7 Sermon Illustrations on Blood Of Christ

You waste precious time in attempting, independently of the blood of God's Son and the aid of his Spirit, to change your heart, and save your soul. In you, so unprofitably engaged, I see a negro, black and tawny, seated by a running stream, a laughing-stock to some, an object of pity to others, while he labors and tolls to wash himself white, and remove the dark color from his skin. Rise, throw "soap and nitre" into the stream, and, turning your back on all self-righteous appliances, go seek the blood that cleanseth from sin. Day by day are you busy and pains-taking to work out a righteousness of your own? Leave that loom, your vows and promises. Gossamer threads! are they not ever snapping in your hand, and breaking at each throw of the shuttle? The white linen that robes the saint, the raiment meet for thy soul, and approved of God, was woven upon the cross; and there, with color more enduring than Tyrian purple, it was dyed in the blood of the Son of God.

— Dr. Guthrie

BLOOD OF JESUS, Demand of the Whilst Capt. Hedley Vicars was waiting in Canada, in November, 1851, the arrival of a brother-officer in his room, and idly turning over the leaves of the Bible, his eye caught the well-known words, "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." Closing the book, he said, "If this be true for me, henceforth I will live, by the grace of God, as a man should live who has been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ."

I once heard a very earnest and evangelical minister say that he had been accosted by a man who had heard him preach with this criticism, "I don't like your theology. It is too bloody. It savors of the shambles. It is all blood, blood, blood. I like a pleasanter gospel." He replied, "Well, my theology is bloody: it recognizes as its foundation a very sanguinary scene, — the death of Christ, with bleeding hands and feet and side. And I am quite content it should be bloody; for God hath said, that 'without shedding of blood is no remission' of sins." C. D. Foss.

Samuel Pearce, a useful minister at Birmingham, Eng., at the time of his conversion, having read Doddridge's "Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," took up the idea suggested in that book, and resolved formally to dedicate himself to the Lord. He drew up a covenant; and, to make it more solemn and binding, he signed it with blood drawn from his own body. But afterwards, failing in his vows, he was plunged into great distress. Driven, therefore, into a more complete examination of his motives, he was led to see that he had been relying too much on his own strength; and, carrying the blood-signed covenant to the top of his father's house, he tore it into pieces and scattered it to the winds, and resolved henceforth to depend upon the peace-making and peace-keeping blood of Christ.