Most Precious Truth for Guilty Sinners!

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth from all sin." -I John 1:7 [KJV]

Most precious truth for guilty sinners! Lord, help us most deeply to consider what is implied in these words. See the exceeding sinfulness of sin. It has brought these dreadful evils upon us. Loss of God’s image. Obnoxiousness to His wrath. Rejection from His presence. For we are by sin totally unclean. The pollution of sin has brought the curse of God’s law upon us, armed His justice, shut His kingdom against us, and opened the gates of hell to us. The bitter cries and exquisite torments of the damned in hell, will eternally proclaim the malignancy of sin. The everlasting songs of the saints in glory, will for ever proclaim the praises of the Lamb, Who washed them from their sins in His own blood. 

This proves the curse and defilement of sin. The blood of Jesus Christ, and that alone, cleanseth from all its deepest stains. O the infinite love of the Son of God, to shed His blood for guilty sinners! O the infinite virtue of His precious blood, to cleanse us from all sin! Remember, God’s justice would have been eternally glorified, and thy soul eternally suffering His wrath due to thy sins, if the blood of His Son had not cleansed thee from all sin. Reflect on this, and say, canst thou think light of sin, or count the blood of Jesus of little value? O, see sin’s crimson dye, in the purple gore of the Son of God, which was shed to atone for it, and cleanse from it. 

“Cleanseth us.” Not only hath cleansed and shall cleanse, but it continually doth so. It removes all the filth of sin from before God, and takes all the guilt of sin out of our consciences: so that we are perfectly clean, and without spot of sin in God’s sight, and perfectly freed from all condemnation for sin in our consciences. 

“The blood of Jesus Christ.” This means the last act of the tragedy of the life of our anointed Saviour. His blood being the ransom of our souls, the price of our redemption, and the expiation of our sins. 

“His Son:” the Son of God: very God of very God. Here let faith fix, and conscience be satisfied. Not only the blood of the Son of the Virgin, but it is the blood of the Son of God. Neither the greatness, nor the number of sins can remain in their guilt, nor expose any sinner to wrath, who believes in the Son of God. No guilt so great, but it can cleanse: no stain so deep but it can purge. Unbelief shuts blood out of the conscience. By faith we receive its cleansing virtue and peaceful effects on the soul. 

 

Thy blood alone, Jehovah Man, 

Doth cleanse our souls from guilt of sin; 

This precious truth we’d ever scan, 

For peace, and love, and joy within. 

Come, let us sing, adore, and praise, 

Ye sinners, who are foul as me, 

The dying love, the precious grace, 

Of Jesus' suff’rings on the tree.

 

-preacher Wm. Mason (1724-1797 A.D.)

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