PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD.

 
OCTOBER 12.

 
Purchased with his own blood.
Acts 20:28

 
PAUL is speaking of the church,
  he was in the habit of viewing it
   as a purchased possession.
 
The price paid for it was the blood of Christ,
  whom the apostle calls “God”.
 
The whole church therefore is bought and paid for.
 
The price paid was satisfactory, and
  the property will all be given into the Saviour's hand.
 
The Father, who receives the price,
  will draw the purchased ones to the Son, and
  all who come to him will be cheerfully received by him.
 
The church of Christ belongs therefore to no one but Christ.
 
Hence the apostle says, “ye are not your own,
  for ye are bought with a price;
  therefore glorify God in your body, and
  in your spirit, which are God’s.”
 
Beloved, let us view ourselves as the property of Jesus;
  as property purchased and paid for;
  as property purchased at a price which
   no created mind can calculate;
  which defies all the powers of arithmetic to set forth.
 
The blood of Jesus!
 
The blood of God's own son!
 
The blood of God manifested in the flesh!
 
Who can conceive its value?
 
Who can question its efficacy?
 
Who dare trifle with it?
 
Precious blood of Jesus,
 made my eye be steadily fixed on thee,
 at all times, and in all places!
 

Tis through his blood my prayers ascend

And reach Jehovah's throne;

Through it my God accepts, and smiles,

And pours his blessings down.

 

James Smith 1849