The blood covenant is not a theological label or a religious symbol; it is heaven’s system of government, the way God rules and reigns from heaven into this earth. In this sixteenth message of the series, the speaker shows that the Spirit and the blood agree, and that the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals everything the blood of Jesus purchased: eternal life, righteousness, and redemption from the curse of the law, including sickness. It continues from The Blood Covenant #15: The Spirit and the Blood Agree.
Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps for putting faith in the blood to work this week.
Sermon at a Glance
This message was posted on April 20, 2021, and runs about 77 minutes, closing with prayer for the sick and communion. The speaker picks up where the previous week ended, with 1 John 5:8 and the truth that the Spirit and the blood agree as one. The blood purchased our redemption; the Holy Spirit reveals what that redemption contains.
From there he moves through eternal life, the renewing of the mind, diligence in hope, faith in the blood, and the curse of the law in Deuteronomy 28, before turning to the promises of healing and a personal testimony. The message asks a simple question: does the blood covenant matter? His answer is that it is not just a word but a reality of what has taken place for every believer.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Speaker | The speaker (not named in the recording) |
| Series | The Blood Covenant, message #16 |
| Main texts | 1 Corinthians 2:9–12; Hebrews 6:11–12; Galatians 3:13–14 |
| Key theme | The Holy Spirit reveals what the blood purchased, including redemption from sickness |
| Length | About 77 minutes, ending in communion |
A System of Government From Heaven
The speaker opens by repeating something Pastor Paul had said: when we understand the blood covenant, we are not just reading stories, we are reading a system of government. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, He told them to pray for the Father’s kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9–10). That should be our desire too.
Many Christians, he says, are only waiting for the pearly gates, treating life down here as miserable. The world may get worse and worse, but God wants to bless and establish His people right here, so that they get better and better. Every person is born into captivity under the kingdom of darkness, on a road that leads to hell. Through the blood we are redeemed from that hostage state and redeemed unto God, into the kingdom of light.
Hebrews 9:12–15 describes an eternal redemption, through the eternal Spirit, into an eternal inheritance. Eternal, he explains, is not only about quantity or longevity; it is about quality. The life we receive is zoe, life as God has it. If what you are experiencing does not look like God’s life yet, that has to change.
The change comes through Romans 12:1–2: present your bodies a living sacrifice and be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Transformed is a metamorphosis, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Like the caterpillar, we cocoon our minds in the Word. That is why he calls heresy so damaging: the word, as he teaches it, means drawing away from God, and false teaching trains people to keep their distance from His power.
The Spirit and the Blood Agree
The heart of the sermon is 1 Corinthians 2:9–12. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things God has prepared for those who love Him. The natural mind, with all its ability to reason, cannot see what God has for us. Then come what the speaker calls the “buts of God”: but God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
He insists that you need the Holy Spirit more than you need breath. The Holy Spirit is the governor of the kingdom of heaven in this earth, and believers need an intimate relationship with Him. Paul told the Corinthians he had to feed them milk because they could not handle meat (1 Corinthians 3:2), and Hebrews 5:13 says that everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness.
Only the Spirit can show us what the blood redeemed us from and what it redeemed us to. Verse 12 says we have received the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things freely given to us. So, he warns, do not reject the Holy Spirit or accept teaching that says His gifts and miracles have been done away with. The Holy Spirit will show you things to come and reveal the deep things of God.
He pauses here to lead the church in prayer, inviting the Holy Spirit to fill, lead, guide and teach. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God, and presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice is how we let Him bring us into everything the blood of the covenant has accomplished.
Diligence and the Full Assurance of Hope
Hebrews 6:11–12 asks each believer to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, and not to become sluggish, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. The speaker stresses that this is personal: every individual must be diligent. The covenant guarantees the victory, but it does not happen automatically.
Hope, he says, means always expecting something better. He and his wife had to retrain themselves so that when the phone rang at three in the morning, their first thought was what blessing might be coming. Christians in covenant are like corks: the farther down they are pulled under the water, the higher they shoot up when they rise. God always causes us to triumph.
The same attitude shapes how he reacts to other people’s blessing. When someone buys a new home, is healed or receives favor, he rejoices with them, believer or not, because they inherited something by faith and patience. He has made many friends in business this way. Allowing jealousy, he says, would undermine his own full assurance of hope.
He then contrasts the two covenants. The old covenant was made with the blood of bulls and goats, between God and fallen man, and our own works always condemned us. The new covenant is the blood of Jesus Christ, between God and the God-man Jesus, so it is infallible and cannot be destroyed. He who knew no sin became sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). That leaves no room for guilt and condemnation. The blessings of God are ours, not as an ego trip, but because we are in Christ.
