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Atonement Through Christ’s Blood, August 7
We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement.
Romans 5:11
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Thank God that He who spilled His blood for us, lives to plead it, lives
to make intercession for every soul who receives Him. “If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.” The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all
sin.... We need to keep ever before us the efficacy of the blood of Jesus.
That life-cleansing, life-sustaining blood, appropriated by living faith, is
our hope. We need to grow in appreciation of its inestimable value, for it
speaks for us only as we by faith claim its virtue, keeping the conscience
clean and at peace with God. This is represented as the pardoning blood,
inseparably connected with the resurrection and life of our Redeemer,
illustrated by the ever-flowing stream that proceeds from the throne of
God, the water of the river of life
The wonderful symbol of the living bird dipped in the blood of the
bird slain and then set free to its joyous life [
Leviticus 14:4-8
], is to us the
symbol of the atonement. There were death and life blended, presenting
to the searcher for truth and hidden treasure, the union of the pardoning
blood with the resurrection and life of our Redeemer. The bird slain was
over living water; that flowing stream was a symbol of the ever flowing,
ever cleansing efficacy of the blood of Christ, the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world....
We are to have free access to the atoning blood of Christ. This we must
regard as the most precious privilege, the greatest blessing, ever granted
to sinful man.... How deep, how wide and continuous is this stream! To
every soul thirsting after holiness there is repose, there is rest, there is the
quickening influence of the Holy Spirit, and then the holy, happy, peaceful
walk and precious communion with Christ
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15
Letter 87, 1894
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16
The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 1:1111
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