it says here verse 34 says one of the soldiers pierced His side with his spear
immediately blood and water came out I love this part of the story in the Old
Testament I'm gonna use several Old Testament references today in the Old
Testament there was this the tabernacle of Moses and it was a courtyard area
outside inside was a little tented area building with two compartments holy
place holy of holies get to that later as people would enter this courtyard area
the first thing they ran into was a brazen altar this is where the blood
sacrifices were made right past that was a labor as a it was a bowl that was made
out of the mirrors of the women this is in the wilderness now out of the mirrors
of women and it was it would contain water so here's an interesting thing
they the priests would sacrifice the animal which never dealt with sin by the
way it only postponed the penalty for one more year it gave them an act of
obedience to be included in His redemptive plan but it never dealt with
sin and so the blood would deal with sin but in this labor the priests were still
required to wipe off uncleanness let me put it this way your people who live
with people you get dirty you get contaminated just in relationships just
by go on social media and you can get contaminated quickly it's a very quick
experience it's it's it's just available to your right it looks like the kingdom
it's at hand it's right within reason those you can feel seriously you can
feel like you did something wrong you can feel that shame thing or you don't
know what's wrong you feel something's unsettled but you know you ask God God
what did I do wrong there's nothing to confess because no sins can commit it
there's just uncleanness the scripture says we are washed by the washing of the
water with the Word of God I've had sick times a countless times in
my life where I just feel like unsettled something something's wrong I don't know
what it is and I pray I think God what did I do
something wrong did I say something did I think something did I entertain did I
plan something and I go through and there's nothing to confess and I opened
the world up the word and I began to read and I just become cleansed I become
washed in the water of the word of God blood and water listen to this passage
out of Zechariah 13 in that day a fountain shall be opened for the house
of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem stop for a minute house of
David inhabitants of Jerusalem that would be Old Testament terminology that
would equate to in New Testament terms the community of the redeemed all right
so we're talking about you all us all all right in that day a fountain shall
be opened for the house of David for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and
uncleanness a fountain shall be opened
the deals with the power of sin but also makes it possible to stay clean just
through the contaminants that happen in life the cleanness of conscience it
wasn't something that was done wrong it's just we we rub shoulders with
people we are we are broken people living with broken people that are all
in process and there's a contamination that takes place you can have the TV on
something comes on you quickly change the channel it's too late you saw
something as a contamination these things just happen you're you're in the
office and and not here this office there's some other place and somebody
tells a joke and you didn't have the chance to get out of the room in time
because it's the defiling it's too late but it's not too late for the washing of
the water with the word just know where to go just know where to go that that's
where we just stand this throughout today we stay in that word because this
continued clea- continuous cleansing and the Word of God Himself a fountain was
opened up with a spear that brought out the blood deals with sin and the water
that deals with contamination