It's The Blood Of Jesus!
by David J. Stewart
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“Forasmuch
as ye know that ye 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.” —1st Peter 1:18-19
We don't hear enough these days about the precious blood of Jesus, “...and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1st John 1:7). What a wonderful
Savior! Jesus paid a debt of sin that He did not owe, because we owed a debt
of sin that we
could not pay. Our sins had to be paid for with Jesus' blood.
In
the Old Testament, the people's sins were only ATONED (i.e., covered) for. Leviticus 17:11,
“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.” This Scripture speaks of the blood of animals, which were sacrificed to
temporarily cover the sins of the people in the Old Testament, until the
Messiah would come and offer the perfect Sacrifice of Himself to God the
Father.
We read in Hebrews 9:12 concerning Jesus, “Neither by
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.”
Jesus' blood didn't atone for our sins; but rather, took them away forever!
Jesus' Blood Sacrifice Is All
Sufficient
Hebrews 9:24-26, “For Christ is not
entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into
the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have
suffered since the foundation of the world: but now ONCE in
the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself.” Jesus' blood applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven is
all-sufficient.
Jesus only needed to offer Himself as a sacrifice
once. This is what is wrong with the Catholic crucifix... they
keep Jesus on the cross. In the Catholic mass, participants actually
believe they are digesting the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ each
time. This is why Mel Gibson's film, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST,
portrays Jesus being brutally whipped, punched and beaten every step of the way
(which no human being could survive). Gibson's movie caters to the Catholic
mass, in which they believe Jesus is continually sacrificed again and again. Yet
the Bible proclaims that Jesus died ONCE. They call this the doctrine of
transubstantiation, which is unscriptural. Jesus is NO longer
on the cross.
Also, every crucifix I've ever seen makes Jesus' look
decrepit and sickly. Our Lord was a carpenter, and they didn't have
power tools back then. Jesus was a strong man, healthy, and not some
sissified looking
wimp. Catholics have some
strange ideas of Christ.
Jesus died on the cross, was buried to confirm
His death, and then rose miraculously three days later. Christ is alive! Thank the Lord for His mercy, for paying for our many sins with His precious
blood.
“In whom we have
redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins.”
—Colossians 1:14
The Blood Does NOT Merely Represent Jesus'
Death!
There is a damnable heresy circulating in many
of our churches today, popularized by religious liberal,
John MacArthur. Moody
Publishers sadly prints all of MacArthur's liberal books these days. Moody
Ministries has really gone downhill spiritually. Dr.
MacArthur teaches that Jesus' liquid blood has no value or significance in
and of itself. He claims that Jesus' blood is important only in the
sense that it represents the DEATH of Christ. Nothing could be further
from the truth!
In MacArthur's Bible commentary, he teaches that
Hebrews 9:12 doesn't mean what it says. Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by 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.” John MacArthur teaches that the
phrase “BY HIS OWN BLOOD” only refers to Jesus' death, and not Christ's literal
blood. It is a sinful thing to diminish the literal teachings of the Bible as
only being figurative unless the Bible indicates otherwise. For example: In
Revelation 1:20 we are told that the mystery of the seven stars are the seven
angels, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches. No where in the Bible
are we ever told that the death of Jesus is represented by the blood. Thus, if
the Bible teaches in Hebrews 9:12 that Jesus entered into the heavenly holy
place BY HIS OWN BLOOD, then we must accept this truth literally. MacArthur is
perverting the Scriptures.
When God told Moses to warn the Israelites concerning
the coming 10th plague, i.e., the death of the firstborn, the people were
instructed to kill a lamb, and then APPLY the lamb's blood to the
side and upper doorposts of the home. John MacArthur likely learned his heresies
from Robert B. Thieme Jr. and John
MacArthur Exodus 12:23, “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.” Did you read that ... WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD!!!
...WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD!!!
R.B. Thieme Jr. and John MacArthur Jr. are fools to
diminish the importance of the literal, physical, blood of Jesus Christ.
MacArthur has tried to defend himself by saying that he loves the blood of Jesus
and upholds it's importance; but he plainly maintains that the blood is only
important and precious in that it REPRESENTS THE DEATH of Christ. MacArthur
clearly denies the efficacy (power) of Christ's literal, physical, blood.
Carefully notice that the Lord wasn't looking for the dead lamb. Rather, the blood had to be
APPLIED. Also, please read,
The
Importance of the Blood. John MacArthur is an unsaved liberal.
