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F.H. - 7/12/92                                                 
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E – Evangelistic

"THE CHEMISTRY OF CALVARY"

TEXT: I Pet. 1:18-20

THESIS: To show the necessity of the Blood of Christ on the Cross for absolution from sin.

INTRO: A. Red cancels out red!  Sin is pictured in the Bible as the same color as blood - red, scarlet or crimson.

Is. 1:18  
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 

        B. There are 2 crimson streams which run thruout the Bible: the scarlet stream of man's sin and the crimson fountain of atoning blood.  It is sin, sin, sin and blood, blood, blood.  The scarlet stain of sin is cancelled out only by the crimson stream of blood!  It is interesting chemistry, indeed Divine chemistry that red blood cancels out scarlet sin!  It is "THE CHEMISTRY OF CALVARY"!

I.  THE POLLUTION OF SIN:

    A. Sin Demands A Sacrifice:

ILLUS: When God created man he had no sin and thus no need of a sacrifice for sin.  Something happened to man when he sinned.  There are several theories Peter Ruckman says man (and woman) received their blood when they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  He says it wasn't an apple, but grapes which they ate.  He points to the "blood of the grape" in Deut. 32:14 ("thou didst drink of the pure blood of the grape") and says that Adam and Eve received their blood when they partook of that fruit.  He suggests that that is why women paint their mouths red even today!
         Dr. M.R. DeHaan taught that since "the life is in the blood" man received his blood when God breathed into his nostrils and he "became a living soul."

       	1. God shows that man's blood is now tainted thru sin thru Adam's sin.
 2. Acts 17:26 says that "(God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."

NOTE: In this sense we are all "brothers" - "blood brothers" - "SINFUL blood brothers!"

Rom. 5:12 
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

       3. Sin calls for a sacrifice to cancel out its effects.

    B. Sin Demands A Savior:

1. Since we are all sinners and our blood is tainted by our sin we cannot save ourselves or our "blood brothers"!
2. Somehow God had to devise a plan to rescue man from sin and its con- sequences - eternal death in hell!

TRANS: The pollution of sin demands a sacrifice and a Savior.  The pollution of sin demands a solution for sin...

II. THE SOLUTION FOR SIN:

    A. The Blood of an Innocent Victim:

1. The first reference to a sacrifice, and by implication, blood, was immed. after man's fall in the Garden.

ILLUS: The first mention of anything in the Bible is important and usually provides a key to its interpretation anywhere that word or subject appears in the Script.  In Gen. 3:21 we have the ref. to the sacrifice of innocent animals to provide coverings for Adam and Eve.  3 Bible principles are established:

       1. Salvation must be of the Lord or God's gift.  Jn.3:16
       2. It must be by the death of an innocent substitute.

I Pet. 2:22-24  
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 

       3. It must be by blood: I Pet. 1:18-20

    B. The Blood of a Sinless Substitute:

1. Animals do not sin, but of course have no concept of sin or rebellion, therefore their slaughter in sacrifice could only provide an insufficient substitutionary atonement for man.
2. Christ on the other hand, though sinless, could become a Substitute for us by becoming a man and taking our sin and its penalty on Himself.
       3. Sin demands the blood or it will conclude in judgment.

ILLUS: The broken law of God demands either judgment or blood!  When the Ark of God was stolen by the Philistines and finally returned to Israel, they were so joyous that the men of Beth-shemesh lifted the Mercy Seat to see if its contents had been disturbed.  They looked briefly upon the broken Law of God without the blood-covered lid and the result was disastrous.

I Sam. 6:19  
And he smote the men of Beth-she'mesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. 

          Sin (the broken Law) with out blood demands judgment.

ILLUS: Bumper sticker: "You are the solution to pollution."  That may be some what true in the physical realm, but not so in the spiritual. "Christ's BLOOD is the solution to sin's pollution!"

