A FREE AND A FULL SALVATION.

Hoa Maori, Issue 18, 1 October 1890, Page 1

A FREE AND A FULL SALVATION.

" Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. — 1 Peter 3, 18. " By one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.'*—Heb. 10, 14. & & J3&F we examine the value of the J%Ai? ¥§i death of Christ, what do we find attached to it in Scripture ? "Do I Need Redemption ? We have redemption through His blood, an eternal re demption ; for ' 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.'—Heb. 9. 12, 14, 15. "Do I need Forgiveness ? That redemption which I have through His blood is the forgiveness of sins; yea, without shedding of blood is no remission.—Eph. 1. 7. "Do Ineed Peace? He has made peace through the blood of His cross.Eph. 2,14;

Col. 1, 20. "Bo I need Reconciliation 'with God? Though we were sinners, yet now hath He reconciled us by the tody of His flesh through death, to present us holy and unblamable and unreprovable in God's sight. When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. - Col. 1, 21, 22. " Bo I desire to he dead to sin. and have the flesh crucified with its affections and lusts ? lam crucified with Christ. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed ; for in that He died He died unto sin once, and in that He liveth, He liveth unto I God. This is my deliverance also from the charge and burthen 'of the law, which has dominion over a man as long as he lives. —Rom. 6,6; Col. 3, 3. "Bo feel the need (/Propitiation ? Christ is set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood. The need of Justification ? lam justified by His blood.—Rom. 5,9; 1 John 4, 10. " Would Iliave a part with Christ ? He must die ; for except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone ; if it die, it brings forth much —John 12,24; Bph. 2,4, 5. How have we boldness to enter into the holiest? By the blood of Jesus, by that new and living way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh? for till that was rent the Holy Ghost signified by it that the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest.—Heb. 10, 19. Hence it was a lifted-up Christ that was the attractive point for all. "Ifl be lifted up fron the earth, I will draw all men unto me."— 12,32. In the power of what was the great Shepherd of the sheep brought again from the dead ? Through the blood of the everlasting covenant. How was the curse op the law taken away from those who were under it ? By Christ's being made a curse for them; as it is written, " Cursed is every one that hangeth on a —Gal. 3,13. How are we washed from our sins He

lias loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood; for His blood cleanseth. from all sin.—Acts 13, 38, 39 ; 1 John 1,7. If I would be delivered from the world, it is by the cross,' by which the world is crucified to me and I unto the world. Gal. 6, 14. If the love of Christ constrains us towards men in the thought of the terror of the Lord, how is it so ? Because I thus judge, if One died for all then were all dead, and they that live should live not to themselves, but to Him that died for them and rose again. Hence the apostle knew no man after the fleshno, not even Christ. All was a new creation. If I would live in divine power, it is always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in my mortal body. If He would institute a special remembrance to call Him to mind, it was a broken body and a shed blood. It is not less a Lamb as it were slain that is found in the throne.—2 Cor. 4, 10. All was love, no doubt; but do I want to learn it ? Hereby we know it, that He laid down His life for us, and that even of God, in that He loved us, and gave His Son as a propitiation for our sins. It is to the sprinkling of that precious blood of Christ that we are sanctified, and to obedience; and through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, contrasted with the many Jewish sacrifices, sanctified and perfected for ever, so that there is no more offering for sin; for having offered one sacrifice for sins, He is set down for ever at the right hand of God. For He should not offer Himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy place once every year with the blood of others; for then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world ;but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself; for as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment ; so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Bead Heb. 9, 10.