Faith in His Blood: The Lamb Who Was Slain
Romans 3:25 says God set Jesus forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood. The speaker gives several meanings: a redeeming covenant head, an atoning victim, the mercy seat, the throne of grace. We are not redeeming ourselves to God; we have been redeemed, past tense. Jesus told Nicodemus that no one can even see the kingdom unless he is born again (John 3:3), and the witness of that new birth is in the heart.
He challenges the religious picture of Jesus as a soft, quiet little lamb. The Lamb of God was radically slain for us. This same Jesus drove the money changers from the temple and preached hard sayings that made crowds leave. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and Christianity is not a church of spineless people.
John saw Him in heaven as the Lamb who was slain, and heaven sings that the Lamb is worthy to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing (Revelation 5:12). Because we are joint heirs with Christ, those same things are offered to us, but a self-condemning conscience will push them away. We need the Holy Spirit to receive them.
When two blind men followed Jesus, He asked whether they believed He could do this, and then touched their eyes, saying it would be done according to their faith (Matthew 9:27–30). The speaker calls this the foundation of the law of the kingdom of grace: as you believe, let it be to you. So he urges the church to think of the best, not to rehearse their fears.
Revelation, not intellect, is the key. Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Christ came from the Father, not flesh and blood, and the rock the church is built on is that revelation (Matthew 16:15–18). The speaker cites Andrew Murray’s teaching that any postponement lasts only until our surrender is complete. Tradition, Jesus warned, makes the word of God of no effect (Mark 7:13).
The Blood Covenant and the Curse of the Law
Galatians 3:13–14 says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, so that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles and we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:29 adds that if you are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
Paul prayed even for the thriving church at Ephesus that the eyes of their understanding would be enlightened to know the hope of His calling and the riches of the inheritance (Ephesians 1:18). None of us has arrived, the speaker says. We still need the Holy Spirit to show us what has been given.
He divides the curse of the law into three parts: spiritual death, sickness and poverty. Having spent two weeks on spiritual death, he now turns to sickness. Deuteronomy 28:15–22 lists curses in the city and the country, on basket and kneading bowl, and then plague, consumption, fever and inflammation. Later verses add boils, tumors, madness and blindness, and Deuteronomy 28:58–61 even includes every sickness not written in the book of the law.
His conclusion from these verses is plain: sickness is a curse. It is not God’s way of teaching a lesson. God teaches by the Holy Spirit, who guides into all truth; sickness robs people of energy, time and finances. It is a destructive tool of a fallen world. Under the new covenant, our law is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2). As Hosea 4:6 warns, God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
He is careful to add that if you need to go to a doctor, you should go; it is not sin. He says he does not fight sickness or the devil; he fights the fight of faith and lays hold of eternal life (1 Timothy 6:12).
He Sent His Word and Healed Them
The speaker connects the Word and the blood. In the beginning was the Word, and in Him was life (John 1:1–4); the Word became flesh (John 1:14). In Revelation 19:11–13, the rider on the white horse wears a robe dipped in blood, and His name is the Word of God. That is good news, because Psalm 107:20 says He sent His word and healed them.
When God sees a believer covered by the blood, He sees the righteousness of God in Christ, not faults and failures. Satan also sees only Jesus, even when he whispers accusations, so believers must rebuke him and declare that the blood covers them. He compares this to the Passover, when the blood on the doorposts and lintel caused the destroyer to pass over Israel’s homes (Exodus 12:7–13).
The table below gathers the healing passages he reads and the point he draws from each.
| Passage | What it says | The point he draws |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Peter 2:24 | By His stripes you were healed | If you were healed, you are healed |
| Psalm 103:3–4 | He forgives all iniquities and heals all diseases | Jesus bore our sins and our sicknesses |
| Psalm 107:20 | He sent His word and healed them | No destruction is in your path |
| 1 Peter 1:3–4 | An inheritance reserved in heaven | A reservation is something you go and claim |
| Psalm 91:2–11 | No plague will come near your dwelling | This is not a fairy tale; it is covenant truth |
His testimony from 1981 illustrates 1 Peter 2:24. Freshly recommitted to Christ, he spent two days in bitter cold repairing a broken-down car in the Upper Peninsula and came down with pneumonia. Lying on the couch, he sensed the Holy Spirit tell him to read that verse. The thought kept repeating: if you were healed, you are healed, so what are you doing in bed? He went outside and shoveled the heavy snowfall, and he describes warmth and energy coming into him and the sickness leaving.
