Why did Jesus Die? | Prophetic Fulfillment of God’s Fall Holy Days

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You’re supposed to look different. You’re supposed to talk different because the blood of Jesus has purchased you to be set apart, sanctified unto God. This is why the New Testament calls you a saint. We are in a very foundational study that I’m calling the prophetic fulfillment of God’s fall holy days. I’ve been making the point that the appointed days of the Lord in the 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus are important for the entire church. They’re really foundational because these holy days of the Lord, these appointed days, as the word of God calls them, are actually an unveiling of God’s prophetic redemptive plan for humanity. We’re focusing today on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, called in Hebrew once again, Yom for day, Kippur of covering. How are the children of Israel’s sins covered in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament? They were covered by blood. The Bible tells us in the Torah, in the book of Leviticus, chapter 17, verse 11, that the life of the flesh is in the blood, saith the Lord. And I’ve given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your soul, for it’s the blood by reason of its life that makes atonement. This is why it was so critical that when Jesus was on the cross, the soldier had to come and thrust a spear in his stomach in order that the blood would fall out or flow out, because it was the blood flowing out that symbolized that the life had been given. It’s the blood of Jesus, beloved, that has purchased our salvation. We’ve been redeemed, which means purchased by the blood of the Lamb. Now, the foundational scripture on Yom Kippur comes from the book of Revelation, chapter number 12, verse 11. In Revelation chapter 12, verse 11, we hear this. I’m reading out of the New American Standard Version, which is probably the best translation whose aim is to take the literal, original Greek or Hebrew word and translate it to the English equivalent. Hear the word of God. Once again, Revelation 12, 11. They overcame him because of the blood and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their life even when faced with death. Now this scripture is about the end time believers that survived and they survived through three things. Number one, they survived because of the blood of the lamb. Two, because of the word of their testimony and because they had sold out lives for Jesus, they did not love their lives even to death. Now, I want to ask you, how do we take the blood of the lamb and apply it to our life? Because it’s not enough just that Jesus shed his blood. Somehow we have to make his blood relevant and effective in our own lives. So how do we apply the blood of Jesus to our life? Last time we talked about the ancient Passover in Exodus chapter 12. how every Israelite family took a lamb, just like Revelation 12, 11 says they overcame by the blood of the lamb. When we go back to this concept of the lamb, it brings us back to Exodus 12, where every Israelite family took a lamb, an unblemished lamb, which was a shadow of Jesus, And then they sacrificed that lamb. They very carefully collected the blood of that lamb in a basin because none of it could be spilled on the ground. None of it could be wasted because it was so precious and so valuable. And then they had to personally sacrifice take that blood that had been collected in the basin and apply it to their home, to their doorframe with a hyssop branch. Once the blood was applied to their home, they had to go inside the home, close their door and not come out, symbolizing that they were completely covered in case, protected by the blood. Now, I want you to consider this. When those Israelite families slaughtered the lamb and then collected in the basin, the blood left in the basin could not and did not save them. It was only when that blood that had been collected in the basin was applied to their home, and then they went inside their home and closed the door, that they were saved by the blood. In the same way, as I’ve been saying, the blood of Jesus does not automatically save us. It has to be applied to our lives, even as the children of Israel had to apply the blood to their doorpost from the basin. So how then do we apply the blood of Jesus to our life? I believe that Revelation 12, 11 once again gives us a clue because they overcame by the blood of the lamb and get it now, the word of their testimony. They confessed