...and the blood of
Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. – 1 John 1:7
Sin is humankind’s primary problem. Not
ignorance, not failed systems or warped cultures. Not even the Devil. It’s sin.
More than mere wrongdoing, sin is a nature; a heinous virus ensconced and
hardwired into our DNA. Getting people to understand this vital fact is the
evangelist’s core work.
And knowing that we have a sin problem will
lead to a most natural question:
”What then can wash away my sins?”
In 1876, Robert Lowry, an American professor,
minister and composer, asked and answered this question in the classic hymn “Nothing but the Blood”.
The hymn begins with a question: “What can wash away my sin?” and in the
succeeding lines he answers the question – consistently and repeatedly, over a
dozen times – it’s “Nothing but the blood
of Jesus.”
The Scriptures is the only religious volume
that guarantees total and absolute cleansing from sin; and that comes through
the Blood of Christ, shed on the Cross at Calvary for us. Right from the Old
Testament, the inspired writers prophesied of a time of cleansing and absolute
guiltlessness for God’s people:
Eze 36:25;29 “I
will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols…I will save
you from all your uncleanness;”
Jer 33:8 “I
will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me,
and I will pardon all their iniquities.”
Zec 13:1 “In
that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.”
Eze 37:23 I
will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and
will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.”
Those days the prophets spoke about, is Today.
Run to the Cross now, and be cleansed and made whole.
AMEN.
More Blessings await
you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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