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of his own sins (cclawlessness,” 1 Johd3 :4; Rom. 3 :2b:;X!iA.
1:2l; Eph. 1:2). He has mortgage himself to sin, sold
himself under sin (Rom. 7;14, 6:k;*’Gaf. 4:3
state it was necessary for his origiml Owner
back, redeem him, lest he be lost $-foreve
the original Owner of the Totality of Beiilg (Psa. 24:1,
89:ll; 1 Cor. 10:26), loved man too much’to allow him
to perish forever, and therefore made provi$ion to buy’him
back. He gave His Only Begotten‘ (John 3:16), the Son
gave His life by shedding His blood. He paid the rangom
price; He provided the Covering of Grace whereby the
majesty of the moral law was sustained, and at the same
time everything was done that could be done to woo the
sinner back into covenant relationship with Him. (Matt.
20:28; 1 Tim. 2: 6). Those who ridicule the Blood simply
close their eyes to the lawlessness which has always pervaded
man’s realm of being. To deny or to ignore the facts of
sin and suffering, of love and redemption, is sheer stupidity.
II: In what sense does the Blood of Christ cleanse us
from sin?
One “school” answers that Christ’s blood was shed
as an example to impress upon man the magnitude of God’s
love for him; that it was not designed in any way to affect
the attitude of God toward man, but to affect only the
attitude of man toward God. But to make this the sole
objective of Christ’s death is to make sheer nonsense the
many Scriptures that speak of His dying “the just for the
unjust,” “as a propitiation for our sins,’’ “as a ransom for
us all,” etc. (1 Pet. 3:18; 1 John 2:2; Eph. 1:7; Matt.
20:28; 1 Tim. 2:6, etc.)
Another “school” of cctheologians~’ would have us
believe that Christ “died in the room and stead of the
sinner,” ;.e., that He paid the penalty demanded by the
moral law, paid it in full, and so freed man completely
from the curse of sin. If this is true, obviously, the sinner
owes no debt, no obligation: he goes “scot free.” This is
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