Salvation, 10

How did He pay for the sins of those that believe?

His blood....

How do we know blood pays for sins? We've heard and read testimonies of those who have had the blood applied to their lives, thereby being forgiven of sins. We've talked about who this Jesus is, what He did while He was on earth. We've learned why He came (to save His people from their sins) and who His people are: the Redeemed. We observed by the Word what happens to those who don't believe. Today, we will examine what paid the price for your sins and mine.

Going back to the OT:

• Gen 8.20 And Noah ... offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• Gen 22.7, 8 ...where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering:
• Gen 34.14 Jacob ...poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
• after the children of Israel were led out of Egypt
• Exo 10.25 Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
• EXO 12.13 the Lord explains: “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,”
• EXO 12.17 tells us to avoid the death angel: “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”
• What is this a picture of? Look at where the blood was placed (put cross in front of door for illustration)
• Exo 18.12 Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God:
• Exo 20.24 Of sacrifices the Lord tells the people, through Moses, “An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings,...in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.”
• Exo 29.12 At the tabernacle in the wilderness, we are shown what the priest did for the sins of the people: “And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.”
• Exo 29.14 Explained in this passage is what the Lord thinks of this old flesh: “But the flesh of the bullock,...,shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.”
• Exo 29.18 The only thing that satisifes our Holy God: “And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the Lord: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.”
• Our all on the altar by fire – if you've never been broken, you don't know Him...
• Exo 30.10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements:

All through the book of Leviticus the priests are told where to put the blood that is to atone for the sins of the people...

Lev 17.6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the Lord.

KEY VERSE: 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.

• So it was that blood sacrifices from innocent animals took the place or “atoned” for the sins of the people.

• Yet, there came a time when (Heb 10.4) “... it (was) not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

How does that explain what Jesus did for the believers on the cross?

All that sacrifice quite simply,was a “type” or a picture of what the Lord Jesus would do as Israel's “Messiah” when He came to earth.

He said in Mt 26.28, Mk 4:24, Lk 22.20 at the Last Supper before Judas betrayed Him:

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many (not all because not all are going to believe) for the remission of sins.

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

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Rom 3.25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare HIS righteousness for the remission of sins...

Rom 5.9 Much more then, being now justified by HIS blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM.

Paul told the church at Ephesus:

(Eph 2.13,14) “13. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;”

HIS BLOOD “BROKE DOWN” THE WALL THAT WAS BETWEEN YOU AND GOD

Heb 9.14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb 9.22 ...and without shedding of blood is no remission

What atoned for sin in the OT? Blood

What did Jesus give to atone for sin in the NT? His blood

According to Lev 17.11, why is blood required for atonement? Because “life is in the blood.”

Conclusion: “I do not know how the transaction takes place but I does know because of His blood, given for all who would believe, it does.”