verse of the day
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Unclean ( Isaiah 1 v 18 )
One of William Cowper's other famous hymns,which we do not hear sung very much these days is , 'There is a fountain filled with blood'. I wonder why?.Should we not hear more on that precious subject,the blood of Jesus, that cleanseth us, from all sin ( 1 John 1 v 7 ) Consider what sin does to us it makes us unclean, it pollutes,its an infectious disease,we all are dirty old men, and dirty old women, yes that means you, and it means me,we are contaminated,and as to our righteousness they are like filthy rags. There was a moment when Israel sinned, they had not long been freed from slavery,they had witnessed ,so much of Gods power. What did they do? they started worshipping a gold calf, and committing all sorts of things,yes they started acting like a pig rolling in the muck. ( Ex 32 ) God had to warn them and deal with them,and from that point on wards, they learned as Alec Motyer writes, of the ''sinfulness of sin'',we all without exception underestimate our sinful condition,and its awful consequence. In Revelation 21 v 27 we read, ''But nothing unclean will ever enter it '',we are being told in picture language, of Gods future home for His people. It is telling us of those who will be excluded, they who have never had their sins forgiven ,who because of their sin are consider unclean. There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; And sinners , plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; And there have I , as vile as he, Washed all my sins away. Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power; Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved to sin no more. E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
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