Let us commence our service this
afternoon by singing together hymn number 815. The tune is
Ombudsley 385. Jesus, when on the bloody tree,
he hung through soul and body pierced, that all things might
accomplish be, contained in scripture said, I thirst. Hymn 815, Tune
Ombudsly 385. Jesus went on a bloody journey
He hunted for a bloody place Yet on the trident of this day
A naked scripture said, I say, Kisseth the clouds, O day, my
God, And hath thy Jews in highest day is sprinkled on thee, as your
blood shall make a confetti. This done, and did, and are,
ye know. Excelsis Deo, excelsis Deo. Water surging, water flowing. This day we share shall live
too. In chosen death, eternal sin,
With blotted words, in lies, now read, Thou whom we believest, we put
in, and in the last day righteousness. of God, and man hath strife. Shepherds at work have never
slain. That God may by faith justify
His perfect love In every place our King now preaches,
Therefore His people ever praise. Thou surest have salvation brought,
Thy bread, God's heavenly just. Let us read together from the
Holy Word of God in the book of Exodus and chapter 12. Exodus
chapter 12 and we'll read down to verse 17. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. Speaking unto the congregation
of Israel, saying in the tenth day of this month, they shall
take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their
fathers. A lamb for a house. And if the
household be too little, For the lamb let him and his neighbour
next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating
shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take it out from
the sheep or from the goats and you shall keep it up until the
fourteenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the
congregation shall kill it in the evening and they shall take
of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the
upper door posts of their houses wherein they shall eat it and
they shall eat the flesh in that night roast with fire and unleavened
bread and with bitter herbs shall they eat it eat not of it raw
or sodden at all with water but roast with fire his head with
his legs with the pertinence thereof and you shall let nothing
of it remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it
until the morning shall burn with fire and thus shall you
eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It
is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgment. I am the Lord, and the blood
shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt. And this day shall be unto you
for a memorial, and you'll keep a feast to the Lord throughout
your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. Seven days shall you eat on leavened
bread. Even the first day you shall
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall
be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be
a holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done
in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be
done of you. And ye shall observe the feast
of unleavened bread, for in this self same day have I brought
your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall you observe
this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. May the Lord bless the reading
of his holy word and grant unto us a spirit of real prayer. Almighty, holy and eternal God,
We do desire to bow before Thee, the triune Jehovah, Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. We come to Thee in that precious
name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We think of those wonderful words
of grace, for there is one God and one mediator between God
and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave his life a ransom for
all, to be testified in due time. We pray that there may be that
testimony today of the preciousness and the fullness of our Lord
Jesus Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and he is full of grace and truth. We
do thank thee for that fullness is found in him. We come, Lord,
as poor guilty sinners We all have sinned and come short of
thy glory. We all have need of that wonderful
mercy that flows from the cross of Calvary through the blood
of the Lamb. And we come, Lord, to confess
our sins, our wanderings, our backslidings. We confess, O Lord,
that we leave undone those things that we ought to do, and we do
those things that we ought not to do. and we find a law within
our members that when I would do good, then evil is present
with me. Oh, that thou wouldst be gracious
and have mercy upon us here this afternoon, that we may approach
and draw near, sheltering beneath that precious blood and righteousness
of Jesus Christ our Lord. We do thank thee for that precious
blood that cleanses from all sin. We thank Thee for that solemn
and sacred occasion when He poured out His soul unto death, when
He was numbered among the transgressors, when He bared the sin of many.