He also tells of R.W. Schambach, who, by the speaker’s account, felt a heart attack coming on while crossing a bridge, heard the Lord say He had healed him and to get out and run, and ran so far he wanted a cab back. These are not fairy tales, the speaker says. Psalm 103 and 1 Peter 1:3–4 describe a living hope and an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and Psalm 91 promises angels to guard you in all your ways.
Living the Blood Covenant This Week
The message closes with prayer for healing and with communion from Hebrews 10:19–23: boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, drawing near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, and holding fast the confession of our hope, for He who promised is faithful. Here are practical steps drawn from this blood covenant teaching:
- Invite the Holy Spirit daily. Ask Him to fill, lead and teach you, because only He reveals what the blood has purchased.
- Cocoon your mind in the Word. Renewing the mind is how the life of God moves from your spirit into your soul and body.
- Retrain your expectations. When the phone rings or news comes, expect blessing first, and rejoice when others are blessed.
- Treat sin as an event, not an identity. Ask forgiveness and move on; you are dead to sin and alive to God.
- Receive grace and righteousness. Romans 5:17 says those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life.
- Take communion in faith. Remember what the blood purchased, not merely as a ritual.
Timestamped Outline
- 0:00 The blood covenant as heaven’s system of government
- 1:16 God wants to establish you here; the Spirit and blood agree
- 2:18 Redeemed from darkness and redeemed unto God
- 3:26 Hebrews 9: eternal redemption and eternal inheritance
- 4:40 Eternal life as quality, not just quantity
- 5:49 Romans 12: transformation as metamorphosis
- 8:24 1 Corinthians 2:9–12: eye has not seen
- 10:41 Milk, meat and the word of righteousness
- 12:55 Prayer for the Holy Spirit to fill and lead
- 14:10 Hebrews 6: the full assurance of hope
- 17:52 Old covenant versus new covenant
- 19:22 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Romans 3:25
- 23:02 The Lamb of God, radically slain
- 26:55 Revelation 5:12: worthy is the Lamb
- 28:11 Matthew 9: according to your faith
- 33:54 Revelation in the heart and Mark 7:13
- 35:14 Galatians 3: redeemed from the curse
- 37:14 Deuteronomy 28: the curse of sickness
- 43:50 Sickness is a curse, not a teacher
- 48:51 John 1 and the Word of God
- 50:45 Revelation 19 and Psalm 107:20
- 54:14 1 Peter 2:24 and a pneumonia testimony
- 1:01:15 Psalm 91 and the R.W. Schambach story
- 1:08:35 Communion from Hebrews 10
Blood Covenant Series
This message is part of a long teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:
- First message: The Blood Covenant
- Previous: The Blood Covenant #15: The Spirit and the Blood Agree
- You are here: The Blood Covenant #16: The Spirit Reveals What the Blood Purchased
- Next: The Blood Covenant #17: Redeemed From the Curse of Sickness
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this message say Christians should not see a doctor?
No. The speaker says plainly that going to a doctor is not sin and that God put doctors in the earth to help people while they grow in faith. His emphasis is that he fights the fight of faith rather than fighting sickness itself. He describes standing on Scripture as something that comes from revelation in the heart, not from pressure or from trying to prove something to others.
Why does the speaker say Christianity is not for spineless people?
He believes the church has reduced Jesus to a meek, mild figure. The Lamb of God was gentle and lowly in heart, but He was also radically slain, drove out the money changers and preached sayings so hard that many left. Because the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force, he calls believers to rise up and do business for God.
How does he describe sin in a believer’s life?
He uses the picture of the Olympics. You buy a ticket and watch an event, but that does not make the event who you are. When a believer sins, it is an event, not an identity: you ask forgiveness and move on, because you are dead to sin and alive to God. Living under a guilty conscience, he says, keeps people from receiving what God offers.
Scripture References
All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:
- 1 Corinthians 2:9–12 — the Spirit reveals the deep things of God
- 1 John 5:8 — the Spirit, the water and the blood agree
- Hebrews 9:12–15 — eternal redemption
- Hebrews 6:11–12 — the full assurance of hope
- Romans 3:25 — faith in His blood
- Galatians 3:13–14 — redeemed from the curse
- Deuteronomy 28:15–22 — the curse of the law
- 1 Peter 2:24 — by His stripes you were healed
- Hebrews 10:19–23 — boldness to enter by the blood
How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.
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