Sacrificed for Our Sins

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valign="top" height=380 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> “Sacrificed for Our Sins” <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >                                                                                          </FONT></div> <bR> <div>                “For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of         </div> <div>                the world: but now once in the end of the world has He appeared to   </div> <div>                            put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” ( Heb 9: 26 ).</div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" > </FONT></div> <div> Five year ago we heard a lot of news about the controversial film Mel Gibson produced called <B> </B>“The Passion of the Christ.”  This film opened for showing on Feb 25th 2004 -  Ash Wednesday.  It was given an “R” rating because of the violent beating and  blood that was exhibited. If you saw this movie, “The Passion,” you were probably riveted to your chair.  It is an  emotionally draining film.       The old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” rings especially true when you sit through a screening of this movie.  Diane Sawyer, of ABC News, when interviewing  Mel Gibson asked,   “Why was it </div> <div> made?”  He answered by quoting Isaiah 53:5. <I>“`He was beaten for our iniquities: He was wounded for our transgressions: and by His wounds we are healed.'”  That is the point of the film.  I wanted the viewer to see the enormity of that sacrifice, to see that someone could endure that  and still come  back with love and forgiveness, even through extreme pain, and suffering, and ridicule.”  </I>     </div> <div> Read what the reaction has been from some of those who saw the movie:  <U>Billy Graham </U>said, “<I>The movie moved me to tears....I have often wondered what it must have been like to be a bystander during those last hours before Jesus' death.  After watching `The Passion of the Christ,' I feel as if I've actually been there</I>.”  <U>The Pope </U>said: <I>“It is as it was.</I>” -  meaning he considered that the film accurately portrayed what happened to Jesus.  <U>Jack Valenti</U>, CEO of the Motion Picture Industry, said, <I>“I thought `The Passion' was a superior recounting of the greatest story ever told... there are moments so heart-rendering, the tears come easily.  I cannot but believe that people.. will find this truly an impressive [and respectful] piece of art and realism, emerging from the New Testament</I>.” <U> Rush Limbaugh</U>: “<I>My step-daughter cried for the last 30 percent of this movie.  It's that powerful...this movie will hit you in the gut</I>.”  <U>Cal Thomas</U>:  “<I>As one who has seen virtually every modern Biblical epoch - I can say, `The Passion' is the most beautiful, profound, accurate, disturbing, realistic and bloody depiction of this well-known story that has ever been filmed</I>.”  <U>James Dobson</U>:  “<I>It is deeply moving, powerful and disturbing.  A film that must be seen, although the graphic scenes of the scourging of Jesus are emotionally wrenching</I>.”  <U>Rick Warren</U>: Pastor of Saddleback Church, and author of the “Purpose Driven Life”: <I>“...brilliant, Biblical, masterpiece</I>.”   <U>Tim Lahaye</U>: “`<I>The Passion' is the finest presentation of the last hours of Jesus' life I have ever seen</I>.”  <U>Dr. Darrell Bock</U>: <I>“The details are very accurate-this is the kind of death our Lord died for me.</I>”  The last quote is from President  Ronald Regan's First Ambassador to the U.N.  Human Rights Commission in Geneva.  He said, “<I>I have never sat in the presence of a religious film with anything like the power of `The Passion.'   At the end of it, I wanted to weep, and to be silent, and to commune with my God, on whom my sins had heaped such afflictions.    For the first time,  I felt really inside Christ's suffering - enduring with Him, or more exactly enduring like those who loved Him then.    I now know, as never before, the duration of His excruciating pain.  When I reached home after the theater, I got out my New Testament, and read again each of the four accounts in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John</I>.”  These men were obviously moved by this “R” rated film.             Our individual life circumstances make certain things valuable and precious to us.  The hungry man thinks food is valuable and precious.  When a person is dying of thirst  in the desert, he values water above all else.  A person in  poverty looks at wealth as a valuable and precious thing.  The point being, a person   cannot truly appreciate the value of a thing until he realizes and encounters the need for it.  Most people use the word “precious” carelessly  and casually;  however, in the Word of God the word “precious” is used with  great care.  In fact, the word “precious” is found 76 times in the Bible.  </div> <div>                In this article, I would like to address something valuable and  precious to all of us.  As we renew our contract with God the Father and Jesus Christ, we should begin examining ourselves and think seriously about the  New Testament symbols that represent Christ's sacrificed body.   In the next few weeks, we will be reading a lot about the ordinance of Passover, Days of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost. Why?  Because we are in the appointed season and repetition is God's way of teaching His called out ones His laws, statutes, commandments and ordinances.  Every 7 days we have a Sabbath to learn of God's ways.  Every year by rote, God has us go through the meaning of His seven step plan for man's salvation.  