Bishop Tudor Bismark -- The Precious Blood
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Good evening, Ulife Covenant Church
00:17 and our faithful viewers watching online
00:21 in Nairari, in Zimbabwe and around the world.
00:23 Thank you for being with us for our Middleweight Bible study.
00:26 It's been a real joy presenting to you on the subject,
00:30 the precious blood of Jesus.
00:32 And so this session is going to be entitled,
00:37 The Blood is Precious or Precious Blood.
00:41 And so our scripture reading is 1 Peter 1, verse 18.
00:46 And while you're thumbing through to find that
00:48 on your phone or your physical Bible,
00:50 just a reminder that the last couple of weeks
00:53 we taught 20 different things that the blood does
00:56 and the way the blood can apply is not just a lesson,
00:59 but what it is, it's principles that you can pray
01:03 and confess on a daily basis.
01:05 Our early morning prayers,
01:07 I'm definitely gonna be using some of these
01:10 or most of these, all of them, time permitting.
01:13 So 1 Peter 1, verse 18.
01:17 For as much as you know,
01:18 you were not redeemed with corruptible things
01:21 such as silver and gold from your vain conversation
01:26 received by the traditions of your fathers,
01:28 but you were redeemed by the precious blood of Christ
01:33 as a lamb without blemish and without spot
01:36 who verily was foreordained
01:38 before the foundation of the world,
01:41 but was manifest in these last times for you.
01:45 Hebrews chapter 10, verse one.
01:48 For the law, having a shadow of good things to come
01:54 and not the very image of the things
01:56 can never with those sacrifice
01:59 which they offered year by year continually
02:02 to make the comers there unto perfect.
02:04 For then would they have not ceased to be offered
02:08 because the worshipers once purged
02:10 should have had to come no more
02:13 because of their conscience,
02:16 but would need to continually come.
02:18 But those sacrifices, they were a remembrance
02:22 again and again for sins every year.
02:25 Verse four.
02:26 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
02:31 and of goats should take away sins.
02:35 Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says,
02:39 sacrifice and offerings you would not,
02:43 but a body has been prepared for me.
02:46 Hebrews 10, verse 10.
02:48 By which, which is the sacrifice of Jesus,
02:52 we were sanctified through the offering
02:55 of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.
02:59 And as a priest, this offering was made
03:02 to take away sins in the Old Testament.
03:06 But this man, one time,
03:09 was sacrificed for the sins of man forever
03:12 and then sat down at the right hand of God.
03:16 I wanna go back to 1 Peter chapter number one,
03:21 and I wanna pull out a couple of things
03:23 from that conversation.
03:24 Verse 20, 1 Peter chapter number one, verse 20.
03:28 Talking about Jesus' precious blood
03:31 as a lamb that will shed his blood
03:35 without, a lamb without blemish and without spot.
03:38 Who was foreordained before the foundation of the world.
03:46 So go with me to Genesis chapter number one, verse one.
03:48 Genesis one, verse one.
03:52 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
03:57 So the blood of Jesus was shed before Genesis one, verse one.
04:02 Because his blood was foreordained
04:08 before the foundation of the world.
04:11 So before anything, both heaven and in earth,
04:15 visible and invisible, was actually made,
04:18 the blood of Jesus was already shed.
04:21 And if that blood was shed and was powerful back then,
04:25 before there was anything spoken,
04:27 let there be light, the blood was shed.
04:29 Let the waters be separated, the blood was shed.
04:33 If all those things were so dynamic, so powerful,
04:36 so cataclysmic, think about the blood of Jesus,
04:40 what that blood will do for you.
04:42 It's not just powerful, it is precious.
04:47 And you are a beneficiary of that blood.
04:50 And so the precious blood of Jesus was number one,
04:53 shed for our sins.
04:55 Number two, the blood of Jesus
04:59 was shed for our transgressions.
05:02 And number three, the blood of Jesus
05:05 was shed for our iniquities.
05:08 Isaiah chapter number 53, verse five.
05:12 He was wounded for our transgressions.
05:16 He was bruised for our iniquities.
05:18 The chastisement of our peace was upon him,
05:22 and with these stripes we are healed.
05:25 And so when Jesus shed his blood,
05:29 the blood that he shed was number one for sins.
05:34 Sins are sins of the flesh.
05:39 Flesh, Galatians chapter five, verse 19.
05:44 The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these.
05:47 He talks about fornication, adultery,
05:53 the service-ness, uncleanness, idolatry, emulations.
05:57 He lists all the works of the flesh.
06:00 The blood that was shed physically
06:02 was to remove the sins of the flesh.
06:07 And so the blood then washes away our sin.
06:11 That blood, when it is applied in repentance,
06:15 when it is applied in baptism,
06:17 when that blood is applied, our sins are washed away.
06:22 And so people say, "When is the blood applied?"
06:25 Well, the fact that the terminology used is washed away,
06:30 the blood then is applied in baptism.
06:33 So we go to the tabernacle, all right?
06:36 In the tabernacle, when the priest shed the blood
06:40 of an animal in repentance, the blood was made available.
06:45 Then the blood was, the priest then washed at the lever.
06:50 That blood was then washing away
06:54 the things that had transpired.
06:56 But the blood was actually for atonement
06:59 in the holiest of holies applied,
07:01 where it was acknowledged that the blood was shed
07:05 and acknowledged that the blood had removed sins.
07:10 Let me put it to you this way.
07:12 You've committed a crime.
07:14 You then get a lawyer.
07:18 The lawyer then reviews your case.
07:22 The lawyer then books an appointment
07:25 with the clerk of the court.
07:27 And the judge or the court then gives you a date.
07:31 The first of February, you will come before the judge.
07:35 The fact that you have a lawyer doesn't mean
07:37 that your crime has been done away with.
07:40 The fact that your lawyer has a date with the court
07:45 doesn't mean that your crime has been taken away.
07:49 The fact that you enter the court doesn't mean
07:51 that that crime has been lifted and you've been exonerated.
07:54 The fact that the judge is sitting in the seat
07:57 and hasn't listened to your lawyer present
08:00 doesn't mean that you are set free.
08:02 When the judge hears the case
08:05 and the judge passes their sentence
08:07 and says this person is not guilty,
08:09 that's the only time you're free.
08:11 So the blood then is applied in the holiest of holies
08:15 all the way you are carrying the blood,
08:18 but the blood has not yet been applied.
08:20 And so for you, as you're carrying the blood,
08:25 number one, the blood must be shed and applied
08:28 to take away your sins.
08:30 Say, "My sins are forgiven."
08:32 Say, "My sins are remitted."
08:34 Say, "My sins are removed."
08:36 So forgiven and remitted and removed are separate things.
08:40 The fact that your sins are forgiven
08:42 doesn't mean they've been remitted.
08:44 So you must be baptized in the name of the Lord
08:48 for the remission of your sins, Acts 2, verse 38.
08:52 And then transgression.
08:54 The transgression is a wound.
08:59 He was bruised for transgression.
09:01 So a bruise is basically blood
09:05 that doesn't break the skin.
09:07 So I fell the other day jogging
09:09 and I bruised my entire area of my knee.
09:13 And so it's just now after four weeks
09:17 coming to total healing.
09:19 It would have been better if it was cut
09:21 and the blood poured out as opposed to a bruising.
09:24 So what Jesus did was he shed his blood for sins.
09:29 Those are outward sins.
09:31 He was bruised for our transgression.
09:34 These are inward sins.
09:36 A transgression, the word trans means to travel.
09:41 Crescent is a deed, traveling deeds.
09:47 Traveling deeds.
09:49 So his wounding was to deal with traveling deeds.
09:53 A lot of times your sins will wait for you in front.
09:58 Yes, you have been forgiven and yes, you've been baptized.
10:03 But that deed like prophecy is traveling
10:07 and waiting for you in a moment of temptation.
10:10 And it's coming to every person.
10:12 And so you have to be aware that the blood of Jesus
10:16 does separate things for separate crimes and violations.
10:22 He was wounded for transgressions.
10:25 These are sins of the soul, not sins of the flesh.
10:30 Transgressions are sins of the soul.
10:33 These are in your mind, having thoughts cast down,
10:38 imaginations removed, imagining and creating evil.
10:44 Those transgressions, traveling sins,
10:49 sins of the soulish realms.
10:52 You know, sometimes people are in acts
10:56 and they have a soul tie with someone.
10:58 You need the blood of transgressions to be applied.
11:03 I met a lady that, in fact, a man was very close to us,
11:09 married seven different times.
11:15 He was a pastor.
11:16 Divorced, married, divorced, married,
11:18 divorced, married, divorced, married.
11:20 And so last year we learned that he was now
11:23 on his ninth woman.
11:24 After he failed on the seventh, got an eighth,
11:30 refused to get married, that fell apart, went to a ninth.
11:33 The problem is there are sins of the soul
11:38 and they go back a few generations,
11:40 which I'll deal with iniquities in a minute.
11:43 And so Jesus was wounded because when a person is wounded
11:47 in your emotions, in your mind,
11:50 you don't need a rag to wash.
11:52 You need something that goes inside,
11:54 inquisio, inside, to heal inside.
11:59 There are people worshiping on a Sunday.
12:01 They are sick inside.
12:03 I did a series on the soul of a man.
12:06 A sick soul is a sick person.
12:10 And so if your soul is sick, if your mind is unstable,
12:18 don't need medication.
12:20 Medication could be applied.
12:22 What you need is the blood of Jesus
12:25 to heal that broken soul.
12:27 Say after me in the name of Jesus.
12:29 He was wounded for my soul sins.
12:34 The third thing the precious blood of Jesus does,
12:40 he was bruised for iniquities.
12:44 So there's wounded for transgressions,
12:47 bruised for iniquity.
12:48 Iniquity is a generational spirit.
12:53 And iniquity is a pattern of family traits.
12:59 It's a trait within a family.
13:02 And so there are certain families in their family group,
13:09 there is a trait, a behavioral pattern of alcoholism
13:14 or drug addiction or whoredom of sexual sins.
13:19 It passes on.
13:23 And sometimes even if a person is not exposed directly
13:28 to the family deed, at a certain age,
13:33 that spirit comes and claim the family tradition.
13:38 And so when a person then is brought to repentance
13:44 and they give their heart to the Lord,
13:46 these things have to be dealt with.
13:49 We have to go deep because it is here in deliverance
13:54 where people should not just acknowledge their sins
13:59 and people shouldn't just cry
14:01 because they are wounded in their soul.
14:03 We have to deal with the iniquitous patterns
14:06 and have to go deep into deliverance.
14:09 Deep into deliverance.
14:13 And so when you're dealing with family traits,
14:15 years and years ago, a young lady in our family group
14:20 was basically dumped and landed up with my grandmother.
14:29 And I can tell the story
14:33 because this young lady has passed away since then.
14:36 And from when she was a little girl, from about four or five,
14:40 my grandmother was looking after a child
14:42 who already, my grandmother had raised 13 children.
14:46 She had 13 children.
14:48 Now was looking after a grandchild.
14:50 And so as my grandmother got older,
14:53 she finally, she passed away.
14:56 Before she passed away,
14:57 she asked my mother to take care of this young lady.
15:00 And she came to us, we were already so many in the family,
15:04 she came to us and shared a room
15:08 with my five other sisters.
15:11 And was attending church, was a good young lady.
15:15 And on her 16th birthday,
15:20 Shamari, on her 16th birthday,
15:22 something came on this girl.
15:25 She ran from a good, loving, honest,
15:29 beautiful Christian young lady,
15:33 where she went totally crazy.
15:35 Lifted her dress, went to school.
15:38 It's like, "What's wrong with her?"
15:40 Went to school, her dress was here.
15:42 Started showing boys in school her underwear.
15:45 Started going and flashing,
15:48 and started sleeping with men.
15:50 My mother, "What is this?"
15:52 What had happened was,
15:54 an iniquitous pattern manifest when she was 16.
15:58 And then the story came out
16:00 that her mother had had her with others.
16:06 All her brothers and sisters were from different men.
16:10 The crazy thing,
16:13 that when my parents began to research our church,
16:16 which had no name,
16:18 we were at a place in Blyo called City Tutorial College.
