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your sins. As long as your sins remain, God must stay away. In this condition, you feel far from God. For God to come, sins must go.
There is only one thing in the entire universe that can take away sins—the precious blood of Christ. No amount of prayer, no amount of weeping, no ritual, no penance, no promise to do better, no guilty feeling, no period of waiting— no, nothing but the precious blood of Christ— can remove sins. Hebrews 9:22 says that "without shedding of blood is no forgiveness."
This is illustrated in Exodus. Some of the children of Israel may have been as sinful as the Egyptians. Yet when God sent His angel to slay all the firstborn children in the land of Egypt, He did not say, "When I see your good behavior, I will pass over you." God did not require that the children of Israel pray, do penance, or promise to behave. No, God commanded them to slay the Passover lamb and to sprinkle its blood on their doorposts. He said, "When I see the blood, I will pass over you" (Exo. 12:13). God never looked to see what kind of people were in the house; when He saw the blood, He simply passed over.
That Passover lamb was a picture of Christ. When John the Baptist first saw the Lord he pro claimed, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes