The blood of Jesus Christ is
all-sufficient to accomplish all that God purposed
to achieve for our eternal salvation. The death of
Christ shall never fail to fulfill the eternal
purpose for which God proposed for our redemption.
“For Christ also died for sins
once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He
might bring us to God, having been put to death in
the flesh, but made alive in the spirit” (1 Peter
3:18).
A just God must deal with sin,
and this He did in the substitutionary sacrifice of
Jesus Christ for our sins. Any system of religion
that fails to take this Bible doctrine seriously or
that denies it is inadequate to justly deal with our
sins. God saves and maintains His justice by the
atoning death of Jesus Christ. How can there be full
justice and mercy at the same time? Only at the
cross of Jesus Christ is it possible.
Why do we dare say only in the
death of Jesus Christ? It is because only Jesus
Christ was fully man and fully God.
He is the God-man. Because He was truly man
and truly God He was qualified to suffer in the
place of the sinner, as man’s substitute, “once” for
our sins. He never experienced personal sin. He was
the perfect man, and the only one who could ever
deal with the penalty of sin on behalf of anyone
else. Jesus was the Lamb of God “without spot or
blemish.” “He was without sin.” Christ was “the seed
of the woman,” and therefore did not fall in Adam.
Christ did not receive any of the imputed sin which
fallen men received from Adam in his fall. At every
point of His life He was sinless, pure, holy,
spotless, and perfectly acceptable unto God.
Therefore, when Jesus died He
was not paying a death penalty for any sins He might
have committed. The sufferings of Jesus were not
necessary for Himself. He had no personal need to
suffer and die because of sin.
The only reason Jesus suffered
and died do the cross was to secure the salvation of
His chosen people. All our sins were placed upon
Him.
Moreover, Jesus was and is
“very God of very God.” The full humanity of Jesus
Christ did not limit in any way the full and perfect
deity of Jesus. His deity was infinite. He possessed
all the attributes of the eternal Jehovah God.
“We know nothing of a human
atonement apart from the Deity of Jesus Christ,”
declared C. H. Spurgeon. “We dare not trust our
souls upon a savior who is but a man. If all the men
that have ever lived, and all the angels that exist,
could have wrought together, and striven throughout
eternity to offer a sacrifice that should be a
propitiation for the sins of a single man, they must
have failed. None but the shoulders of the Incarnate
God could bear the stupendous burden.”
We have a divine,
substitutionary sacrifice in the person and work of
atonement in Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ
is sufficient to accomplish all that God has
purposed to accomplish. The shedding of the blood of
Jesus Christ can never fail to accomplish our
redemption.
We may now put our complete
confidence in the perfect man and His perfect
substitutionary sacrifice to save us from the wrath
of God.
Any other and all other
religious philosophies can never bring “the peace
that passes all understanding.” We can and must rest
our faith for all eternity in the finished work of
Christ. Anything else will fail, and the soul will
perish.
At the cross of Jesus we see
our divine substitute dying for our sins. “The
infinite merit of the Godhead was imparted to the
suffering of the manhood. Neither your sins nor mine
can ever exceed the merit of the precious blood of
Christ,” wrote Spurgeon. “If our sins are as high as
the mountains, the ocean of His atonement . . .
covers the utmost summits of the mountains.” The
blood of Jesus Christ covers every sin. Nothing in
His death goes uncovered for all who will call upon
His name.
Jesus Christ “is able to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.”
Nothing can limit the efficacy
of the power of the precious blood of Jesus. Nothing
is so sinful that His blood cannot cleanse. Believe
in this saving truth and you shall be saved for all
eternity.
Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006
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Wil is a graduate of William Carey University, B. A.; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Th. M.; and Azusa Pacific University, M. A. He has pastored in Panama, Ecuador and the U. S, and served for over 20 years as missionary in Ecuador and Honduras. He had a daily expository Bible teaching ministry head in over 100 countries from 1972-2005. He continues to seek opportunities to be personally involved in world missions. Wil and his wife Ann have three grown daughters. He currently serves as a Baptist pastor and teaches seminary extension courses in Ecuador.
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