Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

him the Father is ever well pleased, we should most confidently expect
the blessings he has purchased. We may consider, also, this his
appearance before the throne, in his sacrificial character, constitutes the
great principle of mediation or intercession. He has taken our nature into
heaven; in that he appears before the throne; this, without a voice, speaks
loudly for the sinful race of Adam, for whom it was assumed, and on
whose account it was sacrificed. On these grounds every penitent and
every believing soul may ask and receive, and their joy be complete. By
the sacrifice of Christ, we approach God; through the mediation of Christ,
God comes down to man.
So important is the sacrificial offering of Christ in the sight of God,
that he is still represented as being in the very act of pouring out his blood
for the offences of man. This gives great advantages to faith; when any
soul comes to the throne of grace, he finds a sacrifice there provided for
him to offer to God. Thus all succeeding generations find they have the
continual sacrifice ready, and the newly shed blood to offer.
We are not only indebted to our Lord Jesus Christ for the free and full
pardon which we have received, but our continuance in a justified state
depends upon his gracious influence in our hearts, and his intercession
before the throne of God.
As we cannot contemplate the humiliation and death of Christ without
considering it a sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and atonement for sin, and
for the sin of the whole world; so we cannot contemplate his unlimited
power and glory, in his state of exaltation, without being convinced that
he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God through him.
What can withstand the merit of his blood? What can resist the energy of
his omnipotence? Can the power of sin?—its infection?—its malignity?
No! he can as easily say to an impure heart, "Be thou clean," and it shall
be clean; as he could to the leper, "Be thou clean," and immediately his
leprosy was cleansed. Reader, have faith in him; for all things are
possible to him that believeth.