Access to the Powerful Blood of Jesus!

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Access to the Powerful Blood of Jesus!
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• The Blood of Jesus is Powerful!

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• The blood of Jesus provides the forgiveness of
  our sins.

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Hebrews 922 (NASB)

• And according to the Law, one may almost say,
  all things are cleansed with blood, and without
  shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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Justice Needed to be Satisfied.

• Romans 323 for all have sinned and fall short
  of the glory of God,
• Rom 623 For the wages of sin is death, but the
  free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord. - NASB
• NASB

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Romans 59 (NASB)

• Much more then, having now been justified by His
  blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God
  through Him.

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• The blood of Jesus gives us peace with God.

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Isaiah 5721 (NASB)

• "There is no peace," says my God, "for the
  wicked."

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Colossians 120-22 (NASB)

• 20 And through Him to reconcile all things to
  Himself, having made peace through the blood of
  His cross through Him, I say, whether things on
  earth or things in heaven. 21 And although you
  were formerly alienated and hostile in mind,
  engaged in evil deeds, 22 yet He has now
  reconciled you in His fleshly body through death,
  in order to present you before Him holy and
  blameless and beyond reproach

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• By the blood of Jesus, we can have a relationship
  with God!

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Hebrews 1019-22 (NASB)

• 19 Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence
  to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20
  by a new and living way which He inaugurated for
  us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
  21 and since we have a great priest over the
  house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere
  heart in full assurance of faith, having our
  hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
  and our bodies washed with pure water.

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• By the blood of Jesus, a New Covenant was
  established

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Matthew 2628 (NKJV)

• For this is My blood of the new covenant, which
  is shed for many for the remission of sins. -
  cf. Heb. 8-10 Acts 239 /Heb. 915

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• The church was made possible by the blood of
  Jesus.

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Acts 2028 (NASB)

• "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the
  flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
  overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
  purchased with His own blood. cf. Rev. 59

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• The blood of Jesus frees us from the slavery of
  sin (John 834 cf.
  Rom. 323).

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Ephesians 17 (NASB)

• In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
  forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the
  riches of His grace.

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1 Peter 118-19 (NASB)

• 18 Knowing that you were not redeemed
  with perishable things like silver or gold from
  your futile way of life inherited from your
  forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a
  lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of
  Christ.

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• Powerful blood indeed! Yet, how
  can a person gain access to His powerful blood?

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How can we gain access to His
blood?

• Not by faith only (James 219, 24)
• Not by prayer (e.g., Acts 911 2216).
•  Not by good works only (e.g., Acts 101-2, 22,
  34-48).
• Not by our feelings or emotional experiences
  (Prov. 1412 Jer. 1023).

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• A person gains access to His blood (all of the
  spiritual blessings of His blood),
  when he or she is baptized
  into Christ.

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Access to the Blood through Baptism?

• Baptism is essential for the forgiveness of our
  sins.
• Baptism is only for penitent believers of Christ
  (Mark 1616 Acts 238 cf. Acts 812-13 35-39
  1034-38 1625-34 188 191-5).

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• Baptism is required to have our sins washed away
  or forgiven by God (Acts 238 2216).

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Acts 238 (NASB)

• And Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of
  you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
  the forgiveness of your sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Acts 2216 (NASB)

• And now why do you delay? Arise, and be
  baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His
  name.

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Yet, is baptism absolutely essential for our
eternal salvation?

• Some people object to making baptism a
  requirement for salvation, calling baptism
  (immersion in water) the doctrine of water
  salvation.
• We are not saved by baptism we are saved by the
  blood of Christ! they exclaim.

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• Yet, the Scriptures that teach of baptism never
  speak of the water as possessing the actual power
  to save!

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1 Peter 321 (NASB)

• And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you
  not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an
  appeal to God for a good conscience through
  the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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• Jesus blood has the power to cleanse us of sin,
  yet only if we obey His command to be
  baptized in His name.

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus

• Hebrews 914 (NASB) How much more will the blood
  of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
  Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your
  conscience from dead works to serve the living
  God?

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• Jesus does the cleansing of sin when we meet the
  condition to be baptized in His name
  (Eph. 525-27 Acts 236-38).

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Ephesians 525-27 (NASB)

• 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself up for
  her 26 that He might sanctify her, having
  cleansed her by the washing of water with the
  word, 27 that He might present to Himself the
  church in all her glory, having no spot or
  wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be
  holy and blameless.

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Acts 236-38 (NASB)

• 36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know
  for certain that God has made Him both Lord and
  Christ this Jesus whom you crucified." 37 Now
  when they heard this, they were pierced to the
  heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
  apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" 38 And
  Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you
  be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the
  forgiveness of your sins and you shall receive
  the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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What Does the Blood of Jesus and Baptism Have in
Common?

• Both are required to enter into a relationship
  with the Lord.

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Both are required to enter into a relationship
with the Lord.

• Eph 213 (NASB) But now in Christ Jesus you who
  formerly were far off have been brought near by
  the blood of Christ.
• Gal 327 (NKJV) For as many of you as were
  baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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What Does the Blood of Jesus and Baptism Have in
Common?

• Both are required to enter into a relationship
  with the Lord.
• Both are required for the forgiveness of sin.

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Both are required for the forgiveness of sin.

• Matt 2628 (NASB) for this is My blood of the
  covenant, which is poured out for many for
  forgiveness of sins.
• Acts 238 (NASB) And Peter said to them,
  "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the
  name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your
  sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy
  Spirit.

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What Does the Blood of Jesus and Baptism Have in
Common?

