The Blood of Christ

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     Christ died for our sins (1 Cor. 15:3). Jesus was judged, sentenced and penalized that the sinner might be pitied, pardoned and paroled. A faithful Christian may be led into sin but he is no longer a servant of sin. The old debt cannot be renewed, for it is paid, and the last error made may by washed away by the blood of Christ at the throne of grace (Heb. 4:16). We may be faithful as servants of Christ but faulty in human conduct, which fault may be washed away in the blood of the innocent. Heaven has given us a receipt to show that we are pardoned; it is the loaf and cup on the Lord's table that tell their own sad story as to how and when Jesus paid it all (1 Pet. 2:24). A thousand years of perfect living on the part of our Lord could not free a single sinner or save a single soul. It was his death that rent the veil (Matt. 27:51). The virtue of that blood looks back to the garden of Eden and forward to the paradise of God (Rev. 2:7). In the mind of Jehovah, his only begotten Son was slain 4000 years before he was born. It was approximately 4000 years from the first to the last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45). Adam was the figure but Christ was the real man. --A. H Moore.