30 Mar The Blood Covenant #13

Blood Covenant Sermon Overview

In this Palm Sunday sermon from The Blood Covenant series, Pastor explores how God operates as a covenant God, tracing redemption through blood from Adam and Eve to Christ’s ultimate sacrifice. The message emphasizes that when Adam sinned, God established the first blood covenant by clothing them with animal skins, setting a pattern continued through Noah and Abraham. Christ’s blood covenant grants believers total access to God and all His promises. The sermon highlights that Jesus shed His blood in seven different ways during His passion, descended to hell, and rose victorious, cleansing the heavenly holy of holies. Unlike our corrupted blood from birth, believers now possess Christ’s pure blood through covenant relationship. This transforms our identity as new creations with full inheritance rights. The message challenges believers to understand their covenant benefits and live from this revelation rather than religious tradition or worldly thinking.

Blood Covenant Sermon Outline

• 0:00 – Palm Sunday and Passion Week Context: Setting the stage for Jesus’ triumphant entry and the beginning of passion week.
• 2:30 – God’s Covenant Nature from Eden: How God established the first blood covenant with Adam and Eve through animal sacrifice.
• 8:00 – Covenant Pattern Through History: Tracing blood covenants from Noah through Abraham and their significance.
• 15:00 – Christ’s Seven-Fold Blood Sacrifice: Jesus’ blood shed seven times during His trial, crucifixion, and victory over death.
• 25:00 – Heavenly Holy of Holies Cleansed: Understanding how Christ’s blood cleansed the heavenly sanctuary for our access.
• 30:00 – Covenant Rights and Inheritance: Believers’ total access to God’s promises through blood covenant relationship.
• 38:00 – Renewed Mind for Covenant Living: The necessity of renewing our minds to live in covenant reality rather than worldly thinking.

Scripture References

Hebrews 9:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 103:2-5, Romans 12:1-2, Isaiah 60:1-2, Colossians 3:1-3, 1 Peter 1:17-19, Romans 8:19

Key Takeaways

• God established blood covenant from the beginning when He clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins, showing our works are insufficient for righteousness.
• Jesus’ blood was shed seven times during His passion, cleansing both earthly and heavenly realms for our complete access to God.
• In covenant relationship, everything God has becomes ours, and He fights for us just as we should stand with Him.
• Our blood is corrupted from birth, but through Christ’s blood covenant we become new creations with His pure life flowing through us.
• Understanding covenant language is essential to receiving the full benefits of what Christ has provided through His sacrifice.
• We must renew our minds to live from covenant reality rather than worldly thinking or religious tradition.
• Laziness and poor service stem from not understanding the tremendous price Jesus paid for our redemption and calling.

Blood Covenant Sermon Notes

This powerful Palm Sunday message illuminates God’s covenant nature throughout history, beginning with humanity’s fall in Eden. When Adam and Eve attempted to cover their sin with fig leaves representing human works, God demonstrated that only blood sacrifice could provide true covering and access to His presence. This established the foundational principle that redemption requires bloodshed, not human effort.The covenant pattern continued through Noah, who immediately offered blood sacrifice after the flood, and Abraham, whose faith was counted as righteousness and gave God legal access to work in this fallen world. Pastor explains how God, being a God of law and order, couldn’t simply override the authority He had given to Adam without proper covenant relationship.Christ’s passion represents the ultimate blood covenant, with His blood shed in seven distinct ways during His trial and crucifixion. Unlike earthly covenants, Jesus descended to hell, paid sin’s penalty, and rose victorious because His blood was pure and sinless. Significantly, He told Mary not to touch Him before ascending to cleanse the heavenly holy of holies, but later invited Thomas to touch His wounds, demonstrating His transformed resurrection body of flesh and bone.The sermon emphasizes that covenant relationship means total sharing – everything one party possesses belongs to the other, including name, authority, and protection. This is why Judas’ betrayal was so grievous; he violated sacred covenant with a kiss. In marriage covenant, spouses share everything equally without separate ownership.Pastor stresses that every person born into this world has corrupted blood, making sickness and death natural consequences. However, believers receive Christ’s pure blood through covenant, making them new creations with access to divine life and health. This isn’t future hope but present reality activated when we call upon His name.The challenge lies in renewing our minds to covenant thinking rather than worldly reasoning. Romans 12:1-2 calls believers to present themselves as living sacrifices and be transformed through mind renewal. We’re citizens of a heavenly kingdom, dead to this world but alive to God, with access to benefits we must learn to claim through understanding rather than ignorance.Understanding covenant language becomes crucial for receiving God’s full provision. Without this knowledge, believers can read scripture but miss their inheritance. The epistles reveal what happened between cross and throne – our complete redemption package including healing, prosperity, and new identity as joint-heirs with Christ.The message concludes by addressing how proper understanding of Christ’s sacrifice should transform our service and work ethic. When we grasp the tremendous price Jesus paid – His emotional agony in Gethsemane where He sweat drops of blood, His cry for companionship from sleeping disciples, His willing endurance for the joy of bringing us into God’s family – laziness becomes inexcusable. True revelation of our value in God’s eyes should produce excellent service and grateful hearts, not from obligation but from understanding the incredible love demonstrated through blood covenant.

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