Blood
About this sermon
In “Blood,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the cross and Christ’s blood, faith, holiness. Drawing especially from Leviticus 17, Genesis 4, Romans 8, Acts 15, the teaching emphasizes that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on prayer while working through Leviticus 17, Genesis 4. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on Israel in prophecy while working through Leviticus 17, Romans 8, Acts 15. The message argues that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. It connects this with the conviction that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Acts 15, Romans 1. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the cross and Christ’s blood. The message argues that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. It connects this with the conviction that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on grace and mercy while working through Amos 3. The message argues that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. It connects this with the conviction that worship and discipleship require surrendering personal comfort, control, and self-interest to God. The practical emphasis is to practice patient, truthful love in relationships and conflict.
Odle focuses on the cross and Christ’s blood while working through John 14. The message argues that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Psalm 119. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s sacrifice and shed blood are presented as the foundation of redemption, forgiveness, and victory over sin. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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that we can be vessels of honor and we can be channels of his power and lord we come to you this morning and i just want everybody to be praying that the the fire of revival will come down in our midst the fire of revival will come down in auburn and opelika and this whole region lord father in heaven this morning together as a church we come before you and god we we need you lord our community needs you our friends and family around us that are lost they need to know you they need to feel your power and for your word to penetrate their hearts and we just pray god for the fire of holy ghost revival to come lord to come that you would rent the heavens and step down and move in mighty ways lord i thank you for what you're doing but lord i know there's more and i know that you are calling us to dig deeper to lay down more to lay down everything and to go after you with all of our heart soul mind and strength to be people of prayer to be people of holiness and purity to be people of of hunger and thirst for righteousness to be people lord who love jesus with all their heart soul mind and strength and that don't cling to to things in this world lord anoint us with fresh oil fill us with the holy ghost again give us the fire and the power of god in our lives father i pray this in the name of jesus lord god there's no there's no limit to the depths that we can walk with you we just have to let go of every weight and the sin and press in prayer and press after you and in prayer and fasting and obedience and you will you will reveal yourself you will work miracles you will touch people's lives you will save people you will save souls through our witness and through our prayers it's in jesus name we pray amen you may be seated hallelujah somebody praise the lord this morning the title of the message is simply blood just simply blood and then you say well well pastor dean why are you just calling it blood why not you know the blood of jesus or whatever well the there's more blood than just the blood of jesus and i want to say this at the outset of this all blood has power we're going to talk about that you might want to write that down i'm going to prove it to you here in a second but all blood has power satan knows this and of course god knew it from the beginning of creation because he put it in the scriptures all the way back in genesis and leviticus and numbers and deuteronomy and the torah and the law god talked about the power that's in blood and i'm going to turn to this verse in a
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minute but leviticus 17 11 says this that the life of the flesh is in the blood and i have given it to you upon the altars to make an atonement for your souls and we're going to turn to that in a minute just write down leviticus 17 11 but blood is powerful okay blood also is a living thing let me let me say this to you blood is is is you know we were created in the image of god all right and when god put blood in us he put it in us knowing that one day he would step down from heaven become a man and shed his blood his precious blood to redeem man and we'll get more into that in a second but god put blood in us [Music] and when he put blood in us it's both spiritual and physical and i'm going to prove that this morning that even when you die your blood continues to live i'll explain that in a second because even abel's blood the first man ever murdered god said the abel's blood is speaking from the ground the blood cries out from the ground that's why that's why judgment comes actually innocent blood and blood that's been spilled on the earth through violence and murder all of that's going to be answered for because that blood is crying out to the to god from the ground and i'm going to show you that in the word but i i just want you it has power the blood has power to defile it has power to curse and the devil knows this is why satan in all of his especially going way back in in thousands of years ago but even to this day the devil and in his pagan religions and satanism and all these different things demands uh blood sacrifices animal sacrifices even human sacrifices are still taking place to this day because the devil knows there's power in that blood and if that blood can be if that blood can be spilled upon the earth in violence or murder or sin then he knows that he curses the earth and he gets more power in the lives of the people who commit these sins and who are polluted by blood but there's one blood more powerful we all know what that is amen the blood of jesus came and is the most powerful and the most precious but i'm going to talk about our attitude toward it and just just want you to see this but let's go first i told you to go to uh we'll we'll get to leviticus in a minute i want you to go to genesis so you'll see what i'm talking about i just went ahead and made some statements but now we'll we'll back them up with the scriptures genesis chapter four
