Redemption by price and power
This great redemption is by price. And Oh! what a price! the precious blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. This blood cleanses from all sin; satisfies offended Justice; clears away the obstacles in the sinner’s path to glory, and procures pardon and peace, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. ‘He made peace for us, by the blood of his cross.’ ‘We have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.’
This redemption is by power. God, the Holy Spirit, descends into the sinner’s heart, applies the healing balm to the previously smitten conscience, and, by his almighty influence, produces the new birth, the new creation. He leads the trembling sinner to the bleeding sacrifice; points to the cross; gives saving faith; causes joy to spring up in the heart; and thus enables the soul, delivered from the penalty and pollution of sin, ‘to sing in the ways of the Lord,’ and to glorify the rock of his salvation.
Spiritual Exercises of the Heart
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