" That is what redemption is--buying back and
setting free. So Christ came back to break the fetters of sin, to open
the prison doors and set the sinner free. This is the good news, the
gospel of Christ--"Ye are not redeemed with corruptible things, as
silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ."
GOLD.
-- The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ
left down here is His blood.
-- A man who covers up the cross, though he may be an intellectual man,
and draw large crowds, will have no life there, and his church will
be but a gilded sepulcher.
-- There is either of two things we must do. One is to send back the
message to heaven that we don't want the blood of Christ to cleanse
us of our sin, or else accept it.
-- Into every house where the blood was not sprinkled, the destroying
angel came. But wherever the blood was on door-post and lintel,
whether they had worked much, or whether they had worked none, God
passed them over.
-- A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not
the token of salvation. It is told of Julian, the apostate, that
while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it
out, and, taking a handful of blood threw it into the air and cried,
"Galilean, Galilean, thou hast conquered.
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