16:22 All of the families, besides our family when we joined,
16:27 all of the families there,
16:28 the women that were in that church,
16:30 there were no men, only women.
16:33 All of those women had four, five, six children.
16:37 Each of the children were from different men.
16:39 So when our family joined the church,
16:44 my dad wasn't yet saved.
16:48 I was just about 16.
16:51 I was basically the only man at 16.
16:54 And so the church was led by, of course, women.
17:00 My mother was a very strong person,
17:02 became the natural leader of that church.
17:05 And when my dad got saved,
17:07 when he was delivered miraculously
17:09 from all kinds of evil sins and behavior
17:12 and stuff like that,
17:13 and my dad became the leader,
17:16 suddenly those behaviors in those,
17:19 I can think of about eight different women right now
17:22 who had children, six, seven, eight children
17:25 from different men.
17:26 It was iniquitous patterns.
17:28 And so my dad had to deal with
17:31 all of these iniquitous patterns,
17:33 not knowing what they were,
17:35 going through each one of them.
17:36 But the crazy thing is that those women
17:40 that had children from different men,
17:45 their children, the girls,
17:47 all had children from different men.
17:49 And the men had women
17:54 and had children from different women.
17:56 And some of them are still in Harare.
17:59 The grandchildren and great-grandchildren
18:01 are still doing the same thing.
18:03 I met one the other day trying to invite them to church.
18:07 She had three kids, all of them different.
18:11 One looked like a white kid,
18:13 the other one looked like he came from Mocingo
18:15 with a big head.
18:16 Another one you could see was like a Portuguese.
18:18 I'm like, "What happened?"
18:20 She's like the woman in chapter number four
18:24 of the book of John.
18:26 The man that I'm with is not even my husband.
18:29 I said, "But when are you gonna change this?"
18:31 She said, "I'm trying."
18:32 She's like, "Come to church,
18:33 "but there's something pulling me back.
18:35 "It is an iniquitous pattern.
18:37 "What is needed here is the blood of Jesus
18:40 "to deal with the iniquity.
18:42 "There are things that some people are fighting here.
18:45 "It's not you.
18:48 "It's something from the past
18:50 "that's claiming a hold of you."
18:53 At this point, I want you to say,
18:54 "In the name of Jesus."
18:56 I apply the precious blood of Jesus.
18:59 The blood of an iniquity
19:02 is inferior to the precious blood of Jesus.
19:08 I am redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus
19:14 in Jesus' name.
19:15 So let's talk about things of value.
19:18 So something of value,
19:21 it can be a ring,
19:23 a simple ring.
19:25 I bought Chi-Chi an engagement and wedding ring in 1981
19:30 in Durban, South Africa.
19:32 Cost me 110 rand.
19:34 It's just about all I had.
19:36 And it was precious.
19:39 She still has it somewhere.
19:41 When we got married, my cousin saw the ring.
19:43 He said, "Let me do something for you."
19:45 He's a jeweler, and he added some gold around that.
19:48 From a nine-carat, he put 14-carat gold around that.
19:52 That ring is precious.
19:54 I have notebooks in my drawer
19:57 of my first messages from 1974.
19:59 If you look at that notebook, it's not notes like this,
20:02 but those are more precious than this.
20:05 I have my tie that I wore when Chi-Chi and I got engaged.
20:09 I saw somebody working for us took that tie
20:12 and was gonna throw it away.
20:14 I said, "Shomari, this tie, it may not mean much to you,
20:17 "but this is a precious tie."
20:18 It reminds me of when I asked Chi-Chi to marry me
20:22 at the Jameson Hotel, at Tiffany's restaurant.
20:27 I said, "I asked you to marry me, I was wearing this tie.
20:30 "It's a precious tie to me.
20:32 "It may not seem like anything to you."
20:34 I have a shirt there that my dad bought for me
20:37 when he went to America for the first time in 1981,
20:42 when my sister, Marion, died, burnt with fire.
20:45 My dad made a sacrifice, and part of the reminder
20:49 is the church that my brother's pastoring,
20:51 but he bought me a shirt.
