Sermons

Nothing But The Blood

Leviticus 17:11

Once the blood of Christ has been applied we will discover 7 life changing truths.

Have you ever thought about the nature of our salvation? When you think about it Christianity is a bloody faith!

D.L. Moody said it this way, “I must die, or have someone die for me. If the Bible doesn’t teach that, it doesn’t teach anything. And that is where the atonement of Jesus Christ comes in!”

Every other religious system in the world places the burden of salvation on the efforts of humanity. But, Christianity teaches that salvation only comes through the sacrificial shedding of innocent blood on behalf of the guilty.

In the OT this sacrifice was symbolized in the yearly slaughter of an innocent animal on behalf of a guilty nation. In the NT the ultimate blood sacrifice for salvation was accomplished once for all by the Jesus Christ.

The Bible has been called a bloody book. The question is, “Why all the blood?” Why couldn’t God just speak a word and wipe away the sin of the world. What is significant about the shedding of blood for the atonement of sin? Well, God revealed the significance to us in Leviticus 17.11 when He instituted the Day of Atonement. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”

Why the blood? The life is in the blood! Romans 6.23 states “the wages of sin is death…”

In order for atonement to be made for sin someone must pay the price. Someone must die.

In order for death to occur ones life must be removed.

In order for the life to be removed blood must be shed, because the life is in the blood.

Therefore:

In order for the wages of sin to be paid blood must be shed.

However, this must be innocent blood. It can’t be just any blood. That’s why I cannot pay my own sin debt. My blood is not innocent. My blood is tainted. My blood is diseased with sin. Atonement can only be made by blood that has overcome the disease. That’s where the Jesus Christ comes in. The Bible tells us that He was tempted in every area that we are tempted yet, He did not sin. His blood is pure. His blood holds the key to the cure for the disease of sin.

Dr. Felix Ruh, a Jewish doctor in Paris, watched his granddaughter die of the black diphtheria. Because of this tragedy in his life he vowed to find a cure for this dreadful disease. He invited some scientist near him to his farm to help as he swabbed the nostrils, tongues, and throats of 20 horses with germs that he had cultured with black diphtheria. One by one the horses began to die until there was only one horse left. The scientist all gave up and left. However, Dr. Ruh remained with his assistant who watched the horse throughout the night. When the horse’s fever broke, he woke Dr. Ruh. The doctor watched as the horse fought of the germs. By the next day the horse was eating as if nothing had ever been wrong. Then, Dr. Ruh killed the horse and extracted all the blood from this animal that had overcome this disease. With the horse’s blood in hand Dr. Ruh rushed to the hospital and forced his way passed the superintendent and guards and went into the ward where 300 babies were placed in a segration to die from black diphtheria. They inoculated every one of the babies with the horse’s blood. 297 out of 300 of the babies lived and made a complete recovery. They were saved by the blood of the one who had overcome. So it is with the salvation of sinful humanity. We must be inoculated with the blood of our over comer Jesus Christ. Once the blood of Jesus is applied to our sin sick souls we will discover 7 life changing principles.

1 Nothing but the blood brings Redemption

Acts 20.28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

1 Cor. 6.20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

2 Nothing but the blood brings Propitiation [Atonement]

Rom. 3.22-25

22 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:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

3 Nothing but the blood brings Healing

Is. 53.5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

4 Nothing but the blood brings Protection

Ex. 12.13; 23

13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

5 Nothing but the blood brings Deliverance

Rom. 7.6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

2 Tim. 4.18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

6 Nothing but the blood brings strength

Eph. 3.16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

7 Nothing but the blood brings Transformation

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The blood of the Lamb is our only source of spiritual life. Without the inoculation of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, we have no life.

Spurgeon said it like this, “With out the shedding of blood there is no remission. Every drop of blood which flowed out of Jesus’ body is still in existence, and it is just as it was over 2,000 years ago wiping away the sins of mankind. The blood has been shed – the incorruptible, eternal, divine, sinless, overcoming, precious blood. It availed then, and it avails now, and through all eternity it will never lose its power to bring life.”

The question then becomes have you been inoculated with the life giving blood of the Lamb?

Has your sin sick soul been made whole?

If not, why not? And why not today?