reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

"BLOOD AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION" GREETINGS, HOLY CHILDREN, IN THE WONDERFUL NAME OF OUR LORD, AND SAVIOUR JESUS THE CHRIST. GOD HAS SAID; HOSEA 4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. THE SERMON SUBJECT IS, "BLOOD AND THE CHRIST RELIGION." WHAT IS BLOOD? BLOOD IS THE FLUID THAT CIRCULATES IN THE HEART, ARTERIES, CAPILLARIES, AND VEINS OF A VERTEBRATE ANIMAL CARRYING NOURISHMENT AND OXYGEN TO AND BRINGING AWAY WASTE PRODUCTS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE BODY. THE SPIRIT OF LIFE DWELLS IN THE BLOOD, LV:17:10 AND WHATSOEVER MAN THERE BE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, OR OF THE STRANGERS THAT SOJOURN AMONG YOU, THAT EATETH ANY MANNER OF BLOOD; I WILL EVEN SET MY FACE AGAINST THAT SOUL THAT EATETH BLOOD, AND WILL CUT HIM OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE . 11. FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD; AND I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU UPON THE ALTAR TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS; FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL. THERE ARE MEN WHEN THEY ARE PREPARING AN ANIMAL FOR FOOD WILL CUT THE ANIMALS THROAT , AND CATCH THE BLOOD, AND MAKE BLOOD SAUSAGE, AND EAT THE BLOOD. TO EAT BLOOD, PHYSICAL BLOOD, IS A VERY SERIOUS SIN. THERE WERE IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL MEN THAT CAME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM PREACHING FOR A PERSON TO BE SAVED FROM THE WRATH OF GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY A PERSON MUST KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES. ACT 15:1 AND CERTAIN MEN WHICH CAME DOWN ‘FROM JUDAEA TAUGHT THE BRETHREN , AND SAID, EXCEPT YE BE CIRCUMCISED AFTER THE MANNER OF MOSES, YE CANNOT BE SAVED. ACTS:15:2 WHEN THEREFORE PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD NO SMALL DISSENSION AND DISPUTATION WITH THEM, THEY DETERMINED THAT PAUL AND BARNABAS, AND CERTAIN OTHER OF THEM, SHOULD GO UP TO JERUSALEM UNTO THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS ABOUT THIS QUESTION. AT THIS ECUMENICAL COUNCIL IT WAS DETERMINED THAT WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, WERE NOT TO TRY TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH, BUT WE ARE TO KEEP THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS. CONCERNING NOT KEEPING THE LAW. THE APOSTLE PETER SAID THESE WORDS. ACTS:15:10 NOW THEREFORE WHY TEMPT YE GOD, TO PUT A YOKE UPON THE NECK OF THE DISCIPLES, WHICH NEITHER OUR FATHERS NOR WE WERE ABLE TO BEAR? JAMES SAID THESE WORDS CONCERNING EATING BLOOD. ACTS15;19 WHEREFORE MY SENTENCE IS, THAT WE TROUBLE NOT THEM, WHICH FROM AMONG THE GENTILES ARE TURNED TO GOD: 20. BUT THAT WE WRITE UNTO THEM, THAT THEY ABSTAIN FROM POLLUTIONS OF IDOLS, AND FROM FORNICATION, AND FROM THINGS STRANGLED, AND FROM BLOOD. AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. ACTS:15:20 BUT WE SHOULD SEND WORD TO THEM IN WRITING TO ABSTAIN FROM AND AVOID ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN POLLUTED BY BEING OFFERED TO IDOLS, AND ALL SEXUAL IMPURITY, AND (EATING MEAT OF ANIMALS) THAT HAVE BEEN STRANGLED, AND TASTING OF BLOOD.) UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS IT IS A VERY SERIOUS SIN TO BE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE INTENT TO KEEP THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES. GAL:5:3 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. THE LAW OF MOSES HAD TO BE KEPT TO THE LETTER, FOR THIS REASON THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REMOVED ALL BLOOD FROM THE ANIMALS THEY EAT, AND AFTER THE BLOOD IS REMOVED THE MEAT IT IS SAID TO BE KOSHER. BUT WE AS SAINTS OF GOD UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO KEEP THE LAW TO THE LETTER BUT IN SPIRIT. THEREFORE, WE CUT THE ANIMALS THROAT, AND LET THE BLOOD DRAIN, CUT THE FLESH INTO STEAKS AND COOK AND EAT. TO HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES TO THE LETTER WILL BRING THE SPIRITUAL DEATH FOR THE LETTER KILLS , BUT THE SPIRIT MAKES ALIVE. ROM:7:6 BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER. HERE IS THE VERSE OF SCRIPTURE THAT CAUSED THE CONDEMNATION OF ALMOST THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES. DT:27:26 CURSED BE HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW TO DO THEM. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY , AMEN. THERE ARE MANY RIGHTEOUS ACTS RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD CANNOT BE MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES. THE LAW OF MOSES LOST IT’S POWER TO SAVE WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. WERE THERE MANY SAVED UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES? NO , ONLY A FEW. A FEW IS DEFINED AS THREE OR MORE. IS:24:5 THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS THEREOF; BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCE, BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. 