04/16/2019
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Standing at the foot of the cross, we see hands, and feet, and side, all
distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is "precious" because
of its redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it the sins of Christ's people
are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the law; they are
reconciled to God, made one with him.
Christ's blood is also "precious"
in its cleansing power; it "cleanses from all sin." "Though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Through Jesus' blood
there is not a spot left upon any believer, no wrinkle nor any such
thing remains. O precious blood, which makes us clean, removing the
stains of abundant iniquity, and permitting us to stand accepted in the
Beloved, notwithstanding the many ways in which we have rebelled against
our God.
The blood of Christ is likewise "precious" in its preserving
power. We are safe from the destroying angel under the sprinkled blood.
Remember it is God's seeing the blood which is the true reason for our
being spared. Here is comfort for us when the eye of faith is dim, for
God's eye is still the same.
The blood of Christ is "precious" also in
its sanctifying influence. The same blood which justifies by taking away
sin, does in its after-action, quicken the new nature and lead it
onward to subdue sin and to follow out the commands of God. There is no
motive for holiness so great as that which streams from the veins of
Jesus.
And "precious," unspeakably precious, is this blood, because it
has an overcoming power. It is written, "They overcame through the blood
of the Lamb." How could they do otherwise? He who fights with the
precious blood of Jesus, fights with a weapon which cannot know defeat.
The blood of Jesus! sin dies at its presence, death ceases to be death:
heaven's gates are opened. The blood of Jesus! we shall march on,
conquering and to conquer, so long as we can trust its power!
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