On Eagles' Wings Pt 115 — Don Courville

Well, I'm glad to be back with you again today. It seems like a long time since I was back with you. Even though it's just been a week and a lot of things have happened since the last time I was with you every day is filled with new opportunities.

New things happen new circumstances. A few weeks ago. I was up in in the central part of Missouri out east of Kansas City and had a wonderful opportunity to To spend a couple days with a brother and his church out there and share with them on a Wednesday night.

Entering God's Rest Through Yieldedness

How about the Lord Jesus Christ? And it's amazing the way God opens up doors as we are completely yielded to him. You know, the Lord wants us to enter into his rest. He wants us to be relaxed. He wants us to enjoy our Jesus.

Do you enjoy? Your Lord. There's no joy if you're out of fellowship with him. There's no joy if you haven't been covered by the blood of the Lamb. Now, I know that today is a special day. To me every day is a special day.

Every day is a resurrection day. Every day were to behold the Lamb, but I know it's a special day. That God has wanted us to recognize and I want to share with you some some things today that God's been teaching me.

I've been having a wonderful time with the Lord getting into the scriptures matter of fact I've had trouble recording because I could hardly stop. I wanted to just keep going into the scriptures and and digging out the things that God has there and and and Be taught by the Spirit of God, you know, he's he's a wonderful God.

God's Answers to Prayer

He's a prayer answering God. I was sharing with some friends a few weeks ago how God entered a prayer and you might say it was a big prayer but we had a concern we had a need and we'd been laying it out to the Lord and.

And the need was our little five-year-old John Daniel needed eye surgery. One of his eyes crosses in and and we've prayed over and we've had him anointed with oil and prayed over by the elders and still.

It's not changed. And so we had set it set up an appointment with the surgeon and he come down to the final day. That and we've talked over this several months with him and he the surgeon seen him a couple three times and and he come down To the final day where we had to get the blood work done and turn it in and the Spirit of God said no Cancel out and the reason the Lord told us that was because we did not have the money to do the surgery we've been believing God for the money and we've been told it cost possibly up to forty two hundred dollars and The surgeon had encouraged us to go to the Lions Club and get help.

He said they help out and in things like that and and that's fine. But God had told us no just wait on me. And so we called him up and we canceled out and a few days later I've been out of town and and when I got back into town I Got in my van and I drove home and I didn't even notice anything unusual and I got home and I received a phone call From a man and he said did you find anything in your van?

I said no. He said I may have done a very foolish thing would you go look and see if there's something in there and. So I did. I went out and I looked in the van and sure enough there was an envelope right there on the console.

I hadn't even noticed it and I opened it up and looked at it and there was a check a cashier's check for $5 ,150 $5 ,150. To meet that need plus the need of us having a baby by the time you get this broadcast we may have a new baby my wife is expecting any time now and As of what's today the 15th today's the 15th.

We haven't had the baby yet. But by the time this goes on the air, we may have another one. Anyway, this man said that God had impressed on him very strongly. To help us out with this need and also to cover for the need of the baby and boy.

I was a shouting and hollering around. Isn't it neat that God will meet your needs as you have them when you wait on him? We've been pressured to go the ways of man so many times. But we're finding that it's so exciting and so peaceful to go with God.

He's a wonderful Lord. Well, I want to share some things with you from the scriptures today. We can't talk about the Lord Jesus Christ too much matter of fact if you're not talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

You've got a problem. You've got a spiritual problem. There's sin in your life. You may not be saved those that don't know him. Don't talk about him those that don't know him. Don't love him those that don't know him don't appreciate him he is life.

The Lord Jesus Christ is my life and We are on the air to try to encourage you to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and also to know the wonderful Provision that he's given to you through the cross. I want to just share with you today about the Lamb.

Behold the Lamb of God

Behold the Lamb of God, you know John the Baptist said in John 1 29 He said behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world and he said it again down in verse 36 Looking upon Jesus as he walked.

He said behold the Lamb of God. You know the sinner of Passover we call it Easter really it's Passover. Was the death of Christ the shed blood of Jesus Christ is the sinner of everything it's actually the sinner of Passover the resurrection is the sinner of all the teaching of the Old Testament.

Leading up to this and I'm going to share some things with you about that today and many times. We we skip through the crucifixion and focus on the resurrection and we miss out on the power of the resurrection.

By missing out on the blood of the Lamb. This is why continually God has wanted man to behold the Lamb and he doesn't want you to just take a glance at the Lamb. He wants you to gaze at the Lamb Eternally, and he wants you to gaze at him all through the day.

