The subject we're going to discuss tonight is
Why the Precious Blood of Christ, and trust
it might be a blessing to all.
We're going to read from the first epistle
of John, chapter 1, and we shall read
from verse 1.
1 John, chapter 1, reading from verse 1.
That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled of the word of life,
for the life was manifested, and we have
seen it, and we are witness, and show
unto you that eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested unto us.
That which we have seen and heard, declare
we unto you, that ye also may have
fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is
with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus
Christ.
And these things write we unto you, that
your joy may be full.
This then is the message which we have
heard of him, and declare unto you, that
God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all.
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, cleanseth 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.
If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word
is not in us.
My little children, these things write I unto
you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
And he is a propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only, but also for
the sins of the whole world.
Now God will bless to us the reading
of the Holy Scripture.
We were having an afternoon meeting in a
lady's home, and I was interrupted, correctly so,
by a lady who had a real problem.
And this is what she said.
When I forgive my children, I forgive them.
I never demand the shedding of blood.
Why does God demand that before he can
forgive us, there must be the shedding of
blood?
Now quite frankly, that lady was sincere, and
it was a genuine problem.
Now there's all the difference in the world
between a parental forgiveness and a judicial forgiveness.
Now let me explain.
A mother can forgive her child of anything,
even murder.
But should that child go to a court,
the judge is there to vindicate justice.
And therefore he cannot forgive the child that's
been rebellious to the law, and therefore he
must heap upon that child the heaviest penalty
of the law.
So can you see by that simple illustration,
there's a parental forgiveness, there's a judicial forgiveness.
Now God has made us all as human
beings in his image and in his likeness.
And therefore there's something about us that's small,
and there's something about us that's big.
We are a little, wee, finite replica of
God.
And God has given to us ten commandments.
And the whole of the human race has
broken those commandments.
Therefore we're all guilty before God.
So you can see now the problem with
forgiveness.
Now when God forgives, and I want to
say this quickly before we get right into
this subject.
He must remain just.
He can't say, oh well, we'll let bygones
be bygones and we'll just forgive.
He must remain just because he is holy.
And yet he has to devise means where
he can be made just, or remain just,
and still forgive the sinner.
Now that's a problem.
And we're going to see from the scripture,
in a remarkable way, how God has actually
done this.
Now the word blood, and the blood of
an animal, or the blood of Christ, is
mentioned 321 times in the Old Testament.
It's mentioned 99 times in the New Testament.
So we can see it's a biblical conception.
The scripture says in Hebrews 9, without the
shedding of blood there is no remission of
sin.
So you can see it's an absolute necessity
with God.
Now what I want to do is to
go through this subject as simply as I
can from the scripture, and explain why the
blood was so necessary.
First of all, we're going to look at
the fact, the necessity for the blood.
Secondly, we're going to look at the fact
again, and we're going to consider the profundity
of the blood.
Having considered the profundity of the blood, I
want to show you from the scripture, the
authority of the blood.
And then lastly, I want to speak on
our responsibility to the blood of Christ.
Now, first of all, why do we need
cleansing through the blood?
You see, because we have all sinned, in
God's sight we are unclean.
And because sin is an affront to God,
we need forgiveness.
And if we could see ourselves as God
sees us tonight, all of us, the best
of us, would realise that we are very
unclean in God's sight.
Now, what does it mean to be unclean?
It doesn't mean to say if we had
a surgical operation, we would be physically unclean
inside.
We say a man has unclean thoughts.
We say a person has an unclean tongue.
It doesn't mean to say the tongue is
always unclean.
And it doesn't mean to say if you
had an operation on that mind, the mind
would be unclean.
But we simply mean this, he's constantly thinking
evil, he is constantly talking unclean things.
So we say the mind's unclean, and we
say the tongue is unclean.
Now, we are unclean before God like that.
There are three ways in which we can
look at ourselves, and this is very important.
I can look at myself and make an
assessment, and I can say something like this.
Well, I'm as good as my neighbour.
I've reared my children.
I've tried to teach them to do the
best they can.
If anybody was in need, I would help
them.
I don't think I'm a sacrifice.
I'm quite all right.
And lots of people think like that.
And on a human basis, they're like that.
Then you could be a little more honest,
and you could lean over the fence, and
you could have a little chat with your
neighbour, and you could say to them, now
I want you to do something.
