The Blood of the Lamb

INTRODUCTION

• The Passover was a picture of Jesus and what He would do to free people like us who were slaves.
• Two things that must happen to get people free and keep them that way:
o Practical is a change of thinking.
o The second is the work of the blood of the Lamb to break the works of the enemy.

I. THE POWER AND PROTECTION

• Exodus 12:5-7, “The animals…must be…without defect…take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.”
• Hebrews 9:22, “Without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sins.”
• Why is the blood so important?
o There is both power and protection in the blood of Christ.
1st - Protection in the blood - Exodus 12:13
2nd - The blood provided a means of deliverance.
3rd - Promise of a new day.
4th - There was possibility for others

II. PLEADING THE BLOOD

• Revelation 12:11, “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their
testimony…”
• The power that saves us is the same power that frees us from the enemies work.
• Revelation 7:14, “…washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
• It was His death that defeated the great dragon – Satan.
• His blood declared “it is finished,” but you must remind Satan of that!

III. THE ACCUSED AND THE ACCUSER

• Revelation 12:10 calls Satan the accuser.
• When the accuser comes to accuse you how do you defend yourself? Or do you?
• Remember you have an advocate as well as an accuser - the Lamb of God.
• And when Jesus speaks, He doesn’t defend your sin, He pleads His blood!
• All of my sins are laid on Him, I am free!

CLOSE

• By His blood you have access to God.
• I cannot come on my own good deeds, but I can plead the blood.
• Through the blood of the Lamb you can and will conquer.