Oh The Blood Of Jesus by Pastor Fee Soliven 1 Peter 1:17-21 Sunday Morning December 7, 2014 A

1 Peter 1: And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

What word of the Bible does Satan hate and fear more than any other?

"Blood"

The blood of Jesus is Precious because of who He is!

Revelation 5: Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

9 And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."

The blood of Jesus is precious because of why He came.

Galatians 3: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The blood of Jesus is precious because of what it provides.

1. Redemption

1 Peter 1: knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."

Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"....

2. Forgiveness

Ephesians 1:7 "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace"...

3. Justification

Romans 5:9 "Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."

Romans 5:17 "For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ."

4. Reconciliation

Colossians 1: For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

5. Sanctification

Hebrews 13:12 "Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate."

6. Access to God

Hebrews 10: Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,

22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

7. Daily Forgiveness

1 John 1:7 "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."

1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

1 John 2:1-2 1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another

Why is the blood of Jesus precious?

Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment"...

Are you ready to meet the Lord?

“For the Joy of the Lord is your Strength” Nehemiah 8:10