Each of these seven steps only have a certain amount of scriptures to go with the subject.  Many verses we read over and over each year. </div> <div> First Corinthians, the 11th  chapter, is the foundation for this article:  “For I have received of the  Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:  and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, take, eat: this is My body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me.  After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, this cup is the New Testament in My blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till He come.  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and   drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep” (1 Cor. 11: 23-28).</div> <div> God's Word, in both the New Testament and Old Testament, brings our attention to the importance of blood. The first recorded sacrifice that involved blood was the murder of Able - by his brother Cain as recorded in Genesis 4.  This is a story we all know well.  Able's animal sacrifice and offering  to God was a demonstration of faith and thus was accepted by God.   In contrast, Cain's offering to God was an attempt to earn salvation by works.  The story goes this way: Because Able's offering was accepted by God and his was not, <B>Cain felt  fierce resentment against his brother and toward God. </B>There was apparently no sorrow for his  sin,  no spirit of self- examination, no prayer for forgiveness  or pardon.   Cain's behavior is a typical example of a stubborn and unrepentant sinner, whose  heart  does not melt under correction and reproof, but only becomes even more hardened and rebellious.  </div> <div> The author of the book of Hebrews wrote, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of His gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks” (Heb. 11:4).  How was he able to speak being dead?  Genesis supplies us the answer.  “And the Lord said unto Cain, `where is Abel your brother?'  And he said, `I know not: am I my brother's keeper?' And He said, `what have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries unto Me from the ground'” (Gen. 4:9-10).  Cain, the trembling murderer found an all seeing and all knowing God reading his naked thoughts. Cain had yet to learn what is said by the Psalmist. “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Psa.116:15). </div> <div> History tells us, Noah and his family's first act upon leaving the ark was to offer a <B>blood</B> sacrifice of animals (Gen. 8:20).  </div> <div> We read that the law Moses spoke to the people, was sealed with blood.  “For when   Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, this is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined unto you.  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission  [no forgiveness of sin]” (Heb. 9:19-22).  Verse 7, in this same chapter,  we read of the high priest that went once a year into the most holy place with blood.  “But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, [speaking of the Day of Atonement] not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.”</div> <div> Blood has always played a major role in God's Word, but it has never been permitted, to be eaten.  That command is pointed out to us seven times in the books of the law: Gen 9:4; Lev 3:17; Lev 7:26 - 27; Deut  12:16, 23-24; Deut 15: 23.  One more place is found in Leviticus,  “And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will even set My face against that soul that eats  blood, and will cut him off from among his people.  For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.  Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood.  And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, you shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eats  it shall be cut off” (Lev 17:1014).</div> <div> These verses are repetitious, but again, by repetition something is learned.  God plainly states that the <B>life</B> of all living creatures is in the <B>blood</B>.  Blood holds an important  place in the plan of salvation.  The blood of Christ is repeatedly  described as the vital element in redemption.  </div> <div> The following scriptures reflect the importance of blood:</div> <div> 1.   “Purchased with His own blood”</div> <div>         [Act 20:28 ]</div> <div> 2.   “Redemption through His blood”</div> <div>         [Eph. 1:7]</div> <div> 3.   “Peace through the blood”</div> <div>        [Col. 1:20]</div> <div> 4.   “Sanctify the people with His own blood”    </div> <div>        [Heb.13:12]      </div> <div> 5.    The blood of the everlasting covenant” </div> <div>         [Heb.13:20]     </div> <div> 6.   “Sprinkling of the blood”  [1 Pet. 1:2]</div> <div> 7.   “The spirit and the water and the blood” </div> <div>         [1 John 5:6]</div> <div> 8.   “Washed us from our sins in His own blood”  </div> <div>         [Rev. 1:5].</div> <div> Remove the doctrine of the blood and blood atonement from the Bible and we are left without a Savior.  All the sacrifices of the Old Testament looked forward to the one great sacrifice of Jesus Christ.    “It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:  nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high Priest enters  into the holy place every year with 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 has He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Heb. 9:2326).</div> <div> In Luke, we find the story of God's gift to man, “And the angel said unto them [the shepherds], fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, which is Christ the Lord.  And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger” (Luke 2:1012).  In Vs. 16-17, we see they wasted no time in getting there.  “And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen the baby, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.”</div> <div> Knowing the nature of this miraculous story; we can be certain that this good news reached the ears of the priests, elders, and rabbis in Jerusalem, but they treated it as unworthy of notice.  Why?  Because they  thought surely God would not pass <B>them</B> by with this greatest good news ever, and show  favor toward <B>uneducated</B> shepherds!  </div> <div> I think you get my drift - because we see the same scenario going on today in the minds of the  scholars and ministers.  Let's continue with our story in the book of John. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”  (John 1:14).   The Eternal Word, who had ever been with the Father in heaven was now to become  Immanuel, “God with us.”  Christ was to assume  the liabilities of human nature, “tempted like as we are yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).</div> <div> When Jesus Christ began His ministry, the idea of a blood sacrifice began to be portrayed by John the Baptist in recognition of Christ being the “Lamb of God.”  “`He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to unloose.'  These things were done in Bethabara  beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.  The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world'” (John 1:2729).</div> <div> This is reminiscent of the blood of the sacrificed  Passover lamb that  Israel, while in Goshen, was told to put on the door posts of their houses  -  for their protection.  It  typified Israel's separation and deliverance from  Egypt's unrepentant  sins. </div> <div> Blood  was  mentioned by Christ at the last Passover feast He held with His disciples.  This is the Passover  where Jesus  instituted the new symbols for His memorial supper.  “And as they were eating, [this is speaking of them eating the Exodus 12  Passover meal],  Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke  it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, `take, eat; this is My body.'  And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, Saying, `drink you all of  it; for this is My <B>blood</B> of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins'” (Matt. 26:2628).</div> <div> The whole history and meaning of Christ's  blood sacrifice centers on the stake on which He was crucified.   Peter tell us, the sacrificed blood of Christ is indeed, a precious gift to mankind and that the blood of Christ brings redemption.  “If you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation [conduct] received by tradition from your fathers; but with the <B>precious blood </B>of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Peter 1:1720).</div> <div> The Apostle Paul when speaking to the Ephesians said, “We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph.1:7).  The word “redemption” means, 1). To buy  back;  2).  Ransom paid in full; 3).  Forgiveness.  </div> <div> From the start of human life, man walked and talked with God.  But, as all men have done since Adam and Eve, they sold their soul into the slavery of sin and Satan.   We must choose who we want to serve.  “Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; [whom we serve] whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”  (Rom. 6:16).   John adds, “Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever commits  sin is the servant of sin” (John 8:34).</div> <div> Christ's desire, by the shedding of His blood, is to buy human beings back from the clutches of Satan. God could have rushed the stronghold of Satan and brought men back to Himself by force.  Instead, He chose to redeem man through the blood of His only begotten Son.</div> <div> The blood of Christ brings justification.  “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Rom. 3:2326).  The Apostle Paul continues with the thought, “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him” (Rom. 5:9).   The Greek word for “justified” is a legal term which means, 1). To declare just; 2).  Righteous; 3).  Or not guilty.</div> <div> Divine justice requires the condemnation and punishment of <B>all</B> who have sinned.  But since all have sinned and transgressed God's law, all are  worthy of death.  “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23).     </div> <div> Pointing again to Christ's ultimate blood sacrifice, God could have placed great, laborious, burdensome demands on mankind, but the only thing that actually meets the demands of God's justice is the blood of His Son Jesus Christ and not our works! </div> <div> Charles Smith, President of the “American Association for the Advancement of Atheism” said, <I>“The whole scheme of  redemption is foolishness to me.  Because our parents and forefathers disobeyed God, He would not be on good terms with us until His son was nailed on a cross. This is not  reasonable</I>”(Oliphant and Smith debate, p 61).</div> <div> God's  means of justification is unreasonable to most men and women, and they reject it. But,  we -  you and I, are extremely blessed to have been given an understanding of the many  facets of God's truth.  And one of those facets of truth is to recognize that the blood of Christ brings reconciliation.  “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Rom. 5:10).</div> <div> The word “reconcile” means, 1). To make friends of enemies; 2).  Restore friendly relations. When a person sins, he makes himself an enemy of God.  James and the Apostle Paul addressed this:  “You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world [should read friendship <B>for</B> the world], is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4).  