{"id":3246,"date":"2025-07-19T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savarchurchofchrist.com\/?page_id=3246"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:35:03","slug":"blood-of-the-lamb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/savarchurchofchrist.com\/en_us\/blood-of-the-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Of the Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 \u00a0 The journey you are about to take into the Word of God is one of the most important you will ever take. As we visit together, we will explore one of the greatest topics in God\u2019s\nWord: God\u2019s plan of salvation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 As important as the topic is, many people in the religious world, sadly, get it wrong. Satan somehow has found a way to hide the truth from many. Only a very few churches today teach the truth on the plan of salvation. That fact is alarming and amazing; it grabs our attention and compels us to look into these things further!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What we are addressing today is the greatest question in the Word of God. It\u2019s the question men cry out on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2:37, \u201cMen and brethren, what shall we do?\u201d It\u2019s the same question the jailor of Acts 16 poses as he\nsteps from the edge of an unprepared eternity and seeks eternal life, saying, \u201cSirs, what must I do to be saved?\u201d (Acts 16:30).<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0God\u2019s Word gives us the answer to that eternal question with great detail, and we are determined here to find it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thank you for coming along on the search!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 We begin our journey with the world\u2019s greatest question: \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d
\u00a0 The answer to that question\u2014in short\u2014is this: We must reach the blood of Jesus.
\u00a0<\/span>How important is it for us to reach the blood of Jesus?<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 The Bible shows us over in the seventh chapter of Revelation when John travels by the Spirit to the portals of heaven. What he sees is amazing. He sees a great multitude standing \u201cbefore the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes …\u201d (v. 9).<\/em><\/strong>
\u00a0 \u00a0 One of the elders turns to John and asks, \u201cWho are these arrayed in white robes …?\u201d (v. 13, NKJV). John seems shocked by the question and answers, \u201cSir, you know.\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0So the elder answers his own question: \u201cThese are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb\u201d (v. 14).<\/em><\/strong> We cannot afford to miss this: Those people in heaven\u2014gathered around God\u2019s throne and standing before the Lamb of God\u2014are those whose robes were washed white in the blood of Jesus Christ!
\u00a0 \u00a0With that powerful thought, we realize that we absolutely must find the truth to the question before us:
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For centuries songwriters have exalted the soulcleansing power of the blood of Jesus in beautiful harmony.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0In 1878 Elisha Hoffman penned the great hymn, \u201cAre You Washed in the Blood?\u201d Remember the great questions that openthe song?<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow\u2019r Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you fully trusting in his grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<\/em><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What beautiful, soul-stirring questions!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0A few years later, in 1899, Lewis Jones offers equally stirring questions in a familiar and powerful hymn:
Would you be free from the burden of sin? There\u2019s pow\u2019r in the blood, pow\u2019r in the blood; Would you o\u2019er evil a victory win? There\u2019s wonderful pow\u2019r in the blood.
The Apostle John, writing from the isle of Patmos, knew thatpower as well: \u201cUnto him that loved us,\u201d he writes, \u201cand washed us from our sins in his own blood\u201d (Revelation 1:5).<\/strong><\/em>
Paul\u2014in his valedictory address to the elders of Ephesus\u2014 reminds them to feed the Lord\u2019s church that \u201che hath purchased with his own blood\u201d (Acts 20:28).<\/strong><\/em>
Then listen to the words of Jesus\u2019 friend Peter:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without <\/em><\/strong>blemish and without spot (1Peter 1:18-19).<\/em><\/strong>
Yes, there is redeeming, \u201cwonder-working pow\u2019r\u201d<\/strong><\/em> in the blood of the Lamb!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0We understand today that the blood of Jesus Christ has the power to give man what he was unable to attain for thousands of years! For four\u00a0 long millennia through millions of animal sacrifices that God ordained\u2014man had searched and longed for redemption from his sins.<\/p>

