Tape 9 - Purchased Unto God by the Blood

Now if you take commodities and things that you buy and sell you can understand what he is saying to us in this particular passage of scripture

There is a right that the buyer obtains over that which previously had not been his the second thought is the value

Which the buyer attaches to it after he has paid the price He gives it some value because he has paid a price for it and it has some value to him because of his purchase

The third thing when buying and selling is the certainty that what he has bought will be given to him

When he buys something he fully expects that what he buys will be his because he is paying the proper price for it

And the fourth thing is the use that he will make out of whatever he purchases What he is going to do with it once he buys it

And so all of these things are very obvious to us and they are daily in a thousand ways because they make up the life of the community in which you live

Now the words of our text that we just read a few moments ago are taken from a heavenly hymn of praise

Thou art worthy for thou has purchased us unto God by thy blood you've redeemed us by your blood

Now there are four things. I want you to notice about this. First of all, there is the right which he has obtained to you

Jesus Christ has obtained a right to your life Secondly the claim that he makes upon you because he has paid for you.

He has a claim that he presents to you I will hasten to say this Jesus Christ does not ask any man woman boy and girl to serve him

He demands it You do not have a choice in the matter. He demands it because he's paid the price thirdly

There is a joy with which he will receive you if you will come to him and the fourth thing

I want us to notice quickly this morning is the certainty that he will preserve and care for you He will take care of you once he gets the purchase in his hand

All right The first thought quickly let your minds run with me somewhat the right to lust which he has obtained now never on earth

Has any maker never on earth has any person or any one ever had such a right over other people as Jesus Christ has over you the

Son of God has ransomed us from the power of sin He has ransomed us from the power of Satan He has bought you back from Satan because Satan controlled your life

If you're a Christian this morning before you became a Christian Satan was the ruler The Bible does not teach the fatherhood of God and it does not teach the brotherhood of man

Jesus himself said in John the 8th chapter verse 44 to the most religious people of his day

You are of your father the devil and the lust of your father is exactly what you do

You don't get God as your spiritual father until you become a Christian until you are born again

I don't kill you are saved by the blood of Christ when you come to Jesus Christ and give him your life and receive him

Then and only then and it doesn't make a difference how good you are or how benevolent you become or how

Hospitable you may be it doesn't make any difference how sweet and kind and lovely we are my friends those people the

Bible says have A darkened heart they have a black light within and they're white on the outside, but they're like a whited sepulchre

They're like a grave on the outside It looks nice and they put the monument up and they trim the grass and they put the flowers around but deep down inside that Mound is nothing but death and darkness and decay and corruption and there is no life get in there

And he says that's the way people are who run around acting like they love God and all of these things but they've never known the redeeming power of the blood of Jesus Christ and so by yielding to the

Temptations of Satan and the fall from God we have become entirely under the authority of Satan Listen to what

I'm saying Every man woman born girl whether you're here this morning without Christ or whoever your friends may be

My family your family my friend your friend It matters not any person who has never been saved is under the complete authority of Satan Satan runs that life they think they do but Satan controls that individual life

The Bible teaches it Jesus Christ said so and if Jesus Christ isn't truthful there Then we might as well eat drink and be merry because nothing else he said can be trusted but you know from experience that it's true and I know from experience that it's true and in the days whenever men was created they were told in the day that you eat it and the day that thou eatest thereof in the day that you take care of this in The day that you partake of this you are gonna bring death in your life and not just physical death

But spiritual death as well And so they fell from the grace of God into the death and death has become rampant in this world and there are all kinds

Of death other than physical death People are dying mentally all the time. I counsel with them about a hundred in our office in the

Fort Worth area People are dying emotionally all the time people are dead spiritually by the multiplied million and yet You and I only think of death as that which puts us in the funeral hearse or puts us under the ground

Now dear people for mankind, there was no possibility of ever coming out from under such a rule and authority

Except by the redeeming grace of God Why can't man save himself because man is his problem man cannot solve his problems because he is his problem and man's

Ego will not and let him admit anything is wrong with him until God begins to move upon his heart now

You and I use a word called redemption and you know about it. We've talked about it all week long in the olden days

The prisoners of war were usually made slaves Once they were captured they were just made slaves and sometimes an extremely high price was placed upon them

So that anyone that wanted to redeem them had to pay that very difficult price It might be a friend or it might be the ruler of these prisoners and a price that had to be paid was this?