May we have that realization, O Lord, that our sins were laid
upon Him So we come to confess our sins
and we plead the precious blood that did for sin atoned. We pray,
O Lord, that our hearts may be filled with gratitude, with thanksgiving
for that holy life you lived as a man here upon earth, fulfilling
and honouring and magnifying thy holy righteous law and bringing
in everlasting righteousness for his people. Oh, we do pray
that we may have that witness of thy spirit with our spirit
that we are the children of God. And we do pray that the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God our Father and
the sacred fellowship of the Holy Spirit may rest and abide
upon us. We pray to be led, to be guided,
to be directed by the Holy Ghost and that the word of truth may
be sealed into each one of our hearts, and that we may know
the truth and the truth may make us free. There may be wonderful
deliverance, wonderful power in the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, a power that cleanses from all sin. And we do thank
thee for that power, for he is declared to be the Son of God
with power. We thank Thee for the power of
the precious blood. We thank Thee for the glory of
the everlasting robe of His righteousness to cover our nakedness, to fit
us to stand in the presence of God. O Lord, what a wonder of
wonders! On such love my heart still ponders,
love so rich, so full, so free. We thank Thee that He entered
into death itself, and on the third day He rose again. He brought
life and immortality to light through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead. He has destroyed death, and Him
that had the power of death, that is the devil. Oh, we do
thank Thee for what Jesus has done. We thank Thee that He has
bodily ascended into heaven. and that he's opened those pearly
gates of heaven. He's opened the door into the
way of life. We thank thee that he is the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. O Lord, we do pray that thou
would be gracious unto us here this afternoon. And as we clearly,
fully believe in those wonderful things for which we thank thee,
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank thee that he's coming
again. I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice.
Gracious God, what a prospect to be with Christ, which is far
better, to be in glory. O most gracious Lord, we pray
that we may think on these things, that we may meditate on these
things, the wonderful glory of a risen and ascended saviour,
of a great high priest. And, O Lord, we do pray that
thou wouldst bless our brethren, the deacons. Bless them with
that rich grace that is in Christ Jesus. Bless them, O Lord, in
all their responsibilities here and elsewhere. Undertake for
them and grant wisdom and understanding, guidance and direction. And graciously
bless each one of our brethren and Sisters in Church Fellowship
and grant, O Lord, that we may truly worship Thee as we gather
around the table of the Lord. We think of our dear brother
and sister in Holland and pray that Thou wouldst be with them
as they meet with us in spirit, even this day. We do humbly beseech
Thee. We thank Thee for Thee and for
the remembrance of Them. Remember, O Lord, we do pray
Thee This village, that the glory, the light, and the power of gospel
truth may shine into it. Precious souls may be gathered
unto Christ. The strongholds of Satan may
be pulled down. The kingdom of the Lord Jesus
set up in the hearts of sinners. Prodigals returning, Lord, we
beseech thee that thou would hear us. What a rejoicing there
would be over one sinner that repented. Oh, do hear us, Lord,
and pour forth that rich grace of thy Spirit, and to bring sinners
unto repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, and to become true
followers of thee, and to put thee on in an open profession
of thy great and holy name. May there be that constraining
love of Christ that they may have to come, For the love of
Christ constraineth us. Lord, do grant that it may be
so. We do humbly beseech thee for thy great namesake. Remember
the little ones and the children as they're brought into the sanctuary.
Remember them with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people
and visit them with thy great salvation. And suffer little
children to come unto thee and forbid them not, for of such
is the kingdom of heaven. Lord, we pray, that they always
remember parents and all in the midst of the journey of life
and be gracious unto them and give wisdom and guidance and
direction. And Lord, we do pray for grace
to pray for one another and to bear one another's burdens, thereby
fulfilling the law of Christ. We thank thee for that spirit
of love that remains among us And we bless Thee, most gracious
Lord. We pray as we part in this coming
week, that Thou wouldst be with us and that the God of Mishpa
may watch between us. We do humbly beseech Thee. And
we pray that Thou wouldst remember those of us that are now in the
evening time of life's journey. And that we pray that as the
outward man perisheth, the inward man may be renewed day by day. for thy great namesake. We pray, O Lord, that thou, in
thy precious mercy, wouldst remember all thy servants this day, set
them free, set them at liberty, grant that they may dip their
foot in oil and be made acceptable unto the brethren, and that the
word preached may be in power in the Holy Ghost and with much
assurance that thou wouldst return unto Jerusalem with mercy. We
truly live, O Lord, in solemn days, when iniquity abounds on
every hand. Lord, remember our leaders, give
wisdom, give guidance, give direction. We do humbly beseech thee, put
a stop to war, bring to naught the counsels of the ungodly.
