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Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. Today, I would like to ask you a very important question that comes from the Bible.

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What is the importance of blood in the Bible? Ooh, sticky topic, huh? A distasteful topic,

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perhaps to some, but I must ask you, why does God require so much blood? And where is it in modern

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Christianity, too? We may find it distasteful and a repulsive thing to talk about, but in fact,

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so important is blood to Christianity that I've entitled this message, There Will Be Blood.

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But first, before we launch into this subject, this very important biblical topic, I want to remind you

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that this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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And we meet for holy worship if you're in our region and you want to check us out, I encourage

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you to do so. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th

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and Boulevard in Idaho Falls, Idaho. And if you want more information on this message or on our

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church, I encourage you to call us at area code 208-523-0196 or check out our websites. We have two

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of them, our church website, newgenevaopc.org, that's all one word, newgenevaopc.org, or our radio

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website where we have cataloged for you up to three years of radio messages, which you can call upon

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and dial up. And that website is omnispotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S dash, P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org,

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omnispotestas.org. All right, back to our topic. What is the importance of blood in the Bible?

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Why does God require so much of it, rivers of blood? And where is the topic of blood,

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the subject of blood? In modern Christianity, who likes to eschew difficult things like this,

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especially contemporary preaching churches, but so important is blood to Christianity that I've

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entitled this message, There Will Be Blood. Perhaps you're reminded, as I am, of a movie

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made in 2007 of the same name. The phrase, there will be blood, is an old American expression,

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which means that in the situation under consideration, whatever it might be, there will

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be violence that will cause great bodily harm, that is, bloodshed. And so it is, in the Bible,

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in the situation under consideration, that is, man's predicament with God, there is now and will

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be, in the future, violence that causes and will cause great bodily and spiritual harm,

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for that matter, that is, bloodshed and unending suffering. Because of man's present situation

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with God, there will be blood, dear listener. There will be blood. How can we say this? Well,

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number one, from the scriptures, we know, number one, disobedience is of such a consequence to God,

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maybe not always to man, but certainly disobedience of God's law is of such a consequence to him

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that it requires the life of the sinner. The life of the sinner is requisite for the disobedience

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to God's law. This reality is established very early in the Bible. Do you remember the covenant

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sanction that God attached to his placing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the first place?

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Genesis chapter two puts it this way. The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden

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to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man saying, you may surely eat of every tree

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of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat for in the day

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that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Unquote. Behold the seriousness with which God takes rebellion.

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And as we know, this is exactly what happened to Adam and Eve, right? This was no child's prank of

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surreptitiously swiping a piece of fruit from Farmer Jones' orchard, as it's often characterized by

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Hollywood and the media, right? Rather, this was open rebellion on the part of our first parents,

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this eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In doing this,

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they openly sided with the serpent, that is the devil, in his operation to deceive them into achieving

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the ends that God set before them, but without the difficulty of obedience that God required.

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Chapter three of Genesis puts it this way. But the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die,

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for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God,

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knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight

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to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate and

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she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate. Unquote from Genesis chapter three.

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All of the temptations Satan dangled in front of them would have been theirs in righteousness

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had they but obeyed God during the time of their probation in the garden. Then they would have

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eaten from the tree of life as well. But as it was, they tasted of death owing to their disobedience

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and their rebellion, Adam and Eve. And this is because of the ironclad principle, as Ezekiel puts

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it, behold, says the Lord, all souls are mine. The soul of the father, as well as the soul of the son

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is mine, the soul who sins shall die. The ironclad principle articulated all through the Bible but put

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very clearly by the prophet Ezekiel. All souls are mine, God says, and the soul who sins shall die.

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Death is the consequence for our sin. This is the exact price demanded for sin. No way around it. God

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nowhere in any portion of the Bible indicates that he cuts slack for sin or lets it slide or goes

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easy on sin. No, he is perfectly righteous and is perfectly holy. And he will by no means clear the

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guilty, as he says many, many times in the Old Testament. And consequently, God demands that element

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in which the life resides, that is blood. Oh yes, because we understand why there's now so much blood in

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the Bible. Not only does the soul that sin shall die, but also secondly, the life of the sinner is in

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the blood. This is why so much blood is required, because the life of the sinner is in the blood.

