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©FOUNDATION
A MAGAZINE OF BIBLICAL FUNDAMENTALISM
Dennis W. Costella, Editor; Karel Beyer, Production Manager; Matt
Costella,
Copy Editor
M.H. Reynolds, Jr. (1919-1997), Founding Editor
The Blood of Jesus
by The Rev. William Reid, M.A.
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus," Hebrews 10:19
[This is a reprint of a book
published by James Nisbet & Co., London, England, in 1866. Liberty Bell
Press no longer prints this book and has granted permission to the FEA for
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©FOUNDATION Magazine, July-August 1998
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Forgiveness Of Sins Through The Blood Of Jesus
Chapter 2: How Our Sins Are Taken Away By The
Blood Of Jesus <= you
are here
Chapter 3: The Blood Of Jesus, Not Conviction Of Sin, The Foundation
Of Our Peace And Joy
Chapter 4: A Letter About The Love Of Jesus
Chapter 5: Salvation Through The Blood Of Jesus, The Gift Of God
Chapter 6: The Blood Of Jesus Our Only Ground Of Peace With God
Chapter 7: Regeneration Through The Blood Of Jesus
Chapter 8: Faith In The Blood Of Jesus Essential To Salvation
Chapter 9: The Blood Of Jesus The Believer’s Life And Peace
Chapter 10: Faith In The Blood Of Jesus The Spring Of Holiness
Chapter 11: The Blood Of Jesus The Essence Of The Gospel
Chapter 12: The Holy Spirit’s Testimony To The Blood Of Jesus
Chapter 2
How Our Sins Are Taken Away By The Blood of Jesus
Topics In This Chapter:
- Jesus The Taker-Away Of Sin For The World
- Jesus Answers All The Claims Of Justice
- Jesus Takes Away Our Sins Freely
THERE IS EVERY REASON why you should now
intelligently and believingly behold the Lamb of God, "which taketh away the sin
of the world," (John 1:29). You are not directed in this passage to a Saviour who
has already " taken away the sin of the world," but to Him who "taketh
away the sin of the world." The meaning plainly is, that Jesus is the God
appointed Taker-away of sin for the world. We find him asserting this, when He
says, The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins" (Matt: 9:6);
"All power" (or authority) "is given me in heaven and on
earth," (Matt. 28:18). Jesus is the only and the all-sufficient, as He is the authorised
Taker-away of sin, for the world at large. The whole world is brought in guilty before
God, "for all have sinned," (Rom. 3:23); and the true gospel of God is,
that when any one belonging to our sinful world feels his sin to be oppressive, and comes
straight to "the Lamb of God" with it, and frankly acknowledges it, and tells
out his anxieties regarding it, and his desire to get rid of it, he will find that Jesus
has both the power and the will to take it away; and on seeing it removed from him
by "the blood of His cross," (Col. 1:20), "as far as the east is
from the west," (Ps. 103:12), be will be enabled to sing with a grateful heart
and "joyful lips:"
"I lay my sins on Jesus,
The spotless Lamb of God;
He bears them all, and frees us
From the accursed load."
You can never make an atonement for your past sins, nor by personal obedience procure a
title to the inheritance of glory; but Jesus is willing to take away all your sins,
and to give you His own title to the glorious kingdom, if you will only consent to intrust
Him alone with your salvation.
"Well," you may perhaps resolve, "I will go to Him, and cast myself upon
His mercy, and if I perish, I perish." Ah, but you need not go to Him in that
spirit, for it throws a doubt upon the all-sufficiency of His completed atonement for sin,
and His perfect, spotless life of obedience.
Jesus himself says, " God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life," (John
3:16). These being the " true sayings of God," (Rev. 19:9), where, O friend, is
there the least cause for you saying, with hesitancy and doubt "If I perish, I
perish?" (Esther 4:16). The proper thought you ought to have in reference to the
glorious Gospel is this - God has so loved the world as to give His only-begotten Son to
die for sinners, and He assures me that if I, a perishing sinner, believe in Him, I
shall not perish, but have everlasting life; I believe His Word, and reckon that if He
gave His Son to die for us when we were yet sinners, He will with Him also freely give us
all such things as pardon and purity, grace and glory; and if, in accordance with His own
gracious invitation, I rest my soul upon His manifested love in Christ Jesus, I believe
that it will be as impossible for me to perish, as for God to change His nature, or
to cancel the word of grace and truth, that the " blood of Jesus Christ, His
Son, cleanseth us from all sin," (1 John 1:7).
God the Father loved sinners so much as to send Jesus to die for them. Jesus loved
sinners so much as to lay down His life for their redemption. The Holy Spirit loves
sinners so much that He has written a record of God's manifested love to them in Jesus
Christ, and He Himself has come down in person, to reveal that love to their souls, that
they may be saved. And if you, O anxious one, will now agree to God's method of
transferring all that Divine justice demands of you to Jesus, "who was made of a
woman, made under the law," who perfectly obeyed and pleased the Father in His holy
life, and in death endured and exhausted the penalty due to sin, you will obtain pardon,
peace, grace, and holiness; the full tide of the love of God, which passeth knowledge,
will flow into your soul, and, in the spirit of adoption, you will cry, "Abba,
Father," (Gal. 4:6), feel the constraining influence of the love of Christ, and live
to the glory of "Him who died for us and rose again."