Ransom for their deliverance from this slavery Jesus Christ has purchased us unto

God by his own blood our freedom from the prison and the slavery of sin self and Satan Primarily all coming from the enemy himself in which our enemy has lodged within our innermost being that it lurks down in where you are

In your character the real you one man said to me one time. I said do you have a good working definition of character?

He said character is what you are in the dark He said characters what you are when no one can see you.

It's what lurks in your heart It's cause what causes you to do what you did last night.

It's what you do when nobody else is around It's what you are when no one's around that you can't you don't have to impress anyone

It's just between you and God and it's what you really know deep down in your heart. That is character Well that has been seriously contaminated by the enemy and the law of God condemns us for that now

Listen carefully in order to purchase in order to ransom in order to buy back means

That one valuable thing has to be given for something else Some valuable thing has to be given for another in order to ransom that back our souls and our lives our total personalities

Needed redemption the law demands that there be a payment God's law has to be satisfied and we were under its power

We were under the condemnation of the law and we were prisoners of all of these things Until we could pay what we owed and we did not have the price to pay it and no man does

There has to be a recompense for the wrongs that we've done. Ladies and gentlemen I suggest you this morning whether you are an older person or just a younger person

You have heaped up enough guilt in your life and there are enough sins Accumulated in your thinking and enough sins accumulated by your mouth and enough sins have been accumulated by your actions in your deeds for God to be perfectly justified to zap you immediately and yet we would sit as if Nothing is going on as if everything's alright just for my personality.

God ought to be pleased We little understand that God's law demands payment for one sin.

One sin can get you to hell for eternity One lie one unspoken word that you should not have lodged in your mind

Anything contradictory to the Word of God and to the will of God and to the praise of the Father and to the glory of the

Son of God any one of those things is enough for God to perfectly be justified and allow you to spend an eternity

Separated from his presence, but God has not chosen to leave us in such a condition Jesus Christ shed his blood

He gave his life for your and my reconciliation and for the payment for sin

And that blood was the ransom price that God demanded for redemption to occur

Jesus Christ has bought us by his blood he and none else has a right to our life

No one else has ever paid the price and it was a valuable price a tremendous price

And it's the price of all time. It is the price from eternity to eternity. It is the price of the ages

It is the price of God's only begotten Son who had left leave the heavenly pinnacles of glory

To walk the sandy shores of Galilee to die a common criminal's death him who spoke the greatest messages the world would ever know

He preached the greatest sermons world would ever hear he performed miracles that no human doctor could ever perform and friends

He never did anything wrong in his life He was perfect and they couldn't find anything wrong with him and yet he laid on that cross and they drove a spear in his side drove nails into his hands and feet the spit of the mob running down his face and they beat him severely with their hands and He was so beaten about the face that the

Bible says there was no beauty in him that we should desire him It says that his visage his countenance was marred more than any man to that time in history

No one had ever been physically beaten as Jesus the Son of God was beaten according to the

Word of God His visage was marred more than any man. Most Christians never see that verse of Scripture These pictures you see him hanging up there kind of quiet and calm peaceful sitting on a little seat

You know are that is not the picture the Bible paints the pain was excruciating and you've never known any pain like that and Yet he had the power within himself to call ten thousand angels and to sweep them all into hell for an eternity

But he chose to stay he chose to stay Christian God proclaims because of that that you are now the possession of his son

God proclaims that to the universe that you are now the possession of his son

Secondly quickly the claim that he makes up on you. I said he does not ask He demands our total allegiance a lot of people say

Oh Jesus begged you. Oh Jesus calls upon you Come and serve him. He demands it

He demands it because he has the right to demand it thou has purchased us to God by thy blood

And those words will constantly remind you of the claim. You may walk out of here this morning with an unchanged life

You may walk out of here with the same attitude that you came in with but I'll promise you this from this day forth You'll never get away from those words.

Thou has purchased us to God by thy blood Those words are so holy to God my friends that they will ring in your heart every time you start to do something wrong

Every time you start to be somewhere you're not to be I'll guarantee you sometime in that process of that Those words will be brought out of your conscience.

They'll be brought forth in your mind You may reject them and throw them back into the back part of your mind But they're gonna ring in your heart thou has purchased us to God by thy blood

I need every ordinary purchase It doesn't make it was what you buy if it's ordinary any ordinary purchase

The buyer has the right to ask that what he has purchased be given to him Whatever he pays for whatever you and I buy we have the right to say.

All right, I paid for it I want it and also it is carefully stated when and where the delivery will take place and Jesus Christ sends all of his servants.