III. THE ABSOLUTION OF SIN:

    A. Appropriation Brings Absolution:

Def: Absolution: "freedom from the consequences of sin."  This absolution comes only through the blood of Christ and though a free gift of God, must be personally appropriated.

       1. Men need a "blood transfusion" of Christ's sinless blood.
       2. The only prerequisite is faith in His atoning blood.
       3. Man needs only to go to the "blood bank" of heaven where there is never a blood shortage.

ILLUS: As wonderful as it is that we can deposit our blood here in a blood bank and weeks later that blood will be used to save someone's life miles away...it is even more wonderful that the "Blood Bank" of heaven stores enough of His blood for all who simply submit to the transfusion!  It suits every type and is free to all.  It is sinless, "incorruptible," "precious" blood!

    B. Absolution Brings Acceptance:

       1. The moment you receive your "blood transfusion" you receive absolution - forgiveness of sins - all your sins!
       2. That places you in God's family as one of His children and you are "accepted in the Beloved."

Eph. 1:6-7   
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us ACCEPTED in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption THROUGH HIS BLOOD, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

CONCL: Here then is the mystical "CHEMISTRY OF CALVARY"!  Why not take advantage of its wonders and accept the eternal life-giving power of the Blood of our wonderful Sinless Savior and His Substitutionary Sacrifice?!
        Child of God "THE CHEMISTRY OF CALVARY" has transformed your life. You have "blood rights" to the family of God and are "joint heirs with Christ". Isn't it about time you began to act like a "child of the King"?!  A servant of the Savior?  He wants you to become a "living sacrifice" to Him now!

F.H. - 8/4/93                                               
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Doc. - Blood

"THE BLOOD - OUR BOUNTIFUL BENEFACTOR"

TEXT: Lev. 17:11 and 14

INTRO: A. The Bible is a Book of blood and a bloody Book.  The word "blood" is used over 700 times.  The Bible says the Word of God is "quick" or alive.  That is because of the blood which circulates through its pages. Without the blood it would be as dead and lifeless as any other book.  The "life is in the blood."

Lev. 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. 

Lev. 17:14  
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is them blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 

        B. In the last message I spoke of "THE BIBLE - OUR BELIEVABLE BOOK" - today I want to speak about "THE BLOOD - OUR BOUNTIFUL BENEFACTOR."  Our blood gives us life.  This mysterious fluid enables us to exist and function on the physical level.  It is blood also that enables us to have spiritual life.

I.  ONE BLOOD:

Acts 17:26  
(God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 

    A. Unity of the Race:

1. God ignores all the man-made racial, ethnic, religious, creedal and color distinctions and reduces humanity to a common denominator - "one blood."
2. This is a direct frontal assault against evolution; no blood transfusions are possible from other animals to humans!

    B. United By Blood:

       	1. The human body consists of all kinds of tissues: muscle, nerve, fat, gland, bone, etc.
2. All these tissues have one thing in common they are fixed cells with a specific and limited function.
3. The blood alone is mobile, not limited to one part of the body and supplies the fixed cells with nourishment and carries off the waste products of the other cells, a process which we call metabolism.

ILLUS: As the human race is of "one blood" so are the members of the Body of Christ.  Racial distinctions, etc. are eliminated when we are united by His blood.

Gal. 3:27-28
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 

II. OUR BLOOD:

    A. It's Origin?

Gen. 2:7  
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

        	1. Some believe that because life is in the blood that God gave man his blood at creation.
2. Others believe that man was created with a body with out blood, similar to Christ's body after the resurrection and that he received his blood when he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

ILLUS: We do know that eating blood, like eating of the fruit of the tree is forbidden.  We know that "the fruit of the vine (tree)" is a symbol of blood.  We do know that after eating a sentence of death was passed on man and that "life is in the blood."

    B. It's Structure:

       1. Plasma = the liquid vehicle of the blood.
       2. Platelets = one of 3 of the solid cells of the blood whose function is still quite obscure.
       3. Erythrocytes (red cells) = carry fuel and oxygen to the tissues.

ILLUS: Red cells carry a mysterious substance called hemoglobin which has an affinity for oxygen, a fuel of the body.  These travel thru the lungs and pick up oxygen, and travel to all the cells in the body and discharge their cargo.  Then they pick up th3e waste products of the tissues ("cell garbage") and discharge this thru the kidneys, skin, bowels and lungs and begins the cycle again, taking about 23 seconds for the whole trip.  The food is carried by the same vehicle the "garbage" is carried on with out any contamination!
        So too the blood of Christ is our Source of spiritual life and the means of cleansing us from all sin!

       4. Leucocytes (white cells) = defense against infection.

ILLUS: These are the "soldiers" of our body.  When an invasion occurs with in the body these cells mysteriously double or triple in number and mobilize to kill or engulf the invading army of germs. What these white cells do for our body the blood of Christ does for His Body.

Rev. 12:10-11 
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 

         When attacked by our enemy Satan or sin we acknowledge it and claim the promise of I Jn. 1:9 and receive cleansing.

       5. Antibodies or Antitoxins = to prevent infection

ILLUS: These may be absent in the blood until an infection occurs, but AFTER THE PERSON HAS ONCE HAD THE DISEASE, these bodies are produced in a large amount, and prevent a recurrance of the same disease again! (e.g., smallpox, scarlet fever, etc.).  Other antibodies are only temporarily effective and only provide temporary immunity.

        Our experience with sin helps us build immunity against that sin.

QUOTE: DeHaan: "The diff. bet. the sinner and the saint is that the saint HATES his sin and pleads the blood of Christ, whereas the sinner loves his sin and goes back into it.  The saint is like a sheep.  It may fall in the mud hole but it is not comfortable there, and will bleat until the shepherd lifts it out...The sinner is like a pig.  It goes about looking for slime pits and when it finds one it slides in with a grunt of glee and will squeal vehement objections if you try to pull it out, and no sooner is it out than it will return to the slime pit again.  The saint may FALL into sin but he will never remain there, and he will be unhappy while in it.

III. CHRIST'S BLOOD:

    A. Sinless Blood:

1. Only Jesus is called the Seed of the woman, because He was born of a woman and thus His blood was with out the sin of Adam.
       2. Jesus' Virgin Birth protected him from having sinful blood, since He had no human father.

ILLUS: The blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced with in the body of the fetus and it is only after the sperm fertilized the egg that a fetus begins to develop and blood begins to appear.
        Ex:  You may incubate an unfertilized hen's egg, but a chick will never develop unless fertilized by the male sperm. Only then will the red streaks denoting the presence of blood appear.
        From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to child.

QUOTES: Howell's Textbook of Physiology, 2nd Edition, p.885,886: "The fetal and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL CONTACT.  THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER ty the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of the chorionic villae.
        Williams' Practice of Obstetrics, 3rd Edition, p.133: "The fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCES TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD...being separated from one another by the double layer of chorionic epithelium."
        Nurse's Jamdbppl pf Pbstetrocs. Zabriskie, p.75: "When the circulation of blood begins in the embryo, it remains separate and distinct from that of the mother....there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other words, no maternal a blood actually flows to the fetus, nor is there any direct fetal blood flow to the mother."

    B. Sacred Blood:

       1. Before, during and after the Law of Moses there are prohibitions about eating blood in the Bible.

Acts 15:28-29  
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. 

       2. Life is in the blood, and life is sacred.
       3. Blood is God's purchase price for redemption.

ILLUS: When man sinned, something happened to his blood, for the life is in the blood.  Instead of being incorruptible and thus deathless, Adam was under a death sentence...and "so death hath passed upon all men..." To redeem the dead sinner, life must be again imparted and the blood furnished must be sinless, precious, incorruptible, sacred blood!  Christ's blood!

