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Justified by His Blood, April 6
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.
Romans 5:9
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God calls for faith in Christ as our atoning sacrifice. His blood is the
only remedy for sin.
It is not God’s will that you should be distrustful, and torture your
soul with the fear that God will not accept you because you are sinful
and unworthy.... You can say: “I know I am a sinner, and that is the
reason I need a Saviour.... I have no merit or goodness whereby I may
claim salvation, but I present before God the all-atoning blood of the
spotless Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is
my only plea.”
God is approached through Jesus Christ, the Mediator, the only way
through which He forgives sins. God cannot forgive sins at the expense
of His justice, His holiness, and His truth. But He does forgive sins
and that fully. There are no sins He will not forgive in and through the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is the sinner’s only hope, and if he rests here
in sincere faith, he is sure of pardon and that full and free. There is
only one channel and that is accessible to all, and through that channel
a rich and abundant forgiveness awaits the penitent, contrite soul and
the darkest sins are forgiven. These lessons were taught to the chosen
people of God thousands of years ago, and repeated in various symbols
and figures, that the work of truth might be riveted in every heart, that
without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.... Justice
demanded the sufferings of man; but Christ rendered the sufferings
of a God. He needed no atonement of suffering for Himself; all His
sufferings were for us; all His merits and holiness were open to fallen
man, presented as a gift.
Christ calls upon us to lay our sins upon Him, the Sin-Bearer.... But
if we refuse to let them go, taking the responsibility ourselves, we will
be lost. We may fall upon Christ, the living stone, and be broken, but if
that Stone falls upon us, it will grind us to powder.
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