Once and for all

Enough Is Enough

Speaker: R. Dedmon | Series: Once And For All | Focus Scripture: Hebrews chapters 9 and 10

Focus Scripture: Read Hebrews chapters 9 to 10
Introduction

Usually when someone says, “Enough is enough,” it means that they have reached their breaking point. This phrase is a firm, often emotional demand that an intolerable behavior come to an end.

When we think about Jesus’ once-and-for-all sacrifice, we understand that the blood of goats and rams was not enough to take away sin. We understand that these animal sacrifices were insufficient to atone for our sins. Somebody say amen.

But thanks be to God that Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 26 says that Christ appeared once in the end of the world to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, obtaining eternal redemption for believers. His blood was enough. Amen. Say it with me: His blood was enough. I know you’re muted, but His blood was enough.

His Blood Was Enough

So when we think about Jesus’ blood, His sacrifice, and we say “enough is enough,” what are we saying? Or what am I saying to you this morning? This is what I want you to get this morning.

What we are saying is that Jesus’ blood is enough. Hallelujah. His sacrifice was both sufficient and final. I want you to get that in your spirit this morning. Jesus’ sacrifice was both sufficient—it was enough—and it’s final.

Not only was it sufficient and final, but it was voluntary. Hallelujah. Unlike the animals that were sacrificed as a sin offering, they were offered without choice. Come on, animals can’t talk. They might have put up a little resistance, but they had no choice. But the Bible says that He gave Himself as a ransom for many.

I’m getting excited.

John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave.” And Jesus willingly gave Himself. The Bible tells us that as a sheep led to the slaughter, He opened not His mouth. So it was sufficient, it was final, it was voluntary. He laid His life down. Nobody took it, but He laid it down of His own volition, or choice.

Eternally Sufficient

Secondly, we are saying that Jesus’ blood is eternally sufficient. Yes, it is. It is eternally sufficient. It is eternally efficacious—that means it is effective. Glory to God.

It is eternally enough to cover our past, our present, and our future sin. Jesus’ sinless, once-and-for-all death was the final act for our redemption—never to be repeated nor reversed. Nothing can be added to it, nor can anything be taken away.

So final was His work that in Hebrews chapter 10 we read that this Man—talking about Jesus, the God-Man, hallelujah—after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever—how long? Forever—sat down at the right hand of God. And by that one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. Amen.

It Is Finished

When Jesus sat down at the right hand of God, it was as if to ratify His dying words on the cross: “It is finished.” His blood rendered His sacrifice official. It made it valid and binding, approved by God to settle forever our sin debt.

Come on, praise the Lord right there. Our sin debt has been settled forever, and I can only imagine the Father saying, “It is enough.” Hallelujah. Finally, the sin debt has been settled, the wrath of God satisfied for your sins and mine.

We Are Enough

And finally, we are saying that by Jesus’ once-and-for-all sacrifice, we are enough. Tell yourself, “I’m enough this morning. I’m enough.” Jesus’ blood sacrifice, once and for all, means that you and I—we are enough.

Hebrews chapter 10, verse 14 says that He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. That’s you, and that’s me. We are being made holy. Enough is enough of the enemy in our ear telling us that we’re not enough, that our sin is too great to be forgiven. Amen. That we’re inadequate, that we’re not loved.

The very fact that Jesus died for us validates our worth, and the very moment that you and I accepted Jesus—His once-and-for-all sacrifice for sins—we became saints. We’re saints. Yes, we are. God sees us as holy.

Hebrews 10:10 says that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once and for all. Nothing else needs to be done.

Nothing Else Needs to Be Done

We don’t need to slay any lambs anymore. We don’t have to sprinkle any blood on the door. We don’t have to perform good works. Amen.

Jesus accepts us just as we are. His love is unconditional. Amen. We don’t have to clean up. We don’t have to be perfect in our own efforts. We don’t have to strive. The Bible says that we rest from our labors. Amen.

We find our rest—our souls can rest in Him. That means that when God looks at us, He sees us as already holy—even on our worst days. Hallelujah. Even on the days when we act up. Even on the days when we’re disobedient. Hallelujah. He still loves us, and He sees us as already holy. Why? Because of the blood of Jesus.

We Have Access

Thank God that we have the authority to enter the Most Holy Place through the blood, or by way of the blood. We have access. Yes, we do. We have access.

Dr. Sherry said something yesterday that really resonated with me. When she started, she said, “You know what? Let’s unmute and pray for ourselves.” She said, “No one better to pray for your need than you yourself.”

But sometimes we look to other people to pray for us because we don’t feel that we’re worthy. We don’t feel that we have the power. But Jesus’ blood is efficacious. He’s given us the power.

You can lay hands on yourself and recover. You can speak the word over your own life. Speak life. We know that life and death are in the power of the tongue.

So sometimes we can’t get to the church. We can’t get to Pastor Raw, or the bishop, or Pastor Bev. But you can lay hands on yourself. Hallelujah. You can speak to your situation.

Dr. Sherry reminded us yesterday that we can speak to our own mountain, and guess what? It has to move. We have access.

Therefore let us draw near with confidence, the Bible says, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. The blood says we are not guilty. Guilty no more.

Why? Because Jesus is enough. His blood is enough.

Conclusion

And I’m closing right now. We are enough.

Like Paul, we can declare—hallelujah—even on my worst days: “I am what I am by the grace of God.”

Why? Because His blood is enough.

God bless you.