I Know It Was The Blood - Black Preacher Sermon
I Know It Was The Blood
(1st John 1:6-10 KJV)
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
It's important to understand that without the pouring forth of Jesus' shed blood, there could be no forgiveness of our sin sick souls. Many people from time to time get royally uncomfortable with a religion that talk magnetically about the inexhaustible blood of Jesus. In fact many denominations today have taken out of their hymnbooks—songs that have words about the "blood of Christ" in them thinking that these songs or outdated and antiqued for the modern day in which we reside. They suggest that people who teach and preach on the blood of Christ , are being offensive to their teachings in which they believe.
I remember reading an article concerning Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. Dwight L. Moody, who both defended the preaching of the blood of Jesus Christ. When Billy Graham was getting started in a Theological College, a professor from Cornell University wrote him a letter and said, "Mr. Graham, you have great talent, and you have what it takes to be a successful minister. But if you want to continue to be successful, you are going to have to leave out the preaching on the blood. It is out of date and no enlightened man of the Twentieth Century will swallow it."
When Dwight L. Moody started preaching, a woman wrote him a letter and said, "Brother Moody, if you want to be effective, you are going to have to leave out that blood stuff." Dwight L. Moody said, like Dr. Billy Graham after him, "I'm determined at that moment to preach more on the blood of Jesus Christ than ever before."
And just like Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. Dwight L. Moody, I will forever defend the blood of Christ and sing with or without a hymnbook until my dying day:
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, (Jesus' blood)
Lose all their guilty stains:
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away:
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This type of Hymn's have brought a mighty long way. In fact Someone has associated several of our hymns with things in life:
❖ Stand up, Stand up, has been called the chiropractors hymn.
❖ It has been said that the “electrician’s hymn” is “Send The Light.”
❖ The telephone man’s hymn is “There’s A Call Come Ringing.”
❖ The Salesman’s hymn is “Almost Persuaded.”
❖ Car accidents have been associated with, “We saw thee not.”
❖ In this list I am drawing from another hymn is listed.
❖ Why Do You Wait? This hymn has been called the “Crossing Guard’s hymn.”
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