Protected by the Blood of Christ
Protected by the Blood of Christ
We have been told in Congress that the lives of forty million Americans could be saved if we as Americans take precautions to shield ourselves from the fallout if a hydrogen bomb should fall on our country.
I don’t know whether the angel of death will spread his wings on the blast known as an H-bomb or not, but I know that our sins have brought the anger of God against us, and I know that all over the civilized world there is the shadow of the oncoming angel of death.
I have absolutely no hope that there is any way to escape, except we believe God and take the blood and put it upon the doorposts and lintels and there abide, believing simply that God cannot break His word and that He who has spoken will also perform.
The blood that I refer to, of course, is the blood shed once on the cross of Christ.
Here God’s Lamb was slain. It was Abraham’s lamb, Abel’s lamb, Isaiah’s lamb, and Levi’s and Moses’ lamb. Theirs was provisional for the time, but when God’s Lamb was slain, no other dared be slain after that.
As long as God’s Lamb had not been selected for the world to examine and had not been slain, they could slay other lambs. It would be their lamb, the lamb that belonged to this or that house, and there were hundreds of thousands of them slain during the long course of Israel’s history.
But when God set His Lamb before the world, and the world examined Him critically for thirty-three years and found Him without fault, and God slew that Lamb and offered Him as a sacrifice, no other lamb dared be offered!
Now, that’s the blood I recommend. They got the blood on the doorpost by sprinkling it. They took a sponge-like plant called hyssop and dipped it in the blood and sprinkled it on the doorposts.
The hyssop was a common plant, growing everyplace.
So, you and I have faith, and by faith we protect ourselves. I would not—dare not—go out under the angry sky until I have known and do know that the blood of Jesus Christ is upon the lintel and door of my heart!
“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” (Exodus 12:11).
Christians are never to be caught unawares. They are never to put on their smoking jacket or the lounging robe while it is dark and the call of the trumpet is expected. The only safety for anyone is the blood. While the call of God may come at any minute to take us out of this Egypt we call the world, you and I cannot afford to be careless.
Instead of letting the cross keep us always on the alert and ready to go, we have painted the cross and reshaped it and geared it in with the better element of the world. The people of God are asleep doing their little labors while we wait for the call of the trumpet that will take us out of this world.
Oh, that we might again have that sense of immediacy and urgency that was upon the early Church!