20:53 The shirt is lacerated, it's worn out,
20:56 it's kind of like tawdry,
20:58 but that shirt is the most precious shirt
21:00 I have in all my collection, because it's precious.
21:05 I have a pair of cowboy boots that I received in 1988.
21:10 I was in Longview, Texas.
21:13 My sister was arrested by some policemen
21:17 who were driving down the road coming from church,
21:19 and they pulled her over,
21:21 said she was going over the speed limit.
21:23 In the middle of the night,
21:27 these Caucasian policemen arrested her.
21:29 I was getting out of the car.
21:31 They put a gun on me and said,
21:32 "Get back in the car and use the word."
21:35 There was a young white guy
21:38 that was in the service that night
21:40 who received the Holy Spirit and got deliverance.
21:42 His first name is Donnie.
21:44 He witnessed some of that, called the pastor.
21:47 They got the sheriff to come out
21:49 and found out that it was a wrongful arrest.
21:51 They wrote my sister and the church a letter of apology,
21:55 but Donnie felt so bad being a white young man,
21:59 and here black people are being arrested
22:02 for no cause at all.
22:04 To thank me, he gave me a pair of cowboy boots.
22:07 I was looking at them this morning.
22:09 I've worn them maybe twice from 1988.
22:13 Those boots are precious because of the event.
22:16 And so there are things in your life.
22:18 I still have my tie from when I was in Form 6
22:23 in Founder's Eye.
22:25 It's precious.
22:26 I have two ties of my first trip to Israel.
22:30 Those things are precious,
22:31 and the list goes on and on and on,
22:35 and on and on of different things that are given.
22:38 I was given in Honduras from a little girl.
22:43 The power of God fell in the service.
22:45 There were 25,000 plus people there,
22:48 and people started throwing money,
22:50 and this little girl came,
22:51 and the armor bearers tried to push her back, Brian,
22:54 and I said, "Let her through,"
22:56 and she took out two little grass earrings.
22:59 Her ears were just pierced by her grandmother,
23:03 and they put grass, and through the interpreter,
23:06 she said, "All I have is this.
23:07 "I don't have any money."
23:09 I received maybe 150 watches in that offering,
23:14 cell phones, somebody gave a computer,
23:18 clothes, shoes, but none of those things
23:21 were as precious as two pieces of grass.
23:24 Stanislaus Jones, the late Stanislaus Jones,
23:29 who's been to our conference,
23:31 sacrificed her life to look after her mother,
23:34 and her mother was very sick,
23:37 and Stanislaus said to her fiance,
23:39 "I need to look after my mother,"
23:41 'cause her mother was going to die,
23:43 and she said, "Let's get married,
23:46 "and we look after my mom."
23:47 He said, "No, I didn't sign up for that,"
23:50 and so she let her fiance go.
23:53 He married somebody else,
23:55 and her mom lived another 35 years.
23:58 Her mom lived to almost 100.
24:01 A day before her 100th birthday, she passed away,
24:05 and she was strong, she was fine,
24:09 and she gave Stanislaus,
24:12 this old girl really loved me,
24:15 when she turned 99, she said,
24:16 "Stanislaus, this is my last year."
24:19 She said, "I want you, when I die,
24:21 "to take my purse and give it to Bishop Bismarck."
24:25 It's a pink purse that she bought in 1948,
24:29 and it's like crocodile skin,
24:35 and there's money in that purse.
24:37 I have that purse.
24:39 It's in a safekeeping.
24:41 I have that purse.
24:43 I just peeped in the other day,
24:45 that money there can never be used.
24:47 It's precious.
24:49 I was leaving India just after my 60th birthday,
24:54 and I'd always wanted to go to India,
24:56 and my armor bearer that looked after me,
24:58 my security guy, as I boarded Emirates flight,
25:02 came to my seat to make sure I was secure.
25:05 He took out an envelope and said,
25:07 "I've been listening to you for seven years,
25:10 "preaching at Bill Winston.
25:11 "I've even come to Bill Winston's conference."
25:14 He said, "When I heard you were coming
25:15 "to be with our pastor, Dr. Steve Patter,
25:18 "he said, 'I saved my salary for one year,
25:21 "'and I want to give it to you.'
