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I Peter 1:18,19
Good Friday, March 21, 2008
We have seen together the necessity of the cross, that Christ might free us from the curse of sin becoming the curse for us. (Gal. 3:13) We have seen the meaning of the wounds of Christ and how essential they are: revealing God’s wrath, exhibiting His love, and displaying His mercy for us.
In this last message we are on the holiest of all ground. What place and necessity is there for the blood of Jesus Christ our Savior? The New Testament has so many passages about Christ’s precious blood that one is pressed to choose, but we have taken these words of the Apostle Peter, “You know that you were ransomed from your futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.” (Peter 1:18, 19)
In the passion account the blood of Christ is ever before us beginning at Gethsemane where the anguish was so great that blood was forced from his pores, to the scourging with cords imbedded with stones to cause the back to bleed, and the crown of thorns pressed down on His brow. Throughout His suffering, blood trickled from the wounds we have come to love. And at the last, as if to empty the sacred heart of its last drops, the soldier thrust in the sword and out came water and blood. He gave it all – every last drop of blood was poured out. His blood was the only part of Himself physically that Christ left on earth. His body and His bones ascended into heaven, but His blood remains behind as a title of ownership of His people.
THIS OWNERSHIP IS AT A GREAT PRICE
