The Blood of Christ

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Message Topic: The Blood of Christ Has Lifted Us

Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 484 Origin of Yellow Fever Vaccine

Origin Of Yellow Fever Vaccine

In West Africa, in 1927, a blood specimen was taken from a native named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A rhesus monkey which had just been received from India, was inocculated with the specimen. Asibi recovered, but the monkey died of the disease.

All the vaccine manufactured since 1927, by the Rockefeller Foundation, the government and other agencies as well, derives from the original strain of virus obtained from this humble native. Carried down to the present day from one laboratory to another, through repeated cultures, and by enormous multiplication, it has offered immunity to yellow fever to millions of people in many countries.

Through the creative imagination of science, the blood of one man in West Africa has been made to serve the whole human race.

—James Hastings

Origin Of Yellow Fever Vaccine

In West Africa, in 1927, a blood specimen was taken from a native named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A rhesus monkey which had just been received from India, was inocculated with the specimen. Asibi recovered, but the monkey died of the disease.

All the vaccine manufactured since 1927, by the Rockefeller Foundation, the government and other agencies as well, derives from the original strain of virus obtained from this humble native. Carried down to the present day from one laboratory to another, through repeated cultures, and by enormous multiplication, it has offered immunity to yellow fever to millions of people in many countries.

Through the creative imagination of science, the blood of one man in West Africa has been made to serve the whole human race.

—James Hastings

Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996), 204.

The Precious Blood of Christ Has lifted Us -Note:

The letter to Ephesians open with the blessings of Redemption

(NKJV)

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

(1) Chosen Unto A Living Hope: the source of this hope-(a) By the mercy God , (b) By the new birth ; , (c) By the resurrection of Christ

(1) Chosen Unto A Living Hope-1 Peter 2:9 (NKJV)

9But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

The Source of this hope

By the mercy-Ephesians 2:4–5 (NKJV) 4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

By the new birth-John 3:3 (NKJV) 3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

(NKJV)

3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

(NKJV) 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

5even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

By the resurrection of Christ-Romans 10:9–10 (NKJV) 9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

(2) Redeemed-1 Peter 1:18 (The Message) 18Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

18Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

This is the Point: We need to be set free and delivered from the empty life that we have been taught to live:

jobs; professions; and money

position; authority; pleasure

recognition; popularity; comfort

Therefore when a person focuses upon the world, its pleasures and possessions, he becomes vain. His heart becomes empty, void, unfulfilled, and incomplete. The worldly heart senses a lack of permanent purpose, meaning, and significance.

(The Message)

2You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience.

3We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us.

There are three ways in which God’s people require to be lifted up: (C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1896).

They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world’s people!  

They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world’s people!

Moreover, believers need to be prospered in conflict. In the battle, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory.  C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1896).

We may also ask our Lord to lift them up at the last! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls to thine eternal kingdom in glory.

Glorified-John 6:40 (NKJV)

40And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”