Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000021
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00:00 ♪ (Theme Song) ♪ ♪ Jesus is worthy ♪
00:09 ♪ oh yes, he's worthy ♪ ♪ worthy of all... ♪ 00:17 (Music) PB: I want to welcome 00:23 those who are watching the Breath of Life 00:25 television ministry. 00:26 I'm Dr. Carlton T. Byrd, and I'd like to welcome 00:28 you to the Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church here in 00:29 Atlanta, Georgia. 00:30 Take your Bibles with me and let's go to the book of 00:34 Exodus. 00:34 What book, everybody? 00:36 We want to go to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, verses 21 00:44 through 28. 00:50 Exodus 12:21-28. 01:02 If you have it, let me hear you say Amen. 01:04 Amen. 01:04 All right. 01:05 We're reading from the Word of God. 01:07 God's Word says, "Then Moses called for all the elders of 01:11 Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb 01:16 according to your families, and kill the passover. 01:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the 01:25 blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the 01:27 two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none 01:31 of you shall go out at the door of his house until the 01:33 morning." Verse 23, very important text: "For the Lord 01:37 will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth 01:43 the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the 01:48 Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the 01:53 destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 01:57 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee 02:00 and to thy sons for ever." 02:02 Verse 25, "And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to 02:06 the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath 02:10 promised, that ye shall keep this service. 02:13 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say 02:16 unto you, What mean ye by this service? 02:19 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's 02:23 passover, who passed over the houses of the children of 02:26 Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered 02:29 our houses. 02:30 And the people bowed their head and worshipped. 02:32 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord 02:35 had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they." The subject this 02:42 morning is entitled "Power in the Blood." Lord, speak to us. 02:48 Disappoint us not, fill us with your spirit, anoint us 02:54 with your grace. 02:56 God, we be careful to give you the praise in this place 02:59 today. 03:00 Hide me behind your cross. 03:01 In Jesus' name we pray. 03:03 Let everyone say Amen. 03:04 And Amen. 03:07 It was the Passover service that Christ was keeping 03:12 thousands of years later, commemorating what God had 03:19 already done for Israel in Egypt. 03:22 When at the communion service with his disciples, remember, 03:27 it was Jesus who said, "Take, eat, 03:31 this is my body that was broken for you." Here Jesus 03:35 identified himself as being the Lamb of which this Old 03:39 Testament story about Passover is all about. 03:43 He lets us know that this Old Testament story was just a 03:48 shadow. 03:50 Everybody say shadow. 03:51 You see, the lamb in the Old Testament was just a type. 03:56 Just a model of the real thing that was to come. 04:01 Ellen White in "The Desire of Ages" says that the sacrifice 04:05 of the lamb at Passover was a memorial of the Lord's 04:09 wonderful deliverance of the children of Israel, but it 04:12 pointed to a greater deliverance to be wrought 04:16 out only by the only begotten Son of God. 04:20 As the blood was sprinkled on the doorposts, as it had saved 04:25 the firstborn of Israel, so the blood of Christ has the 04:31 power to save the world. 04:34 Today I want you to get into your head and in your spirit, 04:39 as we partake of the Lord's supper today, I want you to do 04:45 with understanding that the blood is a part of your 04:49 covenant rites and covenant heritage and, friends of mine, 04:53 that is a defense. 04:56 This is just not today a nice communion service, but this is 05:03 a service of defense. 05:06 It is a defense mechanism where if you understand it, it 05:13 will cause you to get victory against the enemy that 05:16 oppresses you. 05:19 If you understand it, it will make a great deal of 05:23 difference for you. 05:24 Because understand, the enemy has come against your freedom. 05:28 The enemy has come against that freedom, whether that is 05:33 spiritual freedom, physical freedom, social freedom or 05:39 economic freedom. 05:42 Anything that threatens to enslave you, anything that 05:47 threatens to have you bound, anything that threatens to 05:51 chain you up, I've come today to tell you that the breaking 05:57 of bread and the lifting of the cup is your emancipation 06:03 proclamation against anything that threatens to drag you 06:06 into enslavement, threatens to trap you and has you living 06:10 out your life as a slave rather than a child of God. 06:14 The Bible says, and I read it again, verse 23 of Exodus 12: 06:19 "For the Lord will pass through to smite the 06:21 Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and 06:25 on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, 06:29 and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your 06:31 houses to smite you." Now, let me be clear. 06:36 That's how strong the blood of the Lamb was then. 06:41 But can you imagine how much stronger the blood of Jesus 06:47 Christ is? 06:49 Now, the children of Israel were gathering all of their 06:53 children into the house, all of their animals into the 06:57 house, all of their property into the house, because the 07:00 protection was to stand up under the blood. 07:05 That's how they were to fight. 07:07 That's what their defense was, to stand up underneath the 07:13 blood. 07:14 And when we read in Exodus how God began to fight, you must 07:19 understand, friends of mine, that God began to fight 07:23 against Pharaoh in Egypt. 07:26 The battle is God's battle. 07:28 The battle was not necessarily the Israelites' battle. 07:32 The battle ensued because God had gotten tired of Pharaoh 07:36 attacking his children. 07:39 God had gotten tired of Pharaoh resisting them, giving 07:43 them restricted opposition, making it more difficult for 07:46 them to do what they had to do. 07:47 Every day, Pharaoh was coming up with another way to make 07:52 the lives of the children of Israel more miserable. 07:56 And so it became so difficult, the Bible teaches, that the 07:58 children of God began to cry out to the Lord, "Lord, 08:03 deliver us from this oppressive, restrictive force 08:08 coming against everything that we do." And I believe I've got 08:12 some witnesses in this place, who have cried out to the Lord 08:16 and said, "Lord, deliver me from this mess that I'm going 08:22 through right now. 08:23 If we're real today, every now and then you have to go to 08:28 your secret closet, and you have to go to God and cry out 08:32 to God and say, "God, life is getting on my nerves. 08:36 Trouble is pressing me down. 08:39 Enemies are coming from everywhere, and if I don't get 08:42 some help up in here, I don't think I'm going to be able to 08:46 stand." It's when the children of Israel began to cry to the 08:50 Lord that God told Moses, "Moses, I've heard the cry of 08:53 my children unto me. 08:55 Go down, tell mean old Pharaoh, let my people go. 09:02 Pharaoh, you can do whatever you want to do with your 09:06 people, but don't bother my people. 09:08 Let my people go." And I want you to understand what I'm 09:12 saying quickly. 09:13 I want you to understand the valuable position that you 09:16 hold in the Lord, that you are in a unique position that, 09:21 friends of mine, you don't have to fight by yourselves. 09:23 You don't have to fight by yourselves. 09:27 You need to understand today that my God, he can fight. 09:31 God can fight. 09:33 We always see God as this kind, peaceful, compassionate, 09:37 emanating light, that exudes from the throne, all this 09:40 passivity, all this being kind and nice and gentle. 09:44 But I have to remind you today, friends of mine, that 09:47 while that is true, it is also true that your God, my God, is 09:53 also a man of war. 09:55 Israel said he was awesome in battle. 09:58 Who is the King of Glory? 10:01 The Lord strong and mighty? 10:03 Who is the King of Glory? 10:05 The Lord mighty in battle. 10:08 When God fought, God swallowed up nations in the earth by his 10:13 right hand. 10:15 He told Moses, go down, tell and warn mean old Pharaoh that 10:20 he's about to get into a fight with me. 10:24 He's been jumping on my kids, but he's going to have to 10:28 fight Daddy now. 10:30 And in case you didn't know, if you want to make somebody 10:32 mad, mess with their children. 10:36 It's a lot different when you're fighting with 10:39 somebody's child or you're fighting with them. 10:41 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 10:43 It's a big difference between fighting the slave and 10:46 fighting the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 10:49 And all you've got to do is stand still and see the 10:51 salvation of the Lord. 10:53 The Bible says that God began to launch an attack on 10:57 Pharaoh. 10:58 And when God begins to launch an attack, God has an unusual 11:02 way of fighting. 11:04 Most times when we reflect on scripture, when God began to 11:08 wage war against another nation, God would use a nation 11:12 against a nation. 11:14 But for this particular battle, God did not reach out 11:18 and get another nation to come against Egypt. 11:21 You must understand that Egypt at the time was the superpower 11:25 of that era. 11:26 Egypt built pyramids, and they built buildings that are still 11:30 existing today. 11:31 We are still studying the technology and the ability 11:34 that was executed under the Pharaohs. 11:37 People are touring, excavating and understanding the 11:42 precision and the mechanism whereby they were able to do 11:44 what they were able to do, and for that kind of enemy, God 11:47 did not risk sending another nation in to fight. 11:52 God decided that he was going to use something else. 11:56 The amazing thing about my God is that when God gets ready to 12:00 fight, God will use things you and I never thought about. 12:07 Who would have ever thought about releasing boils against 12:10 your enemies? 12:11 Only God could clap his hands and cause boils to break out 12:15 on the backs of his enemies? 12:18 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 12:19 When God got upset, God walked out onto the ponds of Egypt 12:24 and spoke to the frogs in Egypt, and said, "Hop over 12:28 into Egypt. 12:30 I'm going to forge an attack on them like they've never 12:33 seen before." He looked, God did, at flies and called for 12:37 flies to descend upon Egypt. 12:39 When God gets ready to fight, God will use stuff you never 12:44 thought of to bring you to victory. 12:47 And so today I've come to warn the enemies of God. 12:52 If there are any lurking in this place today, if I were 12:55 you, I'd get up out of here as quickly as possible. 12:58 Because when God gets ready to fight, when God gets ready to 13:03 wage war, God has a way of settling the score when you 13:07 start messing with his children. 13:10 And so I'm tired of hearing what the enemy's got. 13:14 I'm tired of hearing the saints talk about bills, 13:16 recession and inflation. 13:19 I'm tired of hearing the saints talk about sickness and 13:22 aggravation. 13:23 I'm tired of hearing saints, even self included, talk about 13:25 disease and death. 13:26 You need to take a look. 13:27 I need to take a look. 13:29 We need to take a look at what God has given us 13:31 to fight with. 13:33 There's more on our side than there is on the enemy's side. 13:39 Oh, I don't think you heard me. 13:42 There's more on our side than there is on the enemy's side. 13:49 Understand, don't wait until the battle is over. 13:54 You can shout now, because we know in the end 13:57 we're gonna win. 13:57 We will win. 14:00 The battle in your house, we will win. 14:04 The battle on your job, we will win. 14:07 The battle in your mind, we will win. 14:10 The battle to feed your kids, we will win. 14:13 The battle to trust the Lord, we will win, because some 14:17 trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but I will trust in 14:23 the name of the Lord. 14:26 Hallelujah, somebody. 14:28 The children of Israel said, Lord, what are you 14:30 going to do? 14:31 God said, well, listen, the enemies you see now, you will 14:34 see them no more. 14:38 The children of Israel said, Lord, what are you 14:39 talking about? 14:40 We're fighting against an enemy that has all types of 14:43 weapons. 14:44 Six hundred chosen chariots. 14:46 Technology. 14:47 Wa2are. 14:48 Swords, shields. 14:49 Finances, resources. 