to our heart the
fact that we have been crucified with Christ,
that enables us on a daily basis to
appropriate by faith that finished fact and experience
Christ's life in exchange for our old life
which is being crucified with Christ.
That's also found in Colossians 2, verse 20.
Colossians 2, verse 20.
Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from
the rudiments of the world, rye as though
living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances, taste not, touch not, handle not.
You see, Paul says, if ye are dead
in Christ, it's a fact, it's finished.
Colossians 3, verses 3-5.
For ye are dead and your life is
hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with Him in
glory.
Listen to this.
Therefore, put to death your members which are
upon the earth, fornication, uncleanliness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
Put it to death.
How do you put it to death, beloved?
Let it be crucified with Christ and experience
the newness of life by faith, through faith,
and by God's power.
Remember, the work of the Holy Spirit is
designed to impart to the believer the reality
of what occurred the moment he or she
believed.
The work of the Holy Spirit is to
impart to the believer the reality of the
cross that occurred the moment you and I
believed.
You see, beloved, when all of the Scriptures
in the New Testament speak about the need
for the believer to put on the old
man and to put off, put on the
new man and put off the old man,
it's all things that God is designing us
to do through the power of the Holy
Ghost as we see the old man has
already been crucified.
The old man has already been crucified.
You're dead, and the life that you live
outside of Christ is a dead life.
See, it's dead.
It's fruitless.
It's useless to God.
Now, when that becomes a reality to you,
in light of that, you will forever let
the old man crucified, and you will be
caught up with allowing the new man to
come forth because the old man is crucified
with Christ.
Now listen, our conflicts and our troubles in
the Christian circle today from fighting, divorce, contentions,
problems in relationships, they all revolve around a
lack of understanding this glorious truth of the
old man and the new man.
And this is why I want to encourage
you, beloved.
If God is stirring in your heart, He's
stirring for one reason, not just to bless
you emotionally, not just to let you experience
the presence of God, but He's stirring you
in order to bring you into a conscious
reality and experience of the fullness of the
redemption that was wrought for you through Jesus
Christ.
That you can experience the fullness of life
in Christ and experience the fullness of death
to self on the cross.
That's why God is doing it.
I know we talked about a lot tonight,
but that's all right.
God's Word won't return void.
And there's still much more that we're going
to be discussing, much more that God's going
to be giving us utterance to do.
There's many more things that God's Word teaches
us that are dark to our understanding.
But see, that's why God's Spirit's moving.
And suddenly, things in the Bible, you're going
to say, Wow, I never saw it like
that.
And it's going to become reality to you.
And the devil, his power's going to get
weaker and weaker in your life.
And the power of Christ is going to
get stronger and stronger in your life.
So I want to encourage you, get all
you can from God.
Let Him stir your heart.
Let Him fill you with the Spirit.
And then get into His Word and let
Him make it real to you.
Let Him make it real to you.
Does anyone have any questions?
Like I said, I know we dealt with
a lot.
We're going to be dealing with much more.