139. Saved by Blood Alone

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“N. R.” Without date. Acts 10:44And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. (Acts 10:4), teaches us the value of living honestly up to one’s light. Cornelius was an earnest man, and his prayers and alms, the precious memorial of his earnestness, had gone up before God. But prayers and alms could not save him, and hence he was told to send for Peter “who,” said the angel, “shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.” The man of works had to hearken to words and find salvation therein. The works had gone up as a memorial, but nothing short of the blood of Christ could give him a title. It is well to see that the case of Cornelius proves the indispensable necessity of the blood of Jesus, just as clearly as the case of the thief on the cross proves its efficacy. The former needed nothing less, and the latter nothing more, than the precious blood of Christ. The thief on the cross, and the centurion of Caesarea were both saved by the blood alone.