In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of knowing and understanding the word of God. He mentions that Jesus Christ will share with those who trust and love him what the Father has shared with him. The speaker also discusses the book of Revelation, stating that it is a neglected but significant book. He highlights the importance of being a faithful witness to Jesus and mentions that Jesus is the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. The speaker concludes by emphasizing that Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood.

Will you turn please to the first chapter of Revelation. I'm beginning with the first verse of Revelation chapter one. This is a tremendously important book that's been long neglected and I must confess that I may be one who has neglected it. John promises blessing for those that read it and therefore I propose that at least for several Sunday evenings we'll be studying and reading from the book of Revelation asking God to minister to our hearts through it. The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to show unto his servants things which must shortly pass and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John who bear record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that read it and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand. John to the seven churches which are in Asia grace be unto you and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his father to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. By way of introduction certain basic truths which we've read which are obvious but which nonetheless need to emphasize first you will notice the spelling of this title it did not say revelations as so frequently you hear the book pronounced the book of revelations it is not it is the revelation the revelation given by the angel through John concerning Jesus Christ and the word the first statement rather in the first verse is the revelation of Jesus Christ thus we anticipate that the theme and subject of this book will be the son of God it will not be horsemen and plagues but it will be Jesus Christ it is always important that we should understand the purpose in the author's writing there are a great many details that could themselves become end unless one knows the purpose so as whatever you read in this book you know that the theme is the revelation of Jesus Christ the word revelation is apocalypse on and it means unveiling or the uncover or the disclosing perhaps the picture that we would have in mind of this word is a great sculptor that's commissioned to give to the community to the city perhaps work that commemorates the death of their soldiers in war or some event of progress in the life of the community works in his studio and finally under cover and canvas so on the work is placed in the park on the proper pedestal but it isn't unveiled they have a mayor and the city officials and the public gather the dedication is made the artist is the sculptors present and then there comes that moment when workmen take the rope or the ties there is the apocalypse on the unveiling uncovering the disclosing that's what you have in this word in the greek the idea is something that's been hidden or imperfectly seen that's now unveiled and so it's the revelation of Jesus Christ the unveiling of the Lord Jesus Christ now it is not redundant what you have in this book perhaps you have nowhere else in the book you have it intimated you have it suggested but this is the revelation of Jesus Christ in his post-resurrection and post-ascension glory it is the revelation of Jesus Christ as he is now presumably the reason was given was that as the church drew away from the time of his ascension there would be more speculation as to what kind of a person he was and how he looked and in what state he was present therefore God saw it wise and right that there should be an unveiling a partial unveiling of Jesus Christ as he is now and as he will be unveiled so it is thus the discovering the revealing of the Lord Jesus in his present state and his present glory as well as that future unveiling that will come to various people in various conditions that has not yet happened the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him Jesus the name is the name of his incarnation the name of his uh humility if you wish thou shall call his name Jesus that holy thing that was born of Mary it's a name how sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ears we love the name of Jesus but it's still named that he was called as a little lad in the streets of Nazareth in his home I remember in 7th Avenue in Minneapolis one day driving around the curve and I was just amazed to find that someone had the authority to put the name on his store Jesus so-and-so I couldn't believe it I was quite offended until I realized that this is a common name and it was as many of the Old Testament name name that was included some idea of God we would say Jesus the as because of the Greek derivation the Hebrews would say Joshua the essentially the same word Jehovah is David now Jesus in first John we read every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh that Jesus is God come in the flesh for God became flesh and dwelt among us and that God who became flesh was called Jesus for he should save people from their sins this is the revelation of the man that walked that grew tired that had no place to lay that went out into the garden when all of his disciples went to their homes and to the homes of their friends sat there till the morning dew settled upon him because no one invited him to go to a home and there was no home of his own and this is the one who was tempted and tested in all points like as we are the one who was acquainted with our griefs and bore our sins and died for us this is Jesus that's being revealed this is the man that stood there while they they scourged him and while they buffeted him and while they