I want you to tell me exactly what
I'm like.
So, be honest.
If you offend me, it won't matter.
Just tell me what I'm like.
And your neighbour would smile a little and
say, well, you're as bad as what I
am, and you're as good as me.
And then you might smile and say, now
tell me what I basically like.
And your neighbour would say, well, you're not
bad, you're not perfect, but you're a very
respectable person.
So, can you see what's happened?
Two things have taken place.
You have assessed yourself, and your neighbour has
given to you an assessment.
But is that really a correct estimation?
After all, you're not going to stand before
your neighbour in the day of judgment, are
you?
You're going to stand before God.
As the Bible says, as I live, saith
the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every one of us shall give an
account of himself to God.
So, what does God actually say about the
human race?
Now, before we get to this very difficult
point, I want you to see from the
Old and the New Testament, two outstanding men
that came into the presence of God.
One was called Isaiah, and probably he was
one of the most moral men that ever
lived.
An outstanding man.
In Isaiah chapter 5, he stood before the
children of Israel, and he gave them a
spiritual cleaning.
And he said five times to them, Woe
unto you, Israel.
And he meant it.
And quite frankly, they were a wicked people.
And then, in chapter 6 of Isaiah, he
came into a state before God, where, quite
frankly, something tremendous happened.
He was in the presence of God, and
he was waiting on God, and suddenly the
heavens opened, and he got a vision of
the glory of God.
A vision that he had never seen before.
He saw the throne high and lifted up.
He saw the seraphim above the temple, or
above the throne, saying one to another, Holy,
holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
And when the Lord Jehovah spoke, the whole
of the temple shook at the voice of
him that spake.
And when he caught a glimpse of the
glory and the majesty of the Lord, when
he saw this utter, impeccable perfection, he fell
at his feet and he was heard to
say, Woe is me, for I am undone.
I am a man of unclean lips, for
mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord
of hosts.
In other words, in the presence of God,
he felt like an unclean wretch.
Or to put it literally, he felt like
a man that was full of spiritual leprosy.
And that was Isaiah.
In the New Testament, there was one man,
and only one man, that could actually say
of touching the Lord blameless.
And this man was probably the most moral
man that ever lived.
Saul of Carthage.
And this man, when he was on the
Damascus road, caught a vision of the risen
Christ.
He saw a light far brighter than the
noonday sun.
And as he caught a glimpse of the
glory of the risen Christ, he fell into
the dark.
And he was heard to say that he
was the chief of sinners.
He felt that he was the worst person
on earth.
Beloved friends, it's just a flash of the
glory of the Lord came into this hall
tonight.
Just a small flash of his glory.
Every single one of us would be prostrated.
Therefore, when God makes an assessment of the
human race, it's right.
And this is what he says.
There's none righteous, no, not one.
There's none that doeth good.
There's none that seek after God.
We have all gone out of the way.
In fact, the Bible makes it quite clear
that we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
This doesn't mean to say someone that drags
along in the gutter.
It means the religious person that goes to
church, or the good person that goes to
chapel.
All in the sight of God are unclean.
Why?
Because of the utterance of the Lord.
Now there comes a time in your experience,
dear friends, when God brings you into a
meeting like this, and you hear these remarkable
words.
This then is the message that we have
heard of him, and declare unto you that
God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all.
And that means God is the embodiment of
all truth, all holiness, all righteousness.
He dwells in a glory that is completely
without all sin.
And therefore when we come into his presence,
even the best of us are unclean.
And that is why we need cleansing.
I know sometimes we're asked in evangelical meetings
to give our hearts to the Lord, or
to give our lives to the Lord, but
quite frankly that is so totally wrong.
Because how can you give a life to
the Lord, and a heart to the Lord,
that's dirty with sins?
Can you see the point?
First of all we've got to discover that
we are unclean in the sight of God,
and we need cleansing.
Now when this process takes place in our
hearts, two things can happen, and I've seen
this over and over again.
I have seen people in England coming under
the sound of the gospel of Christ, and
they come face to face with the holiness
of God, the God who is life, and
they've run away.
They can't stand it.
And they never come again.
You see they don't like to be exposed.
Whilst I've seen other people who have come,
and some of them exceedingly respectable, and they
hear the gospel, and they receive an awful
shock, but they stay on.
