but that is what the world at the present day is doing.
Some preachers speak not of the death of Christ, but His life, because
it is more pleasing to the natural ear; but the life of Christ may be
preached for ever and it will not save any man, if His death is left
out. A live lamb could not have kept death out of the houses of
Goshen. God did not say that He wanted a live lamb at every door, but
to have the lintels and door-posts sprinkled with the blood of the
lamb. People sometimes say, "If I was as good as that minister, that
preached the gospel for fifty years"; or, "If I was as good as that
mother, who did so and so for her children"; but if we are behind the
blood of God's Son, we are just as safe as any Christian that has ever
walked the face of the earth.
It is not a long life of usefulness that makes men and women
acceptable to God. We must work for Christ; but we get salvation as a
gift, and then begin to work because we cannot help it. All the work a
person does before he becomes converted goes for nothing.
The little child down in Goshen behind the blood of the lamb was just
as safe as Joshua, or any man in the whole town. The angel of death
passed by when he saw the blood. The little tiny fly was as safe in
the ark with Noah as the elephant. It was equally the ark that saved
the fly and the elephant, and it is