The Power of the Blood of Jesus
Andrew Murray
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Table of Contents
I. What the Scriptures Teach About the Blood
Let Us Learn What the Old Testament Teaches.
What Our Lord Jesus Himself Teaches about the Blood.
The Teaching of the Apostles under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
What Do We Learn from the Book of Revelation Concerning the Future Glory and the Blood?
II. Redemption by Blood
Wherein Does the Power of that Blood Lie?
Whas Has That Power Accomplished?
How Does This Power Work?
III. Reconciliation Through the Blood
Sin, Which Made Reconciliation Necessary.
The Holiness of God Which Fore Ordained the Reconciliation.
The Blood That Wrought out the Reconciliation.
The Pardon Which Follows from Reconciliation.
IV. Cleansing Through the Blood
Cleansing in the Old Testament.
The Blessing Indicated in the New Testament by Cleansing.
How May We Experience the Full Enjoyment of This Blessing?
V. Sanctification Through the Blood
What Sanctification Is.
This Sanctification Was the Object for Which Christ Suffered.
How Sanctification By the Blood Is to Be Obtained.
VI. Cleansed by the Blood to Serve the Living God
The Right to Dwell in the Presence of God.
The Vocation of Offering Spiritual Sacrifices to God.
The Power to Procure Blessing for Others Is What Gives to Nearnesss to God Its Full Glory.
VII. Dwelling in "The Holiest" Through the Blood
What God Has Prepared for Us.
How We Are Prepared.
VIII. Life in the Blood
What the Blessing Is Which Is Described as "Drinking the Blood."
How This Blessing is Wrought out in Us.
What Should Be Our Attiutude towards This Drinking?
IX. Victory Through the Blood
The Victory Which Was Gained Once for All.
There Is a Progressive Victory.
We Also Have a Share in This Victory.
X. Heavenly Joy Through the Blood
It Is the Blood That Bestows on Us the Right to a Place in Heaven.
The Blood Also Bestows the Means for Heaven.
The Blood Provides Subject Matter for the Song of Heaven.
I. What the Scriptures Teach About the Blood
“Not Without Blood”—Heb. ix. 7 and 18.
God has spoken to us in the Scriptures in divers portions and in divers manners; but the voice is ever the same, it is always the Word of the same God. Hence the importance of treating the Bible as a whole, and receiving the witness it gives in its various portions, concerning certain definite truths. It is thus we learn to recognize the place these truths actually occupy in Revelation, or rather in the Heart of God. Thus, too, we begin to discover what the foundation truths of the Bible are, which above others demand attention. Standing as they do, so prominently, in each new departure in God’s revelation; remaining unchanged when the Dispensation changes, they carry a divine intimation of their importance.
It is my object, in the chapters which follow this introductory one, to show what the Scriptures teach us concerning the Glorious Power of the Blood of Jesus, and the wonderful blessings procured for us by it; and I cannot lay a better foundation for my exposition, nor give a better proof of the superlative glory of That Blood as the Power of Redemption, than by asking my, readers to follow me through the Bible, and thus see the unique place which is given to the Blood from the beginning to the end of God’s revelation of Himself to man, as recorded in the Bible.
It will become clear that there is no single scriptural idea, from Genesis to Revelation, more constantly and more prominently kept in view, than that expressed by the Words—“The Blood.”
Our inquiry then is what the Scriptures teach us about The Blood.
First, in the Old Testament;
Secondly, in the Teaching of Our Lord Jesus Himself;
Thirdly, in What the Apostles Teach; and
Lastly, What St. John Tells Us of it in Revelation.
1 Let Us Learn What the Old Testament Teaches. Its record about The Blood begins at the gates of Eden.Into the unrevealed mysteries of Eden I do not enter.But in connection with the sacrifice of Abel all is plain. He brought of “the firstlings of his lock” to the Lord as a sacrifice, and there, in connection with the first act of worship recorded in the Bible, blood was shed. We learn from Hebrews (xi. 4) that it was “by faith” Abel offered an acceptable sacrifice, and his name stands first in the record of those whom the Bible calls “believers.” He had this witness borne to him “that he pleased God.” His faith, and God’s good pleasure in him, are closely connected with the sacrificial blood.In the light of later revelation, this testimony, given at the very beginning of human history, is of deep significance. It shows that there can be no approach to God; no fellowship with Him by faith; no enjoyment of His favor, apart from The Blood.Scripture gives but short notice of the following sixteen centuries. Then Came The Flood, which was God’s judgement on sin, by the destruction of the world of mankind.But God brought forth a new earth from that awful baptism of water. Notice, however, that the new earth must be baptized used also with blood, and the first recorded act of Noah, after he had left the ark, was the offering of a burnt sacrifice to God. As with Abel, so with Noah a t a new beginning, it was “Not Without Blood.”Sin once again prevailed, and God laid an entirely new foundation for the establishment of His Kingdom on earth.By the divine call of Abram, and the miraculous birth of Isaac, God undertook the formation of a people to serve Him. But this purpose was not accomplished apart from the shedding of The Blood. This is apparent in the most solemn hour of Abraham’s life.God had already entered into covenant relationship with Abraham, and his faith had already been severely tried, and had stool the test. It was reckoned, or counted to him, for righteousness. Yet he must learn that Isaac, the son of promise, who belonged wholly to God, can be truly surrendered to God only by death.Isaac must die. For Abraham, as well as for Isaac, only