He sends you this morning He sends every Christian a request that without delay at the very hour and in the very place where the message is delivered

There the persons are his purchase possession and they are to hand themselves over to him completely and to become subject to him

Immediately it is an eye here in the future when you decide to give your life to him the moment you become a Christian He demands right then and there that you give him your life and you become totally subjected to his will

What are we to do we ought to say farewell to all foreign authority over our lives When you become a

Christian, may I share this with you dear people? Do you not understand that you lost all choice in your life? You didn't think so when you became

Christian you thought you just get your sins given so you get heaven I said you've lost all choice in your life It is not a matter of whether you and I want to serve

God or not If you don't serve God, you will bear the consequences of that kind of a life And you may go 10 20 30 years and then all of a sudden

God's hand will fall on your life Sir it can cost you your wife

It can cost you a child It can cost you a husband It can cost you any number of things

God killed the baby that was born unto David and Bathsheba God took its life

God killed a whole generation in the days of Noah God destroyed two of the greatest metropolitan areas the world's ever known

Sodom and Gomorrah God destroyed every man woman born girl and baby in those cities. God destroyed them all and God says once again that Jesus Christ will come one day in flaming fire to take a

Vengeance to take vengeance upon them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ You and I must understand as the great preacher of old said there's a payday someday

And it's not buying buying the sky friend You start getting paid down here the emotional anguish that you have in your home

The problem between you husbands and wives the reason your children rebel against you The reason is because God isn't

God and Jesus isn't Lord of those lives whenever that's what he set out to do in your life And you turn away from that you can't have anything but the rule of Satan now

What kind of a foreign authority am I talking about? Let me touch on two or three of them. First of all, you know as well as I do

There's the foreign power of seeing in your life this morning saying has a tremendous and terrible

Irresistible authority over us. It has soaked to the very deepest roots of our nature

It is thoroughly at home in us and it has become our nature to sin

We not only sin, but we like to sin. We like to hang around people who sin We have pleasure being around people who sin and sin refuses to release us

But the Lord Jesus Christ who has bought us by his blood Promises you delivery from that tyranny and that he himself will bestow upon you the power to serve him and to follow him as Lord Yes only for the choice of your heart when he commands and demands that we give obedience

He said how you do this is simply give me your life You will to be mine and he will use to that the authority that sin has he will change that authority and he will become

The authority in your life. There's another of these foreign powers and that's the power of the world And this is tremendously strong Now when

I thought seeing I'm not talking about murder and I'm talking about robbing. I'm the Tom at bank No, I'm talking about other sins. I'm dumb at many but a few of them are just what

I talked about a few moments ago indifference apathy Complacency self -centeredness and all of those things that we know wrap up in our lives pride

But one of these is the world they're seeing there's the world the needs and business

All the world are so manifold and they are extremely urgent You have to make a living in this world.

And so you must be engaged in business You must be engaged in civic things and you must be moving about but friends

They begin to lay such a claim and a hold on our lives and on all our powers the promises the enjoyments the temptations

Which the world presents to us are so flattering and exercise such an unconscious influence upon us It's subtle. You don't see it coming and all of a sudden we're in its throes

We're in its grasp as a pimple of the office will wrap around its prey and it's difficult to escape this the favor and assistance of People we associate with their displeasure and contempt for us we separate ourselves from them to live only for God work out in many people and many who call themselves

Christian and Enslavement in the world it rules over them and it demands their obedience

To be pleasing to the people to be pleasing to society to be pleasing to their social Contacts to be pleasing to their dates to be pleasing to the school and it puts an enormous obedience in their life and Satan is the ruler of this world and all that is in this world and through the world and through It's business and through all of these things that exercises its authority over you

He begins to exercise its power over your life and Jesus Christ says look to the blood

He points us to his blood and he says it doesn't have to remain that way and there is another power

It's still a stronger one and it's the one you and I fight more than anything else And that is the foreign power of self in our lives

It is here in the realm of self that sin has brought its most terrible ruin in the human life

The doing of our own will the seeking of our own pleasure and our own honor are so deeply rooted in us

Down within of where we are that apart from an entire revelation of God. It is otherwise impossible to escape it body and soul understanding and imagination

Inclination and love all are subject to the power of self pleasing to the tyranny of self and Jesus Christ says that self must be taken down and pulled down sometimes off the throne of your life and it must be condemned to death

It must die you must die to yourself and stop trying to please yourself and all that you do and understand that you belong to God you've been purchased under him and he says you're to serve him and His will and not ours must be supreme and we are to give ourselves to him as his purchased

Possession each of us have to deal with that claim I have to deal with it every moment of my life every day of my life just as you do no pastor

No preacher. No one is in immune from this claim you have to deal with it now how you deal with it is going to decide how your life will be in time and Eternity how you deal with a problem of yourself in relation to God is going to determine what kind of a

Christian you're going to be It's going to determine what kind of a home you're going to have It's going to determine whether God's gonna bless you or where Satan's gonna bless you.

