Here's Pastor Alan Wright with today's blessing, a biblical faith-filled vision for your life. I bless you to stay under the blood. On the woeful night of judgment upon all the wickedness of Egypt, Everywhere that blood was painted on the door frames, the destroyer passed over. The saving grace shown the Hebrew slaves had nothing to do with their personal merits. It had only to do with the blood of the Lamb, the unblemished.
innocent lamb. Once the blood was applied, the Hebrews were given only one command. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning, Exodus 12, 22. Stay under the blood. When all of Egypt is wailing, Stay under the blood.
When you were full of fear, stay under the blood. You have no other part of this great saving act, just this one thing. Stay under the blood. Of Jesus. Pastor, author, and Bible teacher Alan Wright.
I encourage you to learn all forms of praying. There's a place for praying an intercessory prayer with God in which you are lifting up another's needs or petitions before God, you're lifting up your needs. But there's also a very important part of praying that is declarative. Thank you, Jesus, for your shed blood for me. That's Pastor Alan Wright.
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Here is Pastor Alan Wright. The shed blood of Jesus Christ is nothing in addition to the blood of Jesus that qualifies you to draw near to God or to receive from God. And this is such good news because what it means is the whole attention and center point and genesis of our faith all shifts away from ourselves and shifts to Jesus. This is why he's the author and the finisher of our faith. It's all in him.
It's not Jesus plus a little bit of your devotional life. That makes you blessed. It's not Jesus plus a little bit of your own righteousness that makes you blessed. It's not Jesus plus your generosity that makes you blessed. All of these things are important: our devotional life, our prayer life, our generosity, all of these things are important, but none of those things save you.
None of those things deliver you. It is nothing, nothing, nothing but the blood. And it's just something to rejoice in every single day and to build the whole entirety of your faith upon it. I have some powerful conclusions I would like us to take away from this. And the first is this.
The focal point. of the story of Passover is pointing us to our focal point. And that is, it's not on the people. Who were under the blood, but on the lamb that shed its blood and the blood itself. When I see the blood.
God said. Not when I see The people. Not when I see your acts of righteousness. Not when I see that you had a good day. Not when I see that you're really standing in faith.
Now all of those things are wonderful. All right? But that's not what moves God. When I see the blood. I love that.
Because not only my days are good days.
Some days I feel like I'm just totally full of faith, and other days I feel like I'm shaking like a leaf, but it doesn't have anything to do with that. God's not moved by that. God's moved by the blood. Charles Spurgeon preached on this. I'm going to just have to read you some of Charles Spurts.
And he said this: Remember, it is God's seeing the blood, which is the true reason for our being spared. Here is comfort for us when the eye of faith is dim. For God's eye is still the same. I love that. Just please remember that on the day of your worst doubts, God's not doubting the power of the blood.
The Israelites, Burgeon preached, could not see the blood. He was inside the house. He could not see what was on the lintel on the doorpost, but God could see it. And this is the only condition of the sinner's salvation, God seeing the blood, not your seeing it. Oh, how safe then is everyone that trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's not his faith that is the condition, not his assurance. It is a simple fact that Calvary is set perpetually before the eyes of God an arisen and ascended Savior. I'll have a lot of power. That's what faith is. It's faith that knows that God sees the blood.
So when you pray in the name of Jesus. You have faith because God sees what Jesus has done for you. Wow. Later. and the times of the temple, the process changed.
And the people Would no longer all be shepherds and everybody get their own lamb and inspect it and bring it in their home. There's the process change. and they would bring their lamb to the temple for the priest. to inspect. And this is where Also it began that you could go to the temple and buy a pre-approved lamb.
Yeah. You know, when Jesus got so mad at the money changers and formed a whip and drove them all out of there? Is because people were traveling from great distances and they had different currency. than the temple currency. And there was a very steep exchange rate.
You had to, you know, every time you change money, you go to a different country, you lose a little bit.
Well, this was exorbitant. They were making a killing off of people having to buy an unblemished lamb. But here's the whole point. When you brought your lamb to the temple, The priests inspected the lamb. Not you.
Don't ever bring any of your own righteousness to God. Come in the name of the righteous one Jesus. Plead his blood. The shed blood of Jesus. The whole your faith.
is here, again from Spurgeon. The blood was accepted. And sin was forgiven. And now, soul, it's not possible for God to reject thee. If thou comest this day to him pleading the blood of Christ, God cannot.
