By William Luff
PURGEON has said, “The blood of Christ is the ruby gem in the ring of divine love.” It is the sealing mark of God’s property; the one thing needful. Let us trace this red mark of redemption. When Israel took the victim from the flocks in Egypt they had: Blopd in a Lamb (Ex. xii:3). There must be blood .before blood can be shed. In Christ God has proved Himself a lamb (Gen. xxii :8). “Beloved the Lamb of God” (John i:36). We had sinned in a body; hence it was necessary that Jesus should say, “A body hast thou prepared me” (Pie- brews x :5). But a live Christ, pure as a lamb, could not save, any more than a living lamb could save the Hebrews: the lamb must die. Then they had: Blood in a bason (v. 22). This told of death. “Without, shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. ix:22). “This is my blood . . . which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matt. xxvi :28). Even blood in a bason would not save; it was only salvation provided- It mush be:
Blood on the door. “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and .on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it” (v. 7). The red marks were the proof of their faith in God’s promise. “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” (v. 13). The difference between the house marked with the scarlet and the house not marked, was the difference between a house in which death has taken place and a house in which death is to take place. When God passed through Egypt He had a mission of death, but He passed over every house where death had already been executed. The substitu tionary lamb saved all sheltered behind its blood. When by faith I put up thè blood of God’s lamb between myself and God, I confess I deserve death ;N that I have died, and God honors thè blood. Thus the difference of a saved man and an unsaved man is that to one death is past, and to the other it is to come in the awful midnight of wrath.
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