The Blood Covenant #16

Blood Covenant Overview

In this powerful session from NTC Ministries, the preacher continues an ongoing series on the Blood Covenant, reaching the sixteenth installment. The message opens by establishing that the Bible is not merely a collection of stories but a system of heavenly government designed to bring the kingdom of God to earth. Building on 1 John 5:8, Hebrews 9:12-15, and 1 Corinthians 2:9-12, the sermon explores how the Holy Spirit and the blood of Jesus work in perfect agreement to reveal eternal redemption and an eternal inheritance to believers. A major portion of the teaching focuses on Galatians 3:13-14, showing that Christ has redeemed believers from the curse of the law, which includes spiritual death, sickness, and poverty as detailed in Deuteronomy 28. The preacher examines Romans 3:25 to explain Jesus as the propitiation, the redeeming covenant head and mercy seat. Practical exhortation from Hebrews 6:11-12 calls every listener to diligence and full assurance of hope. The message concludes with a personal testimony about healing from pneumonia through 1 Peter 2:24, urging believers to fight the fight of faith and stand boldly on the covenant promises sealed in the blood of Jesus Christ.

Blood Covenant Outline

• 0:00 – Welcome and Series Context: The preacher reintroduces the ongoing Blood Covenant series, explaining that the Bible represents a system of heavenly government and not merely religious stories.
• 7:30 – The Spirit and the Blood Agree: Drawing from 1 John 5:8 and 1 Corinthians 2:9-12, the message shows how the Holy Spirit and the blood of Jesus work as one to reveal the deep things of God to believers.
• 18:00 – Eternal Redemption and Eternal Inheritance: Hebrews 9:12-15 is unpacked to show that the blood obtained eternal redemption through the eternal Spirit, bringing believers into an eternal inheritance that transcends mere longevity.
• 28:00 – Jesus as Propitiation and Covenant Head: Romans 3:25 establishes Christ as the redeeming covenant head, the mercy seat, and the throne of grace, making the new covenant infallible because it rests on God and the God-man Jesus.
• 38:30 – Diligence, Hope, and Inheriting the Promises: Hebrews 6:11-12 calls every believer to show diligence to the full assurance of hope and to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises of God.
• 48:00 – Redeemed from the Curse of Sickness: Galatians 3:13-14 and Deuteronomy 28 are examined together to demonstrate that sickness, plagues, and disease are part of the curse of the law from which Christ has fully redeemed believers.
• 57:00 – The Word Sent to Heal: Psalm 107:20, John 1:1-14, and Revelation 19:11-13 connect Jesus as the living Word robed in blood, the one sent to heal and deliver from destruction.
• 1:05:00 – By His Stripes You Were Healed: First Peter 2:24 is proclaimed as the foundation of healing faith, illustrated by a personal testimony of recovering from severe pneumonia by standing on this scripture alone.
• 1:13:00 – Covered by the Blood, Free from Condemnation: The sermon closes by assuring believers that God sees them through the blood of Jesus, not through their failures, and that Satan has no legal ground against those who stand in covenant righteousness.

Scripture References

1 John 5:8, Hebrews 9:12-15, 1 Corinthians 2:9-12, 1 Corinthians 3:2, Hebrews 5:13, Romans 12:1, Hebrews 6:11-12, Romans 3:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13-14, Galatians 3:29, Deuteronomy 28:15-21, Deuteronomy 28:27-28, Deuteronomy 28:35, Deuteronomy 28:58-61, Hosea 4:6, Romans 8:31-32, Matthew 9:27-30, Mark 7:13, Psalm 107:20, John 1:1-4, John 1:14, Revelation 5:12, Revelation 19:11-13, 1 Peter 2:24

Key Takeaways

• The blood of Jesus obtained an eternal redemption that delivers believers from the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light, with benefits available right here on earth.
• The Holy Spirit and the blood of Jesus are in perfect agreement, and the Spirit is given specifically to reveal all that the blood has purchased for those who believe.
• Christ has redeemed every believer from the curse of the law, which includes sickness, poverty, and spiritual death as catalogued in Deuteronomy 28.
• Faith in the blood of Jesus is not passive optimism but diligent, full assurance of hope maintained until the end, coupled with patience to inherit every promise of God.
• Sickness is a curse of a fallen world and a destructive tool of the enemy, not a teaching instrument sent by God, because God leads and guides His people by the Holy Spirit.
• When God looks at a believer, He sees the righteousness of Jesus Christ, and when Satan looks, he sees the blood of the covenant standing between him and the child of God.
• By the stripes of Jesus believers were already healed, meaning healing is a past-tense reality that must be received by revelation and acted upon in present faith.

Blood Covenant Notes

Blood Covenant as Heavenly Government

The sermon establishes from its opening moments that understanding the Blood Covenant transforms how a believer reads Scripture. Rather than seeing a collection of ancient stories, the covenant-minded Christian recognizes a divine system of rule and reign designed to bring heaven’s reality into earthly experience. The model prayer of Jesus confirms this: thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This framework prevents the passive fatalism that reduces Christianity to mere endurance until death, and instead positions the believer as an active participant in the advance of God’s kingdom.

The Spirit Reveals What Blood Purchased

First Corinthians 2:9-12 serves as a theological hinge in this message. The natural mind, regardless of its intelligence, cannot perceive the inheritance prepared for those who love God. It requires the Holy Spirit, who searches the deep things of God and was given precisely so that believers might know what has been freely given to them. The preacher emphasizes that rejecting the gifts and present ministry of the Holy Spirit amounts to cutting oneself off from the very agent appointed to make the Blood Covenant real and experiential in a believer’s daily life.

Deuteronomy 28 and the Curse Defined

A significant portion of the message is devoted to reading Deuteronomy 28, which catalogues in vivid detail the curses that fell upon those who broke God’s law: consumption, fever, inflammation, severe plagues, incurable diseases, madness, and poverty. The preacher uses this passage not to instill fear but to define precisely what Christ redeemed believers from. Galatians 3:13 declares that Christ became a curse for us so that the blessing of Abraham would come upon the Gentiles. The curse is named so that the redemption can be fully appreciated and boldly claimed.

Healing Is a Covenant Reality

First Peter 2:24 is presented as one of the clearest statements of healing in Scripture: by whose stripes you were healed. The past tense is deliberate and significant. The preacher shares a personal testimony of receiving this verse from the Holy Spirit while suffering from severe pneumonia and then acting on it by rising from the couch and shoveling snow. The testimony is not presented as recklessness but as the logical response to a settled revelation. When the Word becomes alive in the heart rather than merely intellectual information in the mind, the miracle follows.

Fighting the Fight of Faith

The preacher draws a clear distinction between fighting sickness, poverty, or the devil directly, and fighting the fight of faith. The former keeps a believer focused on the problem; the latter keeps a believer focused on the covenant. First Timothy 6 instructs believers to fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of eternal life, which is life as God has it. Diligence, as described in Hebrews 6:11-12, means refusing to become sluggish and imitating those who through faith and patience inherited the promises, never allowing circumstance, fear, or religious tradition to erode full assurance.

Covered by the Blood, Seen in Righteousness

The closing exhortation draws on the Passover imagery of Exodus, where the blood on the doorpost caused the death angel to pass over entirely. The application is immediate: believers covered by the blood of Jesus are shielded from destruction, not because of personal merit, but because God looks at them through the righteousness of Christ established in 2 Corinthians 5:21. Satan may whisper accusations, but those accusations have no legal standing against a person standing in Blood Covenant. The call is to rebuke condemnation boldly, declare the blood, and walk in the identity that the covenant has secured.

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