They acknowledge their uncleanness, and the Lord blesses
them.
And this is what Jesus says, this is
the condemnation, that light has come into the
world, and men love darkness rather than light,
because their deeds are evil.
So can you see in God's sight, not
in our own sight, but in God's sight,
we're all unclean.
We're just like a filthy bag, and every
single one of us needs cleansing through the
blood of Christ.
Now what does the blood mean, the profundity
of the blood?
Well it doesn't mean for one moment that
the Lord has a great fountain, and it's
filled with the blood of Jesus, and when
you come to him, he puts you under
the fountain of the blood.
We've seen that sometimes, but that's not the
meaning of the blood.
Now what does he mean by the blood?
In Leviticus 17, we read this remarkable statement,
the light of the flesh is in the
blood.
And it means, pathologically, the secret of your
physical life is in blood, and that's a
fact.
And therefore, blood is the secret of our
physical life.
Now you will note, I'm using the word
physical life.
We read in Genesis 4, when Cain killed
his brother Abel, a remarkable statement, and it
says this, the voice of thy brother's blood
cries up to me from the ground.
Now what does that mean?
Did it mean that the blood actually spoke
on Costa?
But it meant this, when God saw that
blood was shed, it was a sign to
God that life had been taken, and murder
had taken place.
When a man sinned in the Old Testament,
he knew one thing, the wages of sin
was there.
And he knew it meant two things, either
he should die, or something else should die
for him.
And God, in all his mercy, provided animal
sacrifices.
And in those days, if a man broke
one of the commandments deliberately, he would go
to his flock, and he would make sure
the lamb that he was going to offer
was without spot and without a blemish, and
he would take it to the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and that was
like their mobile church, and a priest would
come out, and he would tell the priest
what he had done, and then he would
lay his hands upon the head of the
little lamb, confess his sins, and then he
would kill it.
And the priest would take all its blood
very carefully, and he would sprinkle it upon
the four horns of the altar, and then
pour it at the base of the altar,
and the rest of the beast was burned
outside the camp.
And therefore, in God's sight, the little lamb
died instead of him, but it was the
blood that was a receipt to God that
life had been taken.
Therefore, what does it mean when it says
the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleansed
us from all sin?
It means this.
The life of the Lord Jesus, perfect and
holy, that was given on behalf of our
sins on the cross, and therefore his blood
was shed, and his life was taken on
behalf of the sins of the whole world.
And basically, that is the simple meaning of
the blood.
It is the analysis, it's the summary of
all the sufferings of the Lord Jesus that
he endured before God on the cross.
Secondly, I want you now to think of
the dignity of the blood.
It is the blood, and now I want
you to stop, of Jesus Christ.
Not the blood of a prophet, not the
blood of a lamb, not the blood of
a ram, not the blood of a bullock,
but the blood of Jesus Christ.
What does that mean?
There was only one man that ever lived
that couldn't sin, and that was the Lord
Jesus.
And the Lord Jesus was the only man
that was born into this world that was
sinless.
Only one.
And he was completely and absolutely outside and
exempt of the sin of Adam.
When he was born, he was as pure
as heaven itself.
And when the Lord Jesus Christ went to
that cross, we must remember this, that he
was absolutely perfect.
When he was bearing our sins in his
own body on the tree, no sin ever
permeated into his nature.
He never became a sinner, but praise God,
he became a sin bearer.
And on the cross, the Lord Jesus was
just as pure as when he was creating
the world.
But we shall see in a moment, he
became a great sin bearer.
But then John...
Now, first of all, I want to read
this as it should.
The blood of Jesus Christ, stop.
His son.
When the Lord Jesus was betrayed by Judas
with that hypocritical kiss, who was his?
His son.
When those soldiers came and flogged him and
scourged him 39 times until his back was
like a ploughed field, who was his?
His son.
When they spat at him and then smashed
those iron nails through his hands and feet
and lifted him up upon the central cross
to die, who was his?
His son.
And when he was bearing the sin of
the world so that he could say on
the cross, he was a worm and no
man, who was he?
His son.
You see, my dear friends, if we don't
see the dignity of the sufferer, we shall
never see the preciousness of the blood.
And that person that died upon the cross
was the only perfect man that ever lived.
And he was the perfect son of God.
Lightfoot put it beautifully, it was not God
who died, but he who died was God.
