The Blood Covenant: The Full Penalty Jesus Paid for Sin

The blood covenant is an all-in agreement: God gives everything He has to those in covenant with Him, and they give everything they have to Him. In this message, the pastor traces that covenant from Adam’s failure and Abraham’s obedience to the cross, then asks a direct question about the price Jesus paid: did He suffer only the beating, the nails and the spear, or did He pay the full penalty for sin, including hell itself?

This teaching continues from Blood Covenant Part 7: Communion Faith & Covenant Knowledge. Below you will find the full video, a structured summary, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a table of the Passover lamb as he explains it, a timestamped outline and practical steps.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was preached at NTC Ministries and posted on March 2, 2021, as part of a long series on the blood covenant. It runs about 74 minutes and ends with communion. The pastor opens by reminding the church that he eats the same meal he serves: a message is not only to be heard but applied, because covenant is two parties each giving one hundred percent.

From there he builds toward the central question of the sermon. He believes some teaching in churches today demeans and depletes what Jesus did, and he wants believers to be fortified in the truth so they can stand against deception.

The Blood Covenant Is All or Nothing

The pastor begins with what the blood covenant is. It is not giving your life to Jesus while holding some of it back. “You’re all in or you’re not in,” he says. God the Father planned creation, Jesus built it like a general contractor, and the Holy Spirit breathed life into it. Then God handed everything over to Adam, because He is a covenant God who holds nothing back.

The devil immediately told Adam that God had held things back, and Adam ended up giving everything over to Satan. That is why, when God wanted to accomplish our salvation, He had to come into this world legally. He lives by His own rules, the pastor explains, so He needed someone willing to say, whatever You want, it is Yours.

He found that man in Abram, whom He called out of Ur of the Chaldeans. God told him to go up Mount Moriah, where Jerusalem sits now, and offer his only son, the son he loved (Genesis 22:1–14). The pastor says Isaac was about 17. When Isaac asked where the lamb was, Abraham answered that God would provide Himself a lamb. As he raised the knife, the angel stopped his hand.

Because Abraham was willing to give his son in the blood covenant, it was accounted to him for righteousness, and God gained the legal right to enter the earth through Abraham’s line. The covenant promised that kings would rise from him. Jesus is the King who rose from that line, and believers are the kings, which is why He is called King of kings and Lord of lords.

Under the old covenant, the blood of animals atoned for sin. The pastor explains that atone means to cover. For four thousand years, sin piled up, covered so that God’s wrath would not be poured out on man. On the cross, Jesus took that sin upon Himself and exposed it before the Father, who turned His face away. Jesus cried, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46), and the wrath of God was poured out on Him for us.

Royal, Holy, Righteous Blood

Many people say Jesus paid the penalty for their sin. The pastor asks what that penalty was. Was it only the beating on His back, the nails in His hands and feet, and the spear in His side? “I believe there’s more,” he says.

He starts with 1 Timothy 1:15: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. None of us chose to come into the earth, but Jesus did. He was born of the virgin Mary, a daughter of Abraham, and Matthew 1:1 opens by calling Him the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. He came through the covenant line.

He became flesh because there had to be blood. God never really wanted the blood of bulls and goats; He wanted royal, holy, righteous blood, the blood of His Son in covenant with the Father. The book of Hebrews says a body was prepared for Him (Hebrews 10:5), and Hebrews 9:22 says that without shedding of blood there is no remission.

The blood covenant is the source of the believer’s authority. The seven sons of Sceva tried to use the name of Jesus without being in covenant, and the demon overpowered them (Acts 19:13–16). In covenant, the pastor says, demons are cast out and sicknesses and diseases have to bow to the name of Jesus, because He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

Paul told the Ephesian elders to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28). The pastor stresses the word His: this was not the blood of a prophet or a good man, but the blood of God. Groups that deny Jesus is God, he says, are demeaning what God has done, the same tactic Satan used on Adam.

That is also why the church is not a club or a lodge. It is the living body of Christ, and where two or three gather in His name, He is in the midst. He urges listeners to get out of the news and into the Good News, because the news depletes you while Jesus, the covenant head, empowers you.

Lordship: Owner, Master and Ruler

When we first come to God, all we have is debt. He gives us life and everything else, and after that He tells us what to do with what we have, because in covenant nothing is held back. Everything we have is His, just as everything He has is ours. The pastor says many people do not believe everything God has is theirs because they never reached the place where everything they had was His.

