The Glory of the Blood

1. Paid in full. Christ died to put away sins, and He accomplished it for all who shall be saved. He paid SPECIFICALLY for the elect, ransomed them to God, and guaranteed that all who's names are in, “the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”, shall be saved (Rev 13:8). No name outside of the Book shall be saved, but every name in the book, even those who are not yet born, shall be saved by the Lamb's blood. He paid the actual price for sins and wiped them from the books.

2. God gives salvation FREELY by the blood. The blood is the only thing needed for BLESSINGS to hypocrites, harlots, and every manner of diseased. The gospel of God's GLORY is God GIVING to us by the blood His Son paid, so that it is JUST and free (Rom 3:26).

3. The suffering of His agony, as His soul was made an offering for sin (Is 53:10). The Son of God didn't give blood; He DIED, paying the price of hell's fury for every sin. The wrath of eternal God beat upon Him mercilessly, exacting payment for the crimes that we have done.

4. He willingly gave Himself to Calvary. He didn't die as kicking against His will, but in submission: He humbled Himself and gave Himself to die for sins of sinners (Is 53:7). He didn't love us less as He suffered in our place, bearing shame.

These aspects of the glorious blood strengthen faith and give power.

Prayer by the Blood of Jesus (Octavius Winslow)

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." Hebrews 10:19.

In all true prayer great stress should be laid on the blood of Jesus; perhaps no evidence distinguishes a declension in the power and spirituality of prayer more strongly than an overlooking of this. Where the atoning blood is kept out of view, not recognized, not pleaded, not made the grand plea, there is a deficiency of power in prayer. Words are nothing, fluency of expression nothing, niceties of language and brilliancy of thought nothing, and even apparent fervor nothing, where the blood of Christ- the new and the living way of access to God, the grand plea that moves Omnipotence, that gives admission within the holy of holies- is slighted, undervalued, and not made the groundwork of every petition. Oh, how much is this overlooked in our prayers, how is the atoning blood of Immanuel slighted! How little mention we hear of it in the sanctuary, in the pulpit, in the social circle! whereas it is this that makes prayer what it is with God. All prayer is acceptable with God, and only so, as it comes up perfumed with the blood of Christ; all prayer is answered as it urges the blood of Christ as its plea; it is the blood of Christ that satisfies justice, and meets all the demands of the law against us; it is the blood of Christ that purchases and brings down every blessing into the soul; it is the blood of Christ that sues for the fulfilment of His last will and testament, every precious legacy of which comes to us solely on account of His death; this it is, too, that gives us boldness at the throne of grace.