Abiding in Christ and Bearing Fruit

You keep your mind on the Lord. That will keep him in perfect. Peace whose mind is stayed on thee. Jesus said abide in me. He said he said you can't do anything without me. He said I'm the vine. You're the branches.

He that abideth in me the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me. You can do nothing. When I was over in Turkey in 1967 and my friend Bill Stewart was discipling me and I was memorizing that verse I would when I was starting off I would always forget the last part without me.

You can do nothing and just in the recent months. God has began to bring home again to me. How true that is. I can't do anything without him and when I do something without him I am NOT abiding and that is sin.

So I want I want to just take you through the scriptures today a little bit on the on the lamb aspect the slain Lamb of God from the aspect of the resurrection being the the Column culmination of the crucifixion of Christ.

It was the the resurrection was the victory March you might say and For us every day is a victory march as we get up and we go through the day. So behold the Lamb of God which taketh away takes away this heavy burden of sin and heavy burden of cares.

Every day he takes away whatever you need taken away that you might be free. And we won't understand the meaning of the power of the resurrection I believe until we understand the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world Revelation 13 8.

Now to understand Calvary we must understand Scripture, you know, there are two things that are according to Scripture. I want to share with you today. First is in first Corinthians 50 at 15 3 it says Christ died for our sins According to the scripture and then the second thing is that he rose he rose from the grave According to the scripture Christ was buried and that he arose again the third day according to the scripture first Corinthians 15 4.

I don't know how far we'll get we'll just go as far as we can today. But first Corinthians 15 3 Christ died for our sins According to the scripture. Did you ever think about the scripture? He died according to the scripture now to understand and appreciate the scripture I find that it's helpful to understand how much we needed Jesus to die for us on the cross.

Humanity's Sin and the Need for Grace

You know The Bible says in Romans 3 9 what then are we better than they know and know wise for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin. God wants you to understand that you are under sin as It is written there's none righteous.

No, not one. I am afraid many of us think that we are an exception and what we have today a lot of us have vain Imaginations thoughts that demons have put into our mind that somehow another I'm good enough to make it into heaven.

That my good works somehow God is going to be pleased with what I've done. I want you to understand that. If you're believing thoughts like that, you're in grave trouble my friend. Because God says there's none righteous.

No, not one. Now we need to understand our condition before we'll really appreciate The blood the blood of Jesus Christ and just how precious that blood is. You won't appreciate Calvary until you understand just how bad a shape that you're in if I might go on.

And a couple more scriptures there says there's none that understand it. There's none that seek it after God. This is God talking to you and me my friend. He says they are all going out of the way. They are together become unprofitable.

There is none that doeth good. No, not one now God's talking about your good works and my good works. They're not going to get us to heaven. There's none that do it's good slipping on down to verse 20.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. God gave us the law. God gave us the Ten Commandments. God gave the Mosaic law to show us that we're sinners.

And if you caught up on the trap thinking that you can keep the law you're gonna be deceived and you are being deceived. You know, you can't keep the Ten Commandments. People all over the place say well, I believe in the Ten Commandments.

Do you I Think one of these days ought to take the Ten Commandments and take you down through and show you what they are and what Jesus Talked about them and we'll see if you're keeping the Ten Commandments if you believe in them.

Then are you keeping them when you get done? You'll see that you're not keeping them. You're probably not keeping one of them. We must understand our condition before we'll really appreciate God salvation, you know, the Bible says but we are all there's that word again all but we are all as an unclean thing and All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we do all Fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.

The iniquities is the self-will of our rebellious pride taking us away from God. That's what God thinks about us. Let me continue on with what God says in in Romans 3 24. Now God says that we are being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Redemption my friend is free. Except that it costs God, but it's free to you and I all we have to do is accept the gift of his Son. The Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord so being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God had set forth to be a propitiation.

Through faith in his blood there again is his blood to declare his righteousness. That's Christ righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God to declare I say at this time his righteousness.

That's Christ's righteousness. Not yours. Not mine, but God's declaring Christ's righteousness. That he might be just that God might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus you will be justified.

Your sins will be forgiven if you will trust the blood of Jesus Christ for your sins. If You're trusting yourself God won't accept you because he goes on to say Where is boasting then it is excluded by what law of?

Works nay, but by the law of faith. You see you're saved by faith for by grace. So you save through faith and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God and not of work so that no man can boast. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

The deeds of the law just show you how Bad a shape that you're in. So where yet are you trusting in his blood? It's faith in his blood. This is why John the Baptist cried out behold the lamb. What was it about the lamb now before we get to understanding the resurrection?

The Lamb as the Pattern of Sacrifice

We need to understand the lamb. The lamb was to be slain. You know from the lamb that was slain in the garden. I believe personally that Adam and Eve had a lamb slain for them. I don't have any way to back that up really.

That's just my personal belief. So don't go build a doctrine on it. But but I've got a basis of believing it. It's just my theory, but I believe that Christ shed a lamb. For Adam and Eve and all the way from that lamb to Calvary the picture was of blood being shed.

Without the shedding of blood. There's no remission of sins and so God Shed blood and I believe Adam and Eve saw him kill that animal. If it was a lamb they saw him kill. The animal they saw the blood.

You know what? A lot of us are in the fig leaf business and fig leaves don't cover very much. You ever try wearing one. Now my folks have a fig tree in their backyard and I know about fig trees and fig leaves.

I don't think I'd want to run around with a fig leaf suit on. It wouldn't take too much to get it ripped off. If you're in the fig leaf business, you're not covered fig leaves don't cover sin and If you go to Adam and Eve, they had a son.

Matter of fact, they had a able and Cain and God told him to bring an altar an offering and you know what. Abel brought a Lamb and sacrificed it and God accepted it. Who taught able to sacrifice a lamb.

You know, the Bible says in Hebrews 11 for by faith he offered up that sacrifice. Where's faith come from faith comes how by hearing? He listened. I believe he was taught to sacrifice a lamb by his father and his father had learned it from God.

Thank Cain was rebellious. He brought he was back in the fruit business again. Adam and Eve were in the fig leaf business and Cain followed along. He says I'm not gonna do what God wants. And so he brought some fruit.

Fruit business doesn't cover sin. And so he got into trouble. Actually. He was in the line of Satan. You know, the Bible says in Proverbs 25 14 a false gift is like a cloud without rain. He brought a false gift and if you come before God saying God, I'm a pretty good guy.

I don't kill steal. I don't smoke. I don't sneak out at night and cheat on my wife and whatever all those things are irrelevant to you getting saved. God is looking to see if you're covered by the blood of the Lamb of Calvary and you come on down to Noah.

Noah, Abraham, and the Promise of the Lamb

You know when Noah hopped out of the ark God had directed him to make a sacrifice and he sacrificed of every clean animal Genesis 8 20 and among the clean animals was a little lamb and If you look at it Genesis 8 4 it says that the ark rested on the seventh month the seventh month in the 17th day.

That was a resurrection picture. We're talking about the blood being sacrificed in in relation to Resurrection and you know that later on God changed that month the seventh month to be the first month.

You go over into Exodus in chapter 12. God told him told Noah or Moses to change the date and I don't have time to get off into it. It's really exciting. But the Lamb was important and Genesis 22 Of course, we have the Lamb one of my favorite resurrection passages how God told Abraham to go and to sacrifice his son and One of the neat things about that and you know the story how God told him that to do that and he obeyed he went all the way up and they were going and Isaac said where's the the where's the lamb?

We've got everything we need. But where's the sacrifice and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together and that's Jehovah Jireh. It's the first time Jehovah Jireh God will provide is in Scripture and actually what that is saying is that God would provide Himself as the Lamb and if your Bible doesn't read clearly like that.

You need to get a new Bible. Because a lot of these translations and these versions are out to destroy the lamb and the blood of Christ. Satan has been in the destroying of the Word of God business for a long time.

And now he's got us all divided in the church because we got all these different translations and if you go through there, you won't be able to find a powerful message on the blood of the Lamb to a lot of these translations or You just go.

I was going to call them perversions and some of them are very perverted. Some of them are not as perverted as much. I don't know how much mud you like in your in your water before you drink it, but I don't like any in mine.

We know that the King James the 1611 version is an uncorrupted version. You can trust it. It may have some archaic words, but we can get over that. We can study and find out how they're pronounced correctly today.

Passover and the Blood of the Lamb

Now, let's keep on going about the lamb, you know in Exodus chapter 12. When when God told Moses to sacrifice The lamb, you know, they were in bondage and they were fixing to get out. They've gone through all this ordeal with Pharaoh and now they're coming out and he told him to sacrifice this lamb.

I want to share something very important with you about this this chapter and about this aspect. And now you you listen if you're not sure of your salvation. If you're not sure that you'd go to heaven if you're not sure that your sins are forgiven.