Revelation comes the same way. It does not come only by reading the Bible; it comes as you act on it. Abraham left home without being told where he was going, and revelation followed. Those who know their God, Daniel 11:32 says, shall be strong and carry out great exploits. The pastor reads it as those who know their covenant.

Jesus modeled this. He only said what He heard the Father say and only did what He saw the Father do. In Philippians 2:5–11, He made Himself of no reputation, took the form of a servant and became obedient to the point of death on the cross. Because He gave everything over to the Father, the Father highly exalted Him and gave Him the name above every name, at which every knee will bow.

In the blood covenant, the pastor teaches, that lordship brings glory into our lives. Lord means owner, master and ruler. Whatever He wants, however He wants it and whoever He tells us to submit to, that is it. He points to Peter’s instruction to submit even to a harsh master (1 Peter 2:18–20): there is no glory in submitting only to someone who is kind to you.

The Passover Lamb Roasted in Fire

The pastor then turns to the question many churches answer with a no: did Jesus go to hell? He says it is of grave importance. Revelation 13:8 calls Jesus the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God made provision before any sin took place, and Jesus had to pay every aspect of the penalty for sin, drinking the full cup of God’s wrath.

He goes to the first Passover in Exodus 12:1–9, reading it as types and shadows of Christ. The table follows his explanation of each detail.

The four days connect to 2 Peter 3:8–9, where one day is as a thousand years with the Lord. The pastor adds that when you give your life to Jesus, your works are not yet perfect, but your nature becomes sinless because you are a new creation. When you sin, you simply ask forgiveness and let the blood cleanse you, without excuses.

The fire, he says, pictures the penalty, and it is also why Abraham had to offer a burnt sacrifice on Moriah. The pastor connects the denial of this truth to Satan’s oldest tactic. In Genesis 3:1–5, he questioned whether God had really said it and claimed God was withholding something, even though Genesis 1:26 shows God gave man dominion over everything. Satan still demeans the message, depletes the promises and devalues our relationship with God, including by claiming healing is not for today. But by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).

Paradise and the Placement of a Comma

The main argument the pastor hears against his view comes from Luke 23:39–43. One criminal on a cross rebuked the other and asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His kingdom. Jesus answered, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Some say this proves Jesus went only to paradise and never paid the penalty of hell.

The pastor explains that, in Old Testament times, Paradise was Abraham’s bosom, next to hell with a great gulf between them. He reads Luke 16:19–26, where the rich man in torment begs for Lazarus to dip his finger in water and cool his tongue. He links that to the Passover lamb that could not be boiled in water: in that place of torment, there is no water.

He then explains that the original Hebrew and Greek have no punctuation, chapters or verses. Translators add them, and a single comma can change the picture. He recommends a hard-copy Strong’s or Young’s concordance for serious study and warns against claiming that only one English translation is acceptable.

With Isaiah 59:19, he prefers the reading that magnifies God rather than the enemy. With Luke 23:43, he notes that the thief asked to be remembered when Jesus came into His kingdom. Jesus did not enter His kingdom right after His death, the pastor teaches, because there was a penalty still to pay in full before paradise.

Did Jesus Go to Hell? The Full Penalty Paid

The pastor builds the case for the full penalty from the cup of wrath. Psalm 11:5–6 says fire, brimstone and a burning wind shall be the portion of the wicked’s cup. Jesus drank the full cup, so, he reasons, part of that cup is hell. Matthew 25:41 describes the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels, and Revelation 20:10 seals the devil’s doom. He rejects teaching that Satan will one day be saved, and reads Revelation 21:7–8: he who overcomes shall inherit all things.

Jesus Himself gave the sign of Jonah: three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12:40). The belly of a fish, the pastor says, is no paradise. He describes a lost fishhook dissolving inside a fish within a day. Yet like the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace, where a fourth like the Son of God appeared (Daniel 3:25), Jesus was kept from corruption.

Psalm 16:10 says God would not leave His soul in Sheol nor allow His Holy One to see corruption. The pastor notes that the King James translators rendered Sheol as hell, while other versions leave the Hebrew word, which is hard to define. The verse does not say His soul would be raised from Paradise; it was a place of punishment.

