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Efficacy of Christ’s Blood, February 10
It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:11
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Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. To many
it has been a mystery why so many sacrificial offerings were required in
the old dispensation, why so many bleeding victims were led to the altar.
But the great truth that was to be kept before men, and imprinted upon
mind and heart, was this, “Without shedding of blood is no remission.”
Hebrews 9:22
. In every bleeding sacrifice was typified “the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.”
John 1:29
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Christ Himself was the originator of the Jewish system of worship, in
which, by types and symbols, were shadowed forth spiritual and heavenly
things....Today we are living when type has met antitype in the offering of
Christ for the sins of the world; we are living in the day of increased light,
and yet how few are benefited with the grand and all-important truth that
Christ has made an ample sacrifice for all! What justice required, Christ
had rendered in the offering of Himself, and “how shall we escape if we
neglect so great salvation?”
Hebrews 2:3
. Those who reject the gift of life
will be without excuse.
Thank God that He who spilled His blood for us, lives to plead it, lives
to make intercession for every soul who receives Him. “If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us
from all sin. It speaketh better things than the blood of Abel, for Christ
ever liveth to make intercession for us. We need to keep ever before us the
efficacy of the blood of Jesus. That life-cleansing, life-sustaining blood,
appropriated by living faith, is our hope. We need to grow in appreciation
of its inestimable value, for it speaks for us only as we by faith claim its
virtue, keeping the conscience clean and at peace with God.
This is represented as the pardoning blood, inseparably connected with
the resurrection and life of our Redeemer, illustrated by the ever-flowing
stream that proceeds from the throne of God, the water of the river of life.
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