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Hebrews 9:11-15
“For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”
Hebrews 9:13-14
This scripture reminds me of my husband’s boyhood church, Hebron Presbyterian. It was and is a one-room, rural church without electricity. His Sunday School teacher, Malcolm Grady, taught him a song about Christ’s blood shed for him. The song is “There Is Power in the Blood,” by Lewis Edgar Jones. Three of its verses go with the scripture verses above:
Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
Would you o’er evil a victory win?
There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
Would you be free from your passion and pride?
There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide;
There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow;
There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
Have you confessed and asked Christ to forgive your sins? Have you allowed him to make you whiter than snow? Come to Jesus and let him cleanse your conscience from dead works so you can serve the living God.
Prayer:
Lord, I confess that I am a sinner. Thank you for sacrificing your life and making me whiter than snow. Help me to serve the living God. Amen.
Nancy Smith
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