You know there are a great many different religions in the world, but they can easily be divided into two kinds only. One kind has much to say of the shedding of the blood of Jesus; the other hates the mention of it. You can easily try the claims of false religions by this one test: Do they reject the blood of Jesus as the only means of salvation?
If we turn to the Bible, we find that it, everywhere, presents the blood of Christ as the sole means of salvation. Until Christ shed His blood on the cross, God ordained the blood of beasts to be shed as a type of Christ’s.
Just as soon as sin and the curse came into the world, there came also the shedding of blood.
The garments wherewith God clothed Adam and Eve were obtained by the shedding of blood.
Abel was accepted because he came to God through a bloody sacrifice. Man’s approach to God is, from one end of the Scriptures to the other end, shown to be possible only through blood.
Do any ask why this is so? It is because sin is against God. It is rebellion against Him. It is the breaking of His commands, and is contrary to Him, so David had to say, “Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight.”
It is plain, then that sin being against God, salvation from the curse it has brought upon man, must be from God, and in God’s own appointed way. He has only one way of salvation, and that is by the shedding of blood. His justice and His holiness demand it.
No matter how pleasing to you any other way may appear, you will not find in it any salvation which in the day of judgment will enable you to stand before God in peace. Every religion which has ignored the blood of Christ, will in that day be proved false. Its adherents will find themselves still in their sins, and therefore under condemnation.
To save the sinner, Christ must take the sinner’s place, and bear the guilt, of his sin. He did this, bore fully God’s wrath against sin. He shed His blood, suffering for our sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.
Thank God, this is all done, all finished, and there is remission. Forgiveness is offered to every sinner. God is ready to forgive. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin. Blessed, glorious message to lost sinners!
Reader, do you know and enjoy the reality of it? Have you confessed your need of it? Have you bowed at the feet of Jesus in heartfelt repentance for your life of sin, and gazed adoringly upon Him as, upon the cross, He was shedding His precious blood for your salvation?