05A.11. Salvation Through The Blood
11 -- SALVATION THROUGH THE BLOOD
Wherever you find a sinner saved, you will find the blood of Jesus. For salvation comes only through the blood. Scripture after scripture and verse after verse point us to the, "Fountain opened to the house of David for sin and uncleanness."
Ask for a testimony from the books of the New Testament, and hear Romans say, "Much more then, being now justified by his blood; we shall be saved from wrath through him."
"My testimony," says Ephesians, "is in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins."
"If you will look in the 14th verse of my first chapter," says Colossians, "you will find Ephesians’ testimony is mine exactly."
"Peter, do you know the blood?"
"Yes," he answers, "for we were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ."
"Is there another?"
"Yes," replies the book of Hebrews, "I have a long testimony, ’Into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people. But Christ being come an high priest, -- Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood is no remission.’"
"Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, is my testimony," says Revelation.
"Let me speak," says the Old Testament, "for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul."
"The blood, the blood, our only hope," rings again and again from the book of God. Paul said to the Ephesians, "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." The sinner, we see, is dead. "The life," says the Scriptures, "is in the blood." Therefore the sinner must come in contact with the blood of Jesus in order to become alive unto God.
"Nor silver nor gold hath obtained my redemption, No riches of earth could have saved my poor soul, The blood of the cross is my only salvation, The death of my Savior now maketh me whole.
"I am redeemed, but not with silver, I am bought, but not with gold, Bought with a price, the blood of Jesus, Precious price of love untold."
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