I’ve been luxuriating in the precious blood of Christ while reading Anthony Carter’s wonderful new book on the atonement, Blood Work. Come and join me, via my favorite quotes:
- Even though my blood could potentially save the temporal life of one, how many more can be saved unto eternal life by the precious blood of Jesus?
- Life is truly in the blood. Temporally it is in the blood running through our veins. Eternally it is in the sin-breaking, guilt removing, incomparable, inestimably valuable blood of Jesus Christ.
- Christianity is a bloody religion not because of the blood shed by people in wars and inquisitions, but because of the blood shed by Jesus Christ.
- At the very heart of our Christian faith is a precious red substance; the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ (R Phillips)
- If the history of redemption is a story told in pictures, the blood of Christ is the paint with which that story is portrayed.
- The shedding of his blood was the highest and most excellent part of his obedience (Phil. 2:8)(Stephen Charnock)
- The blood of the Old Testament spoke, but Christ’s blood speaks better. In speaking, it also satisfies.
- The blood of Christ is significant, not for the blood itself, but for what it represents – the perfect, sinless, life of Christ poured out in death for us.
- The redeemed do not receive a blood transfusion from God. We receive a life transfusion – He death for our death, his life for our life.
- Christ bought us and therefore owns us. He did not purchase His people on credit He paid in full. We are his.
- Jesus will not return or exchange what he has bought.
- The only currency that is of value in heaven and throughout eternity is the blood of Chist.
- Sin is not just breaking the rules., it’s making one’s own rules.
- God has more right to be angry at the sin of the world than we have at a thousand terrorists.
- The Gospel in five words: Christ died for the ungodly.
- Jesus’ blood pleads for us. He is the Advocate and His blood is the plea.
- The Trinity is a love triangle. But unlike the love triangles we know, this one works, bringing joy and delight to all.
- Apart from Christ, life is nothing more than a march from the womb to the tomb.
- Selfish Christian? There is no self at the cross, only Jesus. Stingy Christian? The cross is the greatest motivation for giving there ever could be. Proud Christian? The ground at the foot of the cross is the humblest in the history of the world. Racist Christian? At the cross there is no Jew or Gentile, black or white, Arab or Asian.
- Racial and ethnic bloodlines are not omnipotent. The blood of Christ is.
- The blood of Christ says not only that we can get along with each other; more important, it says that we can get along with God.
- Pilate proposed to wash the blood of Christ away from himself, while Paul knew himself to be washed in the blood of Christ.
- Sin is more destructive than an atomic bomb; more menacing than a terrorist plot; more ruinous than a plague of locusts; more devastating that ten tsunamis; and more horrible and scary than a thousand bogeymen.
- “Had I the guilt of all the world, He’s able to forgive.”