FAITH IN HIS BLOOD
There
is a Person that we are called upon to believe in and trust. His name
is Jesus. There are also those we are warned to beware of and not to
trust. Paul called them “another jesus.” How are we to
distinguish between these persons? They differ in many ways but the
chief one is their work! For that reason the apostle says, “We
preach Christ crucified.” We do not preach nor are people
to believe on a mystical, generic jesus but on that One who is
distinguished by the work He accomplished in His life and death. He
is the “crucified” One!
He
is the Lord Jesus Christ, God in flesh, who came according to the
will of God and accomplished His purpose in saving His elect. This He
did as their Substitute satisfying every claim against them. Jesus
saved His people from their sins. Success crowns His work and
salvation is sure in Him. The Spirit of God brings those He died for
to trust the Lord Jesus Christ and He takes the things of Christ to
do it [JOHN
16:14,15]. The
things concerning His Person and His work.
“Being
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God” [ROMANS
3:24-25]. Faith
in the blood of Christ is simply believing on Jesus the Son of God
whose life and redemptive death are the sole ground of God’s free
justification of His people. To trust Him I must also trust what He
accomplished! “In Whom we have redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins” [COLOSSIANS
1:14].
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Sovereign
Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA
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