No Atonement Apart From The Blood

Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Hebrews 9:22

Many a person with oxygen to breathe and food to consume has died nonetheless. The problem: insufficient blood to transport oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body. In short: no blood, no life.

Do you see a spiritual analogy in that? Take away the blood of Christ, and there can be no spiritual life. For sins to be covered, blood must be spilled—and that requirement was met by Jesus on the cross.

Charles Spurgeon paints a word picture of that life-giving sacrifice.

WALK WITH CHARLES SPURGEON
“By no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. Clearly, there is no hope for me outside of Christ; for there is no other blood-shedding which is worth a thought as an atonement for sin.

“All people are on a level as to their need of him. Even if we are moral, generous, amiable, or patriotic, the rule will not be altered to make an exception for us. It will yield to nothing less potent than the blood of him whom God has set forth as a satisfaction for sin.

“Persons of merely formal religion cannot understand how we can rejoice that all our sins are forgiven for Christ’s sake. Their works, prayers, and ceremonies give them very poor comfort.

“And well may they be uneasy, for they are neglecting the one great salvation, and are endeavoring to get forgiveness without blood.”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
Make these words of hymnist William Cowper the basis for your prayer of praise today:

There is a fountain filled with blood,

Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;

And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,

Lose all their guilty stains.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood

Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed church of God

Be saved, to sin no more.