14:51 And what have you given us to fight with? 14:54 God says, I don't want you to pull a sword or knife. 14:59 I don't even need you to use a shield or a bomb. 15:04 I don't even need you to go on a suicide mission to make a 15:08 statement against your enemies. 15:11 All I want you to do is get a lamb for every house. 15:16 Wait a minute, Lord. 15:18 You mean they're going to come against us with swords and 15:21 shields, horses, chariots, money, and technology, and 15:27 you're tell us that all you want us to get is a lamb? 15:32 God, why a lamb? 15:35 It would seem you'd give us a lion. 15:38 At least a lion has teeth. 15:40 It seems as though you'd give us a cheetah. 15:42 At least a cheetah can run. 15:43 Maybe you can give us a gorilla, because 15:45 a gorilla is strong. 15:46 But why would you give us a lamb? 15:49 God said, because the battle is not yours. 15:52 The battle is the Lord's. 15:55 I hear God saying, my strength is made perfect 15:59 in your weakness. 16:01 Well, Lord, what do you want me to do with this lamb. 16:05 I wonder today, does anybody have a lamb out there? 16:08 You'll never make it through the future unless 16:10 you have a lamb. 16:12 I don't mean a lamb for the community, I don't mean a lamb 16:14 per church, but every house, every house in this place 16:18 today, you have got to have your own lamb. 16:21 Is there a lamb in your house? 16:23 Because the plagues are coming. 16:25 The world is wrapping up. 16:26 Trouble is coming. 16:28 Storms are coming. 16:30 Blue laws are coming. 16:32 Tests are coming. 16:34 Trials are coming. 16:35 Is there a lamb in your house? 16:39 God said, I want you to slay the lamb and take the blood of 16:42 the lamb, put it on the doorpost and put it on the 16:44 lental. 16:45 I want you to put it high above your head. 16:47 I want you to put on it, on every sign over your way, for 16:49 the Lord knows the way you can take. 16:51 And when he has tried me, I shall come forth as pure gold. 16:57 Let me close it this way. 17:00 Today I've come to serve notice to the devil, devil, 17:07 you can't touch this. 17:10 God is about to give us victory. 17:14 The Bible says that after the frogs, after the flies, after 17:22 the boils, after the water turning to blood, ten plagues 17:27 released all over the earth, finally on that night, God 17:31 said, the death angel is going to pass by, and the only safe 17:36 place is to be under the blood. 17:40 And today, church of the living God, our only safe 17:45 place is to be under the blood. 17:51 I know we're in a postmodern, contemporary age, but back in 17:53 the day, we started it a couple of years ago here at 17:56 Berean, back in the day, we in the old church of the óóó used 18:01 to have all-night prayer meetings. 18:04 And we used to not have it just once a year, but I 18:05 believe back in the day we used to have it once a 18:06 quarter. 18:07 Do I have a witness in this place? 18:09 And if you were to go to all-night prayer meeting, I 18:11 remember my daddy up there preaching, up there preaching 18:14 in the all-night prayer meeting, my brother and I and 18:16 my sister, we'd be in the back, ready to go home, 18:18 because we were there all night. 18:20 But we'd be lying on the pews back then, but then we'd start 18:24 hearing people pray during the season of prayer. 18:27 And it was during those seasons of prayer where people 18:29 wouldn't pray these one-, two-, three-minute prayers, 18:32 but they would agonize with the Lord for five and ten 18:35 minutes, calling on the name of the Lord. 18:38 And I would listen to them pray, and they would start 18:40 pleading the blood of Jesus. 18:44 Every time the devil started trying to do something, they'd 18:46 plead the blood of Jesus. 18:49 Every time the enemy would come against their finances, 18:51 they would plead the blood of Jesus. 18:55 When the enemy would come and attack their bodies, they 18:58 would plead the blood of Jesus. 19:01 Why? 19:01 There's power, power, wonder-working power in the 19:07 blood of the Lamb. 19:09 When the death angel passed by, the death angel was given 19:14 an assignment. 19:16 An assignment by God to kill everything in Egypt. 19:19 And the only reason he didn't stop by the children of 19:21 Israel's house is that the blood was a sign that death 19:25 had already been by that house. 