05A.15. We Cannot Escape The Blood
15 -- WE CANNOT ESCAPE THE BLOOD The most precious thing ever poured out upon this earth was the blood of Jesus, it is the only remedy for sin, the only cure for iniquity, the only hope of the sinner anywhere you find him, and turn where you will you cannot escape the blood. Suppose our government took possession of a fountain and placed a soldier there to guard it, how would you ever be able to enter? Only in one way, and that by the soldier. There would be two ways you could gain entrance by him, one through his kindness and courtesy, the other in defiance of him and in opposition to him. If you entered through his courtesy all right, if in defiance of him you would subject yourself to the severest punishment, and if while thrusting him aside he took your life, our government would clear him of crime for he would do it protecting the fountain he had been placed there to guard.
Just so God has opened a fountain to the house of David for sin and uncleanness and placed the Holy Ghost as perpetual guard. We can enter only by the Holy Ghost, either through His kindness and courtesy for pardon and cleansing, or in defiance and opposition to Him, thus trampling it under foot. Beyond that fountain are the gates of heaven, beyond that fountain are the doors of hell. If we go to heaven we must pass through the blood for pardon and cleansing; if we go to hell we must trample it under foot. Man cannot get away from the blood; it must be reckoned with. If we enter that fountain by the kindness and courtesy of the Holy Spirit, well and good; but if in spite of Him and in opposition to Him we enter to trample it underfoot, we become transgressors, and blood rejectors and make ourselves two-fold more the children of hell; for there is no sin under heaven like trampling under foot the blood of Jesus; and when you do this, if the Holy Ghost should strike you dead, or if He should lift His glistening wings and leave you forever, all heaven would clear Him of folly, for in doing so, He would do it in defense of the most precious and valuable thing in the universe of God; and if it were not for the love of God, the compassion of Christ, and the patience of the Holy Ghost, that is what He would do.
O sinner, that crimson stream flowing from Calvary’s cross is at your feet; will you plunge in for pardon and cleansing, and be saved, or will you trample it under foot and be eternally lost? For the healing of the nations is its flow, Come, ye millions, plunge into the crimson tide;
O the precious blood will cleanse you as you go, And you will be satisfied.
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