That I may make the method of a sinner's salvation so "plain, that he that readeth
it" (Hab. 2:2) may have his mind's eye so full of its meaning, "that he may
run" at once to Jesus Christ, as his Divine sin-bearer, I will present the following
homely and unmistakable illustration :-While standing, one day on the platform of the
Aberdeen Station of the North-Eastern Railway, I observed a carriage with a board on it
intimating that it ran all the way from Aberdeen to London. The doors of it were open, the
porters were putting passengers' luggage on the top of it, and a few individuals were
entering, or about to enter, its different compartments. They looked for this particular
carriage as soon as they had passed through the ticket-office, and on seeing
"London" on it, they threw in their traveling-rugs, entered, and, seating
themselves, prepared for the journey.
Having furnished themselves with tickets and railway guides, and satisfied themselves
that they were in the right carriage, they felt the utmost confidence and I did not
observe any one of them coming out of the carriage, and running about in a state of
excitement, calling to those around them, "Am I right? am I right?"
Nor did I see any one refusing to enter, because the carriage provided for only a
limited number to proceed by that train. There might be 80,000 inhabitants in and around
the city; but still there was not one who talked of it as absurd to provide accommodation
for only about twenty persons, for practically it was found to he perfectly
sufficient. Trains leave the city several times a-day, and it is found that one carriage
for London in the train is quite sufficient for the number of passengers; and on the
particular day to which I now refer, I noticed, that so ample was the accommodation, that
one of the passengers had a whole compartment to himself. The carriage is for the whole
city and neighbourhood, but carries only such of the inhabitants as come and seat
themselves in it from day to day.
God, in His infinite wisdom, has made provision of a similar kind for our lost world.
He has provided a train of grace to carry as many of its inhabitants to heaven, the great
metropolis of the universe, as are willing to avail themselves of the gracious provision.
When we call you by the preaching of the gospel, the meaning is, that all who
will may come, and, passing through the booking-office of justification by faith alone,
seat themselves in a carriage marked, "From Guilt to Glory." Whenever you
hear the free and general offer of salvation, you need not stand revolving the question in
your own mind, "Is it for me ?" for just as the railway company carry all
who comply with their printed regulations, irrespective of moral character, so if you come
to the station of grace at the advertised time, which is " now,"-for "Behold
now is the accepted time," (2 Cor. 6: 2),-you will find the train of salvation ready;
and the only regulation to be complied with by you, in order to your being carried by it,
is that you consent to let the Lord Jesus Christ charge Himself with paying for your seat,
- which cannot surely be anything but an easy and desirable arrangement, seeing you have
no means of paying for yourself.
Were you coming to the railway-station with no money in your pocket, and anxious to
travel by a train about to start, in order to be put in possession of a valuable
inheritance left to you by a friend; and were any one to meet you at the door of the
ticket-office, and say, "I will pay your fare for you," you would not
feel anything but the utmost satisfaction in complying with such a regulation; and is it
not an easy matter for you on coming to the station of mercy to submit to the regulation
of the gospel, to let Jesus pay your fare for the train of grace, that you may take your
seat with confidence, and be carried alone, the new and living way to everlasting glory?
If we want to know the gospel and be saved, we must know Jesus as our Sin-bearer;
for "Christ crucified is the sum of the gospel and the richness of it. Paul was
so taken with Jesus that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his pen and lips. It
is observed that he hath the word Jesus five hundred times in his epistles "(Charnock
1684) "Jesus" was his constant subject of meditation, and out of the good
treasure of the heart his mouth spoke and his pen wrote. He felt that Christ was made of
God unto him "wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption," (1
Cor. 1:30), and glorying in the Lord and in His cross, he determined not to know anything
among those to whom he preached and wrote, " save Jesus Christ and Him crucified,"
(1 Cor. 2:2). That faith which is not built on a dying Christ is but a perilous dream:
God awaken all from it that are in it!
Christ alone is our salvation-
Christ the rock on which we stand;
Other than this sure foundation
Will be found but sinking sand.
Christ, His cross and resurrection,
Is alone the sinner's plea;
At the throne of God’s perfection,
Nothing else will set him free.
"We have all things, Christ possessing;
Life eternal, second birth;
Present pardon, peace, and blessing,
While we tarry here on earth;
And by faith's anticipation,
Foretastes of the joy above,
Freely given us with salvation,
By the Father in His love.
"When we perfect joy shall enter,
'Tis in Him our bliss will rise;
He's the essence, soul, and centre
Of the glory in the skies:
In redemption's wondrous story,
(Plann’d before our parents' fall),
From the Cross unto the Glory.
Jesus Christ is all in all"
Continue With: Chapter 3: The Blood Of Jesus, Not Conviction Of
Sin, The Foundation Of Our Peace And Joy
Back to: Chapter 1: Forgiveness Through The Blood Of Jesus
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