And here we speak with reverence, too. The everlasting God cannot reject a sinner. who pleads the blood of Christ. For if he did so, it were to deny himself and to contradict all his former acts. He has accepted blood and he will accept it.
He never can revoke that divine acceptance of the resurrection. And if thou goest to God, my hair, pleading simply and only the blood of him that did hang upon that tree, God must ungod himself before he can reject thee or reject that blood. You see what Smurgeon's preaching? He's saying God would have to cease to be God. He'd have to become a liar if he ever turned you away who made an appeal to the blood of Jesus.
The blood of Jesus. Plus nothing else saves you. The blood of Jesus plus nothing else blesses you. The blood of Jesus plus nothing else heals you. The blood of Jesus plus nothing else gives you entryway into the very intimate presence of God.
If you let any little part of your gospel get tainted by some of your own moralistic behavior, then you'll disqualify yourself from the greatest blessings that God has to offer. And He wants you to have a faith that's ready to receive from God like a little child receiving from the daddy that loves him and wants to bless him and bless him and bless him. You're there by the blood. The second thing that should be taken from this incredible story. Is that The blood Well the first thing, that's what mattered.
But the second thing is you learn from the story you had to know about the power of the blood.
So, in many ways, the Passover story hinges on a supernatural revelation. from God about the offer of the blood. It begins, and faith begins, with revelation from God about the offer of salvation, about the gift of the blood, about the gift of grace. In some ways, it's interesting. It's like the only thing that really separated the Hebrew people from the Egyptians.
Was that they had a word from God through Moses, their leader, that gave them a revelation about applying the blood? I've always just sort of wondered Were there Egyptians? That maybe were friends with the Hebrews and they got word about it and applied the blood over their doors? I don't know. But I'm telling you, the story is about The blood.
It required that there be revelation. I wish I understood the miracle of Revelation. Why is it some people hear the gospel and believe and are saved, and some people hear it and walk away? I don't understand. This is why theologians will discuss this forever.
Because nobody really knows. But I'll tell you, it's like light's got to shine in darkness. If you're in total darkness, you need some light, or you're not going to be able to see. I don't know how this works. But somehow there's got to be a revelation.
And doesn't this go far to say that this is what's so incredible about sharing the gospel? Share the gospel with as many people as you possibly can, because how will they know if they do not hear? The saving act starts with revelation about what God has done to save. We don't need to do more. We need to Hearing more.
We need more revelation. about just how full The gift of Jesus is. We need more revelation about how infinite The love of God is. We need more revelation. about the power of the blood.
The third thing. that you see in the story. Is that the blood, though all of the saving power was in God seeing the blood? And that it was the Lamb that was unblemished, not the people, and that it all stemmed on a revelation. Nonetheless, here's point three: the blood had to be applied in faith.
Blood sitting in the basin at the front of the house on the sidewalk did no good for that Hebrew home. There is an applying, and I think this is a real picture of something important about the Christian life. We apply through faith the blood of Jesus. It's what we do when we first become a Christian. And we accept that because of his shed blood, that we are justified and that we are forgiven.
But all of the Christian life is in many ways an applying of the blood.
Well, how do you apply the blood? They were literally painting blood on. What are we doing? Revelation 12.10 offers a clue. This is John on the Isle of Pamos getting this revelation.
I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now the salvation, the power, the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ have come. For the accuser of our brothers, that's Satan, has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they've conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. For they love not their lives even unto death. The joining of the meaning of the blood of the Lamb and their word of their testimony is the means of the victory.
The word of their testimony and the blood of the Lamb are inseparable. This is what it means to apply. It means to let the word of your testimony, the words of your mouth, the expressions of your heart. be a testimony of the power of the blood of Jesus in your life. To apply the blood in this sense, most practically, means to wake up in the morning and thank God for the blood of Jesus and apply it in faith over your life, over your household, over your day, over all that you love.
And to go to bed at night, thank you, Jesus, for the blood. It's your blood, it's your sacrifice, wherein I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ. And you take it in faith and you speak it with your mouth. It's the speaking out of it that is the mirror image of what they were doing with hyssop over their doors. But we're doing it in faith with our words out of our confidence in the gift of the blood of Jesus.