6. THEREFORE HATH THE CURSE DEVOURED THE EARTH, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN ARE DESOLATE: THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED, AND FEW MEN LEFT. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE NOT TO EAT PHYSICAL BLOOD, BLOOD THAT YOU SEE, TASTE, SMELL; BUT WE ARE TO EAT THE SPIRITUAL FLESH, AND DRINK THE SPIRITUAL BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS. FOR IT IS THE SPIRITUAL BLOOD THAT BRINGS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL TO LIFE. AND, WE EAT THE SPIRITUAL BODY, AND DRINK THE SPIRITUAL BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS WHEN WE PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. WHEN A MAN OF GOD COMES WITH THE INTENT TO PERFORM THE RITUAL OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND RAISES HOLY HANDS , AND BLESSES THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE THERE IS A CHANGE THAT COMES OVER THE SPECIES OF BREAD, AND FRUIT OF THE VINE. THE UNLEAVEN BREAD BECOMES THE BODY OF CHRIST. MT:26:26 AND AS THEY WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND BLESSED IT, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THE DISCIPLES, AND SAID, TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY. AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE AFTER IT IS BLESSED BECOMES THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. MT:26:27 AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND GAVE IT TO THEM, SAYING, DRINK YE ALL OF IT; 28. FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. THE APOSTLE PAUL ALSO TESTIFIES TO THE FACT THAT THE UNLEAVENED BREAD BECOMES THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE BECOMES THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AFTER IT IS BLESSED. THE APOSTLE PAUL PLAINLY STATES THAT IF A MAN EATS OF THIS BREAD, AND DRINK OF THIS CUP UNWORTHY, THAT HE SHALL BE GUILTY OF THE BODY, AND BLOOD JESUS CHRIST. 1COR:11:23 FOR I HAVE RECEIVED OF THE LORD THAT WHICH ALSO I DELIVERED UNTO YOU, THAT THE LORD JESUS THE SAME NIGHT IN WHICH HE WAS BETRAYED TOOK BREAD: 24. AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE BRAKE IT , AND SAID, TAKE, EAT: THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH IS BROKEN FOR YOU: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. 25. AFTER THE SAME MANNER ALSO HE TOOK THE CUP, WHEN HE HAD SUPPED, SAYING. THIS CUP IS THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD: THIS DO YE, AS OFT AS YE DRINK IT, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. 26. FOR AS OFTEN AS YE EAT THIS BREAD, AND DRINK THIS CUP, YE DO SHEW THE LORD’S DEATH TILL HE COME. 1COR:11:27 WHEREFORE WHOSOEVER SHALL EAT THIS BREAD, AND DRINK THIS CUP OF THE LORD, UNWORTHILY, SHALL BE GUILTY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF THE LORD. 28. BUT LET A MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF, AND SO LET HIM EAT OF THAT BREAD, AND DRINK OF THAT CUP. 29. FOR HE THAT EATETH AND DRINKETH UNWORTHILY, EATETH AND DRINKETH DAMNATION TO HIMSELF, NOT DISCERNING LORD’S BODY. 30. FOR THIS CAUSE MANY ARE WEAK AND SICKLY AMONG YOU, AND MANY SLEEP. 31. FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED. 1COR:11:32 BUT WHEN WE ARE JUDGED, WE ARE CHASTENED OF THE LORD, THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD. 33. WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, WHEN YE COME TOGETHER TO EAT, TARRY ONE FOR ANOTHER. 34. AND IF ANY MAN HUNGER, LET HIM EAT AT HOME; THAT YE COME NOT TOGETHER UNTO CONDEMNATION. AND THE REST WILL I SET IN ORDER WHEN I COME. YOU MAY WONDER WHY I SAY THAT THE CHANGE THAT COMES OVER THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE IS SPIRITUAL. THE REASON THAT I SAY THAT IT IS SPIRITUAL IS BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SEE A CHANGE, NEITHER TASTE A CHANGE, NEITHER CAN YOU SMELL A CHANGE AFTER THE SPECIES IS BLESSED. THERE ARE MULTITUDES OF MEN THAT CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS THAT DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A CHANGE COMES OVER THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND FRUIT OF THE VINE, WHEN PERFORMING THE RITUAL OF THE LORD’S SUPPER; NEITHER DO THE ATHEIST, AGNOSTICS, SKEPTICS, AND UNBELIEVERS. TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING SPIRITUAL THAT YOU CANNOT SEE TAKES FAITH. IS IT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO YOUR SALVATION THAT YOU PARTAKE OF BOTH SPECIES THE BODY AND BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BOTH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE? THE LORD JESUS HAS SAID THESE WORDS, EXCEPT A MAN EAT OF MY FLESH, AND (IN ADDITION) DRINK OF MY BLOOD, HE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN HIM. JN:6:52 THE JEW THEREFORE STROVE AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, HOW CAN THIS MAN GIVE US HIS FLESH TO EAT? 53. THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. 