pressed the crown of thorns upon him it is the man that walked and ministered and lived and died this man who was God who became man and yet a perfect man though very God very God and very man Jesus the anointed Christos this was the messiah this was the one that had around whom all the promises of the old gathering and so when John says the revelation of Jesus the Christ he is saying he is the one of whom the prophet spoke he is the one in whom all the hope of Israel rested he is the only one that can bring life to the dead and bring forgiveness to the wicked in the guilty he's the anointed one the Christos this is Jesus Christ that's being revealed and shall be set forth in the that which is to follow and God gave to Jesus Christ a revelation concerning that long before he became flesh Jesus Christ is God this is the testimony that he is God but as man he had this revelation of what was to be and so just as a revelation was given by God to the son concerning those things that were to be so he to whom the revelation was given and passed it on to us to show up his servants we who are his slaves the things which must shortly come to pass he said no a servant doesn't know what his lord do but you are not servants you're friends and you know what I'm going to do I don't want you to be in darkness I want you to know and so the Lord Jesus Christ will take those who trust him and love him who are his bond slaves and he will share with them that which the father has shared with him and he will do it by an angel through John this is what we have in that first verse verse John who bear record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all things that he saw the year this is written is probably most likely 96 AD now remember that our Lord was born according to the calendar which would make this 96 our Lord was born for BC now that's strange isn't it but the calendar was so changed that you cannot say that our Lord was born and what you would call one AD it was for BC because of an error that was made in calculations so that would mean that John is writing 100 years after the birth of Christ or 70 years after the ascension of Jesus Christ well actually 67 years in some months after the ascension of Christ isn't it marvelous that God did allow one man to reach this point 70 years in that time it would have been three nearly four generations figuring 20 years to a generation three and a half generations of people and John is the young man that was on the ship with his brother James when the Lord called him and John is the young man who impetuously entreated his mother to speak in his behalf let James sit on your right hand and John on your left John is the young man that leaned on Jesus bosom probably very likely he's the young man whose cloak was caught and who had to flee away naked when they came and took the Lord John forsook him no man stood with him and John may have been one of those two on the road to remain we do not know we do know that he came to the to the empty tomb and looked in with Peter running impetuously passed him into the tomb but John stood there and saw the grave clothes lying as though they were wrapped around the body they'd never been unwrapped that's the miracle of it they were just lying there as though still encasing a body but collapsed and the body had passed through them and the napkin that covered the head was right where the head would have been but there was no head under John looked in and saw the collapsed grave closed and then John was one who saw the Lord beheld him he was with him and was there throughout those each occasion of meeting and now John has had the privilege of living 67 years after the ascension of Christ and John says I bear a record of the word of God I know and of the testimony of Jesus Christ I'm telling you I've stood for this and of all the things that he saw how gracious God was to allow John to live past the normal period of his life an aged man now probably a hundred years old but he has all this that God has allowed him to see and that now permits him to share and remember this John wasn't there naturally now James was beheaded John has lived to a ripe old age past the average age even in that day all the other apostles are dead all have died violent deaths well how did John escape he didn't escape history tells us that the man who wrote this who recorded it for us was captured and tried in Greece by the Roman authorities there and was sentenced to die by being boiled in a cauldron of oil the day came for the sentence he was placed according to the records and the tradition into that cauldron of boiling oil but whereas it had been tested for its temperature and was capable of causing death John was placed into it and was brought out unharmed instantly miraculously delivered so that there was no effect now Roman law made it that one sentence for a crime and having that crime executed could never be tried for the same crime again could never have the sentence repeated and so John was not forced to some other death he had survived but he was no longer welcome so he was exiled to the island of Patlas where we find his saying that I was in the spirit on the Lord's day in the island of Patlas for the word of God and for the testimony of Christ now this is John and he's testifying of the word of God that was explained to him by the Lord Jesus he's witnessing of what he saw that the Lord Jesus Christ do and of what he he himself experienced this third verse is a precious verse blessed is he that read it I am of the same opinion as my friend Robert Walker who's the editor of Christian Life magazine that American Christians probably buy more books and read fewer of them than any other company of Christians on the face of the earth I wouldn't be surprised but what all of you could drop your head just a little and close your eyes a trifle that the books that you bought with every good intention I do not recall just who it was but one of the presidents of Harvard University said if you will read 15 minutes a day something worthwhile you will become ultimately an educated person I believe that it's imperative that we read the only means by which we can under converse with men long dead is through that which they've written I think that if you have deprived yourself of the blessing of reading good books you are impoverished indeed and I don't know to what degree you read and if you find difficult to read yourself because of weakness of your eyes the suggestion I make is that you get someone to read loud to you in fact I would encourage every home to read aloud at periods and encourage you to read aloud to yourself and to someone else it's a very very profitable thing I think that we could say blessed is he that readeth period that is if you read something worthwhile there is that which will defile undoubtedly but the reading of the word the reading of literature the reading of the alliance witness will bring blessing to your life but the only book in all the world that I know of where God himself promises special blessing for the reading is the book of revelation I do not know of any other book where God commits himself in contract form saying that if you read this book and hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein you will be blessed of God and for this reason I would urge you to read it I wish every one of you would read it before the week's out I wish you'd read it again and again before you know what's going to trouble you you're going to get hung up on a horn somewhere that's what'll happen you will get caught on a horn and you won't say well what does this horn mean and then you'll put the book down look just don't try to swallow all the horns just just leave them there they're there they're there don't worry about them and toes don't worry about toes even and scorpions with tails don't try to understand everything you read you read and you'll be amazed at how much you'll understand of the moral quality and teaching of this book and there are some things you'll never understand but that's all right God promised blessing if you read it and would hear what you could hear and keep what you heard you know a lot of people say they have trouble with the bible they don't understand it I don't believe that trouble with them is they don't obey what they do understand that's right if you you read this and you just obey what you do understand and don't worry about what you don't you'll be a better person for the weeks out because God's promised blessing to those that read it now notice the address John to the seven churches which are in Asia we're going to study those churches in considerable detail and it was this study of these churches which moved me to come to this this wonderful book John to the seven churches which are in Asia grace be unto you inevitably God's desire is that we should comprehend grace grace is his free and his unmerited favor grace is that which God had in himself toward those that deserve nothing from him but wrath and in whose behalf he moved in love to bring blessing grace grace this which is only found in the heart of God and experienced only because there is God with such a heart if anyone is ever gracious in that deepest meaning of the word it's because he himself has known grace but grace is manifested not only in the fact that God let the sun shine on the just and the unjust and let the rain fall on the wicked man's field and kept air in his lungs and kept life to his body and protected him and gave him government to watch over him and give him a land and place in which to live in some measure of freedom it's not only in this civic grace or common grace that we see the God's grace but that ultimate revelation of God's grace when God himself became flesh and dwelt among us the Lord Jesus Christ stripped himself of all his royal insignia and became man you cannot comprehend such a cross i have in times past used an illustration of a person who was well identifying himself with a leper and giving his health to the leper and taking the leper's sickness i suppose this is a mild illustration of grace but mild because you carry in your body incipient death and with every breath you breathe it's nearer nearer death every pulsing of your heart and so for you to die a few years early is just a few years early but here is eternal God eternal God God the son who's had no contact with sin you know with the results of sin in humanity who voluntarily takes a body like your body and a nature like your nature and becomes found in your fashion with all the appetites you have and capable of being tempted in all the areas that you were in order that without sin he might die under your sin and for your sin this is what's in the word grace Jesus Christ becoming what you were so that you could become what he is and this is the divine order grace and peace and there will never be peace until you know grace that's why the scripture says there is no peace sayeth my God to the wicked and when you look outside and see the unregenerate apparently having fun living in their lust and their immorality and their thievery and their lying and all that characterizes the life of the modern pagan you say my they must be having a good time no God says they're not having a good time he says to the contrary that the wicked are like the troubled sea which casteth up its mire and its dirt and there is the double flow there's seems to be the flow of pleasure on the surface but then somewhere underneath there's the back flow that catches and takes the residue of sin and tosses it up into the conscious again and just as the sea will get the the mud and the dirt and the filth that's there and cause it to boil up years ago my father took my boys here and they'll be after me and i'll be all right but my father took my uh my brother and i fishing in front of the dam at rum at the rock rapids in the mississippi river near minneapolis