\u00a0 This search began way back in the garden when God provided a covering for man that would only suffice temporarily. God shed
the world\u2019s first blood to cover Adam and Eve with the skins of animals (Genesis 3:21). That bloodshed covered man\u2019s nakedness, but it could not cover his sin.
\u00a0Under the Old Testament plan, God ordained blood sacrifices to serve as a temporary covering for sin. But those sacrifices the offered \u201cyear by year continually\u201d (Hebrews 10:1) could not cleanse the people. If they could, says the apostle, they would have stopped being offered (v. 2).
Then he adds: \u201cBut in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins\u201d (vs. 3-4).<\/em><\/strong>
The solution to the problem points directly to Jesus Christ, who did not have to offer sacrifices repeatedly.
\u201cBut this man,\u201d the apostle explains, \u201cafter he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God … For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified\u201d(vs. 12, 14).<\/em><\/strong>
You see, through Jesus Christ\u2014through His soul-cleansing blood\u2014we have a remedy so our sins andiniquities will be <\/em><\/strong>remembered no more (v. 17).<\/em><\/strong>
Oh, so many rivers of blood were shed through the centuries as man tried to remain in good standing with God! But despite millions of animal sacrifices and rivers of blood flowing through<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Israel, this was not enough to redeem man. Each year those sins were recalled. Aren\u2019t you glad today that sins of our past are not recalled every year, that we don\u2019t have to face them again once we have come in contact with the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb? Not now. Not ever!
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\u00a0 So, we come to the pivotal question: How do\u00a0 we reach that blood?
\u00a0 The Bible\u2019s answer and our response to it will determine whether or not we walk in robes of white around God\u2019s throne! That is how important this search is!
\u00a0 The issue, obviously, is too important to leave to man; so, let\u2019s go to the inspired Word of God for the answer.
\u00a0 Let\u2019s begin at the first gospel sermon, recorded in the second chapter of Acts. Before the Lord ascends back to heaven, He instructs the apostles to remain in Jerusalem until they are given
power from heaven (Luke 24:49).
\u00a0 \u00a0Men from every nation gather in Jerusalem on that Pentecost day, watching and listening as the Holy Spirit falls miraculously on the apostles and as Peter stands up to deliver the first gospel
sermon (Acts 2:1-5).
\u00a0 \u00a0Peter preaches a fiery, soul-stirring sermon that day to these Jews, alerting them that they were guilty of crucifying our Lord!
\u00a0 \u201cTherefore,\u201d he concludes, \u201clet all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ\u201d (v. 36).
\u00a0 \u00a0The response is overwhelming! The gospel cuts to the heart of thousands in the crowd, and they cry out to Peter and the rest of theapostles, \u201cMen and brethren, what shall we do?\u201d (v. 37).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 This is the first time under the gospel plan that we have a record of this life-changing question: What must I do to be saved?<\/em><\/strong> It\u2019s a momentous hour.
\u00a0 \u00a0What is the answer Peter gives? What is it that those hearers were to do to reach the blood of Jesus? Peter answers, \u201cRepent, 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 Ghost\u201d (v. 38,<\/em><\/strong> emphasis added).<\/p>

\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a more power-packed scripture in all the Bible:
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 Repent.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 Be baptized.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 For the forgiveness of sins.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 In the name (or by the authority) of Jesus Christ.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 To receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The first two statements are actions we are required to take. They are commands of the Lord: Repent and be baptized!<\/em><\/strong> For what purpose? To receive the remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.<\/em><\/strong>
\u00a0 \u00a0 According to the inspire apostle, both the forgiveness of sins andthe gift of the Holy Spirit come after baptism, not before. But if a manwill repen \u2014turning from sin\u2014and submit to baptism to have his sins washed away, he will reach the blood of Jesus Christ!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Let\u2019s go to another scene\u2014to the conversion of Saul of Tarsus\u2014 to make sure we harmonize the scriptures well.
\u00a0 Saul\u2014on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians\u2014 sees a bright light and encounters the Lord. When he realizes that he is talking to the Lord, he responds just as the crowd does on the dayof Pentecost: \u201cAnd he trembling and astonished said, Lord, whatwilt thou have me to do?\u201d (Acts 9:6).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0 That question might seem strange to some who think that Saul has already done all he needed to do.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 He has had a \u201creligious vision,\u201d seeing a light (Acts 9:3)<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 He sees and talks to the Lord (Acts 9:4); then, confesses his
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 faith in Jesus, calling him \u201cLord\u201d (Acts 9:6).
\u00a0 \u2022 Finally, he asks that great question, \u201cWhat wilt thou have me to do?\u201d indicating his repentance (Acts 9:6).
\u00a0 \u00a0 If Saul walked into churches today and recounted his experience, most, no doubt, would grab Saul by the hand and say, \u201cWelcome brother Saul; you\u2019re a born-again Christian!\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But, amazingly, the Holy Spirit does not reveal that Saul is born again yet. In fact, the Bible shows that his sins are not yet washed away!
\u00a0 \u00a0What an important discovery in our search! Seeing a vision,
believing in the Lord, confessing the Lord\u2019s name, and even praying for three days\u2014as Saul does\u2014do not wash away a man\u2019s sins!
\u00a0 \u00a0 We know that these acts do not remove sins because Jesus tells Saul to \u201cArise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do!\u201d (Acts 9:6<\/em><\/strong>). Saul still needed to do something.
\u00a0 When he gets to Damascus, Ananias, a preacher sent by God, walks in the room as Saul is down on his knees praying, and says, \u201cAnd now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord\u201d (Acts 22:16,<\/strong><\/em> this is very importent)\u00a0 \u00a0 Saul still had sins that needed to be washed away. His soul was still stained! His robes had not yet been made white by the blood of the Lamb! He was not yet prepared to walk around the heavenly throne before God and our Lord Jesus Christ! But he would be soon, because Paul obeyed the heavenly command; he \u201carose, and was baptized\u201d (Acts 9:18).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0Years later, this same Saul, called Paul, writes a letter to Rome and vividly describes this process of having sins washed away by the blood of Jesus, thus putting a man into Christ:<\/p>