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Not only is blood necessary to sustain the life of the creature being the primary element in the

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circulatory system, excuse me, it is also the biblical metaphor blood for the whole life of a living

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creature. The metaphor for the whole life of a living creature in the Bible is the blood. It was quickly

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observed by primitive man that by the loss of blood in particular, a man died. It thus became a vivid

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symbol of the whole life of a man and figured largely in what it took to atone for sin, blood.

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Moses tells Israel in Leviticus, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for

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you on the altar to make atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes atonement by the

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life, unquote. Very clear Moses is here in Leviticus 17. From the opening chapters of the Bible, the demand

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for the life of the sinner is pictured in the demand for blood. There will be blood. Do you remember the

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first murderer and his victim? Genesis 4 says Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. The innocent

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life of Abel is therefore, thereafter, excuse me, portrayed in the Bible as his righteous blood. The innocent

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life of Abel from there on through the rest of the Bible is portrayed as his righteous blood. That is a picture

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of an innocent life forfeited in murder, murder most foul. Jesus says to the Pharisees, for example,

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in Matthew 23, on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel

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to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar,

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unquote. Throughout the Bible, then, we see that blood is representative of the very life of the one

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whose blood is spilt. It only becomes logical that if the life of the sinner is required for his sin,

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then its sign must be present as well, that is blood. And this brings us to point number three.

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Not only is, number one, the life of the sinner required for his sin, but also the life of the

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sinner is in the blood. Thirdly, God therefore logically insists that no disobedience can be

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forgiven without the shedding of blood. Point number three, God therefore logically insists that

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no disobedience, no violation of his law can be forgiven without the shedding of blood.

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When blood is shed, life goes forfeit. Therefore, it is the logical ritual symbol for the satisfaction

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by God of the life of the sinner in payment for his sin. Yes, dear listener. In fact, the Bible is

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crystal clear on the necessity of blood for the forgiveness of sin. Hebrews chapter 9 puts it this

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way. Indeed, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of

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blood, there is no forgiveness of sins, unquote. From Hebrews chapter 9, verse 22, without the shedding

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of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. Listener, do you see the chain of consequence for our

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disobedience? It begins with an all-holy God, so perfect and righteous and high above that no sin

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or imperfection can't dwell with him. You who are of purer eyes, the prophet Habakkuk says, you who are

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of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong. As a result, when creatures such as ourselves

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commit evil and we do wrong, this disobedience demands the very life of that creature, us, and the ritual

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symbol for which life is, is the creature's blood. That is why such elaborate rituals were established in

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Israel's religious life, primarily to handle and manipulate the blood so necessary to the atonement for sin

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amongst the people. Leviticus 17, 11 says, once again, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it

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for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life,

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unquote. From the time of the inauguration of Israel as a nation in the wilderness at the foot of Mount Sinai in the

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14th century BC, to its very sad end, at Jerusalem, the brutal demise of it, at Jerusalem, at the hands of

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the Roman general Titus in AD 70, God revealed to Moses and to Israel what he required in blood from his

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people in order to atone for their sins. Detailed, meticulous rituals were prescribed and revealed to

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Moses on how to procure, handle, and apply the blood of lambs, bulls, goats, and birds to the

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accoutrements of the tent of meeting in the wilderness, and then, later, the temple established

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in Jerusalem. These rituals reveal how seriously God takes sin by their content, quality, and quantity.

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The rituals of Israel in the temple reveal how seriously God takes sin by their content, quality,

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and quantity. By their content, in that only the best should be offered. Gold, silver, finest materials

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to construct the temple by their quality, and that only the purest of ingredients in animals were to be

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sacrificed. In fact, elaborate cleansing rituals were a standard part of temple worship, and then by its

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quantity, and that for over 14 centuries, consider this, dear listener, for over 14 centuries, numberless

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millions of animals were sacrificed, shedding a sea of blood in the process. And so, if one asks, how seriously

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does God take sin? Oh, dear listener, look to the sacrifice. There will be blood. And thus, we observe

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the provision that God early on established for atoning for the sin of his people, that he might

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bring them back to himself. And the economy for doing so, the method and agreement by which he bound

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himself to doing this for his people, is called a covenant. And the sign and seal of that covenant is

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called the blood of the covenant. Blood enters here again into the signing and sealing of covenants.

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And that blood was sprinkled on both the altar of God and the people of God. Bloody ritual. Once again,

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a covenant ritual. Exodus 24 puts it this way, and I quote, Moses took half of the blood and put it in

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basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it

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in the hearing of the people. And they said, all that the Lord has spoken, we will do, and we will be

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obedient. And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, behold, the blood of the

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covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words. Unquote from Exodus 24, a bloody

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ritual again. Indeed, blood splattered and thrown on the people. How would you like to have been in the

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front rows of that ceremony, getting the blood of the covenant thrown directly upon you? Do you see

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how utterly necessary blood is to Christianity? We are the inheritors of the Old Testament. At Easter,

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it is important to consider the role of blood in our salvation every day. It's important to consider

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the role of blood in our salvation every time we take communion. It's important to understand the

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role of blood in our salvation. First, I want to note then another thing that's not often considered

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on this topic. Number four, the evil one also requires blood. The evil one also requires blood

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in order to compound sin, not to cleanse it. This is an important principle on evil. We see so much

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evil in our days with satanic religions and Luciferianism. The evil one also requires blood

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in order to compound sin and not to cleanse it. Oh, Christ came to cleanse our sin. The evil one

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sheds blood in order to compound our sin. And from the beginning, the evil one, Satan, has also demanded

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the lives of creatures as witnessed in the murder of Abel by Cain and the very first generation of men.

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And since then, every pagan religion of man has required human sacrifice of its devotees.

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God warns Israel, as a matter of fact, he says, you shall not give any of your children to offer

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them to Molech and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. There shall not be found among you

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anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering. These are constant warnings to Israel all

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through her life, because from very early on, this was the practice of evil and of Satan.

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And behold the rationale then behind the complete extermination of the peoples in Canaan by Israel

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as she took possession of it. These were the corrupt, diseased, and wicked nations who occupied the

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land at the time of Israel's taking of it. They were the devilish Nephilim of Genesis, evil spirits who

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when mated with the daughters of men produced the mighty men of old, the men of renown, as Genesis chapter

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6 puts it. They created the religion and rituals that would form the basis for the religion of Egypt,

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one which demanded the blood of men and animals to satisfy the bloodlust of its demonic gods

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in the netherworld of the spirit. Yet make no mistake about this, dear listener, Satan and his devotees seek

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blood too. That is the lives of men in order to amass sin and wickedness, not ameliorate it. Yes, they seek

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blood in order to amass sin, not ameliorate it. Satan's covenant with man demands blood too, but not to put

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an end to sin, but rather to strengthen and increase sin. Satan founded his covenant for a kingdom on the life

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of Adam and Eve. Their death for disobedience in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of

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good and evil established his kingdom in the realm of men. It made a covenant of death in the garden,

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right? A covenant of death with Adam and his progeny. Each human life sacrifice subsequently to

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that of Adam and Eve further strengthens and confirms that covenant of death that Satan has with them,

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with us. In fact, evil men boast in this and they take shelter with Satan in hell. Isaiah 28 puts it

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this way, you have said we have made a covenant with death and with Sheol we have an agreement when

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the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us for we have made lies our refuge and in

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falsehood we have taken shelter, unquote. Therefore, because of this covenant of death, all pagan religions

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since have paid homage to the God behind them all that is Satan, the devil, the serpent, who first

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established that covenant of death in the garden by shedding rivers of human blood. Oh, dear listener.

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It is why Luciferian worshipers today in their secret rites sacrifice children to further strengthen

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this covenant of death by means of death, the very lies of the sons of Adam whose lifeblood first

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established a covenant of death so long ago. Jesus himself observes that Satan was a murderer from the

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beginning and why his followers continue to murder today. In addition to the deliberate Luciferian rites

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of devil worship, every aborted baby, every senseless war, every Christian martyr slaughtered by the demons

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of Islam, every victim of some raging son of Cain, every people group targeted by wicked governments,

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all these and more are part and parcel of the ceaseless appetite of evil for blood, of Lucifer's hunger

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for the lives and souls of men, of why Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, as the Bible says in several

