310 THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S Risen! Glorified! Coming! Like Him! With Him! Forever! Al- mighty God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, keep us from ever being beguiled by any Satanic doubts, or demeaned by any sordid thoughts. Let us live in the light and liberty and love of our risen Lord until the story is all told. —T. C. H. T he blood Belief There is one thing .that differentiates the faith of the evangelical Chris tian from all other systems of religion and cults, and from all philosophies concerning sin and the future life of man, and that is the word “ blood.” . There is no place for this word in any man-made religion, and a mo ment ’s thought on the subject will .fortify your faith in the Bible. The Bible is a BLOOD BOOK. From the fourth chapter of Genesis to the nineteenth chapter of Revelation, it is blood, blood, blood! Abel was accepted through a blood offering, and the last picture of the Lord Jesus is found in Rev. 19:12-16: “His eyes were as a flame of Are; and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And- out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, th a t with it he should smite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and he treadeth the wine press of the. fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OP KINGS and LORD OF LORDS.” What a picture! What a vesture ! Dipped in blood! Was it His own blood? Four times in the Book of Revelation is a testimony given to the sacrificial blood of the Lamb. To be an acceptable sacrificial offering, He must be a Lamb without blemish. To be without blemish, He must be virgin-born; and so the Bible teaches. • Now ask yourself the question: “ Why do the Unitarians, and all of these false systems, hate the doctrine of the blood?” The answer is: “ Because the doctrine of blood necessitates the con fession of sin, and the need for a Saviour.” Every false system is bred in hell and propagated by the agents of Satan. You say this is harsh, because there are many nice people who belong to these systems? You mean seemingly nice. But that does not alter the fact that Satan is the author of them. If .there is one word that Satan hates it is the word blood! For the only salvation for men is by faith in the blood of Christ, shed for sin, and the only way to overcome Satan is by the blood of Christ. (Rev. 12:10, 11) : “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
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