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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 "cleanseth 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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