Hebrews 10:29, “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the
blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
The blood is
very important. The Bible is very plain that Jesus entered into the heavenly
holy place after He arose from the dead. Jesus ascended into Heaven with His
blood. The
blood had to be applied. Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by 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.” Shame on these fake Bible
scholars who trample upon the blood. MacArthur is wrong, wrong, wrong to say
that Jesus' blood is precious to him when in reality he only sees Christ's blood
as symbolic of His death. What a sham! I'm sad and surprised that Moody
Ministries actually promotes this wicked man.
MacArthur is wrong about the blood
and
he's wrong about the way of salvation.
R.B. Thieme, Jr. and John MacArthur...
Heretics!
It's All About the Blood of Jesus!
From the blood of Abel's slain lamb in Genesis,
to the robes of the saints washed in the blood of the Lamb in Revelation, the Word of
God centers around the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9:22,
“...without shedding of blood is no remission.” Jesus' death
was just as important as His blood sacrifice, and equally important the
burial and resurrection; BUT everything concerning the events of Jesus' life
were leading up to the blood being applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven.
Hebrews 9:24-26
state, “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God for us...” (that is, God the Father). Jesus took His shed blood to Heaven to present unto the Father, by applying
it to the Mercy Seat. This is why Jesus said to Mary in John 20:17, ”Jesus
saith unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not yet ascended to my Father...” The blood couldn't be tainted.
The NIV Perverts the Holy Blood of Jesus
Christ!
I watched a film on the GOSPEL OF JOHN,
which is based upon the New International Version [NIV]. I almost fell
out of my chair when Mary Magdalene grabbed Jesus' hand after He rose from the
dead and appeared to her outside of His tomb. The NIV horribly corrupts the
Scriptures, which reads:
“Jesus said, 'Do
not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.'”
Do not hold on to me? That's not what the inspired King James Bible says!
The King James Bible reads:
“Jesus saith unto her,
TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not yet ascended to my Father...”
The NIV is of the Devil.
Jesus needed to apply His blood in
Heaven, just as the Old Testament highpriest did every year in the holy of holies in
the tabernacle. If Mary had touched Jesus, she would have corrupted the
blood. The NIV is ridiculous, as if Jesus could not ascend into Heaven because
Mary was holding on to him. That's not what John 20:17 means at all. Jesus had
risen from the dead and needed to appear before the Father in Heaven as Hebrews
9:24 teaches; and Jesus needed to apply His blood in the Holy Place as Hebrews
9:12 teaches.
So don't let any modernist, nor false prophet,
minimize the importance of Jesus' blood. There could be NO forgiveness
of sins if it weren't for Christ's blood sacrifice. Curse the NIV! If you
use the NIV, you will be spiritually retarded.
Seventh-Day-Adventists Pervert the
Holy Blood of Jesus Christ!
Seventh Day
Adventists pervert the blood of Christ by claiming that Jesus' sacrifice
wasn't enough, and that Christ is still in the process of completing His
work of redemption (SDA's call this heresy,
Investigative Judgment).
They call this heresy "investigative judgment,"
i.e., they claim that Jesus investigates our individual lives to decide whether
we are “worthy” to enter Heaven or not. I ask you... is any sinful human
being “worthy” of heaven? Does not Romans 3:23 declare
that we ALL HAVE SINNED? Yes, it most certain does! There is NO
ONE worthy to enter Heaven, which is exactly WHY we needed Jesus to
shed His blood for our sins, because we could not save ourselves.
We
all deserve Hellfire, nothing better. But thanks be to God for sending
His only begotten Son into the world to pay for our sins. John 3:16, “For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
The reason WHY we are to trust Christ alone for salvation is because of the
blood that He shed for our sins. ONLY Jesus has the nail-scared hands
and feet! No one else! Salvation is found only in Jesus
Christ (Acts 4:10-12; John 14:6) because God's blood was shed upon
the cross... “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" (Acts 20:28). The
blood that flowed from Jesus' veins was not the sinful, tainted, blood of
Adam; NO, rather, it was the blood of God the Father.
Seventh Day Adventism is a heathen, Satanic,
and doctrinally rotten cult. They teach doctrines of devils.
The LITERAL Blood of Jesus Had to be
Applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven
The great Bible teacher,
M.R. DeHaan, M.D.
(pictured below), has it 100% correct when he states concerning the blood of
Jesus...
