Breath of Life

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00:02 Breath Of Life Ministries Presents:
00:07 Sermon B596 "You're Not Anemic"
00:12 [Breath of Life Theme Music]
00:20 PB: John chapter 6, verse 53. The Word of God says,
00:27 I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of
00:28 "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily,
00:36 the Son of man, and drink his blood,
00:38 ye have no life in you. But whoso eateth
00:44 my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
00:48 hath eternal life; and I will raise him
00:49 up at the last day. For my flesh is
00:53 meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
00:58 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
01:00 dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living
01:03 Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father:
01:07 so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me."
01:18 Today I just want to remind you
01:21 that you're not anemic. You're not anemic.
01:27 Father, bless us now. For the next couple
01:30 of minutes as we ponder Your Word and reflect
01:33 on Your broken body and shed blood. And Lord,
01:37 when I'm through, I pray that because You have
01:42 spoken to Your people, we will all understand
01:44 we're not anemic. In Jesus' name. Amen.
01:50 Anemia is the condition, as most medical
01:58 persons know, of having less than the normal
02:02 number of red blood cells in your body or
02:08 less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin
02:11 in your body. So when you have anemia,
02:14 the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood
02:18 is therefore decreased. When you have anemia,
02:25 when a person is anemic, your bloodless,
02:29 colorless, pale. When you have anemia, you
02:37 feel tired and you fatigue easily.
02:41 When you're anemic, you develop palpitations,
02:45 or feelings of rapid heart beating,
02:47 and become short of breath. When you're anemic,
02:53 when you have anemia, you lack in spirit and
02:56 you lack in vitality. Anemia affects 3 million
03:02 Americans and 1.62 billion people worldwide,
03:06 which is nearly 25 percent of the world's population.
03:12 Now, to fight anemia, you have to increase your
03:18 red blood cell count, because when you do this,
03:22 this increases the amount of oxygen the blood carries.
03:27 So, to fight anemia you have to take iron supplements;
03:31 you have to take vitamins--B12, specifically-
03:35 -folic acid supplements, have bone marrow transplants
03:41 or have blood transfusions. This is critical because
03:47 blood is our life source. Any doctor will tell you,
03:52 you can't survive without blood. Our bodies need
03:59 energy and oxygen, and blood is the delivery mechanism
04:04 to get the energy and oxygen to them. If your body
04:07 doesn't get blood, if your blood doesn't flow,
04:12 your body will stop working. And just like you
04:18 can't survive without physical blood, you can't
04:23 survive without spiritual blood.
04:27 Blood gives life, and Jesus' blood has the power
04:35 to give life. Whenever a virus attacks our physical
04:42 body and it begins to make us sick, our blood fights
04:46 with all that it has, attacking this virus with
04:52 white blood cells. When the enemy of your soul rises
04:59 up against you, the blood of Jesus covers us like
05:06 a shield, and that enemy who would destroy our soul,
05:13 he is destroyed, because no weapon formed against
05:19 us is gonna prosper. You're not anemic today.
05:27 You have the blood. You have Jesus.
05:34 The power of the blood and the fact that we're
05:37 not anemic was illustrated at the dawn of earth's
05:40 history and has been illustrated to the present day
05:42 in earth's history. Go with me to the Garden of Eden.
05:47 Adam and Eve have sinned. Jesus, our Savior,
05:53 our Redeemer, our Messiah, has not yet come.
05:56 But Adam and Eve and all of our brothers and
05:59 sisters in the Old Testament were saved by
06:01 faith in the Jesus that was to come. So then,
06:06 they had to sacrifice a lamb, a goat, an offering,
06:13 a type, a forerunner, an example, a figure of the
06:19 Messiah that would come. But today, I'm so glad
06:22 that we are saved by faith in the Jesus that has
06:29 already come. But let's go back to the beginning.
06:34 If we go back to Genesis chapter 4, we will remember
06:38 that God asks Cain and Abel to bring Him a sacrifice.
06:44 Abel obeys the command. God is pleased with Abel,
06:50 because Abel does not bring before God that which
06:54 he grew with his own power. Abel brings before God
07:00 life for which he is not responsible. Abel brings
07:05 before God life that has blood in it. Abel doesn't
07:10 bring vegetation which has no blood in it.
07:13 Abel brings a lamb, because it has blood in it,
07:16 because Abel understands that it will take the
07:18 shedding of blood to bring about the forgiveness
07:20 from sin. But Cain, on the other hand,
07:24 is bent on offering up to God what he did himself.
07:31 So what does Cain bring? Fruits, nuts, grain,
07:36 vegetables. Don't get it twisted today. God didn't
07:40 accept Cain's sacrifice, not because Cain didn't
07:44 bring his best. Cain brought his best. God didn't
07:50 accept Cain's sacrifice because Cain didn't bring
07:53 God what God asked for. Too many of us are bringing
07:57 something to God, of what God is not asking for.
08:02 Cain brings an offering to God based on what he
08:05 did himself, which is symbolic of the fact that
08:09 Cain represents displaced and improper religion.
08:16 Because some religion is bent on offering up to
08:18 God that which we do ourselves. Understand,
08:23 this kind of religion says, I'm saved because I do this.
08:30 I'm saved because I do that. It says I'm saved because
08:37 I return tithe. This kind of religion has a lot of
08:41 things that gives, it gives you the credit for,
08:44 and if you're not careful, religion will honor
08:46 itself for earning salvation. Religion will
08:52 take the brooms of life, the brooms of
08:56 human effort, and try to work its way into
08:59 pleasing God. But this kind of religion always
09:02 falls short. There's a difference between
09:04 religion and revelation. Cain has religion.
09:09 Abel has revelation. Abel has a revelation
09:14 from God that it is not through what I
09:18 have done, but it's only through what
09:20 God has done. Which means, friends,
09:24 the sin problem of this world can only
09:27 be solved through what God has done.
09:30 The sin problem cannot be solved through
09:33 what you and I do. The sin problem can
09:38 only be solved through the blood.
09:42 There can be no forgiveness of sin without
09:45 the shedding of blood. It's not rectified
09:48 by good works. It's not rectified by being
09:52 a good person. It's not rectified by returning
09:55 tithe and giving offering. It's not rectified
09:58 by singing in the choir or teaching
10:00 Sabbath school. It's not rectified by making
10:02 cakes or baking pies. All these things are good;
10:06 all these things are wonderful. They have
10:08 their place, but they can't earn you salvation.
10:10 [Aud. reaction] PB: It was only by and through
10:14 the shed blood of Jesus that you and I have a
10:17 right to the Tree of Life. Let me be clear today,
10:22 I'm not going to be long. But the greatest thing
10:25 that God ever provided for you was not a car.
10:27 It was not a house. It was not a suit. It was
10:34 not a dress. It was not a family life center.
10:37 It was not a job. The greatest thing that God
10:40 provided for us was when He went to Calvary;
10:44 and He gave you the right to eternal life.
10:48 And if there's anything that you oughta be
10:51 happy about today, if there's anything that
10:54 you oughta be shouting about today,
10:57 if there's anything you oughta be grateful
10:59 about today, it should be the fact that
11:01 the blood was shed for your sins. One day,
11:05 when I was lost He died upon the cross,
11:10 and I know that I know that I know it was
11:13 the blood for me. But the devil doesn't
11:16 want you to rejoice in your salvation.
11:19 He wants you to rejoice about things he
11:21 can shake. He wants you to rejoice about
11:25 that car so he can attack it with a flat tire.
11:28 He wants you to rejoice about your kids
11:30 because then they can have a problem and
11:33 you get disappointed. He wants you to rejoice
11:35 about the house because then something can
11:37 happen to the house, and your joy will go
11:40 with the house. But if you rejoice in the
11:43 God of your salvation, you have put your
11:46 joy in a place that cannot be taken,
11:49 and you will never be anemic.
11:51 The story is told of a family of four-
11:56 -I love this story. Father, mother,
12:00 two boys. A family of four that was
12:03 involved in a serious car accident.
12:05 Let's call the younger brother Mark,
12:08 'cause we'll use the Gospel of Matthew
12:10 and the Gospel of Mark. Matthew comes
12:11 before Mark, so Mark's the younger brother.
12:13 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Mark,
12:14 the younger of the two brothers involved,
12:16 was badly injured and he needs a
12:18 blood transfusion. Mark's big brother,
12:21 Matthew, he's eight years old, and he's
12:24 the perfect blood type. The perfect match
12:27 for his little brother. So the father sits
12:30 down with Matthew and he explains that his
12:34 little brother, Mark, is gonna die.
12:36 But if Matthew would give Mark some blood,
12:40 Mark would live and just be fine.
