The Blood: Taken And Applied

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.  And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 

Exodus 12: 6 & 7 

As God detailed the process whereby His people would begin their year with the lamb, He arrived at the moment of sacrifice. He declared that ‘the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.’  This produced bloodshed.  They would cut the throat of the lamb and catch the blood in a basin.  They would then take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the blood and sprinkle it upon the lintel and doorposts.  They did not apply it to the threshold, because they would not tread upon the blood.  The sacrifice was indispensable, as was the blood.  God declared, ‘And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.’  It was not the blood in the basin that saved.  It was the blood applied that saved.  Herein lies the value of the Saving Blood of Christ.  Hebrews tells us that, ‘without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.’  Hebrews goes on to say, ‘But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.’  We stand upon the merits of Christ and rest for our redemption in the power of His atoning Blood.  His Sacrifice is the once-for-all sacrifice for sin.  His Blood, applied by the Holy Spirit unto all for whom it is intended is the guarantee of eternal life as opposed to eternal death.  Look today to ‘the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world.’  Rest by faith in the Saving Blood of Christ. 

‘Dear Dying Lamb, Your Precious Blood, 
shall never lose its power, 
and all the ransomed church of God, 
be saved to sin no more.’  

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning