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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