We do humbly beseech thee, for thou art God over all and blessed
forevermore. and there is nothing too hard
for thee. Indeed, O Lord, thou art able to do abundantly more
than we can even ask or think. We pray thee, the great Lord
of the harvest, to yet send true labourers into the harvest to
build thou the wards of Jerusalem. Lord, we do humbly beseech thee
that thou, in thy precious mercy, was hear the cries of thy little
remnant, that sigh and cry for the abominations done in the
land, that thou wouldst turn again our captivity as the streams
in the sound, that there may be the outpouring of thy Holy
Spirit, that there may be the ingathering of precious souls,
that the souls of thy people may be fed with that living bread
that cometh down from heaven. Hear us, O Lord, we humbly beseech
thee. and graciously be with us as
we turn to thy holy word. Come and open thy word to our
heart and to our understanding. Come and touch one's lips with
a live coal from off the heavenly altar. Come and be with us at
the table of the Lord, that we may truly remember thee and worship
thee in spirit and in truth. Make up in giving where we do
so fail in asking, as we ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Let us now sing together hymn
number 161. The tune is Saint Marie, 835.
The Lord in the day of his anger did lay, our sins on the Lamb, and He
bore them away. He died to atone for our sins,
not His own. The Father has punished for us,
His dear Son. Hymn 161, Tune Saint Marie, 835.
? To the day of peace and glory
given ? ? That sin's unbounded reign ? ? No more ever frail
? ? Be kind to me ? O come, O come, O come, O come,
O come, O come, to Bethlehem. God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
? Sing we all the love of God to
Israel ? ? Sing all ye people of God to Israel ? ? We still shall adore ? ? That
high shed of the winter morn ? O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the
bombs bursting in air, greatly feeling to need the Lord's
graciousness and direct your attention to the chapter we read,
the 12th chapter in the book of Exodus and we'll read verse
13 for our text. Exodus chapter 12, verse 13. And the blood shall be to you
for a token. upon the houses where ye are
and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt. Particularly it's the middle
part of the verse and when I see the blood I will pass over you. So solemn words that Moses spake
unto Pharaoh, or rather the Lord spake unto Moses first. One more
plague. There shall be one more plague.
And it would be the worst of all the plagues. There were 10
plagues. the tenth one was that he would destroy all of the firstborn
of man and beast in the land of Egypt on this solemn and awful
night. Thousands and thousands would
be launched from time into eternity. We read that when it actually
happened a great cry went high There wasn't a house where death did not come. And, you know, we tend to think
just one person per household died, the firstborn, but no. Sometimes a husband and wife
could have both been the firstborn in one family, they would have
all died. and their own firstborn children would have died and
their own firstborn grandchildren would have died. There was thousands
and thousands that died that night when the destroying angel
came through the land of Egypt and the Lord had said unto Moses,
and Pharaoh will let you go. And he did. Pharaoh did let them
go. This terrible, terrible play
that the Lord unleashed on the land of Egypt. And the firstborn
of every house and of every cattle, sheep, they all died. What a
terrible cry went up that night. What an awful cry. And the people
hastened they should go just as the Lord had said to Moses
long before that when they went that the people would load upon
them presents and they gave them gold and jewelry in abundance
to hasten them to go out of the land because of this terrible
plague because all the first full of man and beast in Egypt
had died but then there was one exception And that was those
that were sheltering beneath the blood. The blood of the Paschal
Lamb. There was a difference. The Lord
put a difference between Israel and the Egyptians. You know,
in a broad sense of the word, in a spiritual sense of the word,
Egypt is the world. And the Lord puts a difference
between his own people and the world. He does. The Lord puts that difference.
