The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
May 3, 2009
Pastor Dana Johnson
"The life of the flesh is in the
blood...." -Leviticus
17:11
"For the life of the flesh is in
the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes
atonement for the soul."
(Atonement: cover, cleanse, pardon,
appease, reconcile)
1. God is sovereign (He rules) and has
appointed blood as the necessary ingredient for
atonement.
2. God is gracious and has given the
blood as an atonement to sinful humanity.
3. The blood was to be offered on the
altar of the earthly tabernacle indicating that this is
God's gracious provision by which sinful, guilty humanity
can approach Him.
4. Why did God use blood for
atonement?
a. In God's government death
is sin's penalty.
b. Since the life of the flesh is
in the blood, the presence of shed blood indicates the
death of that which once was alive.
5. For a period of time in history,
God gave to Israel the atonement blood of substitutionary
animal sacrifices.
Hebrews 9:9 - It was
symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and
sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed
the service perfect in regard to the conscience.
Hebrews 10:1-4 - For the law, having a shadow of the good
things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with these same sacrifices, which they offer
continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had
no more consciousness of sins. 3But in those
sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
and goats could take away sins.
6. In His time God sent His Son to
make a full and complete atonement for sin.
Hebrews 9:11-12, 15 -
But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come,
with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with
hands, that is, not of this creation. 12Not with
the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He
entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained
eternal redemption. 15And for this reason He is
the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant,
that those who are called may receive the promise of the
eternal inheritance.
a. He shed His own blood
indicating His substitutionary death.
b. He offered His blood at the
heavenly altar once for all.
7. Additionally, and shockingly,
Christ undid the previous prohibition regarding the eating
of blood and invited believers to spiritually drink His
blood.,
John 6:53 - Then
Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you
have no life in you.
a. Eating and drinking means
to come to Christ and believe.
John 6:35 - And
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes
to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall
never thirst.
b. To drink His blood means His
life is in us.
John 6:56 - "He
who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I
in him."
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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