I said bless you Satan will give you all sorts of things a home a car just because you got a home a car

No, don't assume God gave it to you God doesn't give you anything unless you're obedient to him

God doesn't bless a disobedient Christian if your child throws a brick through the windshield of the car. What do you say?

Oh, that's okay. Come on. I will take you to dinner for that boy. You really threw that thing You know what? I mean you fail that brick great mommy.

Can you do that yet? Get the other back window Let me say how you did that. Well, that is great There is no way in the world you do it

You don't do that with your children and God doesn't do that with his children either God loves you as you love your children and God loves us more, but he is displeased with a child

That's disobedient. And if you think he's just gonna bless you in spite of it all my friends You need to understand what the Bible says about that Satan will give you a home car help

Satan can give you anything except eternal life And there are many

Christians that are getting all sorts of things and they assume God's giving it to them You need to understand there is an enemy out here that is far more subtle and far more cunning and far more powerful than your minds could ever conceive and Yet you just rolling along Everything's all right

Everything's all right Well one day we shall know out of your mouth and I have a little saying that I use quite a bit

It's not original, but you've heard it. Have you ever seen a U -Haul trailer behind a hearse in a funeral procession

You never have My Bible says naked you came in this world and naked you gonna go and gentlemen that suit that you wearing at coffin many times don't even have a back to it and That little sweet -looking white stuff you lay on got straw underneath it or sawdust

And Lord Byron said the worms and the canker are my reward alone It is a fearful thing to see the human soul take wing

Well, that's where it is for somebody's not a Christian But for a Christian, it's not that way one of these days he gonna knock on your door

And you gonna cry out to God why me? God just point to you you can point any number of things in your life

That's why that's why that's why that's why I'd say to you this morning last night's why?

Yes today's why Tomorrow be why oh you here right now You not understand the greater light you have the greater the condemnation the more you understand the more you are responsible for as far as God is concerned.

It's that way in everything. What am I saying to you? I'm saying to you that we have to deal with this claim and the

Word of God says he's worthy because he was slain and that He purchased us to God by his blood and our response has to be thou art worthy.

Oh Lord here I am take what you've purchased. I'm yours. I understand that and I will yield myself to your possession

I want you to become active in my life and he will receive you with joy It gives us a pledge when it says thou has purchased us by thy blood

That is his pledge to you that he will receive you now when you come to him Or if I say to you things like I've said to you this morning and yet I turn right around and urge you and challenge you

Encourage you to come you will be hindered by the fear many times that you are not worthy to approach this kind of a guy

You know that deep down in your heart There are things that have been displeasing to him and we begin to feel so sinful that we cannot even believe that God could ever

Forgive everything we've done male most of it, but everything. I mean you mean tell me he just forget about it all

He would just forgive me and cleanse me and forget about it. I mean, what do you do that and And the glorious answer to all that simply is the phrase thou has purchased us unto

God by thy blood would he do so Do you not know that if a person buys anything that he'll take possession of it?

You don't see people go out and buy something and say I want to pay for this, but I don't want it I'll buy that car, but you keep it and give it to somebody else

I'll buy this house, but just let somebody else have it I don't want it Whatever you buy you take and that's exactly the way the

Lord is someone says to me But if I buy something now, here's the problem. I Had a person say this to me.

So I just inserted in here if I buy something I know what it is, and I know that it is worth what

I pay for it I'm not going back But I with all the sin in my life and the attitudes that I have all the time and the serving of self that's in My life there is reason for me to have some fear that he who purchased me even though he did die on the cross

He just might not receive me. Well, you don't know how I really am I mean, you see I can fool you and you can fool me, but you don't know how

I am inside You don't know all these things that I've done. You don't know all these things that I have thought about I am

NOT what I ought to be and I'm not even what I seem to be to you I don't want to talk about it But you don't understand me

When I buy an article and another is of less worth is sent to me when I buy something they send something to me and it's

Of less value than what I paid for it. I just send it back I'll just say I don't want that. That's not what

I paid for. You send me the good one back and This is not what I bought and it isn't what

I paid for and I say to you that's exactly true That is true, but I want you to consider the difference

Listen carefully. I want you to consider the difference in between what Jesus Christ who bought us by his blood and human purchases

He bought what he knew was bad He bought he bought it because it was bad.

