The Egyptians looked at the Israelites killing a lamb and sprinkling
the blood on the door-posts no doubt as a very foolish proceeding, but
not one house in the city, upon the doorposts and lintels of which the
blood was not sprinkled, escaped; no matter who were the inhabitants,
rich or poor, that night there was no difference. There was a wail
heard in every habitation, from the palace to the meanest hovel where
the blood _had not_ been sprinkled, but where it _had_ been sprinkled
death was kept out. That showed clearly the truth, that without the
shedding of blood there is no remission. Let no man or woman be guilty
of laughing at this doctrine, that "the blood of Jesus Christ, His
Son, cleanseth us from all sin."
In the eleventh verse of the same chapter we read, "And thus shall ye
eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's
passover." Why you have not got more power is because you don't feed
on the Lamb; and this is why there are so many weak Christians. The
Lamb not only atones for our sins, but we are to feed upon the Lamb.
We have got a wilderness journey before us, as the children of Israel
had. After we are saved we are to feed upon Christ; He is the true
bread from heaven. If I don't feed my soul with the true bread from
heaven I am sickly, and have not power to go and work for Christ; and
that is the reason, I believe, why so few in the Church have power.
Some people think if they get one glimpse of Christ that is enough.
Some think much of their dinner; why should not God's children think a
good deal of