• Both are required to enter into a relationship
  with the Lord.
• Both are required for the forgiveness of sin.
• Both are required for the washing away of sins.

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Both are required for the washing away of sins.

• Rev 15 (NKJV) and from Jesus Christ, the
  faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead,
  and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him
  who loved us and washed us from our sins in His
  own blood,
• Acts 2216 (NKJV) And now why are you waiting?
  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
  calling on the name of the Lord.'

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What Does the Blood of Jesus and Baptism Have in
Common?

• Both are required to enter into a relationship
  with the Lord.
• Both are required for the forgiveness of sin.
• Both are required for the washing away of sins.
• Both are required for salvation.

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Both are required for salvation.

• Rom 59 (NASB) Much more then, having now been
  justified by His blood, we shall be saved from
  the wrath of God through Him.
• Mark 1616 (NASB) "He who has believed and has
  been baptized shall be saved but he who has
  disbelieved shall be condemned. cf. 1 Pet. 321

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• Therefore,
  there is no contradiction
  to teach that one must be baptized into Christ
  in order to gain access
  to the blood of Christ!

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Why Did God Choose Baptism?

• Baptism into Christ is when we are baptized into
  His death (Rom. 63-4).
• Baptism is not a mere symbolic ritual, but the
  exact moment in time when a person begins to
  partake of the blessings of Jesus blood!

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Romans 63-4 (NASB)

• 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have
  been baptized into Christ Jesus have been
  baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been
  buried with Him through baptism into death, in
  order that as Christ was raised from the dead
  through the glory of the Father, so we too might
  walk in newness of life.

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Death Burial Resurrection
The death (or blood) of Jesus provides Eternal
Life. Baptism is when we partake of His death
(blood).  

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Why Did God Choose Baptism?

• Baptism into Christ is when we are baptized into
  His death.
• God, not us, is at work at baptism to cleanse us
  of all our sins.

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Colossians 212-13 (NASB)

• 12 Having been buried with Him in baptism, in
  which you were also raised up with Him through
  faith in the working of God, who raised Him from
  the dead. 13 And when you were dead in your
  transgressions and the uncircumcision of your
  flesh, He made you alive together with Him,
  having forgiven us all our transgressions,

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Romans 324-25a (NASB)

• 24 Being justified as a gift by His grace
  through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus
  25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation
  in His blood through faith.

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Why Did God Choose Baptism?

• Baptism into Christ is when we are baptized into
  His death.
• God, not us, is at work at baptism to cleanse us
  of all our sins.
• Only when a person has gained access to His blood
  in baptism does he or she become a Christian.

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• Many teach that baptism is an act of obedience to
  demonstrate that you are already saved,
  just a requirement for membership in a local
  church.

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• Yet, distinctly,
  baptism is the final step a person
  takes to become a Christian (or be in Christ
  and have ones sins washed away).

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• If this is not true,
  why was Saul told to be baptized to wash away
  his sins, if in fact he was saved by faith only
  when He saw the risen Christ?

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Acts 2216 (NKJV)

• And now why are you waiting? Arise and be
  baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the
  name of the Lord.'

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• If this is not true,
  why put on Christ in baptism if you can
  be in Christ before baptism by faith only?

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Galatians 327 (NKJV)

• For as many of you as were baptized into Christ
  have put on Christ.

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• Baptism is also the exact moment in time when a
  person is added to the body of Christ (His
  church) for which he shed His blood (Acts 238,
  41, 47 2028 cf. 1 Cor. 1213 Col. 118).

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Once We Gain Access to the Blood of Jesus, Then
What?

• We begin a life of holiness.

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1 Peter 11b-2 (NASB)

• 1 Who are chosen 2 according to the
  foreknowledge of God the Father, by the
  sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey
  Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood May
  grace and peace be yours in fullest measure.

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Romans 622 (NASB)

• But now having been freed from sin and enslaved
  to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in
  sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

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Once We Gain Access to the Blood of Jesus, Then
What?

• We begin a life of holiness.
• We depend upon the cleansing power of His blood
  throughout our lives.

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• Ultimately, it is by the sprinkling of the blood
  of Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 12) that we can be
  holy in the sight of God (cf. 1 Cor. 130).

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• Even when doing our best to
  obey the truth,
  we will always need the cleansing power of
  Jesus blood!

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1 John 16-7 (NASB)

• 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and
  yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not
  practice the truth 7 but if we walk in the light
  as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship
  with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son
  cleanses us from all sin.

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• No Christian will ever reach perfection or
  achieve a sinless life in which he or she never
  transgresses Gods law.

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1 John 18, 10 (NASB)

• 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are
  deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us
  10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him
  a liar, and His word is not in us.

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• The Lord will continue to cleanse us by the power
  of His blood, but we must confess our sins to Him
  to receive His cleansing.

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1 John 19 (NASB)

• If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
  righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
  us from all unrighteousness.

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• Have You Been to Jesus for the Cleansing Power?
  Are You Washed in the
  Blood of the Lamb?
  

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Revelation 79-10 (NASB)

• 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a
  great multitude, which no one could count, from
  every nation and all tribes and peoples and
  tongues, standing before the throne and before
  the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm
  branches were in their hands 10 and they cry
  out with a loud voice, saying "Salvation to our
  God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

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Revelation 713-14 (NASB)

• 13 And one of the elders answered, saying to me,
  "These who are clothed in the white robes, who
  are they, and from where have they come?" 14 And
  I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said
  to me, "These are the ones who come out of the
  great tribulation, and they have washed their
  robes and made them white in the blood of the
  Lamb.