Think of that.
So there's dignity in the blood.
But then there's preciousness in the blood.
Peter says this, we're redeemed not with corruptible
things of silver and gold, but with the
precious blood of Christ.
But then you might say, even now, Mr.
Brandon, as I'm sitting here, I see nothing
precious in the blood.
Ah, it's not what you see, it's what
God sees.
The scripture says this, in the Old Testament,
when I see the blood, I will pass
over you.
You have every right then to propose a
question and put it to the preacher and
say, well, what does God see in the
blood?
Shall I tell you?
When he sees the blood of Christ shed
from that wounded side, he sees the fulfilment
of 99 prophecies.
There were 99 prophecies in the Old Testament
directly related to the cross of Christ, and
they go back right to the very beginning.
I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, between thy seed and her seed, it
shall bruise thy head, thou shall bruise his
hill.
That was all fulfilled when the Lord Jesus
died.
The prophet Isaiah had a vision of the
cross that was so vivid, that he could
actually say this, he was wounded for our
transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.
And therefore, when the Lord Jesus Christ died
on the cross, and God saw the blood,
he saw the fulfilment of all those prophecies
that you make.
Secondly, when he saw the blood for the
first time ever, spotless, precious, holy, undefiled blood
touched our sinful soil.
And when that blood trickled to the ground,
that blood was spotless and sinless.
For the one that hung upon that cross,
and I say this with holy reverence, was
as pure as God himself, and therefore, it
speaks of absolute purity of the blood.
But when he sees that precious blood, he
sees agony.
You say, what do you mean?
Let me explain.
There was only one time, and it will
never happen again, when God brought the whole
question of sin together.
God knows every person that has been born
into this world, and he will know every
person that will be born into the world,
and therefore, he can see the whole of
this world as but a yesterday.
You see, sometimes we are puzzled because of
the greatness of the world and because of
population explosion.
That is just a small, limited thing.
And God knows every sin that has been
committed, and he knows every sin that will
be committed.
And when Christ died upon the cross, he
brought the whole massive, vulgar lot together.
But more, when the Lord Jesus was hanging
on that cross, he measured meticulously its judgment.
And remember this, the smallest sin, the smallest
sin, will bring us into hell.
The smallest.
And when the Lord Jesus was hanging on
that cross, God measured his judgment, and he
brought that judgment upon the Son.
That's why he turned all the lights of
creation out, and for three hours, and watched
suffering.
In fact, that suffering was so deep that
he said to his father, I sink in
deep mire where there is no standing.
The waves and the billows pass over me.
When he had completed bearing the wrath and
the judgment of God's concerning sin, because he
loved the human race, he let out the
forsaken cry, My God, my God, why hast
thou?
When God looks upon the blood, he sees
all the agony of his Son, all the
atoning pains that he endured for our sins.
But God sees more.
Yes.
When he looks upon that blood, he not
only sees the agony that his Son endured
as he bore our sins, but he sees
the victory.
He remembers the time when his Son put
his head back to heaven, and said with
mighty triumph, Finish.
Accomplish.
Done.
He remembers the time when he went down
into Herod's temple, and split the cup.
He remembers the time because of the triumph
of that death, when he raised his Son
from the dead.
And he remembers the moment when his Son
went into heaven by the cross in absolute
victory.
And therefore he sees in the blood absolute
victory.
They overcame Satan by the blood of the
Lamb.
And therefore I can say with a sense
of triumph tonight, through the blood of Christ,
the Lord Jesus has dealt with sin once
and for all.
He's dealt with death by tasting it.
And thank God, potentially, Satan is a defeated
foe, and he sees that in the blood.
But there's something more.
He sees in the blood infinity.
You say, what do you mean?
When Christ died upon the cross, we must
remember this.
He not only died for the human race,
He died for creation.
You see, when man sinned, God subjected the
whole of creation, so it fell with a
fallen man.
But all through that cross, all things are
going to be reconciled.
So that one day through the cross, He
will take from nature its very seed.
But the greatest thing of all in the
cross is this.
It brought glory to God.
In fact, dear friends, I know you will
find this hard to understand, but the Lord
Jesus restored to God more glory than Adam's
sin took away.
And where sin abounded, grace did much more
abound.
And you see, God sees all that in
the blood.
