This is a message about the Power and ability of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.

Join us this Sunday for the second installment of a two-part sermon through the 9th chapter of the Book of Hebrews.

The perversions teach a different Jesus than that of the Word of God. The King James Bible is the Word of God for the English Speaking world. It is important to be settled on the fact that God is the Author of the Bible. He inspired the writers to write exactly what He told them to write.

We see Jesus healing a non-urgent, private sickness first, and then forcing the healed woman into the public eye. Minutes later, He raises from the dead a girl whose case was extremely urgent — so urgent that she died before He could arrive. Being raised from the dead is inescapably public, far more so than what seeps into pads under your clothes. Yet this time around, Jesus tells the family to tell no one. In each case, He does the exact opposite of what we would expect, of what makes sense to us. Let the woman with the bleeding problem have some privacy, Jesus! Let Jairus' family celebrate her resurrection with everyone! But that's not how Jesus thinks. Again, even while more than meeting our expectations that He will do the wonderful, that He will pull a happy ending out of an impossible situation, He utterly subverts our expectations in other ways. Asking Him for help is not bothering Him. But silently getting help makes Him turn around and say, "You're going to testify publicly to God's work in your life right here, right now, in front of four hundred of your closest friends." He's a big God. His methods, His attitudes, His work is large enough to fill the entire world, to address every need individually, to meet every contingency. Again, Jesus is teaching the disciples, and us, about what it means to follow Him. Last week we saw Him take a walk on the wild side. Now He's back on the civilized, God-fearing side of the lake. There He heals two different daughters, welcoming them into His family but doing so entirely on His terms.

Our Lord Jesus Christ didn't just come to teach that God forgave us, His death on the cross bears testimony on how far God was prepared to forgive us.

In the second part of "The Spirit of Adoption" (Romans 8:12-17, with the weight on verse 15), Pastor Robert McNutt argues that the spirit of slavery always precedes the spirit of adoption: no one cries "Abba, Father" who has not first been brought under conviction, the law serving as guardian to drive us to the Savior. Because the adversary readily persuades people they are secure when they are not, this contrast becomes a test of the spirits, separating true adoption from a counterfeit. Two cautions guard the argument: the intensity of conviction varies widely, and no single conversion experience may be made the standard. From Luke 7:36-50 McNutt corrects a common misreading of the sinful woman and Simon the Pharisee. What matters is not the quantity of sin committed but the realization of one's sinfulness, and the forgiveness that answers it; the gospel is never an incitement to sin, and easy believism, merely saying a prayer or affirming facts about the Savior, is no substitute for the Spirit's work. Drawing on John 16:8-11 and 2 Corinthians 13:5, he shows that the Spirit reveals God's holiness and the law's spirituality, and so reveals us to ourselves. The nearer we come to the light, the more darkness we see; growing saints feel their sin more deeply, not less. Isaiah's vision in Isaiah 6 illustrates the pattern, "Woe is me" preceding "Here am I, send me," as do the great revivals, where settled church members become newly horrified at sin and newly astonished at the blood of Christ. He closes by pressing self-examination, urging any who lack it to cry out for the Spirit of adoption, and asking whether the congregation itself needs revival.

The sermon contrasts three historical Passovers to highlight the supremacy of Jesus Christ as the ultimate sacrifice. It begins with the original Passover in Exodus, which served as a type and shadow of the coming Messiah. The second example, recorded in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, demonstrates a greater observance where King Josiah provided the lambs for the people. Finally, the message identifies Jesus Christ as the greatest Passover, who is not merely a symbol but the actual Lamb of God who took away sin. Through references to 1 Corinthians and Hebrews, the preacher emphasizes that while animal blood could not remove sin, Christ's self-sacrifice provides complete redemption for believers.

The sermon explores the doctrinal distinction between purification and remission by analyzing Hebrews 9:22 and Leviticus. It establishes that while blood purges defilement, iniquity is specifically purged through mercy and truth as stated in Proverbs 16:6. The preacher defines iniquity as heart-level lawlessness and explains how God's mercy preserves believers from judgment. By walking in the paths of the Lord, individuals experience the ongoing cleansing of their hearts from sin. The message concludes with an invitation to yield to the Holy Spirit for complete spiritual purification.

Those covered by the blood of the covenant will be able to see God and stand unharmed, completely protected in His presence. He will not lay a hand on those covered by His blood. Everything in the Sinai Covenant is rooted in grace.