What did it take? They took the blood of bulls and goats, or blood of bulls, he took his own blood, and immediately he did that, immediately Jesus said on the cross it is finished, he put every priest, every priest was unemployed from that moment, every sacrifice was invalid, doesn't matter who made it, Christ is our altar, he is our priest, and he is a sacrifice, when he had by himself, come down to verse 12, he went neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place, notice, having obtained eternal redemption, as long as there's one man on earth that blood is valid, the great missionary C .T. Studd, I saw him once when I was about 12, C .T. Studd said sin is so terrible in the eyes of God, that if there was only one sinner on earth, Jesus Christ would have gone to the cross to save that sinner, because that man is denying God the right to his personality, some of you are doing that with all your talk about it, you don't just bring him a lousy thing, you have to bring him your will, you have to bring him your heart, you have to bring him your affections, and there comes a place where you can put everything on the altar, according to Romans 12, one and two, present your body a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is only a reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed, I think Phillips, it's a pretty good version, it's English, but anyhow, Phillips says don't let this world squeeze you into its mold, come on, what's your excitement tomorrow, oh not much, Sunday afternoon, you'll be watching all the dumb guys kick a ball around, and you profess to love Jesus, when you give Jesus two hours of your time, when you sit in speechless wonder, adoring him, magnifying him, with tears running down your face, for listen to what it says here, in verse 9 of chapter 9, it says, which was a figure for the time in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, look, that could not make him that did this service perfect, pertaining to the conscience, do you realize that when that man took his offering, it just made him acceptable to God, he didn't do a thing for his conscience, but look further down the chapter, what's it say in verse 9, well it says in 9, okay, it did not make him that did the service perfect, that's pertaining to the conscience, he was still guilty and condemned, verse 14, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience, come on you guys, whether you've been to jail or been to hell, I don't care, supposing every sin you ever committed, since the age of accountability was was burning in your heart tonight, it would be hell, wouldn't it, but once in mercy, one drop of his precious blood, and that one sacrifice, I think it was Isaac Watts wrote the hymn, not all the blood of beasts on Jewish altars slain, could give one guilty conscience peace, or wash away one stain, but Christ the heavenly lamb take all our sins away, what do you think the priest thought, do you know I believe when John Baptist stood there and said, behold the lamb of God, every fibre of hell shook, because they knew here was a perfect offering, all the hypocrisy, all the artificiality of the priest was finished in the moment Jesus said it is finished, no blood sacrifice, no priesthood, no high priest, no altars, no feast of tabernacles, no other feast was valid, that should make your head spin, that should make you get on your face and thank God, that once in the end of the age, he appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, if you had every sin that you've ever committed, tormenting you on the inside, you'd die of fright, Jesus didn't come to lose you from some lousy sins merely, what does it say here, in verse 14, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God, you see that, purge your conscience, it doesn't matter how loaded you are with guilt, in World War II I, I'm trying to think back yeah, World War II okay, we were living outside the city of Bath in England, and I used to go to the largest military camp on Tuesday night and talk to hundreds and hundreds of air force men, the next week when I went, this, this place is empty, that place is empty, they got shot down over Germany, it was a tremendous opportunity, I remember one young handsome young man came to me one night, he said, is it really true what you said tonight, I'd never heard that, that somewhere mysteriously two thousand years ago, a man on a cross, bore my sins in his body on the tree, I said yes, he tasted hell for you, the word of God says, all God's billows went over him, and he tasted hell because he understood why men ran away, oh yes, Peter can say what you've said many a time in the heat of a meeting, how many of you said I'll pray more, and you haven't prayed more since, I'll give more money, and you haven't given more money since, I'll discipline myself, you haven't done it, you'll find it at the checkout counter, which is a judgment seat, and this poor man said to me, Mr Rayleigh, I'm haunted, I'm haunted by this, my conscience, it's like a fire in me sometimes, my memory is as though I'm sitting on the edge of hell, I've been the vilest of sinners, and these were his words, he said, I guess if I could go back for a few years, I must have fathered at least 30 children, and he said, sometimes a little child comes up smiling, I think, oh this could be my child, when a child asks for help, I give it help, because it might be my child, and he said, I wake up in the night, something thumps inside, I forgot what, I don't know whether it was creases, one of the Greeks anyhow said, you know, men say they're afraid of death, because it's an annihilation, he said, no they're not, they're afraid of death, because, because they're not sure it's annihilation, that's right, Jesus said the pains of death got all of him, okay, so on the cross, he says what, why has thou forsaken me, so what happened, the whole earth rocked, there's a famous, there's a famous Greek scholar called Diogenes, and the famous heathen philosopher called Diogenes, Diogenes the Greek, in the moment when God, you see, nobody ever saw the crucifixion, don't believe it, somebody imagined it and painted it, God couldn't even see it, I don't understand how God became man, come on, the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he was pressed into the womb of the Virgin Mary, I don't understand, when he was the essence of all wisdom, was a helpless babe, he put all the food of the universe in the, in the world, but he hung on to a woman's breast, otherwise he would have died, he was the most helpless little creature in the world, animals within a few minutes of being born can scramble around, a baby can't do that, and he laid his glory by and wrapped him in our clay, there was a hymn years ago, do you remember a hymn called, let me think a minute, the love of God is greater far, if I'm wrong, correct me, can you, the first stanza is the love of God is greater far, than tongue of, tongue and pen can ever tell, it goes beyond the highest star, it reaches to the lowest hell, then the last stanza, do you know this, this amazing hymn, do you know, the man that wrote the last stanza wrote it in a lunatic asylum, so cheer up, if you land up there, if you land up there, start writing hymns, oh the last stanza is, listen, this is a man supposedly insane, he'd been marvelously saved while he was there, he'd been a wretched criminal, there wasn't a clean thing in him from his fingernails to the heart of his being, he was vile and corrupt, he was like 10 Al Capone's all rolled into one, when he heard the wonderful mercy of God, he reached out, the last stanza, could we with ink, listen to this madman, could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the, were the skies of parchment made, were every blade, stalk of grass a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry, nor could the scroll contain, contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky, now that man has a vision, you sang about the love of God tonight, I don't know why, but driving up, I thought about a great Englishman by the name of Ravenhill, no, sorry, Churchill, I thought it sounded funny, they used to put on, they used to put on the newspapers during World War II, Churchill said, and one day it said this, Churchill yesterday said this in Parliament, I've often wondered what would happen if God got weary of mankind, ever thought of that?