THE blood of Christ, nothing but it, can ever save the soul. If some foolish Israelite (Exodus 12:21-2321Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. (Exodus 12:21‑23)) had despised the command of God, and had said, “I will sprinkle something else on the door-posts,” or “I will adorn the lintel with jewels of gold and silver,” he must have perished; nothing could save his household but the sprinkled blood.
And now let us all remember that “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, Jesus Christ.” My works, my prayers, my tears, cannot save me; the blood, the blood alone has power to redeem. Nothing but the blood of Jesus has the slightest saving power.
O, you that are trusting in baptism, confirmation, or the Lord’s Supper, nothing but the blood of Jesus can save. I care not how right the ordinance, how true the form, how scriptural the practice; it is all a vanity to you, if you rely on it to save. God forbid that I should say a word against ordinances or against holy things; but keep them in their places. If you make them the basis of your soul’s salvation, they are lighter than a shadow. There is not, I repeat it again, the slightest atom of saving power anywhere but in the blood of Jesus. The blood stands out, the only rock of our salvation.
ML 04/03/1927