The
blood was to be sprinkled, remember, on the mercy seat right after the
death of the substitutionary animal of sacrifice, Now Christ is,
of course, our substitute. He was slain for us upon the Cross, and
entered into death for us, and when He arose, He immediately went to
heaven, entered into the holy of holies in heaven, sprinkled His
precious blood upon the mercy seat before the throne of God, and forever
settled the sin questions, and delivered us from the curse of the law. This is clearly taught in the New testament. Hebrews 9:12 is very
definite on this:
"But
by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us."
The Bible also
makes plain when He accomplished this. On the morning of the
resurrection He meets Mary at the tomb. As soon as Mary recognized
Him, she prostrated herself upon Him, and would have kissed His feet,
but with shocking suddenness, Jesus emphatically says to her: "Touch me
not"; and then He proceeds immediately to give the reason why Mary is
not permitted to touch Him at all.
"For
I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say
unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God,
and your God." (John 20:17)
Literally the
Lord Jesus Christ said, "Touch me not; for I now am about to ascend unto
my Father." We can understand this action when we remember the the
high priest after he had offered the sacrifice, was to enter the holy of
holies, before he did anything else, with the precious blood. No
one was allowed to approach him. Everyone was shut out until this
was completely done. And here in the record of the meeting with
Mary we have the fulfillment of this type. Here Mary meets her
great High Priest, just arisen from the tomb, but before He had entered
the holy of holies with the reconciling blood. And so He says to
her, "TOUCH ME NOT."
SOURCE: The
TABERNACLE, by M.R. DeHaan, M.D., ISBN 0-310-23491-3, page 129
What a wonderful truth! The
Bible is so clear when you accept it as it's written. The best way to
interpret the Bible is to not interpret it. By diligently
cross-referring Scripture with Scripture, we are able to form a complete and
accurate picture of divine Truth. Thank God for the precious redeeming
literal blood of Christ Jesus!
“But
BY HIS OWN BLOOD
he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
—Hebrews 9:12
The Death of the Passover
Lamb Was NOT Enough
When the Lord was going to pass over
Egypt and destroy the firstborn, he said to Moses and Aaron in Exodus
12:13...
"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."
The death of the lamb wasn't enough,
the blood had to be applied Mr. MacArthur. God wasn't looking for a
dead lamb in the backyard; No, rather, God was looking for the APPLIED BLOOD
on the doorposts and lintel (doorplate) above the door. The blood had to be
applied. John MacArthur's entire ministry is flawed, and he is a false prophet,
simply because he is WRONG on the most important Christian doctrine of all—Jesus precious literal liquid blood! No genuinely saved person would
ever deny the redemptive power of Jesus' physical blood!
“Neither by 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.”
—Hebrews 9:12
If the Old Testament high priest killed the lamb and went home, the sins of
the people were not atoned for. The lamb's blood had to be carried by a bowl
into the holy of holies and applied to the mercy seat (which rested upon the
Ark of the Covenant).
Here are the eloquent words of Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) concerning the
importance of the blood being applied...
In the Old Testament, the
High Priest killed two goats on the Day of Atonement. The blood of one
goat was taken by the High Priest into the Holy Place to the Ark of the
Covenant. On the top of the Ark of the Covenant was the Mercy Seat. Over
that Mercy Seat were two cherubims beaten out of pure gold. Between the
wings of those cherubims was the Glory of God. The blood from the goat
that was sacrificed was applied to the proper place which was the Mercy
Seat. If the blood did not get to the Mercy Seat, then it was the proper
price, but not paid to the proper place. It would have been no more
valid than that check written but not paid to the creditor.
If the blood of Jesus was
left on the ground at the cross, that means it did not get to the Holy
Place and is not valid. "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the
blood of Jesus." It is not just the blood shed, but also the blood
applied.
God told Moses to instruct
the people to apply the blood of the lamb at the Passover. When He
passed over and saw the blood of that lamb, He would withhold His
judgment. God did not judge them based on His omniscience. He made a
point of letting them know that He would not judge them only when He saw the blood. It was not enough that the blood was shed. The blood
had to be properly applied.
SOURCE:
THE PRICE OF THE CHURCH, by Pastor Jack Hyles.
The
Importance of the Blood
The Blood
Applied in Heaven
Pastor
Max Younce Explains That The Law Was Given TO SHOW We Need The Blood 2 Go 2
Heaven (MP3)
R.B. Thieme, Jr. and John MacArthur...
Heretics!
Where is
The Blood of Jesus and What Difference Does It Make?
(by Evangelist Phil
Kidd)
One of the best books I've ever read concerning the blood of Christ is
THE CHEMISTRY OF THE BLOOD, by M.R. DeHaan, M.D.
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