How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?<\/strong><\/em>
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his\u00a0 death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin (Romans 6:2b-7,).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>


Notice the references to the death, burial, and resurrection. He says we are \u201cdead to sin\u201d (v. 2),<\/em><\/strong> \u201cbaptized into his death\u201d (v. 3),<\/em><\/strong>
\u201cburied with him by baptism into death\u201d (v. 4),<\/strong> \u201craised up from the dead\u201d (v. 4), and, then, we \u201cwalk in newness of life\u201d (v. 4).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

\u00a0 Then, Paul ties this great teaching all together in a beautiful conclusion in verse 17:
“But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>

\u00a0 Paul says they had obeyed a \u201cform\u201d (i.e., a pattern)<\/strong><\/em> of doctrine, which, of course, is the pattern of our Lord\u2019s death, burial, and resurrection (vs. 2-6).<\/strong><\/em>
How did they obey that pattern?
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him by baptism\u201d (v. 4), and, finally, being raised to \u201cwalk in newness of life\u201d (v. 4).
\u00a0 The apostle says that when we obey that pattern we are \u201cthen made free from sin\u201d (vs. 17-18, emphasis added).
\u00a0 We are not free from sin until then. But when we obey, our sins are washed away. When we are baptized, Paul says, we are \u201cbaptized into Jesus Christ … into his death\u201d (v. 3). That is where \u201cfreedom from sin\u201d is, in Christ. Certainly, we cannot be saved outside of our Lord.
\u00a0 \u00a0So, then, how do we get into Christ? Paul says in Romans 6:3 that we are \u201cbaptized into Jesus Christ.\u201d He teaches the same lesson to the Galatians, saying, \u201cFor as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ\u201d (Galatians 3:27, emphasis added).
\u00a0 \u00a0We began our journey together with a search, and here is what we have found: The Lord offers no other means by which we get into Christ and no other means by which we reach His redeeming blood than by being baptized into Christ. Our obligation is to turn to Jesus Christ, and \u201carise, and be baptized, and wash away … [our] sins!\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Some of you may wonder, \u201cWhat if I was baptized long ago in a denomination I attended?\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0That\u2019s an important question.<\/p>

