Most precious truth for guilty sinners! Lord, help us to consider what is implied in these words. See the exceeding sinfulness of sin. It has brought upon us, loss of God's image; obnoxiousness to his wrath; rejection from his presence. We are by sin totally unclean. The pollution of sin has brought the curse of God upon us, armed his justice, shut his kingdom against us, and opened the gates of hell to us. The hitter cries and torments of the damned in hell will eternally proclaim the malignity of sin. The everlasting songs of the saints in glory will proclaim the praises of the Lamb, who washed them from their sins in his own blood.
This proves the curse and defilement of sin. The blood of Jesus Christ, and that alone, cleanseth from all its deepest stains. O the infinite love of the Son of God, to shed his blood for guilty sinners! O the infinite virtue of his precious blood to cleanse us from all sin! Remember, God's justice would have been eternally glorified, and thy soul eternally suffering his wrath due to thy sins, if the blood of his Son had not cleansed thee from all sin. Reflect on this, and say, canst thou think light of sin, or count the blood of Jesus of little value? O, see sin's crimson dye in the purple gore of the Son of God, which was shed to atone for it and cleanse from it.
"Cleanseth us." Not only hath cleansed and shall cleanse, but it continually does so; whereby we stand before God as without spot in his sight, and freed from all condemnation.
"The blood of Jesus Christ." This means the last act of the tragedy in the life of our anointed Saviour; his blood being the ransom of our souls, the price of our redemption, and the expiation of our sins.
"His Son:" the Son of God: very God of very' God. Here let faith fix and conscience be satisfied: not only the blood of the Son of the Virgin, but it is the blood of the Son of God. Neither the greatness nor the number of sins can expose any sinner to wrath who believes in the Son of God: no guilt so great but it can cleanse; no stain so deep but it can remove. Unbelief shuts this blood out of the conscience. By faith we receive its cleansing virtue and peaceful effects on our souls.