we went out on the icebreakers and sat there and dangled our line tied around our finger through the slats in the icebreaker and caught rock little rock bass and we were all very delighted with these rock bass until something happened and apparently i don't know what caused it but all of a sudden we looked out and saw the boiling spots on the water and they became nearer and nearer we saw sludge and mud and mud and filth and all we could think of was that this was the picnic table where our fish had been eating and the fish didn't look nearly as good when we saw where they'd been and if i recollect correctly we didn't turn the fish tail over and let the fish go back home they didn't want to take them home with us if that's where their home was and it gave me an illustration of the casting up of mire and dirt it's boiling up now you see that's what happens to the wicked there's no peace because god wrote his law on the human heart god inscribed what's right on the human conscience and deep down in every human spirit there is this this awareness of god and this awareness of right and wrong so what has to happen for a person to live in sin is this that is with his intellect he has to set up a counter current it's right to lie it's right to steal it's right to lust and commit immorality and so he gets a current he tries to get where the currents flow it and so the current begins to flow this way he gets in it and he's caught along with it but there's another current flowing another way and there's the current of revelation there's the light that lighteth every man that comes into the world there's this deep undercurrent that's flowing in his personality it's wrong to lie wrong to steal it's wrong to commit adultery it's wrong it's wrong it's wrong the top current is flowing this way it's all right everybody does it it's modern it's the day it's then the other says wrong wrong wrong and the two currents meet and in that meeting there's the boiling and ultimately it comes up to the surface and to the top and there's no peace until there's grace for it's grace that washes away the stain of sin and sets the current of the conscious in the same direction as the current of the light that is every man that comes into the world grace and peace are from him and only from him and no one is ever going to know peace psychiatry is has gotten probably the best business in all the world because it has developed techniques which give a temporary relief and which because they have no answer to the stain and the guilt of the conscience and they have found no way to take the spots out of lady mcbeth's hands and leave them there no way to cleanse the stain of sin psychiatry and the techniques of it which are valuable adjuncts if they can lead to some permanent cleansing and release of the spirit but they have the best business in the world because it can be constantly repeated over and over and over and over and over again because there's no answer grace and peace are from him arnold williamson one of the pastor friends out in lindbrook long island was very well taught and much that has to do with pastoral counseling and psychiatry was talking to one of the outstanding psychiatrists on long island about what our message is that no one can really know god savingly until he knows himself completely and that god demands that we understand the worst about ourselves when we come to him and that god has made provision to cleanse us from the worst and not just whitewash that and that the only way to really begin with god is to come knowing all of one's sin and all of one's uncleanness and all of one's stain and all of one's vile past and bring it to god in an open declaration and an outpouring of confession knowing that god doesn't love one one bit the least because he knows all there is to know that's bad about you and when the psychiatrist heard that he said you know your office ought to be right next door to mine and when i've got them to see themselves i ought to send them into you to have you help them do something about it i can get them to see what's there but i haven't any answer for it but you have an answer he said why didn't i understand that this isn't what the churches say this isn't what they mean i haven't heard this but this is what god's word says that the person comes to jesus christ broken and i think that one of the great calamities of easy believism in the 20th century is this that we have let people recognize that they were sinners without getting them to recognize their sins the old brush arbor down south you know you don't everything good is the north of the mason dixon line by any means a lot of things down there we had that you do well to get including cornbread and fried chicken i mean you'd just be well off if you had some of the things that are common down there but one of the things that god used was the old brush arbor meeting split a log in two put it up on a couple of steaks and have a meeting for about four weeks between the time you laid the corn by and it's time to harvest and they'd come in those old days peter cartwright and the record had it and those were all there were giants in the land in those days none of these little pea shooters you know to get up there and spit alliteration at people that wasn't it these were men that thundered out on the righteousness of god and the heinousness of sin and then the only way you could persuade was to break before god and leave your sins and come to christ some old mountaineer bootlegging whiskey making rough in and shoot to kill and let sit there until the spirit of god broke open his filthy heart invitation be given he'd come and throw himself across that split log altar people gather around him and say oh now bill tell him everything tell him everything and the poet put his his head back as though he were calling hogs on the mountainside and he'd scream out to god about his lying and his stealing his fight and whiskey drinking