without blemish and without spot. This attracts his eye. There are
4. Because he sees it to be so spotless.—It is the blood of the Lamb without blemish and without spot. This attracts his eye. There are many things attractive about the blood, but this is one of the most attractive. There is not one stain upon it. It is infinitely pure. Had there been one stain upon it, his peace would have been imperfect. But its purity is so manifest and so divine, that he feels the absolute security of the foundation on which his peace is built. It is the blood of a sacrifice in which even the eye of Jehovah could detect no flaw.
5. Because he sees it to be so unchangeable.—It loses none of its efficacy by time or repetition. It is the same in this age as when it was shed at first. It is the same to-day as when first we applied to it for healing and for cleansing. Nothing can rob it of its potency. It has cleansed millions; it can cleanse millions more; it has washed out stains, in number past calculation, in dye most thoroughly crimson. Yet it is unpolluted. It has taken on no stain. It is still as able to pacify the conscience and to release the soul from guilt. All along it has spoken "better things than that of Abel;" and to this day it still speaks the same. As the atmosphere that girds our earth remains untainted in spite of the millions that breathe it,—as fit to nourish life, and to transmit the sun-beam as at first,—so this blood of God's own Son abides unstained by the myriads of sins that it has purged away,—as fit as ever to cleanse, to heal, to gladden, and to transmit the sunshine of Jehovah's reconciliation into any eye that will but open to let it enter.
Of all this he sees that there is abundant evidence, evidence which completely satisfies him, and makes him feel that in trusting in that blood, he is trusting to one of the surest things in the universe. He hears the voice of God, from the beginning proclaiming its power and its purity. He sees the finger of God pointing forward to the one sacrifice in which no flaw could be found. He listens to the testimony of "the law and the prophets" on this point, and finds how entire in their concurrence. He sees Satan doing his utmost to discover some imperfection in his victim, but finding "nothing in him." He hears the voice even of him that betrayed him saying "it is innocent blood;"2