The Precious Blood by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 25, 1904

The Precious Blood

By Editor

Editorial

The Precious Blood

In the simple language of the Scripture we are told of the infinite cost of our redemption. “Ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ.” Jesus “gave himself for us.” We were “sold under sin,” but the redemption price has been paid in “precious blood.” For this reason we are told, “Ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price.” Every one of us belongs to God by right of creation and by right of purchase at an infinite price. The terrible nature of sin is shown in the fact that so many refuse to regard this double right, and attempt to act upon the basis that they belong to themselves. What an insult it is to the God of heaven to count the blood of the covenant a common thing! In the estimation of heaven that blood is precious, and the redeemed ones both now and forevermore will testify to its worth. “The unspeakable value of the cross will be proclaimed throughout eternity, from every part, from every glorious feature, of the new creation, as well as from every inhabitant of the heavenly city.” “The precious value of the blood of Christ will be made manifest in every part of the new creation. All will tell out the costliness of the price that has been paid.” The song of “the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders,” who “fell down before the Lamb,” will find a response in the heart of every saved sinner: “Worthy art thou, . . . for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests.”

“Oh, precious is the flow That makes me white as snow; No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”