19:29 Two thousand years ago, on a bloody cross, on Golgotha's 19:41 hill, God made a sign over my house. 19:48 God made a sign over your house, that I don't care what 19:54 the devil does. 19:55 God has already been to my house. 19:59 He died for my sins. 20:02 He died for my deliverance. 20:04 He died for my salvation. 20:07 And the reason why the death angel didn't stop by those 20:10 houses is, I said it before, I'll say it again today, it's 20:13 because it's illegal to try a man twice for the same crime. 20:19 I'm just as guilty as the Egyptians were, but because of 20:26 my Lamb, my case has already been tried. 20:32 That's why it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter, what 20:34 did I say last week? 20:35 It don't matter. 20:36 It doesn't matter what you already know about me. 20:40 You can't try me again because he whom the Son sets free 20:46 shall be free indeed. 20:49 Free, free, free! 20:52 Let me stop right here, because we've got some 20:55 worshippers up in here today, and if I don't stop, I don't 20:58 know where this thing just might go. 20:59 But I want to tell (laughs), I want to tell somebody today, 21:05 you are not without defense. 21:09 Thank God for the blood. 21:11 One day when I was lost he died upon the cross, and I 21:18 know that I know it was the blood for me. 21:21 When the enemy comes in like a flood, plead the 21:24 blood of Jesus. 21:25 When the enemy attacks your body, remind the devil of the 21:29 blood of Jesus. 21:31 One day when I was lost, yes, he died upon the cross. 21:34 He was wounded for my transgressions. 21:37 Bruised for my iniquities. 21:40 The chastisement of my peace was upon him, and by his 21:44 stripes I am healed. 21:46 Bled for my evil walk. 21:48 Bled for my evil talk. 21:52 Bled for my evil thoughts. 21:54 But his blood covers all my sins. 22:00 His blood sets me free. 22:02 His blood saves me. 22:06 Let me tell you something. 22:07 We don't fight for victory. 22:10 We fight from victory, because his blood has already won. 22:16 I feel the power of his blood right now in this place. 22:20 Oh, somebody better tell the devil to back up now. 22:24 Cancer better back up now. 22:26 Leprosy better back up now. 22:28 Leukemia better back up now. 22:30 Bankruptcy better back up now. 22:33 Divorce better back up right now. 22:37 Fear better back up right now. 22:39 Because there's power in the blood of the Lamb. 22:48 It was there by faith that I received my sight, and now I 22:59 am happy all the day at the cross, at the cross. 23:10 God, right now, thank you for your blood. 23:17 Oh, it's powerful. 23:19 God, when we survey the wondrous cross, when we 23:22 consider that, Lord, you sacrificed your life for our 23:27 liberty, when we consider the fact that, Lord, because of 23:32 your blood, that we are free, that because of your blood we 23:36 can have eternal life, Lord, I just get chills up my spine. 23:40 Thank you for loving us so much that you sent your Son, 23:47 Jesus, to die for each and every one of us. 23:51 And Lord, if there's no one else in this church right now 23:54 that's excited about your blood, Lord, know that I'm 23:56 excited right now. 23:58 God, I'm happy, I'm thankful, I praise you for your blood. 24:02 But God, I don't believe I'm alone. 24:04 I believe there are some people, a whole lot of people, 24:07 if not everybody up in this place, that is excited about 24:14 what the blood does for each and every one of us. 24:17 Lord, I'm grateful that the blood never loses its power, 24:18 365 days of the year it never loses its power. 24:23 Thank you, God, that there's power in the blood. 24:28 And so, God, as we are about to go into this, the Lord's 24:33 supper, I pray, I pray for your anointing, the Holy 24:40 Ghost, in this place. 24:42 And I pray and I ask that, God, no one will leave here 24:46 the same way they came. 24:48 But because of the blood, we can be happy all the day. 24:53 In Jesus' name, Amen. 24:57 PB: Be sure to join us again next week as we continue to 25:00 explore the Word of God. 25:02 Remember, God's got a word just for you from his Holy 25:07 Bible. 25:08 Also, I'd like to invite you to become a Breath of Life 25:11 television ministry partner. 25:12 How can you become a partner? 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