James is saying, when a church member, who has professed loyalty to God, continues to yearn for personal gratification as supplied by the world, their  love to God is subordinated.  </div> <div> The Apostle Paul, speaks up reminding the Colossians that their entire way of thinking had been in a state of estrangement and hostility toward God.  “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled” (Col.1:21).  As a man thinks  -  so will he act.  It is impossible for a wicked mind to do other than produce wicked works. To be God's enemy means certain and absolute destruction!</div> <div> The book of Hebrews says, “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries” (Heb.10:2627).  This will be the end result of the person that is in a continuing state of revolt against God. </div> <div> Only by the blood of Christ can we be made friends with God and escape the wrath to come. Only the blood of Christ can bring cleansing  to  individuals.  The word “cleanse” is a household term simply meaning, “to clean, to make pure.”  Sin is repugnant to God.  He regards sin as a defiled garment in Revelation 3:4 ,  a diseased  body in Isaiah 1:6 and as filth and vomit in 2 Peter 2:22.</div> <div> In chapter 59, Isaiah refers to the administration of justice and the tragic nature of sin. “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities [your lawlessness] have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.  None calls for justice, nor any pleads  for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity” (Isa. 59:14).   Sin separates and alienates us from God.John the Apostle, writing for our Lord of Lords and King of Kings, said in Revelation, that the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >cleansing and washing agent for sin is the blood of Christ. “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Rev. 1:5). </FONT></div> <div> The New Testament places great emphasis on the blood of Christ. A few examples: 1). Mark 14:24, Jesus spoke of His own blood as being “Shed for many.” 2). Rom. 5:9, We are “justified by His blood.” 3). Col. 1: 20, Christ made “peace through the blood spilled on the stake.” 4). Eph. 2:13, Those who were “far off”have been “made nigh by His blood.” 5). Rev. 1:5, We are washed “from our sins in His own blood.” </div> <div> Blood holds a high place in God’s plan for salvation. It is repeatedly described as the vital element that saves a person. As we saw previously in the Old Testament, blood is regarded as representing life. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul” (Lev.17:11). It also bears repeating, that if we remove the doctrine of the blood and blood atonement from the Bible, we are left without a Savior. </div> <div> We are brought to understand in the book of Acts chapter 20, that the Church of God has been “Purchased with Christ’s own blood.” Paul made it clear in his farewell to the Ephesian elders, “For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which He has purchased with His own blood” (Acts 20:27-28). </div> <div> The death of Christ by His shedding of blood was the atoning sacrifice that made salvation possible for you and me. It enabled us to be called and given knowledge of God’s soon coming kingdom - the Kingdom we pray to come! </div> <div> At every Passover we renew our contract before our God and Creator. Our commitment contract was to put on the new man. “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ; if so be that you have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” (Eph. 4:17-29). </div> <div> Those cleansed by Christ’s blood will be translated into the Kingdom that is yet to come. “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins” (Col.1:13-14). </div> <div> Luke, in the book of Acts, tells us those so redeemed are added to the Church. “Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved” (Acts 2:47). Those who will not submit and obey God, will not be added to His Church of called out ones. </div> <div> How are the beginning blessings of the blood acquired? There are six steps required by God for baptism: Step one is: remission of sin. “For this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matt. 26:28). “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). Step two is: cleansed. “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (John 1:7). Step three is: conscience purged. “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 9:14). Step four is: washing. “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Rev 1:5). Step five is: purchased. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which He has purchased with His own blood” (Acts 20:28). The sixth and last step is: redemption and forgiveness. “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Eph. 1:7). </div> <div> Baptism, in a special way, is related to the blood of Christ. Without baptism, no one receives the blessings of Christ's blood. A study of the scriptures shows that what the blood does, baptism does also. For one to continue to receive the cleansing from the blood, one must continue to meet the conditions of forgiveness. “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 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” (1 John 1:6-9). </div> <div> Pardon from sin has come to all men as the result of the blood of Christ. However, one must accept the pardon on the conditions of the One who shed His blood for us. If we do not comply with the conditions, the blessings of Christ blood will not apply.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> James Russell</div> <div>  </div> <div> “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one </div> <div> baptism. One God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Eph 4:4-5). </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>