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“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19).
In the Old Testament, when the people of Israel were numbered, each one was to give half a shekel of money for the service of the tabernacle. It seems that somehow this part of the law had been corrupted by tradition, to try and say that redemption could be bought with money. Peter calls this “vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.” It was very clear, even in the Old Testament, that only the shedding of blood could accomplish redemption. The Lord said to Moses, “It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lev. 17:11).
For all of us, it is the blood of Christ that puts our sins away. More than 100 years ago, an elderly Christian man lay dying. One of his sons asked him, “Father, do you have any doubt about where you are going?” He gave a good answer—“I have no doubt about the value of the blood of Christ.” That is what we can rest upon before a holy God.
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