EIGN,
and He will ere long cast out the prince of darkness, and sway His
sceptre from end to end of this earth. A little longer, and He will
personally return and set up His millennial kingdom and reign over
this earth. He has redeemed the earth by His blood, and He will have
all He has redeemed.
ONENESS IN CHRIST.
Has the Blood touched you? The blood of Christ makes us one, brings us
into the family of God, and enables us to cry, "Abba, Father." At the
time of the American war, during the days of slavery in America, when
there was much political strife and strong prejudice against the black
men, especially by Irishmen, I heard a preacher say, that when he came
to the cross for salvation he seemed to find a poor negro on one side
and an Irishman on the other side, and the blood came trickling down
upon them and made them one. There may be strife in the world, but
those whom Christ has redeemed He has made one family. We are blood
relatives.
When I go before an audience, there is hardly a person I have seen
before; but as I begin to talk about the King their eyes light up, and
I see they are kinsmen, they are blood relatives, and in a short time
I become attached to them. A man may go into a town a perfect
stranger, but as soon as he finds out those who love God, they will be
one. I wish Christians had more of this oneness. I hope the time will
soon come when sectarian walls will be broken down, and people will
not want to ask whether you belong to the Established, Wesleyan, or
Baptist Churches. If washed in the blood, we are blood relatives. I
believe
GOD WILL JUDGE THE WORLD BY THE BLOOD.
"What have you done with that blood?" will be the great question in
that day. If we make light of it, and send back an insulting message,
saying we don't stand in need of it, we shall stand speechless before
God's tribunal. If we make light of that blood, what is going to
become of our souls?
JUSTIFICATION.
The only way a man can be brought within the family of God is by the
blood, as it is said in Romans iii. 24, "Being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"; and again in
Romans v. 9, "Much more then, being now _justified by His blood_, we
shall be saved from wrath through Him." Justified from all things from
which we could not be by the law of Moses. When God looks into His
ledger, there is nothing found against the man who is washed in the
blood. One plunge in the crimson f
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