THE BLOOD NEVER DEPRECIATES

Anyone having listened to the latest teaching on grace could easily come to the conclusion that there are entirely two different God’s in the Bible. The angry God of the Old Covenant has been replaced by the genteel God of the New Covenant. The one was always looking for an excuse to clobber one over the head for the slightest infraction. The other never commands the necessity of repentance based on the personal wishes of those who insist that obedience is now legalism. We are saved by grace and not works. Obedience is clearly a work that you do and to require it as a prerequisite to salvation would be to add to the finished work of Christ.

Or so they say.

Isn't Jesus Christ the revealed Lord of All in both covenants? Does not the Word of God declare in Hebrews 13:8: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever?”

Could it be that the God of the Bible has not changed after all?

“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation” (Exodus 34:6-7).

God is Holy and a God of justice. All sin must be washed away by the Blood of the Lamb which IS the abundant Mercy and Grace and longsuffering of the Lord. It is clear from the letters to the seven churches’ that if they did not repent of their sins that they would have to pay the wages of sin which is death. I know that this is highly controversial but the words of the Lord—kill your children with death; you have a name that you livest but you are dead; spue you out of my mouth—indicate that He never got the memo explaining today’s grace message. (See the letters to the seven churches’ in Revelation.)

God, who can not lie, will never clear the guilty the way a human judge might arbitrarily free a murderer. The problem with this is the murderer goes free and justice has never been served: The payment of death has not been paid so therefore the murderer is still guilty and innocent blood has not been avenged. Therefore for the guilty to stand in the Lord’s presence would be “to melt like wax” because the wicked perish at the presence of the Lord. It is impossible for it to be any other way: It would be like the darkness standing in the light of the sun at full strength.

When the Lord abundantly pardons a murderer, it is not that he reduces the severity of the penalty: It is because He took the severity of God’s wrath upon himself and satisfied the Justice of God by paying the price of death with His precious Blood! This same exact Blood that bought you is the same Blood that keeps you: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10). We must confess our sins under the New Covenant and repent of them according to what the Spirit said to the churches in Revelation’s.

He is the same God with the same standards. The church of today would do well to realize this and walk in the same reverential fear of the Lord that the Jews walked in. There were certain Names of God they considered to Holy for mortal man to utter.

We should show the same reverence to the Blood of the Lamb!

There is no remission of sin's without the shedding of Blood.

The grace of God freely given to you cost Jesus everything. We dare not demean the Almighty Blood of Jesus!

The Blood never depreciates!