05A.12. The Blood Cleanses

12 -- THE BLOOD CLEANSES By the blood we are redeemed and by the blood we are cleansed. How often the Scriptures make this clear. Let us hear a few testimonies from the Book.

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God."

"He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy. . . . Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing."

"Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate."

"If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

"O now I see the crimson wave, I hear the speaking blood;

It speaks, -- polluted nature dies, Sinks ’neath the cleansing flood, The cleansing stream I see, I see, I plunge, and Oh, it cleanseth me!"

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