" The Precious Blood "

1st. Peter 1:18-19   " Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation (aimless conduct) received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of CHRIST, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: "

     In the 1908 edition of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science cult, writes,  "The material blood of JESUS was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon the 'accursed tree,' than when it was flowing in HIS veins as HE went daily about the FATHER's business."  The Bible, however, opposes her words and says,  "For this is MY blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins," and,  "Without shedding of blood is no remission (of sins)" (Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 9:22). Carefully look at these two statements regarding the blood of JESUS, and you will discover a striking contrast, indeed, a contradiction between what Mary Baker Eddy states and what the Bible, GOD's WORD says. Both cannot be true. Thus, the very nature of the case requires a choice to be made.

     Your eternal well being or woe depends upon your response to the  "precious blood of CHRIST."  In Mrs. Eddy's estimation, the shedding of JESUS CHRIST's blood amounts to nothing; whereas, in GOD's reckoning, it means everything. The shedding of the blood speaks of the laying down of that life in sacrifice. Had an Israelite merely fastened a living lamb by a cord to the door of the house wherein he lived, he would have had no assurance from GOD that his firstborn would escape the sword of the death angel as he passed over the land of Egypt (Exodus 12:13). It was not the blood in the veins but the blood applied to the doorway that GOD required. In connection with the sacrifice of JESUS CHRIST on the cross, the Scriptures plainly teach that it is not the blood in HIS veins but HIS shed blood that avails. In other words, it is not the life that HE lived but the death HE died that saves us from the penalty of our sins (John 3:14-15; Revelation 5:9). JED

Your servant in CHRIST,

Julie

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" The next day John (the Baptist) seeth JESUS coming unto him, and saith, BEHOLD the LAMB of GOD, which taketh away the sin of the world. " John 1:29