So I encourage you, learn all forms of praying. There's a place for praying an intercessory prayer with God in which you are lifting up another's needs or petitions before God, you're lifting up your needs. But there's also a very important part of praying that is declarative. Thank you, Jesus, for your shed blood for me. Thank you.
I declare. My redemption through the blood, the shed blood of Jesus, that by his stripes that I'm made whole, by his stripes that I'm made well, the blood that has washed me. I thank you that I've been washed of every sin. I'm white as snow. I thank you that I've been set apart and I've been made holy and righteous by the shed blood of Jesus.
Lord, I could have never done it myself. I could have never brought you anything to pay for any of this, but you've done it. You've come in the person of Jesus and you've shed your blood. Seven times you shed your blood for me. Over and over, you shed it, and I'm covered by the gift of the blood of Jesus.
And therefore, I declare that no weapon formed against me or my household shall be able to prosper. I'm applying the blood of Jesus. Wake up in the morning and apply the blood. Go to bed at night and apply the blood. And whatever you do, stay under the blood.
That's what it's teaching us. And that's my final point of this: they were given this explicit instruction: stay under it.
Okay. This might be the trickiest part. It's like When things get a little shaky. You know, and you see some of those Hebrews, you know, dads there and they're like they're hearing all the commotion going on, they're hearing, you know, the Egyptian neighborhoods, there's wails, there's shrieks, there's, you know, and they feel this foreboding thing, and it's like, What if this doesn't work? What if this whole blood thing doesn't work?
You know, and there's a party who wants to just open the door, at least peek your head out there, and it's like, anything I can do? You know? And God's like, stay in your house and do not come out until the morning. Do not Start thinking the gospel's not working, and I need to get out there and do something myself. Stay under it.
On the days where things don't seem to be going your way and you don't understand, and where's God, and why is this not working out for me, stay under the blood anyway. When things feel like they're falling apart and everything within you wants to have that old spirit of control ramp up back within you and take matters in your own hand, don't just stay under the blood. Stay under the finished work of Jesus. And don't start trying to add something to it. Don't let your prayer life get tainted by thinking that somehow you need to add something to it.
other than the blood of Jesus. You can take almost any part of the Christian life. and add a little bit of yourself to it. And it becomes a work. rather than an expression.
An expression of faith. Right. Keep your appeal. to the finished work of Jesus. When I pray for a person who's sick.
I don't try to convince myself mentally.
Okay, they're going to get well right now. And that's the whole key to the healing: I got to have perfect mental assent, certainty in my mind. As if it's making their healing be about how certain I can be about it. That's not where my faith is at all. Faith is in Jesus.
Thank you that you died for this precious one. Thank you so much. Your blood's been shed.
Now power of the Holy Spirit. move mightily. and make effective all the promises of God. Make your word effective now in their life and let it be under this one. Just as you've spoken.
By the blood. Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith. He's for us having faith. and speaking that faith. But the faith is not rooted in us.
The faith is rooted in The blood.
So many lambs over so many years. Summons. Scholars have tried to estimate how many lambs were sacrificed on that first Passover. Depends on how many slaves there were. I don't know.
Biblical accounts of this point to there being millions of slaves. Could have been hundreds of thousands of lambs that were being slain on that Passover night. And then all throughout history. There'd be so many times, there'd be a million pilgrims that would come to Jerusalem for the Passover and crowd that city out and every house a little lamb. Blood been just flow in.
Sprinkled upon altars. And every lamb. was pointing to the day. That Jesus Christ would come. to take our sins away.
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Pastor Alan. What's our good news thought for the day? If you were in a Hebrew house on the night of the Passover. and the destroyer was moving through all of Egypt. and there was loud wailing and shrieks of grief and horror as first borns were slain.
If you were in a house, that had blood over its door. You were utterly one hundred per cent safe. There had been no reason to fear whatsoever. And I think that picture of security is what I want to leave all our listeners with: is that under the blood of Jesus. You're secure.
Learn to trust the blood. You don't add to the blood. You don't become...
So conscious of your sins that you're constantly trying to make up for your sins, you just focus on the blood of Jesus and stay under the blood of Jesus and pray with your appeal to the blood of Jesus because. One lamb, one sacrifice, once and for all, Jesus Christ has shed his blood. And when you apply that over your life, there's great wonder-working power. Thanks for listening today. Visit us online at pastorallen.org or call 877-544-4860.
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