The Blood of Jesus
Ephesians 1:7-8
In (Christ) we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
Ephesians 2:12-13
Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
1 John 1:7
If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Revelation 1:5b
Jesus Christ...loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood...
John Collinges, author of A Cordial for a Fainting Soule, who with Richard Baxter was a (Deputy) Non-Conformist participant in the Savoy Conference of 1661, the failure of which led to the Act of Uniformity and "Great Ejection" of 1662
Every sin we commit is against an infinite God, against infinite justice and goodness, and nothing but infinite goodness can remit it and pass it by. The person that died for our sins was the God-man, an infinite person; His blood was of infinite virtue as to satisfaction.
John Owen The Holy Spirit "The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Sanctification of Believers"
The blood of Christ purges us from our sin, and no truth belonging to the mystery of the gospel is more plainly asserted. His blood has a double consideration: not only atonement and reconciliation, but also purging and sanctification. He offered himself not just to make atonement, but also to sanctify us by the sprinkling of his blood.
William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armour
Christ the Son of God—both God and man in one person—laid down his life upon agreement with his Father, to make an atonement for the sin of the world; and now offers thee that blood which then he shed, as a price to carry in the hand of thy faith to the Father, for pardon and peace. Peace of conscience is but a discharge under God's hand that the debt due to divine justice is fully paid. The blood of Christ hath done that for the believer. Christ purchased peace of pardon, to obtain peace of conscience for his pardoned ones.
John Flavel The Fountain of Life Opened Up, or A Display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory, Sermon 11 “The Nature and necessity of the Priesthood of Christ”
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/f/flavel/fountain/cache/fountain.pdf
Christ’s blood is not only the blood of God, but it is blood shed in thy stead, and in thy place and room, Galatians 3:13. “He was made a curse for us.” And so it becomes sin pardoning blood, Hebrews 9:22, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14. Romans 3:25. And consequently, conscience pacifying, and soul quieting blood, Colossians 1:20. Ephesians 2:13-14, Romans 3:26, 5:1. O bless God, that ever the news of this blood came to thine ears.
Samuel Ward "Christ Is All In All - The Life Of Faith"
Each day we take the red lines of Christ's cross over the black lines of God's debt book. And if God looks upon the handwriting against us, he sees the bill cancelled with the precious blood of his Son. Such blood is all-sufficient to cover, nullify, abolish, and wholly take away our sins in such a way that he neither sees, will see, nor can see them as sins and debts against us.
John Newton
Our comfort is that "the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin". What a great word is that little word ALL! Not only from sins of one kind, or of one degree, but of all kinds, and of all degrees, when we apply to it in a truly humble and repenting spirit.
Horatius Bonar
It is not the strength of our faith, but the perfection of Christ's sacrifice that saves! No feebleness of faith, nor dimness of eye, no trembling of hand can change the efficacy of Christ's blood. The strength of our faith can add nothing to it, nor can the weakness of our faith take anything from Him. Faith (weak or strong) still reads the promise, "the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:7b) If at times my eye is so dim that I cannot read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering trials, faith rests itself on the certain knowledge of the fact that THE PROMISE IS THERE, and the blood of Christ remains in all its power and suitableness upon the altar, unchanged and unaffected.
Thomas Guthrie Saving Knowledge: Addressed To Young Men, “The Saviour’s Person”
https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZdUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125&source
“We know in part” (1 Corinthians 13:9) indeed, but we do know a part. There are glorious things revealed concerning the work of Christ. What the Bible brings before us is the simple fact that “Christ hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, to bring us unto God” (1 Peter 3:18) and “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7b)
J.C. Ryle
The Upper Room, Being a Few Truths for the Times, Chapter VI Acts 17:26 “One Blood”
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryle/upper_room.viii.html
Never give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of being saved except by that blood.
