Nothing but the Blood of Jesus!

"There is a fountain filled with blood

Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;

And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,

Lose all their guilty stains"

This is a wonderful song about the Blood of Jesus. I heard a modern "remix" of this sung in a church, where "Blood" was replaced with "gladness." I was shocked. A "fountain of gladness" drawn from the veins of Jesus? What in the world is that?

Every verse of the original song sings about the cleansing power of the Blood, but the "remix" avoids the Blood, and instead sings about "grace" and "love." It does mention the cross, but what is a bloodless cross?

It reminds me of something that I saw when I was a new believer. It was Salvador Dali's famous painting of Christ upon the cross. What struck me was that there was not a single drop of Blood upon Jesus or upon the cross. Dali gave the reason that "the Blood would mar the appearance of Jesus." How deluded Dali was! He did not understand that it was by shedding His Blood that Jesus obtained redemption for us; that without the shedding of the Blood of Jesus there is no forgiveness of sin.

Many think that an aesthetically pleasing Jesus is what the world will accept, but the truth is that it is a bleeding, wounded, dying Jesus who is the Saviour, healer and deliverer of the world. It is only the glorious, gory, and Blood-soaked Gospel of Jesus that the Holy Spirit will affirm.

I remember how Dali's painting really bothered me, because for me the Blood is everything; I did not come to Christ through a bloodless Gospel.

Grace and love do have their place, but it is through the power of the precious Blood of Jesus that the grace and the love of God are revealed to us. There is also no such thing as a bloodless "love of God," or a "bloodless Pentecost."

Sadly, this has become a modern-day trend these days.

My friends, let us never be ashamed of singing, preaching, or loudly proclaiming the Blood of Jesus. The Blood was shed for our redemption. The Blood brings salvation, healing, and deliverance. In the Bible the fire never fell upon a bloodless altar, but only upon blood-soaked altars.

Let us never shy away from declaring and making much of the Blood of Jesus in our praise, worship, and preaching.

As for me, my family, and our ministry - THAT is where we will always stand.

"O precious is the Flow

That makes me white as snow.

No other Fount I know,

Nothing but the Blood of Jesus".

Originally posted on Facebook by Pastor Christopher Alam