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THE KING’S BUSINESS
piake an atonement, fpr the house, and it shall be clean” (Lev. xiv :4 9 -5 4 )T h an k God, the blood that saves us from the stroke of God it] Egypt, can cleanse my house as a dweller in the wilderness of sin and in the promised land of- present enjoyment. : WHERE BLOOD WAS NOT There are places where the blood does not seem to have been sprinkled, for the Apos tle says, “Almost all things are by the law purged with blood” (Heb. ix:22). This im plies exceptions. Were they those things which typified God’s provisions? Such as: The Laver. He who cleanses from sin is sinleSs. The Light. . God’s light is pure. The Loaves. There is no .leaven in God’s bread. If such things were excepted, they shadow the perfections of Christ. ,“Without sin.” “For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sin ners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own'sins” (Heb. vii:26). May we ever give “the precious blood of Christ” its proper place. “He that' de spised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” (Heb. x:28, 29). The blood has always precious been, ’Tis precious now to me; Through it alone my soul has rest, From fear and doubt set free. Oh, wondrous is the crimson tide, Which from my Saviour flowed! And still in heaven my song shall be, "The preciouS,' precious blood!”
not come out,again. , Joes are indicators.;, let them be ■ blodd-marked and ' go only where Christ has led. ON THE MERCY SEAT • | Blood on the mercy seat. On the day of atonement, the priest entered through'the vail. "“And he shall take of the. blood of' the bullockj and sprinkle it with his finger upon- the mercy seat eastward;;and before' the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with, his finger seven times’’ (Lev. xvi :-14). Here was blood in its relationship, to God brought to Him by a human high priest: “But- Christ beipg come an high- priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of.this .building; neither by1the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blodd He entered in once into the holy place; having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Heb. ix :ll, 12). Thank God the blood is not only upon me, and upon the altar of service, it is on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat of God Him self. Blood on the house. We started from a blood-marked house, suppose ,we finish at another such home, for our salvation'is- not much if it is only for a place of worship. It cleanses the dwelling, the life, in the family. If leprosy had .been ip the house of an Israelite, the priest had to be called. “And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running wa ter : And he shall take the cedar .wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and
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