Old Paths
(Christ's blood) was of infinite merit and value in the sight of God. It was not the blood of one who was nothing more than a singularly holy man, but of one who was God’s own "Fellow", very God of very God (Zechariah 13:7). It was not the blood of one who died involuntarily, as a martyr for truth, but of one who voluntarily undertook to be the Substitute and Proxy for mankind, to bear their sins and carry their iniquities. It made atonement for man’s transgressions; it paid man’s enormous debt to God; it provided a way of righteous reconciliation between sinful man and his holy Maker; it made a road from heaven to earth, by which God could come down to man, and show mercy; it made a road from earth to heaven, by which man could draw near to God, and yet not feel afraid. Without it there could have been no remission of sin. Through it God can be "just and yet the justifier" of the ungodly (Romans 3:26).
From it a fountain has been formed, wherein sinners can wash and be clean to all eternity. This wondrous blood of Christ, applied to your conscience, can cleanse you from all sin. It matters nothing what your sins may have been.
F.B. Meyer
Never suppose that the shedding of Christ's blood was necessary to make God love us, to appease His wrath or wring from His unwilling hand an edict of redemption. "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself." (2 Corinthians 5:19) The Father does not love us because Jesus died, but He went to the Cross because of God's love for us (and) who chose us to be joint-heirs with His Son.
A.W. Tozer Jesus, Our Man In Glory
God's Word makes it clear that the life touched and tainted with sin is a forfeited life. "The soul that sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18:20). The wonder that we will never fully understand is that God wanted to save our forfeited lives. So He allowed the blood of the divine Savior to be offered on our behalf. Notice that there must be a blood atonement because blood and life have a vital, mysterious relationship. The blood of Jesus Christ is of infinite value. The pouring out of blood indicates the termination of life. Because the blood of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son, the Lamb of God, was poured out, our acts of sin may be pardoned. We need to give this spiritual truth all the reverence and contemplation it deserves.
In the Old Testament, the sacrifices and offerings and the poured-out blood of animals were efficacious in ceremonial symbolism. But the death of Jesus Christ was efficacious actually and eternally. (Efficacious is a word theologians like to use; it simply means that it works. It is effective. You can count on it.) When Jesus poured out His blood on Calvary, He guaranteed eternal redemption to all who would put their trust in Him.
When the blood was poured out, when Jesus Christ the eternal Son died, His death became vicarious. (Vicarious is another word that needs a brief explanation. A vicarious act is one performed on behalf of someone else. When Jesus died at Calvary, it was a vicarious death. Jesus died on behalf of us all, the innocent One for the guilty many.)The atoning, vicarious death of Jesus Christ for sinful humanity is at the very foundation of the Christian faith. For those who think they can find a better way than God's way, it is not a popular teaching. But there is no other way. Jesus is the only way.
Isaac Watts
Pardon and grace, and boundless love,
Streaming along a Saviour’s blood;
And life, and joy, and crowns above,
Obtained by a dear bleeding God.
Charles Wesley “O Love Divine, What Has Thou Done!” in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/l/olovediv.htm
O Love divine, what hast thou done!
The immortal God hath died for me!
The Father’s co-eternal Son
Bore all my sins upon the tree.
Th’immortal God for me hath died:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
Is crucified for me and you,
To bring us rebels back to God.
Believe, believe the record true,
Ye all are bought with Jesus’ blood.
Pardon for all flows from His side:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
Behold and love, ye that pass by,
The bleeding Prince of life and peace!
Come, sinners, see your Savior die,
And say, “Was ever grief like His?”
Come, feel with me His blood applied:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
Then let us sit beneath His cross,
And gladly catch the healing stream:
All things for Him account but loss,
And give up all our hearts to Him:
Of nothing think or speak beside,
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
Charles Wesley
Let the world their virtue boast,
And works of righteousness,
I, a wretch undone and lost,
Am freely saved by grace.
Take me, Saviour, as I am,
And let me lose my sins in thee.
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
Casting Crowns "Blessed Redeemer"