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we could back up in chapter three um when adam and eve sinned the bible said god clothed them with coats of skins well what what coats of skins possibly we don't know it doesn't say but we do know this that means it had to come off an animal meaning that animal had to die and shed its blood so that adam and eve's sin could be covered the shame of their nakedness could be covered and so god made this first blood sacrifice but it could only cover sin right jesus came what did jesus what did john the baptist say behold what the lamb of god that takes away the sin of the world well we're going to talk about something just because the blood of jesus has been shed does it and for us and for all mankind doesn't mean it's been sprinkled on you we'll talk about that in a second too but genesis i want to read this in genesis 4 so you'll see about what i'm talking about that blood has power god knows this the devil knows this genesis 4 verse 1 and adam knew his wife knew eve his wife and she conceived and bear cain and said i have begotten a man from the lord and she again bear his brother abel and abel was a keeper of the sheep but cain was the tiller of the ground and in the process of time it came to pass that cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the lord and abel he also brought the firstlings of his flock of the fat thereof and the lord had respect unto abel into his offering but unto cain and to his offering he had not respect and cain was very roth or very angry and his countenance fell now let me just stop right here you know a lot of people don't realize they look over chapter 3 where god killed the animal and clothed them with coats of skin god had made it clear to adam and eve that the only thing that atoned for sin the only thing that dealt with sin was blood see the wages of sin is death and this is something we just need to get down in us the wages of sin is always death this is why galatians chapter 6 um what is it seven and eight there galatians six when it says be not deceived god is not mocked whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap if he sows to the flesh he shall of the flesh reap corruption but if he sows to the spirit he shall of the spirit reap life everlasting so the the wages of sin or the reaping process of sin is always some kind of death spiritual death physical emotional death is the result of sin so something when there is sin when there is rebellion or disobedience to god something has to die something always has to die and shed its blood that's why throughout the old testament starting in
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genesis chapter 3 blood of animals was shed because we know that god god is like this remember god's not not bound by time that's why we we see scriptures where it talked about the lamb slain from the foundation of the world you ever wondered about that scripture you know why because with god time doesn't exist he created time for us but he is everything in him past present and future is complete all right everything's complete he knows it he's done it it is finished i mean that's why jesus could say on the cross as he as he bled and died there on the cross for the sins of mankind that's why he could say it is finished but really we're past we're 2000 years and we're about to see the mystery of god finished in the book of revelation and see it finished and completed but to god that two thousand years is nothing it's a blink of an eye it's it's not even a second to him you see it's done in him it's done the lamb was slain from the foundation of the world god does god's not was he's not will be he is but he explained it he said i am i am the one who was and is and is to come but really he just is time will cease one day time will cease to exist and we will move into what's called eternity isn't that good no more day no more night no more worry no more weariness we will move into eternity one day so with god he was looking ahead he was looking and knew he knew that the lamb would be slain so what did he do he s he slew the animals and he he instituted animal sacrifices to foreshadow to give an example until the right time could come that jesus could step down and die on that cross but he had to get in the mind and you think about it what was he getting into the minds of his people in genesis and then in exodus and then throughout the whole animal sacrificial system he's getting into their heads you have got to obey me and you have got to have faith and actions with blood to atone and cleanse for sin everything in the tabernacle everything was about blood moses sprinkled the books the the the tablets he sprinkled the altar he sprinkled everything aaron and his sons everything had to be sprinkled with the blood of a sacrifice to be worth anything to god so without the shedding of blood that's why the bible says without the shedding of blood there is no remission or removal or forgiveness of sins but blood has to be applied okay blood has to be applied just because jesus shed his blood doesn't mean that it's going to affect you or help you at all you have to do something with it that's
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