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instances. Both God and Satan require blood, but for 180 degree opposite reasons. God in his mercy and

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love requires blood to cleanse sin from his people. Satan in his hatred and malice to compound sin amongst

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God's people. Oh, dear listener, but in either case there will be blood. God to cleanse sin, Satan to

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compound sin. Number five, I want to point out to you in there will be blood. Our topic today is there

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will be blood, the role of blood in the scriptures. Number five, the only blood ever shed that completely

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atones for sin is that of Jesus Christ. Yes. Oh, praise God, dear listener. The only blood ever shed that

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completely atones for sin is that of Jesus Christ. The Bible makes perfectly clear that his life,

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Christ's life, and his alone was of such a character to God the Father that it was acceptable to him as a

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proper sacrifice for sin. He was, in the first place, the second person of the Holy Trinity, the perfect son

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of the Father. He was made like us in every respect, yet without sin, Hebrews says. He was made perfect

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through suffering. Hebrews also tells us. In fact, the Father appoints a son who has been made perfect

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forever. The book of Hebrews is so eloquent on this topic. The only blood ever shed that completely

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atones for sin is that of Jesus Christ. God, or I'm sorry, Christ was also fully human. God made man.

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As Philippians says, who through, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a

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thing to be grasped, but emptied himself. By taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness

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of men, and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,

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even death on a cross. Paul in Philippians chapter 2. As such, Christ was the Savior to which all of the

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Old Testament temple sacrifices pointed. They were only provisional until God's chosen time and God's

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chosen man appeared. As Hebrews says again, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good

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things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is not

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of this creation, he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and

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calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and

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bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctify for the purification of the

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flesh, how much more? For the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to

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God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Oh, the book of Hebrews, so eloquent on

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why there will be blood. By the sacrifice of himself in giving his perfect life for our imperfect lives, symbolized by the

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blood. Christ cleanses sin. He does not compound it. He cleanses and removes it. He saves us. He redeems us.

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He ransoms us. First Peter puts it this way. First Peter chapter one, knowing that you were ransomed from

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the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with

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the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. Oh, dear listener, there will be

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blood. Will it be your blood shed in eternal suffering in hell, or will it be that of Christ shed in your

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place on the cross, the Father's altar at which he slew his son, giving his life for yours? The choice is

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yours for faith in this Christ and faith in his work on your behalf. Because then number six, the sixth

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point I want to make with you in our topic, there will be blood. The sixth point is there is blood present

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in the rituals of the righteous and the wicked. There is blood present in the rituals of the

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righteous and the wicked. Even today, Christianity and the religions of paganism and Lucifer continue to

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be bloody religions. The blood of pagans is shed as animals and humans feed the bloodlust of the evil

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one, feeding and confirming the covenant of death made with Adam so long ago. But there was also blood in

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the rituals of Christians, too. Oh, dear listener, where, you may ask, is blood in the rituals of

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Christians? Listen to these words we hear so often. And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he

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broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of

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me. And likewise, the cup after they had eaten, saying, This cup that is poured out for you is the new

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covenant in my blood. Oh, dear listener, there is blood in Christian rituals and ceremonies. We

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Christians participate in the mystical body and blood of Christ in the bread and wine of the supper of

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the Lord. No more animal sacrifice. It was done away with at the cross of Christ. No further need of

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Christ to die. He died once for all, as the Bible says, on that good Friday. No human sacrifice either.

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God forbid. Dear listener, there will be blood. Where will it be shed on your behalf? Will it be shed in

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eternity in hell? Or, as you symbolically participate then in the Lord's Supper, you remember that it was

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shed for you at the cross of Christ. But there will be blood, dear listener, one way or another for your

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life. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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We are located in Idaho Falls at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. I just encourage you

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to come out of the shadows. Many of you have been listening for years. Come and join us at one of

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our worship services. We meet there at 10 a.m. on Sunday at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and

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Boulevard. And you can call us for further information at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.

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Or check out one of our websites. We have two of them. Our church website is newgenevopc.org. And then

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our radio website where we have cataloged for you radio messages going back several years. And that

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can be accessed at omnisprotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org. Omnisprotestas.org.

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And once more, you can call us for further information at area code 208-523-0196.