05A.09. Consecrating Of Priests

09 -- CONSECRATING OF PRIESTS

How crimson that spot in the wilderness where the first priests were consecrated; and among many other things for which blood was used, they sprinkled it round about the altar. Now if they sprinkled it round about the altar, to get to the altar meant the passing through the blood, and it means the same today. Jesus tells us in the tenth chapter of John, "He that entereth into the sheepfold except by the door but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber." And in the ninth verse, He says, "I am the door, by me, if any man enter in he shall be saved and go in and out and find pasture." Jesus is the door now, it was Jesus who shed His blood; therefore to get into the Kingdom now, means passing through the blood of Christ as much as getting to the altar in the days of Moses meant passing through the blood of the animals slain.

There are many hills in the world, but there is only one Calvary. There are many trees in the world, but only one that is streaked with blood. There are many fountains in the world, but only one that was opened in the house of David for sin and uncleanness; and if we ever find God we must climb that hill; we must pass that tree, we must wash in that fountain.

While the fountain’s standing open, heed the cry, Come ye, millions, plunge into the crimson flood.

Plunge, O plunge into the fountain ere you die, For ’tis filled with Jesus’ blood.

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