While many denominations baptize or immerse, few baptize for the remission of sins. Most churches baptize as a sign or token that one has been saved\u2014that is, they claim that a man is saved at the point he decides to accept Jesus as his personal Savior. He then says the \u201csinner\u2019s prayer,\u201d and at some later point he may be baptized as a token of that salvation.
\u00a0 \u00a0Such churches teach that the \u201csinner\u2019s prayer\u201d is the point of salvation, and then baptism comes later. So they do not baptize<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38), a serious error in that it is\u00a0 different from the baptism of Acts 2:38; 22:16, and Romans 6.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What should you do?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u00a0 \u00a0 If you were baptized under such a baptism, what should you do?
\u00a0 \u00a0 You should do what the men in Acts 19 do. There Paul finds
some men in Ephesus who have been baptized unto John\u2019s baptism. They have never heard of scriptural baptism, so Paul immediately teaches them baptism in the name of Jesus.
\u00a0 \u00a0 Then, the scriptures report, \u201cWhen they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus\u201d (Acts 19:5). (By the way, notice that baptism is immediate.)
\u00a0 \u00a0 The only baptism that is \u201cin the name of the Lord Jesus\u201d (i.e., by His authority) is baptism \u201cin the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.\u201d The Lord authorizes no other baptism. It is the \u201cone baptism\u201d of Ephesians 4:5.
\u00a0 \u00a0 Because of widespread error in the practice of baptism, many people have never \u201cobeyed the gospel\u201d and, thus, are not \u201cin Christ,\u201d even though they may be longtime churchgoers who thought they were united with the Lord. It\u2019s a subtle device Satan uses to keep men from the soul-cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. It is scary, too, to consider the Holy Spirit\u2019s warning in 2 Thessalonians 1:7, where He reminds us that Jesus will return one day \u201ctaking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ …\u201d (v. 8, emphasis added)
\u00a0 \u00a0What a sad day for people who have lived thinking they had been saved from sin but had not! Why were they never saved? Because they never reached the blood of Jesus.
\u00a0 \u00a0 The Bible teaches repeatedly that without being baptized for the
remission of sins we continue living in our sins. Notice that before<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 we are baptized scripturally, we:
\u2022 do not have remission of sins (Acts 2:38)
\u2022 do not get into Christ (Galatians 3:27)<\/p>

\u2022 do not receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38)
\u2022 do not have our sins washed away (Acts 22:16)
\u2022 have not put on Christ\u201d (Galatians 3:27)<\/p>

\u2022 have not followed the Lord\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> steps to be saved\u00a0 (Mark 16:16)
\u2022 have not been born again \u201cof water and the Spirit\u201d (John 3:3-5)
\u2022 have not obeyed Peter\u2019s command of Acts 2:38
\u2022 have not followed biblical examples of immediate baptism conversion, as seen in the cases of the Philippian jailor and\u00a0 Lydia (Acts 16), Saul (Acts 9 and 22), the Jews on Pentecost (Acts 2:37- 41), Cornelius (Acts 10:48) and the eunuch (Acts 8:38).
\u2022 are not saved (1 Peter 3:21; Mark 16:16)
Today, if you have never been baptized scripturally\u2014that is, baptized into Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins\u2014please make the decision to obey that \u201cform of doctrine\u201d now!
\u00a0 \u00a0 Surely you believe<\/strong><\/em> in Jesus Christ! (Acts 16:31).
\u00a0 Are you willing to turn from sin<\/strong><\/em> (Luke 13:3), whether it be living after the world or having served the Lord in error unknowingly?
\u00a0 Are you willing to confess the sweet name of Jesus\u2014\u201cI believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u2014just as the nobleman does near Gaza? (Acts 8:37).
\u00a0 \u00a0 Then, take that final step and be baptized into Christ, buried in that watery grave where you come in contact with the blood of Jesus Christ, having all of your sins washed away!
\u00a0 \u00a0 What a happy day that will be when you are baptized into Jesus Christ and are added to His blessed church! (Acts 2:47).
\u00a0 \u00a0And what a day it will be when we come to the end of life\u2019s journey and can join the saints around the throne of God. Upon our faithfulness, we will have an abundant entrance into that heavenly<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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reward because our robes have been washed white as snow in the blood of the Lamb!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We think back to Mr. Elisha Hoffman\u2019s great hymn \u201cAre You Washed in the Blood?\u201d and his stirring admonition to which we all must heed!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cLay aside the garments that are stained with sin, And be washed in the blood of the Lamb; There\u2019s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean. O, be washed in the blood of the Lamb!\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0May the Lord bless you in laying aside those garments today! Won\u2019t you do that now? Won\u2019t you make the decision to be baptized
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THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB<\/strong><\/span> takes us back to an old biblical truth: A sinner reaches the blood of Jesus (having his sins washed away), when he is baptized \u2014 immersed \u2014 into Jesus Christ. Somehow most denominations have lost this great truth. Due largely to influences from the Reformation Movement in the 16th century, men began teaching that salvation occurs before baptism, that baptism is no longer \u201cfor the remission of sins.\u201d With the salvation of our souls at stake, we take another look at baptism and … THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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