-- The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ
left down here is His blood.
-- A man who covers up the cross, though he may be an intellectual man,
and draw large crowds, will have no life there, and his church will
be but a gilded sepulcher.
-- There is either of two things we must do. One is to send back the
message to heaven that we don't want the blood of Christ to cleanse
us of our sin, or else accept it.
-- Into every house where the blood was not sprinkled, the destroying
angel came. But wherever the blood was on door-post and lintel,
whether they had worked much, or whether they had worked none, God
passed them over.
-- A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not
the token of salvation. It is told of Julian, the apostate, that
while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it
out, and, taking a handful of blood threw it into the air and cried,
"Galilean, Galilean, thou hast conquered."
-- Look at that Roman soldier as he pushed his spear into the very heart
of the God-man. What a hellish deed! But what was the next thing
that took place? Blood covered the spear! Oh! thank God, the blood
covers sin. There was the blood covering that spear--the very point
of it. The very crowning act of sin brought out the crowning act of
love; the crowning act of wickedness was the crowning act of grace.
-- It Is said that old Dr. Alexander, of Princeton College, when a young
student used to start out to preach, always gave them a piece of
advice. The old man would stand with his gray locks and his venerable
face and say: "Young man, make much of the blood in your ministry."
Now, I have traveled considerable during the past few years, and
never met a minister who made much of the blood and much of the
atonement but God had blessed his ministry, and souls were born into
the light by it.