who Jesus was and the power and the authority of the blood in and over their lives. You see, the principle of confession is what our salvation is based on. The book of Romans, chapter 10, tells us that if we believe in our heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and then, get it now, confess or testify that he’s our Lord, we’ll be saved. So believing and confession go together. For with the heart man believes, but with the mouth confession is made, scripture tells us, resulting in salvation. And so I believe, beloved church, the way that we get the blood of Jesus into our lives personally is by having faith in it and get it now, confessing its power, what it does for us as we thank Jesus for it. Now, we began this last time. We read from the book of Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 7, and we read that we’ve been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. In Him, we have redemption through His blood. And I developed that. And at the end of that, we confessed it. We said together, I’m going to have you do it again today, and then we’re going to move on. I want you just to testify of the blood of Jesus as redemptive power in your life, individually and personally. So we’re going to say together, thank you, Father God. for purchasing me and for redeeming me through the blood of Jesus your Son. Thank you that you purchased me to marry me. Thank you, Jesus. I praise you and give my life to you. Amen. The next point I want to make is that the blood of Jesus, beloved church of God, cleanses us. Hear the word of God now as I read from the book of 1 John, chapter number 1, verse number 7. 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. I want to, at the onset, make the point here that all the verbs in this scripture verse are continuing present tense, meaning present. that the blood of Jesus is continuing presently to cleanse us of sin. It’s a reality that keeps on unfolding, that our cleansing is unfolding in a deeper and deeper way as we abide in the light and have fellowship with one another. Let’s listen to the verse again, keeping in mind the comments that I just shared. But if we walk in the light, as he himself is in the light. So first of all, we have to be walking in the light. In other words, once again, we’re not automatically cleansed by the blood of Jesus, but we have to be walking in the light to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus. So let’s listen again. If we walk in the light, as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus’ Son cleanses us from all sin. How do we know if we’re walking in the light? Well, according to this verse, one of the ways that we know we’re walking in the light is if we’re walking in a love relationship with God’s people. This is why the mindset that your relationship with God is just about you and God, and it doesn’t have to do with you being in relationship with other believers, falls short of a complete biblical understanding, because God calls us as a people and as a community, and He wants us to walk together in love in the light. Every letter that Paul wrote was not addressed to an individual other than Timothy or Titus. He was speaking to the church, to the church at Ephesus, to the church at Philippi, to the church at Corinth. God calls us as a people. And as we walk in love and abide in the light, the blood of Jesus is effectively working in our life to cleanse us of sin because it takes the power of the Holy Spirit to walk in love. In the natural, we walk in love only when people make us feel good. We love people that do something for us. But to walk in true love is to walk in sacrificial love. It’s to walk in laying down our lives and to do that. And when we do that, there’s a cleansing that takes place. I want you to confess with me that as you walk in the light, as you seek to love people unconditionally, the blood of Jesus is cleansing you from sin. Let’s confess it together. Father God, I thank you that as I offer my heart to you, seeking to obey you, seeking to yield to the Holy Spirit, endeavoring to love your people, to pray for them and to cultivate a heart attitude of love in my heart for them. That as I do that, your spirit through the blood of Jesus is cleansing me of sin. That sin is being rooted out of me through the blood of Jesus in a deeper and deeper way. Beloved child of God, you’re being cleansed of sin. You’re being transformed into the lightness of Jesus as you seek to abide in the light and to walk in love because those that walk in love abide in God.