CONCL: God has a "blood bank" in heaven where he stores His sinless blood to provide blood transfusions to sinners.  One type (sinless blood) is good for any sinner.

Source for much of this material is from Dr. M.R. DeHaan's book, "The Chemistry of the Blood"

F.H. – 7/25/99											 
 PRECIOUS BLOOD SAM
Doc. – Blood

“THE PRECIOUS BLOOD”

TEXT:  1 Peter 1:18-19

THESIS:  To preach the doctrine of the precious blood of our Savior.

INTRO:  A.  We sing and talk about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior.  We teach and preach about it.  But I wonder if we understand what is so “precious” about it. The word “precious” is defined in Webster’s as “being of great value, costly, or of great price, usually rare.”  All of these words describe Jesus’ precious blood.  The Greek word translated “precious” is defined in Strong’s Concordance as “valuable, costly, honored, esteemed, beloved, dear.”
B.	Peter speaks of our salvation hinging on “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ.  In fact, 
the blood of animals or any other man, woman or child, cannot be considered “precious” in the same sense as that of our Savior.
C.	No doctrine in Scripture is as maligned, misunderstood, venomously hated or so viciously
attacked as belief in “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior! The liberals who deny the 
Deity of Christ degrade His blood.  Myrol J. Herrol, a missionary of the Amer. Bap. Convention said:  “The blood of Jesus Christ is of no more value in the salvation of a soul than the water in which Pilate washed his hands.”  (I apologize that the label Baptist is given to this blasphemer!)  The Catholic hierarchy claims to be able to turn bread into the “literal body and blood of Christ.”  Pope Pius IV declared “If any man shall say that in the mass there is not offered to God a true and proper sacrifice, let him be accursed.”  (No, God says anyone who doesn’t receive the merits
of “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ will be accursed!)  Christian Scientists (neither Christian nor Scientific!) state:  “The blood of Jesus Christ was of no more avail when it was shed upon the cursed tree than when it was flowing through his veins in daily life.”   John MacArthur, a nondenominationalist, evangelical (who masquerades as a Bible believer) says “It was NOT Jesus’ physical blood that saves us, but His dying on our behalf (“precious death?!”), which is symbolized by the shedding of His physical blood.  If we could be saved by blood without death, the animals would have been bled,
not killed, and it would have been the same withJesus.”   (Doesn’t draining the blood out of a body result in death?!)  He continues:  “If Christ’s own physical blood, in itself does not cleanse us from sin, how much less did the physical blood of animals.”  (Because the “physical blood of animals” only pictured “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ!) These wicked religious leaders are all heretics and have “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.”  But enough of this heresy, let’s just find out what God says about “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD…”   God says Jesus’ blood is…

I.  …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS PURITY:   

A.	It Is Pure Because It Is God’s!

ILLUS:  Christ’s blood is pure because He never sinned, but it is really pure because it came from God.  You say, “Does God have blood?”  Not until Jesus was incarnated.  But when He became a man, He had no human father and the blood line comes from the father.  His blood was pure and holy because He came, not thru human flesh or human seed, but from the Holy Ghost of God!  

Mt. 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 

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. 

B.	It Is Pure Because He Was Sinless:  

Heb. 7:26-27
26	For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 
27	Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 

1.	If I was your priest instead of your preacher, I would have to offer up an atonement for my sins as well as yours.
2.	If Jesus is your Priest, He need only offer up a sacrifice for your sins, never for His own!

II.  …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS RARITY:
  
A.	It Is Rare Because He Was Virgin Born:

Is. 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 

Jer. 31:22
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. 

1.	No one else had sinless blood, because no one else had been virgin born.
2.	Rare is defined as “uncommon, unusually excellent, remarkably fine.”

