"This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood -- to be received by faith.” (Romans 3:22-25a)
The gospel of grace is underwritten by the most precious commodity in the universe -- the blood of Jesus.
Some have lost sight of an important truth, possibly the most important truth, which is this: no blood means no salvation. And no redemption, no forgiveness, no sanctification, and no future.
Without the blood, the gospel is no gospel and the cross is nothing more than two beams of wood. As the song-writer Robert Lowry wrote, our cleansing, our wholeness, our pardon, our hope, our peace, our righteousness, our overcoming, are all based on “nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
On the night before He died, Jesus said: “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.” (Luke 22:20)
-- Paul Ellis
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