One Drop Of Blood (Part 2)

- We will also exercise a greater love for God and others. Matt 22:37-39 says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.”

- Let me further demonstrate what sanctification is with this story:

The story is told of a young girl who accepted Christ as her Savior and applied for membership in a local church. "Were you a sinner before you received the Lord Jesus into your Life?" inquired an old deacon. "Yes, sir," she replied. "Well, are you still a sinner?" "To tell you the truth, I feel I’m a greater sinner than ever." "Then what real change have you experienced?" "I don’t quite know how to explain it," she said, "except I used to be a sinner running after sin, but now that I am saved. I’m a sinner running from sin!" she was received into the fellowship of the church, and she proved by her consistent life that she was truly converted.

- I also like what John Newton said about sanctification, he said:

I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, "By the grace of God I am what I am.

- We need to keep our eyes on God, strive not to sin, but understand that if we do sin God will forgive us if we ask. When we determine to live this way we will grow in sanctification and become Holy as God is Holy.

Point 6: One Drop Of Blood Gives Us Access Directly With God

- This is done in order to find grace, mercy, help and salvation.

- I like what Heb 7:25 says, “Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them.”

- I am so thankful God intercedes for me and you.

- Christ’s intercession is essential to our salvation.

- Without that and without His grace, mercy and help mediated to us through that intercession, we would fall away from God, once again be enslaved to sin and incur just condemnation.

- Christ prays for us by name and intercedes for us and as a result we grow in Him.

- In the Old Testament they had to sacrifice animals to God in order to be cleansed.

- But in the that ritual people couldn’t come to God, the priests went before the people.

- Anyone who would enter the Holy of Holies would die.

- Well now we have access to the Holy of Holies any time we want. We come to God with our requests and burdens and be confident in the fact that God will help us.

- All because of one drop of blood.

Point 7: One Drop Of Blood Guarantees All The Promises Of The New Covenant.

- The promises being salvation, forgiveness, cleansing, peace, justification, sanctification.

- Hebrews 13:20-21 says, “May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”