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FENCE. Keep your distance. DOOR. Give you only one way. SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES. God is a holy God who cannot have any fellowship with those practicing sin. SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES. Sin is ugly and costly!. Sin is ugly and costly.
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FENCE Keep your distance DOOR Give you only one way
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • God is a holy God who cannot have any • fellowship with those practicing sin
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • Sin is ugly and costly!
Sin is ugly • and costly The tabernacle was a carnage house!!
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • Anytime someone sinned, something • had to die (Romans 6:23).
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • God places high value on blood for • therein is LIFE (Lev. 17:10-11).
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • God was planting the concept of a • substitute dying in our place.
SOBERING LESSONS FROM OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES • God can PASS OVER the sinner when • He sees blood of the substitute applied
Exodus 12:1-7; 12:12-13
Fast forwarding to the NEW TESTAMENT
SOBERING LESSONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT “Behold, the Lamb of God” John 1:29,35-36 This is what God was teaching in His school - Heb. 9:22; 10:1-4,9-10!
SOBERING LESSONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT During Passover… • 250,000 lambs • 60,000 gallons blood
Six of these stacked one upon another!!!
SOBERING LESSONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT STAGGERING AMOUNT OF BLOOD!! • 250,000 lambs • 60,000 gallons Now, multiply all the yearly sacrifices by the number of years Israel offered sacrifices!!
Yet, all of it combined cannot take away even one sin. Jesus’ blood can take away all the sins of all the world!!
Is anything stirring within you? It ought to cause us to see the seriousness of sin.
Is anything stirring within you? It ought to make us think and determine not to sin (Heb. 6:4-6)
Is anything stirring within you? It ought to make us never treat it with contempt (1st Cor. 11:27-31; Heb. 10:29)
Is anything stirring within you? If you are not a Christian, you should apply His blood (Rev. 1:5; Acts 22:16)
Washed in the blood (Rev. 1:5) Make application!! Sins washed away at baptism (Acts 22:16)
Is anything stirring within you? If you are a Christian and sin, you too must come for cleansing (1st John 1:7-9)
There is POWER IN THE BLOOD