Comfort of the Scriptures
Lord's Day, March 22, 2015
“We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).
There are certain things that are essential, if we are to be saved. There are things which are absolutely necessary; they cannot be dispensed with. First, there must be a Saviour “without sin.” This we have in God’s beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, “who did no sin,” “who knew no sin,” “and in Him is no sin.” Even so, His holiness and sinlessness cannot in itself save us, for “without shedding of blood is no remission.” It was necessary that He give that sinless life for us, that we might be “redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.” Then, though He died for all, forgiveness must be personally received, and here we have another essential, namely, faith. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Be sure, dear reader, that you have personally received “the gift of God [which] is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,” who said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
He shed His blood for your sins,
That you might forgiven be,
That you might know and praise Him
Throughout all eternity.
That you might forgiven be,
That you might know and praise Him
Throughout all eternity.
References: 1 Peter 2:22; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 John 3:5; Heb. 9:22; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Heb. 11:6; Rom. 6:23; John 14:6.
The above is from Comfort Of The Scriptures by John Marchbanks.
Believers are cleansed and made whole, and seen as righteous in the sight of God, only by the precious, sinless, shed blood of of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
