The red sea of Christ’s blood – Thomas Brooks
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.” Ephesians 1:7
O Lord! when I look upon my manifold weaknesses and imperfections I am many times not only grieved, but also staggered! But when I look up to the covenant of redemption I am cheered, raised, and quieted!
What though my sins have been great and heinous yet they are not greater than Christ’s sacrifice! He bore the curse for great sins as well as small sins; for sins against the gospel as well as for sins against the law; for sinful omissions as well as for sinful commissions. The covenant of redemption is so mighty that none of my mighty sins can stand before it!
If we look upon Manasseh, in those black and ugly colors which the Holy Spirit paints him out in, (1 Kings 21:1-16;) we must conclude that he was a mighty sinner, a monstrous sinner! And yet his mighty sins, his monstrous sins could not stand before the covenant of redemption!
The greatest sins are finite but the merit of Christ’s redemption is infinite. Though my debts are so many as cannot be tallied yet Christ has paid them all. Woe had been to me forever had Christ left but one penny upon the record for me to pay! As I have multiplied my sins, so He has multiplied His pardons!
All the Egyptians were drowned in the Red Sea the high and the low, the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the honorable and the base were all drowned. Just so, the red sea of Christ’s blood drowns all our sins whether they are great or small, high or low, etc., Though my sins are as scarlet my Redeemer will make them as white as snow! Though they are as red as crimson, they shall be white as wool! There is not one of my sins, for which Jesus Christ has not suffered, and made atonement for, and purchased pardon for! Though my sins are innumerable, though they are more than the hairs of my head, or the sands on the sea-shore, yet they are not to be named in comparison with the merits of Christ, and the atoning sacrifice of Christ. Be my sins ever so many; yes, though they might fill a scroll which reaches from east to west, from north to south, from earth to heaven yet they could not bring me under the curse!
For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Col. 1:13-14
“The cross of Christ is the golden key which opens paradise to us!” All Christ’s sufferings, were for His people. Oh, the endless and matchless love of Christ!
O blessed Jesus, what manner of love is this that You should wash away my scarlet sins in Your own blood! That You should die that I may live! That You should be cursed that I might be blessed! That You should undergo the pains of hell that I might enjoy the joys of heaven! That the face of God should be clouded from You that His everlasting favor might rest upon me! That You should be an everlasting screen between the wrath of God and my immortal soul! That You should suffer for me beyond all expression, and beyond all conception; and gloriously provide for me beyond all expectation! What shall I say, what can I say to all this but fall down before Your grace, and spend my days in wondering at that matchless, bottomless love, which can never be fathomed by angels or men!