CHRIST SAVES SINNERS BY HIS BLOOD




“WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD”

-EXODUS 12:13 [KJV]



The apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians said, “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for you” [I CORINTHIANS 5:7]. He is speaking of that type of Christ which God established in Egypt in Exodus 12 where a lamb was commanded to be slain and the blood applied to the doorposts of the Hebrews’ homes. That Passover lamb was a picture of the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ and His sacrificial, substitutionary death for God’s elect.

Thus God says, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt” [EXODUS 12:13]. When did God see the blood of Christ His Lamb in relationship to His people? He saw Him in eternity past as “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” [REVELATION 13:8]. He saw Him on the cross in human flesh as His sinless blood poured out from His wounds. He sees Him now as John did in the Revelation as the Lamb that stands and looks as newly slain, His work finished, but fresh [REVELATION 5:6].

When Christ died, men saw the literal blood of Jesus Christ. When God reveals Christ to and in a sinner by His Spirit through the gospel, that sinner sees the blood of Christ as that which has cleansed them from all sin. God however, has seen it long before we see it. He saw it in that everlasting covenant and had He not seen it then, He could never have seen me in grace! Nor could He have seen Noah as He did before Christ came. “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation” [GENESIS 7:1].


—Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard

Sovereign Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA

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