Finally, 1 Peter 3:18–19 says Christ was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom He went and preached to the spirits in prison. The pastor explains the Greek word for preached as a herald’s announcement of victory, like calling a friend to say the underdog team is winning. Jesus declared to all hell, “I win, you lose,” and now holds the keys of death and Hades (Revelation 1:18). Then He went into paradise, where the thief was, and by the Holy Spirit rose from the dead.

Had the rulers of this age understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:7–8). The pastor closes the argument with a warning: the wrath described in Revelation 14:9–11 is real, and there are only two ways to live. Repentance means changing direction, asking forgiveness without blaming anyone, and committing your life to Jesus.

Living in the Covenant This Week

The service ends at the Lord’s table. The pastor compares it to David bringing Mephibosheth to his table, and he leads a prayer of faith that Jesus took the full penalty and rose again. These steps come from the message:

• Give everything over. Tell Jesus your money, your life, your mouth and your hands are His.
• Act on the Word. Like Abraham, obey before you understand; revelation follows obedience.
• Submit as unto the Lord. Serve and submit at work and at home, even when it is hard.
• Repent quickly and simply. When you sin, ask forgiveness without excuses and let the blood cleanse you.
• Guard against deception. Test teaching that demeans what Jesus did, and study with a good concordance.
• Remember Him at communion. He forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:2–5).

As he puts it, “It’s a good day to live right.” The blood covenant God made with His Son can never be broken.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Covenant means both parties give 100 percent
• 1:06 Adam gives everything over to Satan
• 2:28 Abraham on Mount Moriah
• 4:53 Animal blood covered sin
• 5:54 1 Timothy 1:15: He came into the world
• 8:17 Hebrews 9:22: no remission without blood
• 12:01 Acts 20:28: purchased with His own blood
• 15:47 Revelation comes as you act
• 18:17 Philippians 2: lordship and glory
• 22:01 Did Jesus go to hell? Revelation 13:8
• 23:11 Exodus 12: the Passover lamb
• 28:34 Roasted in fire
• 29:44 Satan’s tactic in Genesis 3
• 33:19 Luke 23: the thief on the cross
• 35:53 Luke 16: the rich man and Lazarus
• 39:13 Bible translations and concordances
• 44:20 Isaiah 59:19 and the comma
• 46:39 Luke 23:43 re-punctuated
• 47:50 Psalm 11: the cup of wrath
• 50:07 Revelation 20 and 21
• 51:17 Matthew 12:40: the sign of Jonah
• 53:48 Psalm 16:10 and Sheol
• 57:56 1 Peter 3: He preached to the spirits in prison
• 1:10:09 Communion

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 Part 7: God Reveals His Plans to Those in Covenant
• You are here: The Blood Covenant: The Full Penalty Jesus Paid for Sin
• Next: The Blood Covenant Part 10: The Seven-Fold Shedding of the Blood of Jesus

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does the pastor say Isaac was a type of Jesus?

He teaches that everything in the Old Testament is a type and shadow of the New. Abraham was willing to give his only son, the son he loved, on Mount Moriah, the place where Jerusalem now stands. When Isaac asked where the lamb was, Abraham said God would provide Himself a lamb. That willingness gave God legal entry into the earth through Abraham, and Jesus later came from that line as the Lamb who was actually sacrificed.

Does it matter which Bible translation I read?

The pastor says the many English versions describe the same events with slightly different words, like saying come near or draw close. A dictionary, he explains, is really a book of pictures, and different versions help different readers see what is meant. He discourages insisting on one version only, and recommends Strong’s or Young’s concordance to check the original Hebrew and Greek words.

Why is communion part of a blood covenant message?

Jesus said the cup is the new covenant in His blood, shed for the forgiveness of sins, and told us to do it in remembrance of Him. The pastor sees the Lord’s table like David seating Mephibosheth at the king’s table. Coming to it means saying yes to everything Jesus provides while giving Him everything in return.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Exodus 12:1–9 — the Passover lamb
• Hebrews 9:22 — no remission without blood
• Acts 20:28 — purchased with His own blood
• Philippians 2:5–11 — the name above every name
• Luke 23:39–43 — the thief on the cross
• Luke 16:19–26 — the great gulf
• Matthew 12:40 — the sign of Jonah
• Psalm 16:10 — not left in Sheol
• 1 Peter 3:18–19 — preaching to the spirits in prison

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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