12:45 Matthew sits down for a minute, and he says,
12:49 "Okay, Dad. I'll do it for my brother."
12:53 They took Matthew to the hospital,
12:56 took Matthew to the operating room and
12:59 hooked up the needle to his arm,
13:01 and the blood from his body began to
13:04 flow down to his little brother.
13:07 Everything was going well. The nurse
13:09 removed the needle from Mark's arm.
13:11 Matthew had a tear in his eye.
13:13 He looked at his father and he said,
13:15 "Daddy, when do I die?" It then dawned
13:20 on the father that Matthew had misunderstood
13:23 the explanation of giving blood;
13:26 that Matthew thought he was giving all
13:29 of his blood to save the life of his little brother.
13:33 He thought that he was gonna die after the
13:36 transfusion was over, but yet he still agreed
13:40 to help his--I can't get a witness in this
13:43 place--to help his little brother.
13:46 [Aud. reaction] What love, what sacrifice,
13:50 what a gift of life. Two thousand years ago,
13:55 my big brother, Jesus, went up on a hill called
13:59 Calvary. He gave His blood, but unlike Matthew,
14:05 He died that I might have life. And every time
14:10 I come to Communion, and I take the cup,
14:13 you take the cup, we take the cup,
14:16 Jesus gives us new life. Blood is life.
14:21 Life is blood. Jesus shed His blood.
14:24 Jesus is life. Jesus gave life.
14:27 Jesus gave life and death, and by giving
14:30 life and death, Jesus brought life.
14:31 Do I have a witness in this place?
14:33 [Aud. reaction] PB: I said it once,
14:36 I'll say it again. When the Romans killed Jesus,
14:40 they made a mistake. They should have hung Him.
14:46 They should have knocked Him out. They should
14:51 have made Him drink poison. They should have stoned Him.
14:54 But when they shed His blood--[Aud. reaction]
15:03 PB: --His blood flowed down and had a revival
15:08 over death, hell, and the grave. And because of
15:16 the blood, you're not anemic. So quit acting like it.
15:23 Thank God for the blood. It wasn't the cross that
15:30 saved me. If a cross could save me, anybody could've
15:34 died on the cross. If beatings could have saved me,
15:38 then any prisoner could have endured the beatings.
15:41 If a broken body could have saved me, I could claim my,
15:44 any accident victim as my savior. But it wasn't any
15:49 of these. It was the blood. The secular and the
15:54 atheistic world is bold, blatant, in its rejection
15:59 of the gospel of atoning blood. The world refuses
16:03 and repudiates the entire message of redemption
16:05 through the blood. They say if we have tractors
16:08 to move mountains, then we don't need faith.
16:10 If we have penicillin to kill disease and
16:14 infection, then we don't need prayer.
16:16 If we have positive thinking alone,
16:19 then we don't need salvation. If we have
16:22 the federal, state, local governments,
16:24 then we don't need the church. If we have
16:27 manuals and textbooks on science, then we
16:30 don't need the Bible. If we have
16:32 Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein,
16:35 then we don't need Jesus. But I'm glad
16:39 somebody knows that the gospel of
16:42 Jesus addresses itself to a far deeper
16:45 need of humanity than tractors,
16:47 than penicillin, than government,
16:51 than manuals of science,
16:52 than Einstein or Edison.
16:54 These things and people address
16:56 powers other than the power of the
16:58 Almighty God. But power should not
17:01 be addressed by prestige, position or
17:04 possession, because ultimate power is
17:07 in the blood of the Lamb. Would you be
17:14 free from the burden of sin? There's power
17:17 in the blood of the Lamb. Would you or evil
17:20 a victory win? There's power in the blood
17:24 of the Lamb. What can wash away my sins?
17:27 Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
17:29 What can make me whole again? Nothing
17:33 but the blood of Jesus. I'm taking my seat,
17:38 but I just wanna say "the blood." I'm about
17:42 to sit down, but I just gotta say "the blood."
17:46 I know I got a plane to catch, but can somebody
17:48 hear me when I say "the blood"? It's stronger
17:52 than cancer; it's stronger than leukemia; it's
17:56 stronger than sickle cell; it's stronger
18:00 than diabetes; it's stronger than tissues,
18:03 bones and cells, and I plead the blood of
18:06 Jesus on everybody in this place right now.
18:09 I plead the blood over your finances;
18:12 I plead the blood over your paycheck;
18:14 I plead the blood over your job; I plead the
18:17 blood over your marriage, over your children,
18:19 over your family, over your house,
18:21 over this church. I plead the blood
18:24 of Jesus over your life. You are not anemic.
18:30 You have the blood. You are not pale.
18:36 You have the blood. You are not colorless.
18:42 You have the blood. You are not without hope.
18:49 You have the blood. You are not without help.
18:54 You have the blood. You are not without salvation.
18:59 You have the blood. You are not without life.
19:04 You have the blood. Physical anemia may affect
19:08 the world, but we've got--we don't have a spiritual
19:12 anemia because we have the blood. "So then Jesus
19:16 said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
19:21 Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,
19:27 and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
19:35 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
19:39 hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at
19:45 the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
19:49 and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth
19:51 my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me,
19:53 and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me,
19:54 and I live by the Father: so he eateth me,
19:58 even he shall live by me." You are not anemic.
20:12 I am so tired of Christians walking around powerless.
20:21 I am so tired of people giving the devil
20:26 so much credit. The devil did this;
20:32 the devil did that. Forget the devil.
20:40 [Aud. reaction] PB: I am not anemic.
20:45 I got the blood! Jesus died for me.
20:49 Jesus hung for me. Jesus bled for me.
20:54 And Jesus got up for me. And when He got up,
21:01 there was a transfer of His power to me.
21:05 So I got power. [Aud. reaction]
21:07 PB: I got power to walk on serpents.
21:11 I got power to cast demons out in the name of Jesus!
21:17 Get out! Walk around here, heads down,
21:22 aw da-da-da. Communion is not a time to be morbid.
21:27 Communion is a time to recognize a celebration
21:31 that 2,000 years ago, God made it clear and plain
21:37 that you and I would never be anemic.
21:41 The blood that Jesus, He shed for me.
21:54 Way back on Calvary. The blood that gives
22:04 me strength--it's what keeps me going.
22:06 People say, how do you do what you do?
22:08 If Jesus hung for me, all I gotta do is
22:10 live for Him. [Aud. reaction]
22:14 PB: It gives me strength. That's why
22:17 He knew we needed to do this until
22:19 He would come back, because we need strength.
22:22 Come on, say amen. Aud.: Amen!
22:24 PB: And the good news about Jesus,
22:26 His blood will never lose-- [Aud. reaction]
22:30 PB: --it's power. It's good enough for
22:37 my mama; good enough for my daddy;
22:40 good enough for my grandparents; and it's
22:41 good enough for me. You're not anemic.
22:49 [singing} The blood that Jesus shed for me,
23:05 way back on Calvary. Oh, the blood that gives
23:25 me strength, from day to day;
23:40 It will never lose its power.
23:52 PB: If you believe that, sing it now.
23:55 [singing] For it reaches, oh you know that
24:00 it reaches to the highest mountain;
24:08 And it flows to the lowest, to the lowest valley; valley.
24:28 The blood that gives me strength from day to day;
24:43 It will never lose its power.
24:55 [music] PB: Now, Lord God, for the next couple of
24:59 moments we're gonna do what You told us to do.
25:04 Everybody in here needs forgiveness from sin.
25:09 Bring forgiveness today. Take our sins and
25:16 throw 'em in the depths of the sea, and then Lord,
25:21 when the devil comes to mess with us, remind him
25:24 You put a sign out there saying "No fishing allowed."
25:27 So if there's anything between us today and
25:34 somebody else; Lord, we gotta get it right.
25:38 If there is anything today, God, between You
25:41 and any of us personally--Lord, it's not
25:46 anything You've done, it's what we've done.
25:48 We've gotta get it right. Today, Lord,
25:51 someone is wearing guilt, guilt over something
25:55 they said or something they've done. But Lord,
25:58 through the bread and through the, the juice today,
26:01 may they be reminded that if any man be in Christ,
26:03 He's a new creature. Old things are passed away.
26:09 Lord, make it new today. God forgive me.
26:16 I'm about to go do a revival, but Lord,
26:19 I can't be Your mouthpiece with mess in me.
26:22 So, clean me up and out. We thank You,
26:28 and we praise You. In Jesus' name. Amen.
26:37 >: Thank you very much for tuning in to
26:39 this week's Breath of Life broadcast.
26:41 We hope and pray that you've been blessed
26:43 by Dr. Byrd's inspirational message.
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