The Blood

Using the Passover command "When I see the blood, I will pass over you," Spurgeon argues that the blood of Christ is the one and only foundation of a sinner's safety — blood that is divinely appointed, spotless, shed by one who was fully God, and accepted by the Father as proven by the resurrection — making it all-sufficient, all-powerful, and completely sure for anyone who trusts in it. He then wages a sustained battle against every substitute people try to place alongside or instead of the blood: repentance, feelings, a stronger faith, religious ordinances, good works, even the Holy Spirit's work in the soul — insisting that anything added to the blood corrupts it, and that salvation rests not on the sinner's view of the blood but on God's view of it, which is always clear and always accepting. He closes with a double lesson: for the Christian, to keep the eye fixed on the cross rather than drifting toward frames and feelings as a substitute ground of peace; and for the trembling sinner, to stop looking inward for sufficient feelings and simply cast themselves on Christ with nothing in their hand, trusting that God has promised to pass over everyone upon whom that blood rests.Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on December 12th, 1858.