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themselves. Friend, you could not lift one little finger to save

yourself. But for the work of Jesus you are doomed! I want to

get that across to you tonight. But for the death, and the work

of Jesus, you are doomed! ‘Christ Jesus came into the world

to save sinners’. All depended entirely on that. Oh that

moment when He came into the world! Think of it! He came

into the world that His hands had made. He “has appeared to

angels”, 1 Timothy 3: 16. For the first time angels looked upon

their Creator.

He found Himself rejected—what a terrible condition of things

the Lord Jesus came into where men were away from God,

and He came into it to save sinners. Friend, that is the

message tonight. There is nothing like the message of the glad

tidings as to the way the Lord Jesus came into the world, into

the very condition where God had been dishonoured, and

there upheld every claim of God and went forward to the cross

in order that He should bear the wrath of a holy God, the

whole judgment of God against sin. God did not spare Him;

“He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him

up for us all”, Romans 8: 32. O

friend, the glad tidings are wonderful! And to save sinners it

meant that He should go into death, and that He should shed

His precious blood. How do you regard the blood of Jesus? I

would ask everyone here that question, What are your

thoughts regarding the blood of Jesus?

One could speak of it as being “precious blood, as of a lamb

without blemish”, 1 Peter 1: l9.

Oh the precious blood of Jesus! Only that precious blood could

meet the claims of the holy God. “Without blood-shedding

there is no remission”, Hebrews 9: 22. Friend, you or

I could never know the forgiveness of sins apart from the

shedding of Jesus’ precious blood.