Remember the Blood?

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. – Col 1:14

It’s becoming old-fashioned, it seems, in this modern age of ‘progressive’ philosophy and ‘enlightened’ thinking, to talk about things like substitution, atonement or the Blood!

We just don’t do that anymore.

Heaven forbid that in our Sunday sermon we inadvertently offend or seem to alienate a ‘seeker’ or visitor in the audience with such macabre references and lose them eternally because of our tactlessness, right?

Sermons are now more about introspections, “self-discovery”, “empowerment” and all other forms of psychobabble. It’s becoming politically incorrect to refer to “sins” now. Instead we talk about “dysfunctions”, “inner wounds”, “weaknesses”, etc.

Is it any wonder, then, why the Blood is no longer a relevant topic? But Jesus didn’t come to heal our “wounds”, He came to die for our sins! When John the Baptist saw Him, he introduced Him as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”

When we shield our so-called ‘seekers’ from the Blood, we’re shielding them from the only thing that can save them. Because the problem of man goes beyond the head (ignorance), or the heart (emotional dysfunction); the problem of man is SIN. And, as Heb 9:22 points out, “without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.” (AMP).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN