When the blood was lost, so was a life. And life, they knew, and the blood that symbolized it, were gifts from the living God.
The drops of blood that fall to the floor in the emergency room, the stream of blood from a deep wound: nothing so graphically reminds us of our mortality.
For as the ancient Israelites knew, when our blood is gone, so is our life. And so, blood is the premier biblical symbol of life. The Israelites came to know the living God during their long desert journey on the way to the promised land. The blood fell from the sky like a scarlet rain, soaking into their clothes and souls.
And having no stain remover or washing machines or dry cleaners, they could count on having a permanent, indelible reminder of the covenant with God sealed that day in blood. Long after those blood-stained clothes and their wearers were gone, the covenant made that day endured. He lay down his life and became a substitute for sinners. The Bible does not say that the living lamb shall be a token.
If they had tied up a live lamb, death would have gone over that; but they were to take a lamb and kill it, and put its blood upon the door-posts; and when Death came down, wherever the blood was he did not go in. Some say: "I wish I were as good as that one who has been visiting the poor and doing deeds of charity during the last fifty years; wouldn't I feel safe for heaven? That is not character, that is not deeds; it is the blood. God says, "When I see the blood, I will pass over you.
Works are all right in their place; but they do not save us. It was not what he had done, but wnat the blood had done. So, it is not the strongest, nor those who have the best character that are the safest, but those who are behind the blood. Some one said, the little fly in Noah's ark was as safe as the elephant. It was the ark that saved the elephant, just as it was the ark that saved the fly. The question is, Have you got the token? It was the most absurd thing in the world to the Egyptians, this sprinkling of the blood.
I can see the haughty Egyptian riding through the town, and, seeing the blood sprinkled on the door-posts, stopping to inquire what it meant.
Every one was killing a lamb, ana ne heard their bleating. He said: "You must have gone clean mad. What is that for? How scornfully he looks upon those men! That is the way theworld looks now upon it. They say: "What do vou mean by the blood? The idea of being saved by the blood! At night Death came down. He entered the palace, and the crown prince was laid low; and so on through every house in Ej.
And only faith, and its sign in blood upon the door-posts, kept him out. The blood of Jesus Christ, when it comes, will be worth more than all the world. Your wealth, culture and refinement cannot help you, when God comes to judge the world.
The world makes light and scoffs and ridicules the idea now as it did then. But the time is coming when the blood of Jesus Christ will be worth more to you than all the world. It is like Noah's ark. I can see those antediluvians scoffing at Noah. But one hour after the flood began to fall, Noah's ark was worth more than all the world put together.
My friends, you had better be wise. Be sure you have got the token. If I go down to the depot and want to go to Chicago, I go to the ticket office, I buy my ticket; and when I get aboard the train the conductor don't know who I am, and he don't care who I am. It makes no difference to him whether I am white or black, learned or unlearned.
The question is, have I got a ticket? Have I got the token? Pardon the illustration. The man that has got the token is safe. The man that has not got it is unsafe, I don't care what his life or character may be, and not only unsafe, but unsaved. And there is no salvation outside the blood of Jesus Christ.
There is no other name whereby ye may be saved! To be sure, this scene down in Goshen was typical. Another thought.
A good many Christians wonder they are so weak, and have not more strength, and do not grow strong like other people. You will find out in the eleventh verse. Now, the great trouble with Christians is, they do not feed on the Lamb. Their idea is, if you get converted and join the church, that is enough; instead of feeding on the Lamb, and getting strong and becoming giants in God's service.
They have got the wilderness journey before them; and they should keep the staff in their hands, and the shoes on their feet, and feed on the Lamb. Let us learn the lesson to feed on the Lamb; and if we feed on Christ, we will have strength. If we neglect to feed and do not feed on it, ari --'ill ofn. There is another thought.
And, sinner, all these years that you are in the service of sin, you are just losing them; it is all lost time. These four hundred years they had been in bondage in Egypt, God rolled away; and said: '-This shall be the beginning of months.
What is ? You date back to the blood; you can't help it. In addition to oxygen to sustain life, we must also recognize the need for water and food nourishment as essential for the maintaining of physical life. So blood is not the sole element of physical life. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission. Hebrews Revelation , NKJV. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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