and everybody knew it anyway he wasn't breaking any news anybody he'd lived with him see but you know what happened here in the midst of his people he opened the park and he got all that sin that had been buried there the deep pockets of infection they all broke open and he left them all out and then they after he finished with everything telling it all and then they'd say the blood of jesus brought son cleansed bill from all sin and then when bill met jesus christ he was a new creation and there weren't any deep pockets of infection lying down there it all broken that's why some of you haven't found peace because you've never broken before god you've forgotten that god's gonna love you just as much he knows the worst about you you won't shock him when you tell him what he's known all the time everything you ever did you did in the presence of god grace and peace from him he loved you when he knew the worst about you grace and peace from him which is he's alive now which was he's the eternal god which is to come he's the everlasting father and it's going to be always never change and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead the prince of the kings of the earth isn't that a wonderful exaltation of jesus christ let me read it faithful with he said i only speak those things that my father commanded me i do not speak of myself i speak as i receive commandment of the father he's a faithful witness remember that day in john six when he had a large crowd everybody liked the crowd don't let anybody fool you the lord jesus did too he had them there a large crowd they said where are your disciples where are your disciples said oh that's oh yes now if you'll just do one more miracle then you really got us do something like moses did moses brought bread down from heaven you do that and then we'll be yours and we'll never leave you go to anybody else you know there's a sort of a commercial disciple outfit you put in your order and you get as many as you want if you're willing to do it and they were sort of around there wondering now whether we're we got the right man and so the lord said well wait a minute i am the bread that came down from heaven if you eat me you have life if you don't eat me you don't have life oh wait a minute wait a minute we're not cannibals no he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath life everlasting life he that doesn't hasn't life and they looked at him and said now listen mister you've gone too far we don't understand that we're willing to be your disciples but when you talk about eating your flesh and you talk about drinking your blood it's too much for us we're through and that day his whole congregation got up and walked out well sort of discouraging isn't it i think of martin lloyd jones in england who followed g campbell morgan at west minister chapel he'd been saved through dr king morgan's ministry and he began to preach he's a puritan born out of due season a great man if i ever have the opportunity to bring him to new york i'm sure hopefully ever dr martin lloyd jones took the pastor he began to preach the sovereignty of god the glory of god the majesty of god the nature of repentance the lordship of christ the congregation dwindled and dwindled and dwindled and dwindled and dwindled one sunday morning in a church that seats 1800 he had 60 people and he preached the same thing he preached well there wasn't anybody else to go that's what the lord jesus said that day he said will you go away peter looked up and said to whom shall we go lord now ask the words of eternal life and they didn't go and they say he's a faithful witness martin lloyd jones was a faithful witness then they began to come and they began to come and they began to come and they began to come and pretty soon they had the first balcony and they continued to come then they had the second balcony they continued to come and on friday night he had 800 and 900 and a thousand people for a bible study which he spoke an hour an hour and 20 minutes the president is faithful witness the faithful witness the lord jesus said god gave me a message to give and if nobody hears it i've still got to give it is a faithful witness and this is what the lord jesus wants you to be a faithful witness to him now he is the first begotten of the dead the prince of the kings of the earth now notice unto him that loved us washed us from our sins in his own blood i've been hoping that as i spoke this evening someone here would say i'm the person you're talking about i've seen myself defiled within and without i've seen myself unclean in thought and imagination and heart i've seen myself worthy of nothing but god's wrath and anger because i've not only sinned against my own conscience i've sinned against light and truth i deserve nothing from god god be merciful to me a sinner now if you're prepared to come the way the hypothetical bill that i talked about through with your sin finished with it to throw yourself across the rock jesus christ this one who's the first begotten from the dead you're willing to fall on the rock and be broken to acknowledge that from now on jesus christ is to be the lord of your life that your crime heretofore was that you were god playing god in your life ruling choosing governing for which you now repent and you purpose to please him that you are willing that he shall govern and lead and rule as long as you live and i have good news for you i can say to anyone in the name of jesus christ that if you'll come to him confessing and acknowledging all your crimes and your sins and your unclean if you will come to him admitting what he knows and disclosing what he's uncovered if you'll come to him just as you are but hating what you are and feeling about it the way he feels that he will wash you from your sin in his own blood this is the gospel that christ died for our sins according to the scripture and that he was buried and that he was raised again the third day according