When I See the Blood

1 Peter 1:18-19
 
For as much as ye know:

• Peter is speaking of the work of God for our salvation.
• We stood under judgment of God.
• Ezekiel 18:4, Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
• That has not changed for God has not changed.
• All through the Old Testament, the shedding of the blood of an innocent was required.
• God told Moses at the First Passover to put blood of a spotless lamb…
• Exodus 12:5, Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
• Exodus 12:7, And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
• He did not tell them to take a bucket of water out and wash the door!
• In Verse 13, God said, “...when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
• This typified to the time when Jesus our Savior would come to die as the perfect sacrifice.

 
Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things:

• Silver & gold are purified by heating up with intense heat.
• The dross is removed to show only the pure metal.
• However, it still corrupts over time.
• Pull the fine silverware out of the cabinet when you have company for dinner, it is tarnished and must be cleaned.
• We are not redeemed with corruptible things.
• Isaiah 52:3, For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money

 
From your vain conversation:

• Life is vain, nothing more meaningless than life apart from Christ.
• Everything in the world serves a purpose.
• Man without God is meaningless.
• Man has nothing to offer to God for his redemption.
• What can we do to redeem ourselves? Nothing.

 
With the precious blood of Christ:

• The precious blood of Jesus is not mentioned in some churches.
• The Blood has been removed from some liberal hymns for being ‘crude.’
• Peter was with Jesus for three years, he knew Jesus.
• He wrote that Jesus was without spot or blemish.
• Modern writers do not want to mention the blood, because they write to earn a paycheck.

 
John the Baptist:

• John 1:29, The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

If anyone is depending on water baptism, church membership, confirmation, communion, or any type of good work to get into Heaven, they will be rejected like the bloodless offering of Cain’s sacrifice. 

So, what:
People say, “I do not want to hear about the blood. I do not like that “old slaughter-house religion.” How important is “the blood?” It was the price required to purchase our Salvation.

• Hebrews 9:14, How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Hebrews 12:2, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 
Religion will always substitute something besides the blood, but it will not work. The precious Blood of Christ was the price paid for man’s redemption. When we stand before God at the judgment seat, what will be our outcome?
 
Church Hymnal, page 378, “When I See the Blood.”
Christ, our Redeemer, died on the cross, Died for the sinner, paid all His dues;
All who receive Him need never fear, For He will pass, will pass over you.
When I see the blood, when I see the blood,
When I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass over you.