He sees the fulfilment of prophecy.
He sees absolute purity.
He sees the agony of Calvary.
He sees the victory of the cross.
He sees the infinity of all things being
reconciled.
And He gets glory.
No wonder it's precious to Him.
And when you become a Christian, the blood
will be precious to you.
But what about its authority?
Through that once and for all sacrifice for
sin, and now I must quote the scripture,
this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins forever, sat down on the right
hand of God.
You see, when the Lord Jesus died upon
the cross, it wasn't an individual sacrifice, as
it were, like an individual lamb that's brought
for a person's sins.
It wasn't even a sacrifice for a nation,
like they had on a day of atonement.
But it was once and for all, it
was an infinite, massive sacrifice that enabled God
to be holy, and at the same time
forgive the sinners.
Therefore, according to the teaching of scripture, the
blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us
from all sin.
And that simply means this.
There's not a person in this world that
Jesus Christ can't forgive and bless.
Can we go round the world and see?
There are at least 200 million people and
more in Soviet Russia, not referring to the
Ukraine, Soviet Russia.
And there's not a Russian that the Lord
Jesus can't cleanse.
There are at least a thousand million people
in China.
And hallelujah, there isn't a Chinaman that he
can't cleanse.
There are now 450 million people in India,
probably more.
And there's not an Indian that the Lord
cannot forgive.
And it doesn't matter about the world's population
explosion.
The cross of Christ towers above it all.
And there's not a man in this world
that can't be forgiven.
Therefore, when we stand before God in the
day of judgment, none of us will be
able to say this, Lord, you didn't die
for me.
He died on behalf of all.
He gave himself, says the scripture, a ransom
for all.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away
the sin of the world.
But there's something much more than that.
He can not only cleanse all sinners, but
he can cleanse all sinners from all sins.
Now, this is very interesting.
And if you can, I want you to
pay careful attention to this, because this is
a vital matter.
There are two kinds of sins.
There's the sins that we see and the
sins that God says.
I suppose if we were all honest, as
we were saying the other day, we could
work out about a hundred sins that we
have committed.
Well, the blood of Christ will cleanse all
those.
But when God looks into our lives, oh,
the difference.
Can I illustrate it by this glass?
I shall pour some water now in this
glass.
Now, that water, as far as my vision
is concerned, looks clean.
But if I looked at that water under
a very powerful microscope, it would be full
of impurities.
Now, what's right?
My naked vision or my microscopic vision?
Now, when we look at ourselves, we can
see sins in our lives.
And we might be able to see a
hundred.
When God looks into our lives, He sees
millions.
The thought of foolishness is sin.
Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Every time we please ourselves instead of glorifying
God, we sin.
So you can see, we sin as often
as an old-fashioned ticking clock ticks day
by day.
Now then, this is the great news.
When Christ died, He not only died for
the sins that you know.
He died for the sins that God knew.
And He put away our sins as far
as God is concerned.
And when God forgives your sins, He forgives
the sins that He sees.
And you're forgiven once and for all.
Well, you say, I can hardly believe that.
It is difficult.
But that's what the Scripture says.
The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses
us from all sin.
Because God never forgives you because of the
size of your repentance of faith.
He always forgives you through the blood.
But there's something more.
He can not only cleanse all sinners.
He can not only cleanse all sinners from
all sins.
But He can cleanse all sinners from all
sins for always.
Always, yes.
You see, if it was a Meccano forgiveness,
all in bits and pieces.
God would have to do the forgiving every
day.
But when God forgives you, He forgives you
purely on the work that Jesus Christ did
for you on the cross.
And this enables God to put away sin
once and for all.
The Scripture actually says this.
For by one offering, He has perfected forever
them that are sanctified.
And friends, I know this takes your breath
away.
But when you are forgiven by God, in
God's sight, you are perfect.
So clean that every single sin has been
put away.
And that makes you right with God.
Now, that doesn't mean to say that you
will then live a perfect life.
But as far as God is concerned, your
sins have been put away by the once
and for all sacrifice of sin.
So you see, it's a continual forgiveness.
It's a once and for all forgiveness.
In our country, we have lots of people
who are having difficulty with the poll tax.
And they can't pay it.
And I want you to imagine an old
lady going to court and she's told to
pay £50 poll tax.
And she can't do it.
And someone comes along who likes her and
pays the £50.