ILLUS:  Something rare is usually highly esteemed and valuable.  Gold and diamonds are of great valuable because they are not readily or easily found.  Yet there are literally millions of tons of gold in the world and millions of diamonds available.  But there is only one virgin-born man in all of human history.  That is rare!  The virgin birth produced a unique, rare person with blood unlike any other human being.  His blood is supernatural.  It did not just “run down into the dust of the earth” at the foot of the cross; it was taken by Christ as High Priest and sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in heaven as an atonement for our sin.  It is there right now, for the Scripture declares that “the blood of Jesus Christ His (God’s)  Son cleanseth us from all sin.”  (He is unique in that He is the only begotten Son of God…we are mere sons of God.)  [The NIV uses “one and only Son” destroying the uniqueness of Christ!   P.S.  The NIV translators have already issued a “gender neutral” version in England and are “testing the waters” now for the U.S.!  Those fundamentalists who bought into the NIV are going to be embarrassed!]

III. …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS INDISPENSABILITY: 

A.	It Is Indispensable Because Forgiveness Hinges Upon It:

Lev. 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. 

Heb. 9:22-23
22    And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 
23	It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 

1.	Both the Old Covenant (O.T.) and the New Covenant (N.T.) were ratified by shed blood.  Heb. 9:15-18

ILLUS:  In the N.T. there are 290 references to God’s love, but there are 1300 verses that speak of atonement by the blood!!!  It must be important.  No, indispensable!

2.	It is not just death, but a bloody death which is necessary to accomplish  this.  v.18-22
3.	It is interesting that everything was sprinkled with blood:  “the book, the people,…the tabernacle and all the vessels…”  v.19,21

ILLUS:  Everything man-made (even if “God breathed” or “God designed”) became defiled because it was touched by sinful man.  Thus it had to be “purged with blood” (v.22).  The blood sprinkled on people or furniture or the Bible or the Tabernacle did not change the nature of that thing, but it changed God’s relationship to it!
             (Note that “the Book” is sprinkled with blood.  Since “the life is in the blood” we have a “Living Bible.”  It is a bloody Book.  Often its pages are coated with gold, like the gold overlaid furniture in the Tabernacle, speaking of Deity.  It is a Divine Book. Often it is edged in red – a bloody Book.  It usually has limp, black covers – speaking of sin and death.)  [The new versions “dress up” their books to counterfeit THIS Book!]

IV.  …PRECIOUS BECAUSE OF ITS SUFFICIENCY:

A.	It Is Sufficient Because Of Its Uniqueness:

ILLUS:  Nothing else in the Bible comes close as to the attention devoted to the doctrine of the ability of blood to cover or atone for sin.  From the Garden of Eden in Genesis to the Wounded Lamb of Revelation, blood oozes from the pages of Script.

1.	It is sufficient for salvation:  Jesus’ shedding His blood on the cross was not some afterthought with God; He was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

a.	He was the Promised Seed of Genesis, the sacrificial son on Mt. Moriah, the Deliverer, Law Giver and Sacrifice in the books of the Law, the Kinsman-Redeemer of the period of the Judges, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and on through the Scriptures until because of Calvary and the precious blood shed there He sits on the throne as King of Kings in Rev.
b.	He is the Subject of prophecy, the Object of preaching, the Fulfillment of the types and symbols of the O.T. and the long awaited Messiah of Israel as well as the Founder and Sustainer of the Church…all because of the precious blood!

2.	It is sufficient for cleansing: How can blood cleanse sin?  (How can water quench thirst?!)
3.	It is sufficient to war against Satan.

Rev. 12:11 
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 

ILLUS:  After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon stood before a map of Europe on which the nation of England was colored in red.  He said:  “Were it not for that one red spot, I would have conquered the world.”  Satan too has great ambitions to conquer every believer and wars against us, and except for that “one red spot” of Christ’s precious blood, he would be victorious!

CONCL:  Salvation, cleansing and protection all come from “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of our Savior!  It is not by water.  It is not by works.  It is not by worship.  It is only through “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD”!   Morality may keep a man out of jail, but only  “THE PRECIOUS BLOOD” of Christ can keep him out of hell!  The blood is sufficient