The Blood of Christ

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 1, 1875

The Blood of Christ.

WHAT avails the blood of Christ? It avails what mountains of good works heaped up by us, what columns of the incense of prayer curling up from our lips toward heaven, and what streams of tears of penitence gushing from our eyelids, could never avail. "The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin."

"Helps us to cleanse ourselves, perhaps?" No; cleanseth us. "Furnishes the motive and the obligation for us to cleanse ourselves?" No; it cleanseth us. "Cleanseth us from the desire to sin?" No; cleanseth us from sin itself. "Cleanseth from the sin of inactivity in the work of personal improvement?" No; from all sin. "But did you say the blood does this?" Yes, the blood. "The doctrine of Christ you must mean?" No; his blood, his blood.

Oh, what hostility the world still betrays toward this essential element of Christianity! Can anything be stated more plainly in language than the entire word of God declares, that our redemption from sin is by the blood of Christ? And yet what strenuous efforts are constantly made to set aside this plain, essential, wonderful and most glorious truth, that "the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin"!—German of Krummacher.