The Shed Blood, and the Blood Sprinkled

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THERE is a great difference between blood shed, and blood sprinkled. The one implies guilt, the other proclaims mercy. The shed blood of Abel cried for vengeance; but the blood of Jesus “speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Heb. 12:24). HEB 12:24
Now, how do I understand this, when the blood of each was shed?
Oh, this is a wondrous fact for the soul to lay hold of for its eternal comfort. It is the very sum of the wonderful scheme of redemption. The blood of God's own appointed Lamb, which was shed by wicked hands, this very blood God takes, and sprinkles upon the mercy-seat, to form for poor sinners the place of safety. (Rom. 3:24, 25.) ROM 3:25
“His precious blood has spoken there,
Before and on the throne;
And His own wounds in heaven declare
The atoning work is done.”
We are sheltered under the blood. Just as the Israelite of old took the shed blood of the slain lamb, and sprinkled it upon the lintel and upon the door posts, and was secured from the judgment which swept the land, so are we safe from wrath, beneath the shelter of the blood of Jesus. The poor sinner, prostrate before the mercy-seat, sees the blood sprinkled before it, and trusts in it. God sees the blood sprinkled upon the mercy-seat, and such is His estimate, such is the value He sets upon it, that the sinner is immediately '"accepted in the Beloved." The blood is applied (in figure) to his conscience, and he rejoices in the sweet sense of sins forgiven, and knows he is "born of God" (1 John 5:1). 1JO 5:1
Oh, what a happy thing to be sheltered beneath the blood of Jesus; and how solemn it is to be a despiser of the blood, to be trampling it under foot, to treat it lightly, yea, it may be, to he utterly heedless about it!
Darkness and death were in every house in Egypt that had not the blood sprinkled upon it (Ex. 12). EXO 12And such will be the doom of every rejecter and despiser of the blood of Jesus (Heb. 2:1-3; 2 Thess. 1:6-9). HEB 2:1-3 2TH 1:6-9
Will you, reader, abide the awful consequences of the shedding of His blood? or will you hear the voice which is now speaking to you sweet and lovely things concerning the sprinkled blood of Jesus? Vengeance is for the blood-shedder, but mercy for the blood sheltered. Which is your position? His blood alone can cleanse you from all sin.
This is God's remedy for the terrible nature of sin; and there is none other. If you are trusting in the blood of Jesus you are safe for time, and sheltered for eternity. Oh, the wondrous value of the blood of Jesus!
(1 Peter 1:18, 19). 1PE 1:18-19
“Within the holiest of all,
Cleans'd by His precious blood,
Before the throne we prostrate fall,
And worship Thee, O God.”