We don't need to, the Lord does it. He makes a difference. And the blood shall be to you
for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood,
I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you
to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. The only mark,
the only difference that the Lord made between Israel and
the Egyptians was this blood of the Paschal Lamb. That's the
only difference. And when I see that blood, we
just read together how that they were to paint the blood upon
the side posts and the lintel of the doors of each of their
houses. So that lamb had to be slain. and it's called a lamb in reality
every family took a lamb so there would have been thousands and
thousands of lambs that were slain in that night and yet here
it is called it and the reason it is is because it points to
one just as john the baptist himself said behold the lamb
of god which taketh away the sin of the world Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. And this is what we see
here in this Passover Lamb. And it says here in verse 3,
in the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every
man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers a lamb
for a house. And then we are told that verse
5, your lamb shall be without blemish. a male of the first
year, you shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats and
you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month and
the whole assembly, one assembly, the whole assembly of the congregation
of Israel shall kill it in the evening. They shall take of the blood
and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door posts
of the houses wherein they shall eat it." Without blemish. It was very
important. Not only with the Passover lamb,
but with any sacrifice that the Israelites brought to the Lord,
it was a very important precept. It had to be without blemish. They were not at liberty to take
a lame. It says in the Prophet Malachi how
the Lord was greatly offended, it was an abomination. If the
Israelites brought a lamb that was blind or that was lame or
had some disease in it. Now the reason being is because
it typifies Christ and He is without blemish. He did no sin,
neither was guile found in his mouth. Spotless, innocent and
pure, our great Redeemer stood. Spotless, innocent and pure.
He was born without sin, something that none of us can say. And
he lived without sin, something that none of us can ever say.
He was the holy, the sinless, the spotless one. this is what
we see in your lamb shall be without blemish. Behold the lamb
of God, the spotless lamb of God, the pure lamb of God, the
holy lamb of God. When the angel speaks to Mary
in the conception of Christ he said that holy thing that shall
be born of thee, that holy thing. And it's essential that he should
be holy and that he should live holy. It's an essential doctrine
of our most holy faith. That if Christ had committed
one sin, that salvation would not have been procured. Because
anything that was with blemish or undefiled in any way was not
acceptable to God the Father. The only acceptable sacrifice
is the glorious, holy sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. Your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. Now
it was taken out on the 10th day and it was actually slaughtered
on the 14th day. And that seems to represent to
us how the Father chose our Lord Jesus Christ before the foundation
of the world and then at the appointed time he was made manifest
unto the world. He was made of a woman made under
the law, that's the song of God, made of a woman made under the
law that he might redeem them that are under the law. And notice
in verse 6 and The whole assembly of the congregation, now one,
shall kill it. It's spoken of as one lamb. They shall eat the flesh and
that night roast with fire. What do we see in this roasting
with fire? It's the awful fiery indignation
of wrath of God that was unleashed against Jesus Christ when he
suffered and bled and died. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed. They shall eat it in that night,
roast with fire. And our leaven bread, leaven,
which is yeast, it's a typical of sin. So when they were to
eat it, For seven days there was to be no leavened bread. It had to be unleavened bread.
There was to be no sin, no wickedness, no unrighteousness. No, they were to eat it. And
literally to eat it. And it was a complete sacrifice.
In verse nine, eat not of it rawn or sodden or turbid water,
but roast with fire. his head with his legs and with
the pertinence thereof. A complete sacrifice. The Lord
Jesus offered himself. He offered himself without spot
unto God. And it's so that his children
might eat when we come to the Lord's Supper. We're to drink of the wine and
eat of the bread. And Jesus himself, when he instituted
that sacred ordinance, it speaks of him. This is my
body, broken for you. This do in remembrance of me.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, see
it was to set forth the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ in his
sufferings. and a complete sacrifice, his
head with his legs and with the pertinence thereof. Then we're
told in verse 11, and thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and
ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. It's the Lord's Passover. And
the spiritual significance of these things here, this is not
your rest. This is, meaning this world,
this is not your rest, it is polluted. And we're to have our loins girded,
not as if we're resting here, not as if we're dwelling here
forever. We tend to get very earthbound.
