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1. Nothing but the Blood

1 John 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... minister. But if you want to continue to be successful, you are going to have to leave out the preaching on the blood. It is out of date and no enlightened man of the Twentieth Century will swallow it." When Dwight L. Moody started preaching, a ... that date it will either lose its potency and its effectiveness, or, like milk, it could get sour and be unhealthy to use. Well, the blood of Jesus Christ never loses its power. It is just as effective in washing the dirt of depravity away today as it was 2000 years ...

2. True Blood

Luke 14:25-35

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Leonard Sweet

... be called the “undead.” But they only remain vital by constantly feeding on life. When Jesus, the Lamb of God, offered himself as the final and complete sacrifice for the sins of the world, his gift to us was eternal life. Jesus banished the need for blood-letting by breaking the power of death. The gift on the other side of the cross is eternal life. Eternal life does not feed off lifeblood. Eternal life lives on the love of God. Through Christ, the new lifeblood of all his disciples IS love. So what ...

3. A Blood That Passes Over

Exodus 12:1-30

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... door frames of their houses would be the sign for God to pass over them and not strike them down with their Egyptian oppressors. The lamb would therefore be a sacrifice for the person who would have perished from the plague of God’s wrath. The blood is a symbol of innocence, purity, and oblation to the Lord. This feast of Passover would continue as an annual holiday in honor of the night that the Lord passed over the homes of the Israelites and spared their lives. It would signify a time of preparation ...

4. The Blood Shall Be a Token

Exodus 12:1-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... . God’s grace must be seen in light of his sovereignty and his position as Judge. It’s an awful picture, a severe one the Angel of Death moving over the land claiming the firstborn of the land but passing over those houses that had the token of blood the blood of the Passover lamb identifying them as those who had heard God’s call and were faithful. Somewhere along the way I heard about the building of a lighthouse on a remote stretch of the coast up in Alaska. A couple of Eskimos took time off from ...

5. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

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Larry Powell

... , each worshiper was expected to provide a sacrificial lamb at the Temple. Following the offering at the Temple, the lamb was taken home to be roasted as a reminder that the death angel had "passed over" those homes in Egypt whose doorposts had been marked with the blood of the lamb. Additionally, two symbolic articles were to be placed on the table: a bowl of salt water and a bowl of bitter herbs. The salt water would serve as a reminder of the tears shed in Egypt and the bitter herbs would call to mind ...

6. A Baptism of Blood

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... for us mentally and physically to love than it is to hate. We know that anger serves no purpose except to cause our blood pressure to soar, which harms the heart, and ultimately endangers life itself. However, just as surely as someone insults us or betrays us ... give us a new and a redeemed inner self. We need God to die for us. We need God to baptize us with his own sacrificial blood. We need to be made new persons. This is what only God, and God alone, can do. When Jesus turned his face like flint toward ...

7. It's All In The Blood

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , they braid a crown out of thorny vines and shove it on his head. The thorns cut into Jesus' skin, and a thin stream of blood runs down his face. Next, Jesus is tied to a large pillar. His bare back is exposed. One of the soldiers holds a cat-o- ... trivial and unimportant matters all the time. Like the soldiers, Lucado says, we are, "So close to the timber yet so far from the blood . . . . So close to the cross but so far from Christ." (3) "Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they ...

8. Saved By The Blood Of The Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

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Rodney Thomas Smothe

... her tears a new revelation of God's presence in her life. She took the cup; I said, "Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of ... his covenant with Christ and his promise to restore the kingdom for all God's people. Yes, we are saved by the blood of the Lamb. This covenant relationship is a bridge to many who are hopeless. This covenant relationship gives meaning to those ...

9. Flesh-eaters; Blood Drinkers

John 6:51-58

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King Duncan

... we would have to answer, technically, yes. Somebody did die. But he rose again from the dead and is reigning in heaven. He has defeated death, and promises eternal life to all who give their lives to him. As Jesus said, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." That's what the Lord's Supper commemorates: Jesus' death in our place. Every Sunday, we should be having a party. We should be dancing and cheering and shouting for joy. We should gather ...

10. Blood Sprinkled On A Modern Altar

Exodus 24:3-8, Mark 14:12-16, 22-26, Hebrews 9:11-15

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King Duncan

... s own people. Our faith began with a covenant made with a particular people--the people of Israel. Later Moses sealed that covenant with the blood of an animal. Half of it he sprinkled on an altar and half of it he sprinkled on the people as a sign that God ... . So God does not wait. God is a proactive God. Even our most despicable sin does not keep God from seeking us. Christ’s blood has been sprinkled on the heavenly altar and upon us as well. The price has already been paid for our sins. Our response to ...

11. The Blood of The Lamb and The Voice of The Shepherd

Revelation 7:9-17

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Steven E. Albertin

... the one hand, is a lamb. Recalling images of the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb of the Hebrew scriptures, Jesus is the lamb whose blood was shed on the cross to set free all of God's people who have ever suffered. Then John takes the image one step further ... simply because I want to. And just in case you don't believe me, look at Jesus, the good shepherd, the lamb who shed his blood and what he did for you. You belong, no matter what!" That doesn't mean that believing this voice has been easy. Our own self- ...

12. Thicker Than Blood

Galatians 3:23-29

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April Yamasaki

... who are not related to one another. But here in Galatians, the apostle Paul argues just the opposite — that through faith in Jesus Christ, the water of baptism forms a closer bond than anything else. By God's grace, the water of baptism is thicker than blood — for we are joined to one another with a spiritual bond that is stronger even than the ties of family and biology. In Ephesians 5:32, the oneness of Christ and the church is described as "a great mystery." It's beyond all human understanding. It ...

13. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... promise of a future dwelling in the “house of the Lord.” The way they were to do this was to kill a lamb and smear its blood all over the doorposts of their homes. This is not a simple mark, but an entire washing of the doorposts and lintel of the house….so ... baptism by fire. I ask you now in silent prayer to give your heart truly and fully to Jesus, to allow Him to wash you in the blood of sacrifice. Let us repent of our old life, and be willing to take on the new. For He is the Gate. He is the Door. He ...

14. Poured Out for Many

Exodus 24:1-18, Mark 14:12-26

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... " the concept of sacrifice, making it only a matter of time. The refinement of religious ideas is a difficult trend to reverse. If blood was on the way out in liturgy by the time of Jesus, why do we hear so much about it in the New ... It’s so messy," she said, "it looks so untidy." The minister thought for a moment and replied: "Perchance, does that remind you of anything?" Christ’s blood of the New Covenant which is poured out for many is the reason why all of us are here tonight. What God had to do to ...

15. Written in Red

1 John 5:9-13

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Leonard Sweet

... TV newscasts have focused wide-angle, telephoto, slow-motion, instant-replay cameras on the violence that mars and scars our lives. "Watching the news" is now as terrifyingly mesmerizing for 5-year-olds as it is for 50-year-olds. Bodies lie splayed out, blood flies and flows across the TV screen. The "news" has become so grisly and graphic both in words and in pictures that many communities have clamored for and received from their local stations specially toned-down "family-rated" versions of the news that ...

16. Fresh Bread And New Wine

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Barbara Brokhoff

... life is not automatically given. We must in repentance and faith ask for it, beseeching the Father, "O give us of that Living Bread that we hunger no more!" New Wine The Old Testament sets forth an old covenant, the covenant of the law. It was sealed in the blood of slain animals, usually a lamb. But this covenant had failed. Mankind kept breaking the law of God. What humanity needed was not a new law, but a new heart. So Jeremiah spoke of this, "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts ...

17. Himself The Real Presence

John 6:25-59

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... understand help us as we hear Jesus say, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you"? Does it not help us as we hear Jesus in this post-resurrection phrasing of his earlier words, "I am ... to the Father except through me" (John 14:6)? And all this is said positively in this gospel: "Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will ...

18. Bloody Doorposts

Exodus 12:1-30

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... not death. Paul certainly doesn't say, "Now whatever is bloody, painful, torturous, and deadly, think on these things." And yet, Paul did say, "God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God" (Romans 5:8-9). The fact is that in telling the life of Jesus the Gospels devote more than one third of the story to telling about the death of Jesus. Why did the Gospels give ...

19. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... plague of all. The Pharaoh/Hebrew clash began with the birth of Moses when the Pharaoh did not spare the firstborn of Israel. Now Israel's God will not spare those who opposed and oppressed God's own people. But God provides a way of escape. Blood. "Paint the blood of a lamb on your doorpost and the angel of death will pass over and the firstborn will be saved in your household." God institutes the first Passover. This Passover would have two purposes: to ward off the death of the firstborn plague and to ...

20. "A" Lamb to "the" Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

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Barbara Brokhoff

... day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on ... their spiritual lives around the lamb. It became the symbol of salvation. It represented the means of their approaching God. The blood of the lamb became their sacrifice, their offering to God. In the Old Testament, the dead sacrifices of the lamb did ...

21. A Covenant Sealed By a Sacrifice

Genesis 15:1-18

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Carl Hoefler

... for us God's promise of life - an abundant life of blessings for us as his children. Every time we come to the communion table, we drink the life-giving blood of our Lord. We participate in the greatest and the final blood-sacrifice of all biblical history - the sacrifice of God himself - for us! Rejoice, because the blood of God flowing within us gives us eternal life. Our librarian at Southern Seminary has a precocious preschooler. He attended Sunday church school and listened intently as his teacher ...

22. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

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Johnny Dean

... that God is not a neat freak. God said, "I want you to build a temple where my name will be honored. And I want you to take animals into the temple; very small animals like doves and great big animals like bulls, and slaughter them there. Take their blood pour it all over the sides of the altar. This is what I require of you." Yuck! How messy can you get? Or go back even further than that to the Passover, the great salvation event of the Old Testament. God said, "To save yourselves from death, you have ...

23. The Lamb

Luke 19:28-44, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, John 12:12-19

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Lori Wagner

... God’s judgment came, you knew, your life was bought by the lamb who gave his life in your stead. This is the message of God’s letting go of Jesus so that we could be saved. He is the Lamb, the perfect, tested Lamb, who is worthy, and whose blood have washed your sins away. The question as we come to the end of Lent is this: Do you love your Lamb? Are you willing to let your Lamb go in your stead? There are some heartstrings involved in this. Think about it. If you truly recognize the sacrifice that ...

24. Holy House

Eph 2:11-22, Rev 3:1-22, Heb 9:1-28, Jn 14:15-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . But only one food brings us into that place, that space of love and safety and joy with Jesus –that is the body and blood of our Lord and Savior. This is why communion is so important to us in the church. It’s not just an empty ritual. ... through in order to feel good about ourselves. It’s a time of repentance and the acknowledgment of our atonement through the body and blood of Jesus Christ in His holy sacrifice for our benefit. As we enter into that space at the table of the Lord, Jesus opens ...

25. Washed By Water: The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... bloody hands, Lady M. says to her husband: "Go and get some water,And wash this filthy witness from your hand." At that Macbeth notices his hands. It's not just a filthy witness; it's not just a bit of blood. That stain is innocent blood. That filthy business is the guilt of a cold-blooded murder. Macbeth stares at his hands and says: "What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes.Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand?" (II, I, 58-61) Lady Macbeth pooh-poohs all his worries ...

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