54. WHOSO EATETH MY FLESH, AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD, HATH ETERNAL LIFE; AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. 55. FOR MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED. 56. HE THAT EATETH MY FLESH, AND DRINKETH MY BLOOD, DWELLETH IN ME, AND I IN HIM. 57. AS THE LIVING FATHER HATH SENT ME, AND I LIVE BY THE FATHER; SO HE THAT EATETH ME, EVEN HE SHALL LIVE BY ME. 58. THIS IS THE BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: NOT AS YOUR FATHERS DID EAT MANNA, AND ARE DEAD: HE THAT EATETH OF THIS BREAD SHALL LIVE FOR EVER. DO YOU REALIZE THAT ALMOST A BILLION PEOPLE WHEN THEY PARTAKE OF THE EUCHARIST ONLY PARTAKE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND NOT OF THE BLOOD? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO YOUR SALVATION THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST SHED HIS BLOOD ON CALVERY’S CROSS FOR YOUR REDEMPTION? WHEN A MAN PLACES HIS FAITH IN JESUS FOR HIS SALVATION, AND PLACES HIS FAITH IN THE BLOOD THAT JESUS CHRIST SHED ON CALVARY’S CROSS FOR HIS REDEMPTION, GOD THE FATHER ALLOWS THAT PERSON TO DECLARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS PAST. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS IS A PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THAT IS THE WAY WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, BECOME PERFECTLY RIGHTEOUS IN THE EYES OF GOD. ROM:3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. 24. BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS: 25. WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH TO BE A PROPITIATION THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD, TO DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS THAT ARE PAST, THROUGH THE FORBEARANCE OF GOD. WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO REMISSION OF SIN. HEB:9:22 AND ALMOST ALL THINGS ARE BY THE LAW PURGED WITH BLOOD; AND WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD IS NO REMISSION. WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR CHRIST TO DIE ON CALVARY’S CROSS? ROM:14:9 FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED, AND ROSE, AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES’ IF A MAN COMMITTED A SIN IN IGNORANCE, HE COULD BRING A SHE GOAT TO THE PRIEST, AND THE PRIEST COULD OFFER THE GOAT AS A BLOOD SACRIFICE TO GOD, AND MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR SIN. AND THE SIN WOULD BE FORGIVEN OF GOD. BUT IF A MAN SINNED PRESUMPTUOUSLY. ( WITH MALICE AFORE THOUGHT) THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE THAT COULD BE OFFERED, THE SIN WOULD REMAIN. NM:15:27 AND IF ANY SOUL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE, THEN HE SHALL BRING A SHE GOAT OF THE FIRST YEAR FOR A SIN OFFERING. 28. AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL THAT SINNETH IGNORANTLY, WHEN HE SINNETH BY IGNORANCE BEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM: AND IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. 29. YE SHALL HAVE ONE LAW FOR HIM THAT SINNETH THROUGH IGNORANCE, BOTH FOR HIM THAT IS BORN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM. 30. BUT THE SOUL THAT DOETH OUGHT PRESUMPTUOUSLY, WHETHER HE BE BORN IN THE LAND, OR A STRANGER, THE SAME REPROACHETH THE LORD; AND THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE. IF A MAN SINS WILFULLY UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS AFTER HE COMES INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. HEB:10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS. COVENANT- A COVENANT , IN ITS MOST GENERAL SIGNIFICATION, MEANS ANY KIND OF PROMISE OR CONTRACT, WHETHER IT BE MADE IN WRITING OR BY PAROL. IN A MORE TECHNICAL SENSE, AND THE ONE WHICH IT IS HERE CONSIDERED A COVENANT IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO OR MORE PERSONS, ENTERED INTO IN WRITING AND UNDER SEAL, WHEREBY EITHER PARTY STIPULATES FOR THE TRUTH OF CERTAIN FACTS, OR PROMISES TO PERFORM OR GIVE SOMETHING TO THE OTHER, OR TO ABSTAIN FROM THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN THINGS. IF A MAN SINS WILFULLY AFTER HE COMES INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, HE COMMITS THREE WRONGS. HE TRODS UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, HE COUNTS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT AN UNHOLY THING, AND HE DOES DESPITE TO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. HEB:10:28 HE THAT DESPISED MOSES’ LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES: 29. OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE? KNOWING HOW TO APPLY THE BLOOD, AND APPLYING THE BLOOD; THE PHYSICAL BLOOD SAVED THE PHYSICAL LIVES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT, EX:12:7 AND THEY SHALL TAKE OF THE BLOOD, AND STRIKE IT ON THE TWO SIDE POSTS AND ON THE UPPER DOOR POST OF THE HOUSES, WHEREIN THEY SHALL EAT IT. KNOWING HOW TO APPLY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, AND APPLYING THE BLOOD OF CHRIST SAVES US TODAY. FAITH IN JESUS’S BLOOD SHED ON CALVARY.