Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
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first Corinthians 5:7 Jesus is our
Passover the blood of what the blood of
the Lamb did in the Old Testament for
Israel the blood of Jesus does for us
today
if you operate under the blood of Jesus
that is if you operate in sync with
Jesus Christ his sacrifice on the cross
if you operate and sync with Jesus
Christ the blood covers you everybody
here today on their way to heaven is
only all the way to heaven because
they’re covered by the blood when I
stand before God and God were to say
Tony Evans why should I let you into
heaven I just got one phrase the blood I
have been covered by the blood that is
the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is
what I am looking to for my eternal
deliverance not good works not being
part of a church not being a pastor all
that’s nice but I have nothing to do
with my eternal destiny my term doesn’t
is tied to one thing I let Jesus spread
his blood on my heart and I am saved by
the blood but watch this the blood did
not simply deliver Egypt for eternity
the blood delivered them in history it
delivered them from the Egyptians see a
lot of folk who’ve been saved by the
blood for heaven do not let the blood
save them on earth see the blood is not
it’s good for eternity but it’s also
good if you operate in sync under the
rule of Jesus Christ and his sacrifice
he becomes the deliverer that we’ve been
singing about who gives freedom from
this who gives deliverance from that who
gives peace that passes understanding
joy and tribulation who takes you
through the various ups and downs of
life and makes you more than a
Kankuro it says all that comes to the
blood too so if you’re only looking to
the blood for heaven you’re going to
miss the power of the blood on earth
that’s why Jesus says if you deny me
before men I will deny you before my
father who is in heaven but if you
acknowledge me before men I will
acknowledge you before my father is in
heaven say belief in God is not where
your deliverance comes your deliverance
comes through the blood and that is your
identification with Jesus Christ so if
you are the only person who knows you’re
a Christian you ain’t covered you aren’t
covered because it is the blood that is
our Passover the person of Christ who
provides the covering so Moses his job
was to convince them to put the blood on
the door my job is to convince us this
congregation
the vehm of us to keep the blood on the
door that is to keep your identification
with Jesus Christ
front and center not just your belief in
God but your identification with Jesus
Christ that is where God’s deliverance
comes not only for eternity but in
history one of the reasons we take
communion and one of the advantages you
should use in taking communion is to
call on the blood for whatever you need
deliverance from in this life because it
is the blood there is power in the blood
I saw someone TV not too long ago that
caught my attention
this man was in a fire and it burned a
large part of his body and I couldn’t
believe what I was seeing they laid him
on a bed you could see all of the burned
tissues and then they went and they
poured on top of him a bucket of leeches
the nastiest thing one of the nastiest
thing I’ve ever seen in my life they
poured a whole bucket
leeches on this guy and so this guy has
leeches all over him all over the burns
of his body then they went on to explain
the medical people went on to explain
they said the leeches will eat the dead
skin the the the leeches will eat death
they will eat the dead skin then he went
on to say the leeches also suck blood so
when the leeches eat the dead skin and
begin sucking blood they will draw blood
up to the skin so that while they eat
the bad skin and suck up the blood the
blood being sucked up by the leeches
will produce new skin at the place where
the bad skin has been eaten when they
poured it all I saw was ugly but what I
didn’t understand was it would be
through the blood in this ugly scenario
that this man would get his life back I
know talking about the blood of Jesus
may seem weird to you but if you ever
hook up with the blood as weird as it
sounds like the leeches on this guy when
God starts doing his blood work in your
life through your identification with
Jesus Christ he can destroy the death
that’s killing you and suck up the life
that he wants you to have which is why
Paul said I can be crucified with Christ
nevertheless I live yet not i its Christ
who lives in me the life which I now
live I live by faith in the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me
so don’t be embarrassed by the blood
because it is the Passover lamb the
blood that gives you life life to come
but also covering now
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