He wanted bad products He knew it was bad and he bought it because it was bad and he will accept it as bad

So that his great love may begin to activate in that life and his joy and his glory might make it good

He just wants to remake it. You and I will run by bad products, but God And Jesus died for bad products for people like you and me

Why because we were bad and he wants to have the joy of making it good That's why the scripture says

Christ died for the ungodly while we were yet sinners Christ died for us and Jesus Christ will receive you just like you are if you'll give yourself to him

He'll take you just like you are. I don't care about anything else You no longer have to allow yourself to be kept by Satan by his subtle sipping of his poison

You don't have to do that. You don't have to listen to him You can come to Christ and he will receive you

It is Satan who whispers to you that you are unworthy and that God will not forgive you and that God can't do you what?

He says he'll do that mercy is not for you because you are sinful. You are utterly unworthy

You and I are utterly unworthy to come to God, but you are not too unworthy you are utterly unworthy

But not too unworthy to come to him for mercy from God is only for unworthy people

God's mercy is only for unworthy. Jesus said if you were well, you wouldn't need a physician

I come because you're not well and you need a doctor when you sit and that's why

I have come Thou has purchased me by thy blood and it is impossible Hear me carefully it

Whatever you do you force it to participate in whatever you say you for you force him to participate in that I pray that every one of you might this morning seriously and I haven't told you anything that you don't know

But dear people I challenge you Maybe for the first time in a long long time to not worry about who sits next to you or behind you in front of you

But to worry about Oh number one for a moment Think about the one who wears your clothes and sits in your place this morning and I challenge you as I said

Maybe for the first time in a long time that you would seriously evaluate your life Where are you going your values and your goals and your priorities and ask yourself the question

What happens to you if God calls on you to meet him tonight? Oh It's never you you are immortal.

You never gonna die Well the next company physical brother that you get what are you gonna do if he says, I'm sorry terminal cancer

Ma 'am, I'm sorry. You go for a little iron pill and you think you're just a little naming and he says I'm sorry I'm looking you

What are you gonna do one of your young people gets out here in a car wreck? They're hanging in the balance of life and death, you know what you're gonna do

You're gonna call the blessed pastor and you think he's got some contact with God who's gonna solve your problem But I got news for you there people

God many times We'll just let the consequence what you've done just carry on through and you'll lose your kid You'll lose your life and everything else because you play games with God you're saying because you get illness you think you're wrong

God No, but many times it's so Many times it's so Paul said for this reason many of them are weak physically

Many of them are sickly and many are dead because they took the Lord suffer with sin in their life first Corinthians 11th chapter

You better read it again What I'm saying to you is he says we are his possessions what's that imply dear people

Do you not understand in closing that that implies he has put a tremendous value on you He has highly valued you and he will not allow anything to occur in your life

That he doesn't want to occur in your life if you walk with him he will manifest his love to you and it is his desire to adorn us with his salvation and to fill us with his unspeakable joy and to give us the peace that transcends human understanding and Another thought is that our great need is to recognize ourselves as his possession.

That is our problem We know he saved us, but we don't recognize ourselves as his possession We feel we got saved but we can still do as we please when we please but by a reverent compassion of that thought

We would have our hearts filled with a consciousness that we belong to him And the third thought is that we should cultivate our trust in him and let it completely control every thought as to how we are to spend our life and do our work a

Possession is preserved and cared for by its owner by the owner.

Thou art worthy why why is he worthy to have your life because thou was slain and Purchased us to God by his blood.

That's why he's worthy of your life He gave his life for you and you haven't given your life for anyone or anything and won't and neither would

I? But he did and that's why he's worthy of this Song in heaven it ought to begin to sound something in our cold and different hearts this morning

And it ought to be the heart confession of our relationship and yours this morning You ought to have a relationship to the slain

Lamb of God and you ought to remember that the blood is the power of salvation And it's the subject of heavenly praise in the future and you need to remember that the blood is the power that binds us

Together to the Lord Jesus Christ and it's a bond that cannot ever be loosened and we need to begin once again to meditate

Upon that divine wonder that you have been bought by the blood of Jesus Christ and let your life become a translation

Into the earthly realm of living and the behavior of that song thou art worthy of God because thou son was slain and Has purchased us to God by his blood you ought to meditate upon it this morning and that ought to be

Translated into your relationship with your husband and wife. It ought to be translated in your relationship by your children

It'll be translated in your interrelationships. It ought to be translated out into your job It'll be translated into everything you touch the earthly it ought to be there because we are his possessions.