Now that clears her ears for three months.
But she's afraid of the future.
Well, she's a poor old dear and she
can't get very much money.
And she goes to court again and the
judge says, Well, my dear, you'll have to
pay £50 or do a week inside.
And she's just about to go inside and
someone gives her another £50.
Well, that deals with her past.
But she's got no peace.
She's afraid of the future.
Now, could you imagine she goes to the
court and along comes a man and he
goes to the judge and he says, Right,
I'm going to speak on behalf of her
in regard to the town hall.
I'm going to invest £20,000 and that
will cover her past and that will cover
her present and that will cover her future.
Oh, she says to the man, Thank you.
I've got peace at last.
And she can pillow her head on her
bed.
Wouldn't it be terrible if the Lord said
to us, I'll forgive all your past, all
your present, but don't you ever sin again.
You'll be under judgment.
None of us could have peace.
But when we see that through the blood
that we have this once and for all
forgiveness, then we can have perfect peace with
God.
Well, someone might say tonight, Mr. Brandon, I
would like that forgiveness.
And I would like God to declare me
right.
I would like to go out of this
building tonight clean.
But it seems a very easy kind of
forgiveness.
After all, we could take the forgiveness and
then do what we like.
Oh, no, you can't.
Now why?
It's as if we walk in the light.
As he is in the light.
You see, he brings you right into the
light of his presence.
And he shows you what you're like.
And we all have it.
We bow our heads and we say with
Isaiah, Woe is me, I'm undone, I'm unclean.
And then he doesn't take you back into
the darkness and there do the cleansing.
He leaves you in the light of his
presence and he puts away your sin in
his holy presence.
And he can do it once and for
all so that he can remain just and
still the justifier.
And then because you see the cost of
your sins causing his precious blood, you're broken.
You say something like this, Lord, I've offended
thy throne.
I've sinned against thee.
My sins caused the death of the Lord
Jesus.
And there's deep confession.
Now I'm only applying this.
This is not the interpretation.
I'm only applying this.
He says, if we concess our sins, and
that means we stay in God's light.
And we say this, Lord, I'm tired of
a sinning life.
I can see that sin will break me
and bring me down to perdition.
I'm tired of all these evil habits that's
breaking me.
I'm in the light of your presence now
and I want to stay in thy light
forever.
And I come now with bitter tears.
I come with deep sorrow for my sin.
And I confess.
And as you confess them, you turn from
them.
And you turn to God with a desire
like this.
Oh God, I want to be holy.
I want to be righteous.
I want my life to be completely changed.
So you come into the light.
And then you say, I want to live
in the light forever.
You've looked back into the darkness.
And you've seen the mess that you've made
of your life.
Without Christ and without God and without hope.
And you say, I don't want that life
anymore.
Life to be totally controlled by thee.
That's contrition.
And then you take that lovely step of
faith and you say something like this.
Precious, precious blood of Jesus.
Shed on Calvary.
Shed for sinners.
Shed for rebels.
Shed for sinners.
Shed for me.
Or you may even use the words of
that lovely hymn, Just as I am without
one plea.
But that thy blood was shed for me.
And that thou bidst me come to thee.
Oh Lamb of God, I come.
We were having some meetings in Paisley.
I shall never forget this.
And there was one man coming who had
gone very deeply into sin.
I'm not going into the details of what
he did.
But he was under sedation.
And he was under a very powerful addiction.
And he was quite young.
And one night I was preaching the cross.
And while I was preaching the cross, I
saw him get up.
And then he came right down a narrow
path.
And I wondered what was going to happen.
And then he came right to the platform
in that particular school, the assembly hall where
we had hired.
And then he called me and I came
down from the platform.
I've never done this before.
And this is what he said.
Mr. Brandon, I've seen two things.
I said, what have you seen Chuck?
I've seen the deadly seriousness of my sins
causing the death of Christ.
And I've seen his sincere love for me.
And he knelt down and wept and wept
and wept.
And there on that school floor, he received
the forgiveness of sin.
And he was born of God.
Wouldn't it be lovely if someone came into
that blessing tonight?
You claim cleansing through the blood of Christ.
You claim that forgiveness.
You claim what God wants to do to
you, forgive and cleanse.
And you went home tonight with a clean
heart.
We long that all of you should have
that blessing tonight.