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The Blood
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4).
“The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).
What a contrast we have in these two statements! On the one hand, the blood of the Old Testament sacrifices never put away sin. No, those sacrifices in the foreknowledge of God only pointed forward to the time when the Lord Jesus would shed His blood at Calvary. We are further told, “And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins” (Hebrews 10:11). Those sacrifices only covered that one sin and then they had to bring another, and another, and another…It was an endless round of blood shed from day to day and year to year.
Today we rest our salvation on the blood of Christ and rejoice in the fact that the work of redemption is complete. “This Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:12). We are “redeemed…with the precious blood of Christ…a Lamb without blemish” (1 Peter 1:18-19).
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