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Let’s continue on. Through the blood of Jesus, we’re justified. I want to go to the book of Romans now. Chapter number five, verse number nine. Hear the word of God. Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him. When you’re justified, you’re made righteous. Think about this. God justifies you by clothing you in the righteousness of Christ through the blood of Jesus. He takes away your sin so that you now stand before God, holy and blameless. as if you’ve never sinned because you’re in Jesus and Jesus never sinned. Paul said, I’m following Christ now. I’ve given up my old life seeking to earn God’s righteousness because I want to be found in Christ, not having a righteousness of my own, Paul said, derived from the law, but having the righteousness of Christ that came to me as a free gift. Once again, Romans 5, 9, much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God. Listen, yes, you and I have sinned, but Jesus justifies us. And so it’s as if we stand before the judge. And the judge says, not guilty. We’ve received the righteousness of Christ. He took our sin away and justified us. Romans 5, verse 17 through 21. For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. So then, as through one transgression, there resulted condemnation to all men, Even so, through one act of righteousness, there resulted justification of life to all men.” In other words, what Paul is saying is that before Jesus came, everybody was guilty because they were descendants of Adam, and everyone that was descended from Adam inherited his guilt. We were born guilty before God, descendants of Adam, inheriting his sin nature. But when we received Jesus, Jesus took away our sin by his blood and gave us the gift of his righteousness. So now, church, we are justified. Paul wrote about this throughout the scriptures and much of his theology is built upon these two themes that we’ve covered, that we’ve been redeemed and justified through the blood of Jesus himself. We are not guilty. We’re just as if we’d never sin. Let’s confess this together. Father God. I’m so happy to know that through the blood of Jesus, I am now righteous before you and that I stand before you justified just as if I’d never sinned. Jesus, King Jesus, thank you for clothing me in your righteousness, taking away my sin, acquitting me and justifying me. Amen and amen. Next, beloved, through the blood of Jesus, we’ve been, listen now, sanctified. To be sanctified means to be made holy. In fact, the original word for sanctify in the Greek language is sometimes translated in scripture as sanctified. Sometimes it’s translated as holy. It’s the same Greek word, and it carries with it the concept of being set apart. To show you this in Scripture, I want to go to the book of Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 11 and 12. First, I’m going to read from the New American Standard Version that translates this Greek word as sanctify. Then we’re going to read from the New International Version. You’re going to see that the Translators of the NIV version translated the same Greek word as holy. Hear the word of God. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp. The bodies for the sacrifice were always burned outside the camp. Then the blood was taken inside and presented to the Lord as a sacrifice for sin. Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify,” there’s the word, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Same verse in the New International Version. Here we go. The high priest carries the blood of animals into the most holy place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people, get it now, holy. Same Greek word, New American Standard Version are translating it as sanctify. NIV translators are translating it as holy because the meaning is to be set apart. When we’re sanctified or made holy, we’re set apart unto God. Through the blood of Jesus that we’ve been redeemed by, we have been set apart, sanctified, made holy unto God. And as a result of that, beloved ones, God is desiring that our lives be separate unto him. We’re separated from the world, from the devil, from the lust of the flesh, and we’re separated to God, and God does this through his blood. Listen to what Leviticus tells us in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 26. Thus you are to be holy to me, for I, the Lord, am holy, and I have, get it now, set you apart. The blood of Jesus has set you apart. You’re supposed to look different. You’re supposed to talk different. You’re supposed to be different because the blood of Jesus has purchased you to be set apart, sanctified unto God. This is why the New Testament calls you a saint. Let’s testify. Father God. Through the blood of Jesus, I’ve been purchased by you and set apart unto you. I’ve been set apart from the world, set apart from the devil, set apart from the flesh. Confess this with me. And Father God, I’ve been set apart unto you. I am holy. I am a saint because of and through the blood of Jesus. And lastly and finally today, I wanna talk about the fact that through the blood of Jesus, we receive life. Jesus said, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in yourself. Truly, truly, I say to you in John 6, 53 through 57, Jesus said, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourself. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Beloved ones, because of Jesus, because of his blood, you have been given the very life of God. You are alive in Christ, and it’s all because Jesus shed His blood for you. He is the fulfillment of God’s holy day, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, and through His blood, all the benefits today that I’ve talked about are yours in Christ Jesus forever. Beloved, I hope you were blessed and encouraged by today’s broadcast. The Bible tells us in the book of 3 John 1, verse 8, that we should financially support the ministries that are feeding us spiritually. And in so doing, John says, we’ll become fellow workers with the truth. I want to encourage you. If the Lord is bearing witness with your heart to support us, Would you just be obedient to Him? 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What I love about the Aaronic blessing is that it did not originate with man. The words actually proceeded from the very essence of God himself. The blessing comes from the book of Numbers, chapter six. So listen to these words and receive the blessing of the Lord into your life today.

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Yevarechech Yahweh, vayishmarecha. Ya’er Yahweh, penavelecha, vihunecha. Yissa Yahweh, penavei lecha, ve’asem lecha.

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The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.

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