25:23 "I cried like a baby.
25:25 "He said, 'Please buy something.'"
25:26 How can I buy something with somebody
25:29 that gave something so precious?
25:31 Sisters and brothers, that offering
25:34 is still in an envelope in rupees,
25:36 because it's precious, and there are many things
25:39 a moment, a moment with your mom,
25:42 a moment with a sister, a moment of something
25:45 that happens, those are precious,
25:47 but none of those are as precious as the blood of Jesus.
25:52 That found you when you were nobody,
25:55 had nothing, lifted you from sinking sand,
25:58 washed you whiter than sin,
26:00 you had no name, that blood cleans you up.
26:03 Thank God for His precious blood.
26:06 That precious blood has given you eternal life.
26:10 That precious blood has given you a new body.
26:13 That precious blood has given you a new name.
26:16 That blood covers Adam and his sin,
26:18 and Eve from the original sin,
26:20 to the last human being, the last baby
26:22 that will ever be born, to babies
26:25 that are being aborted at full term.
26:29 Even now, there's a law that was passed
26:31 that authorizes if a baby's been born,
26:35 and a mother says she doesn't want that baby,
26:37 that a doctor has authority to take the life of that baby.
26:41 Even those kids who haven't even had an hour
26:44 to live in this corrupt and wicked world,
26:46 that precious blood covers that baby.
26:49 To every person, the blood covers.
26:52 There's nothing too bad you've done
26:54 that the blood can't cover.
26:56 There's nothing so heinous that you may have committed
26:59 that the blood can't cover.
27:01 That blood is available for you,
27:03 and God makes it available through confession of your words.
27:08 He makes that precious blood available
27:10 through an embassy such as a church,
27:13 where the word of God is dispensed.
27:15 That blood is made available
27:17 through reading the precious word of God.
27:19 When you read it and that word is applied, it cleanses you.
27:22 That precious blood is applied
27:24 when you pray prayers of sincerity,
27:26 asking God to let the advocate touch you.
27:30 That blood is more precious than the blood of rams,
27:33 of goats, of bulls, of pigeons.
27:36 That blood is more precious than the life
27:38 of men like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
27:41 Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel.
27:46 You name all the kings,
27:48 all of those men who had royal blood
27:50 flowing through their veins,
27:52 King David, King Solomon, Rehoboam,
27:55 Joseph, Hezekiah, all that royal blood,
27:58 all of it doesn't amount to a microscopic drop
28:02 of the blood of Jesus.
28:04 It takes a microscopic drop of the blood of Jesus
28:07 to bring you into eternal deliverance,
28:09 eternal blessing, eternal benefit.
28:12 We command that blood on your life.
28:15 Sisters and brothers,
28:17 on Solomon's sacrifice for the temple,
28:22 there were over 600,000 liters of blood
28:28 that was shed.
28:33 At the shedding of blood for Solomon,
28:37 it was 800, 300 liters of lamb's blood,
28:42 87 gallons of ox blood.
28:46 All of that blood doesn't even come close
28:49 to what the blood of Jesus does.
28:51 It's so precious.
28:52 It's the blood of gladness.
28:54 It's the blood of rejoicing.
28:56 It's the blood, sisters and brothers, of jubilee.
28:59 It's the blood that uplifts.
29:01 It's the blood that once you apply it in your life,
29:05 the Father receives you and blesses you.
29:07 We thank God for the blood.
29:10 Guys, thank you for watching.
29:11 Thank you for being with us.
29:12 There's power in the blood of Jesus.
29:14 The blood is precious.
29:16 Apply it, use it.
29:18 If you are a pastor,
29:19 if you are leading a group in New Life Covenant Church,
29:22 if you are praying for people to be delivered,
29:26 always use the blood of Jesus.
29:28 It will never lose its power.
29:30 The blood of Jesus will never lose its power.
29:34 In the name of Jesus, thank God for the blood.
29:37 We love you guys.
29:38 God bless you.
29:40 We'll see you next time in our Biblical Bible study.
29:42 In Jesus' name, amen.
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