and bound up with earthly carnal things. And he said, no, you're
to be like a pilgrim. You'd have your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall
eat it in haste. It is the Lord's pass over. For I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and against all the gods
of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. He's the sovereign ruler of the
skies. He's God over all and blessed
forevermore. He worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will. and in this tremendous judgment
that he was to bring upon the land of Egypt because they would
not let his people go but this difference was to be
made between the Egyptian and the Israelite and the blood shall
be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are when I see
the blood the only thing that delivered the Israelite from
the terrible plague, the destroying angel of death, as he passed
through the land of Egypt that night, the only difference was
the blood. The blood of the Paschal Lamb.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. But the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin, from all sin, that precious
blood, that sin-atoning blood. It delivers us from the curse,
because when Christ shed that precious blood on Calvary, He
did so because our sins were laid upon Him. And the Apostle
says in one place, doesn't he, it was made a curse for us. Christ was made a curse. Christ
the Holy One, the Righteous One, the Pure One. You've made a curse
for us. Why? Because our sins were laid
upon Him. He laid upon Him the iniquity
of us all. We cannot even begin to conceive
in our minds the tremendous weight of the sin of the whole Church
of God. that was laid on Christ and the
whole Church of God from Adam to the end of time. Tens and
tens and tens of thousands of the sins of the Lord's people
were laid on Christ. You know, my beloved friends,
a mere man could not sustain such a tremendous load. But this
is not just a mere man. This is the holy God man, the
man Christ Jesus. He's verily God and verily man
in one person. And he took our sins. He took our sins and he nailed
them to his cross. And when he nailed them to his
cross, he poured out his soul unto death. We read in Leviticus
that the blood is the life thereof. Right through Holy Scripture
there is a very specific preciousness in blood. And the children of Israel were
forbidden to eat or drink blood. And the Christian believers too.
It says in the Acts of the Apostles that the Christian believer is
not to eat blood. Because there is something very
precious It was through the means of the blood of Jesus, the Son
of God. So in all the sacrifices that
were done in the land of Israel, under the Levitical dispensation,
it spoke of the preciousness of blood. When the Israelite brought his
sacrifice up to the tabernacle, up to the altar, as he looked
within the tabernacle, He saw a priest, he saw an altar. Upon
the altar was a bloody sacrifice. Upon the hands of the priest
was blood. Pouring down the sides of the
altar was blood. In the basins on the altar was
blood. And it all spoke of one thing.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. When I see the
blood, that precious blood, were pointing to Christ. Once a year
on that day of sacrifice, when the high priest went into the
holy place, the apostle says in Hebrews, not without blood,
not without blood. And when the high priest stood
in the before the golden mercy seat and the cherubims of glory
in the holiest of all He sprinkled seven times the blood of the
sacrifice before the golden mercy seat. And the Lord said unto Moses
that, there will I meet with the sinner. You cannot meet in
a holy God, but in and through the precious blood of Jesus Christ,
God's son, that cleanses from all sin. It's the only place
of safety. It's in the blood of Christ.
It's the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ that was shed
on Calvary, that has opened the gates of heaven. It is the precious
blood of the Lamb. There's that lovely well-known
hymn, the last hymn in the book by Joseph Irons, beautifully
speaks of the blood of Christ. What is, what's sacred found
in yonder springs up from the throne of God. and all new covenant
blessings brings, tis Jesus precious blood. What mighty son paid all
my debt when I a bondman stood, and has my soul at freedom set,
tis Jesus precious blood. What stream is that that sweeps
away my sins just like a flood, nor lets one guilty blemish say,
tis Jesus precious blood. You see, my beloved friends,
is the precious blood of the lamb as of a lamb slain from
before the foundation of the world in the eternal councils
of the Lord Jehovah and the blood shall be to you for a token as
upon the houses where ye are and when I you see when I it's
God that is speaking you know right that these things should
exercise us, but many of the Lord's people get very tried.
I remember that when the Lord so richly blessed me, when I
was brought into gospel liberty, and the following day a great
temptation came, but you've never known the blood applied. So all
your wonderful religion and all this great joy and peace It's
not real. That was the temptation. But you know, friends, the Lord,
he delivers from those snares. It was the lines of the hymn
that were brought to my heart so powerfully by the Holy Ghost. Concerning the blood of Christ, everything that we receive from God has
been purchased by the blood of Christ. Remember the great cost. Every blessing, every favour
freely flows through Jesus' precious blood. All the blessings that
you've ever received comes through the blood of Christ. I am the
way, the truth and the life, and it is his precious blood
that has purchased It says in the Acts of the Apostles, which
he purchased with his own blood. Christ did. It's a complete salvation. There's nothing for the sinner
to do. It's an accomplished salvation. It's been done. It's been fulfilled
by our Lord Jesus Christ when he suffered and bled and died
on the cross of Calvary. Oh, that precious blood. And
when I... The Lord's people then sometimes
get very tried, very perplexed, because they say, well, I don't
know that power of that precious blood. I haven't had that precious
blood applied. It's a temptation. You need Of course we feel our
need of the blood of Christ, but if the Lord has blessed you,
if Christ has been made precious to you, if Christ has become
everything to you, if your heart has been sweetly softened under
a sense of his precious love to you as a poor sinner, it's
because of his precious blood. That's the reason. not because
of anything you've done, not because of anything you can do.
No, it's because of that precious blood. That is why you have divine
favour. Now the thing is here that the
Lord says when I see the blood, when I see the blood, not when
you see it. Of course we want to know that
sweet assurance that the blood has washed away our sins but
It's only God the Father that can truly estimate the preciousness
of the blood of Christ. That holy blood that he shed,
mark what I say, that holy blood that he shed, has made an atonement
for sin. Taz, he's made an atonement for
sin. I believe, you know, the Apostle,
he very sweetly expounds on this, doesn't he? in the epistle to
the Romans in the in that third chapter of the Romans and it
says in Romans 3 verse 21 but now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and
the prophets even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe what he means
by that there is no difference That is Gentile and Jew. There's no difference. All that
believe. For all have sinned, Gentile
and Jew, and come short of the glory of God, being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, whom God has set forth to be appropriation through faith
in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission
of sins that have passed, through the forbearance of God. That means through the grace
of God, the forbearance of God. Yet as pleased the Father that
in him should all fullness dwell. And in that sacred Sinatonian
sacrifice on Calvary, that precious blood that was shed. Cromacher
speaks of it so lovely, of the blood of Calvary, dropping and
pouring onto the ground at Calvary from that precious Redeemer. He said that place that is called
Calvary was a place of naked justice, where hope and mercy could never
come, but he said since that precious blood poured from the
Saviour's side, that place of naked justice has become the
most verdant pasture in the whole world, where Calvary is, where
the Lamb was slain, There is a green hill far away, you should
sing that hymn at school, where the Lord Jesus was slain, where
he shed his precious blood, that blood that cleanses us from all
sin, and the blood shall be to you for a token. You know, it's
the blood and righteousness of Christ, you see, only reason
why any of us will ever enter heaven. It won't be by any merit
or any obedience of our own. We rest on the obedience of Christ. We rest on the blood of Christ.
That's the only thing to rest on, poor sinner. That's all that
we have. Not by works of righteousness
that I have done, but according to his abundant mercy. That wonderful
abundant mercy that flows through the cross of Calvary, that flows
through the shed blood. He poured out his soul unto death.
He did. He entered into death itself.
Jesus, the Son of God. I am the way, the truth and the
life, and yet he died. He died for our sins. But he
didn't stay there, did he? He died for our sins. and rose
again for our justification, that we should be declared to
be without sin. That's what justification is.
We're justified by faith. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. There's no other
reason, my beloved friend, where you and I will ever reach heaven,
but only through the blood. This salvation is for sinners,
poor double-dyed sinners. Though your sins be as crimson,
they shall be as white as snow. They shall be as white as snow.
Why? Because of the blood of Jesus
Christ that purges away all sin and all iniquity, and the blood
shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt. May the Lord add his blessing.