You listen to this because I may say something that will clarify some things for you and help you to see. Something that you need to see. God told him to take this lamb and he told the then that the lamb was to To be according to the house of their fathers a lamb for house and verse 3 and verse 5.

He said Your lamb shall be without blemish whatever it is that covers sin the sacrifice has to be without blemish. This is why you cannot offer up your good works To God as a sacrifice to cover for your sins because your good works are polluted.

God's not interested in your good works. Anyway, he's already provided that which is needed for your salvation. That was the Lamb of God the Lord Jesus Christ laying on Calvary was the provision for your sin.

If you won't accept that provision then God has no other offer and he's sure not going to accept yours if you won't accept his now listen. The lamb was to be without blemish and the lamb was he said on in verse 6 you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

By the way, if you go back up to verse 2, there's worth God changed the the year. He said this month shall be into you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. God changed the time to center on Calvary all time is centered on Calvary at his death everything hinges on Calvary.

Now they took that lamb and they killed it and They took the blood and they put it in a bowl and then they were to take some Some branches and they were to dip it in the blood and they were to bid it put it on the on the side post and the beam across and Then the Lord said the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses in verse 13 Where you are and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land and This day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.

You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. Now I want to share this with you. This is what I want you to understand. The shed blood makes salvation possible. But the sprinkled blood makes salvation possessed.

Applying the Blood Personally

Just because they shed the blood of The lamb didn't mean that they were saved. They had to apply the blood to the doorpost of their house and just because the blood of Christ was shed for you and Just because you know that happened just because you believe that is true.

It doesn't make you say you have to apply the blood to your own life. Personally, you have to come to a point to where you personally appropriate the sacrifice of Christ for yourself. And this is where conversion comes in.

This is where being born again comes in but you have to somewhere in your life personally apply that to you to where you realize that you are lost in your sin and That Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.

He shed his blood for you and you by faith appropriate and receive that sacrifice that he did for you of shedding his blood. You receive that by faith and then the Spirit of God comes into your heart and regenerates you.

He saves you you're born again. He fills you. He cleanses you you're forgiven. You become a new creature in Christ and the old things pass away. One of the reasons that so many of our churches are filled with people that their lives do not match their walk.

They've got the talk, but they don't have the walk is because they have never applied the sprinkled blood to their own hearts. They know about it. They say I've been baptized. I've been confirmed. I've been I've been A member of the church.

I've walked an aisle, but until you apply the blood you'll never be saved. This is why when Nicodemus came to Jesus He didn't understand that the blood of all those lambs that he had seen. He was the priest the high priest all of that He had never personally got the message that that blood was for his own.

Personal sins and Jesus said you must be born again and it only happens by applying the blood. What are you resting on your good works? You'll burn in hell with your good works. Are you resting on the fact of Christ's death?

You'll burn in hell just because you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross the devil even believes the scripture says and he's not Saved but the devil has never applied the blood and he's in the business of keeping you and you and you.

And all over the world he's keeping whoever he can from applying the sprinkled blood to their lives. What are you resting on the blood of Jesus Christ praise the Lord? You will be saved if you are resting in the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Resurrection Life and Daily Victory

You see the resurrection of Christ we make a big sentimental deal out of it. But unless the resurrection of Christ is a reality in your day-by-day experience. You come along on a on a on an Easter Day what we call it and you make a big deal out of it.

You're just going through ceremony. You haven't entered into the resurrection life. You've never been born again. You see in every house in Egypt. There was death either the firstborn or a lamb and The devil doesn't care what you do as long as you never apply the lamb.

So when John the Baptist came along he said behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. That's what he meant. Look at the Lamb look at the Lamb and keep looking at the Lamb and many of you have trusted Christ as your Savior.

You've applied the blood but then you've gone away and you have quit looking at the Lamb. And that's why this program on Eagles wings is here to help you get back to the Lamb of God and that's revival.

Revival is life in Jesus. Revival means Jesus again. Let me encourage you to receive Jesus as your lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Let me encourage you to apply the blood you see at Calvary.

When Christ shed his blood he broke the power of Satan over your life. He broke it and you can live free from sin. He struck out the handwriting of ordinances against you and so you come before God and you say God.

Thank you for the blood and now I ask you to rebuke Satan from trying to hinder me from being saved from trying. To hinder me in serving you you use the blood day by day all day long to live victorious.

Well, I've got to go our time is up until next time. May God richly bless you my friend and remember that Jesus Christ is all you need the blood of the Lamb. The Lord Jesus Christ is all you need is It all you want.

God bless you.