WITH HIS OWN BLOOD
"Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." — Hebrews 13:12 [KJV] Sin viewed in the glass of God's holy law, fills the soul with terror, works wrath in the conscience, and leaves the sinner under the curse without hope: but while the infinitely precious sacrifice of Jesus is beheld, sin appears exceeding sinful; the sinner is truly humbled, sin is loathed, Christ is cleaved to, and hope springs up in the sin-distressed conscience. In the tabernacle of old, as there were no windows in it, a lamp was to burn always, that the house of God might not at any time be in darkness: this the Lord ordained unto the children of Israel— Exodus 27:21 . As the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth, we see Jesus, Who is the altar, the Sacrifice, and the Priest, by and through Whom we are sanctified. This truth is to be kept daily burning bright in the lamp of faith, in the temple of the heart. The man J...