to the script unto him that loved him washed the city's blood am i speaking to someone tonight that came in with a mountain of guilt with a load of unclean with an awareness that you are strange from god and separated from god that if you die as you are you will of necessity be in hell forever and should it be that by some chance god does not have a hell that you are in such a moral state that he would have to make one to accommodate you because with a heart such as your heart you could not go to heaven then i submit to you that if you're prepared to come just as you are with all your guilt and all your uncleanness with all your stains and defilement just as you are but hating what you are and renouncing what you are and taking sides with god against yourself and purposing that as of now jesus christ shall govern and rule and lead in your life and i have the authority in his name to say that he will wash you from your sins in his own back what can take to wash away my sins nothing but the blood of jesus what can make me whole nothing but the blood of jesus oh precious is the blood that makes me white as snow no other house i know nothing but the blood of jesus in dream satan came to martin luther that leader of the reformation this being reformation sunday it's the more appropriate in dream and vision burden satan came and said luther you are a man of many sins your life is how vile how dare you lead this people how dare you claim to know the truth how dare you preach in jesus name with a background such as yours and a past such as yours livid and to satan luther said yes you're right he said would you write my sins on the wall and in the vision satan inscribed as the sins that he knew were there and then in the midst of it luther said he interrupted and put sins down that satan even hadn't accused him of things that he knew were true and finally he said are there any more and satan said no any more not a one that i know of and luther said nor do i but isn't it a list there the wall was covered with the record of his sins and satan looked at him and said how dare anyone with such a list of sins as this dare to preach dare to speak dare to leave ah said luther there's one thing you've forgotten over them all across them all right these words the blood of jesus christ god son cleanseth us from all sin unto him that loved us washed us in from our sins in his own blood i know this that if you will come and confess with your mouth jesus to be lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead when he died for you under the load of your sin god for jesus sake will wash away your sin make you every with all that you can stand before him as clean as jesus christ as righteous as his son hear it now and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness the first begotten of the dead the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood perhaps i'm speaking to someone here tonight maybe you're even a church member but you don't have peace with god this deep stream is casting up lyre in turkey perhaps i'm speaking to someone that knows that you've never been born of god or someone that knows you are a child of god but sin has come in your life or do your first works again break before him confess your sin and know the cleansing of the blood unto him that loved us washed us from our sins in his own blood let us pray what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of jesus what can make me fall again nothing but the blood of jesus all precious is the flow that makes me white as snow no other fount i know nothing but the blood of jesus am i speaking to someone tonight that says yes i have stained i have a professing christian i know jesus christ but sin has come into my life it's separated it's grieved it's burdened and i want to be clean i want the blood to cleanse and i'm raising my hands an indication of my need and asking for prayer would you be the one to whom i am speaking into whom this invitation is given thank you i see it god bless you yes i see it god bless you another anywhere you can take it down now another i'm a christian but sin is coming to my life and i want cleansing i see it god bless you yes another anyone anywhere anyone anywhere christian sin is coming i hate it i want to be clean pray for me another that i would ask is this i know i'm not saved oh how i want the blood to cleanse how i want to have peace i want to have the eating cancer out pray for me i want to know this cleansing of the blood you've spoken about would you raise your hand anyone anywhere i'm not saved pray for me that i might know the cleansing of the blood put your hand up and take it down again we never embarrass you we'll be healthy anyone anywhere the conscience defiled the heart is burdened trying to forget you can't put it away you can't wash it out oh i'd give anything if i could have my purity back as a child spotless conscience clean i'd like to be clean i'm not saved but oh i want prayer i want what you're talking about the cleansing of the blood pray for me if you put your hand up we'll see you and remember you and pray for you anyone father thou knowest the heart behind the hands that have been raised and the hearts of the unfazed that are here to move the cleansing of the blood oh how we wish we could go and sit where they are and for them break and bend and confess their sin and come to the foot of the cross and take cleansing and forgiveness we that have come that know the joy and peace the blood brings for what we would do lord anything if we could do it for these they must for themselves however and so we plead now that in this evening that there will be as some who lay hold of this this is the testimony of the faithful witness the first begotten of the dead the one through whom grace and peace comes jesus christ who loved us and who washed us from our sins in his own blood hear us lord make it real make it wonderfully real in some heart tonight for jesus saved