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The Blood
Crossing through North India a Christian missionary met an old man. Overcome by the heat and the strain of travel, he sank down dying by the side of the road. The missionary saw him and, kneeling down at his side, whispered into his ear: “Brother, what is your hope?”
The dying man raised himself a little to reply, and with great effort succeeded in answering: “The blood of Jesus Christ.” A moment later he died.
The answer and the calm and peaceful assurance of the man astonished the missionary; he felt assured that the man had died in Christ. How, or when, he thought, could this man have obtained the knowledge of salvation? As he thought of it, he saw a piece of paper grasped tightly in the hand of the dead man. Surprised and delighted he found it was a single page of the Bible containing the first chapter of the first epistle of John. On that one page the man had found the Word of Life.
Most of us have Bibles of our own, but do you value the Word of God as this man did? Have you put your trust in the Lord and His shed blood on Calvary? “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:5).
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