Price of Blood

Details: Published: Monday, 02 June 2025 05:34; Written by evalverde.com

So much has been said about the Lord’s sacrifice! So many paintings have been made depicting the pain of the crucified Christ!

Almost twenty centuries have passed since the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifested in flesh (1 Tim. 3:16), was sentenced by the raging mob and nailed to a cross by the Roman soldiers. Since that time, according to Daniel’s prophetic exclamation, many have been “purified, and made white, and tried,” but at the same time the other part of the sacred Text has also been fulfilled which states: “but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Dan. 12:10). It is precisely those of us who are “wise” who to this day are still overcome with emotion when we remember, hear about or speak about the PRICE OF BLOOD which was the cost of our salvation.

I am certain that the Christian who truly loves the Lord was moved in the depths of his soul simply by reading the title of this article and that the spontaneous cry that gushed from deep within his soul was: Thank you, my Lord, for the PRICE OF BLOOD that You paid for my salvation! On the other hand, I am also certain that there are two types of persons to whom this is not of great importance: those who have never truly known the love of the Jesus Christ the Lord and those who claim that they know Him, but do not truly love Him or who loved Him at one time in the past but who have now “left their first love” (Rev. 2:4). The apostle Paul encloses God’s entire message in one brief declaration, stating: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema” (1 Cor. 16:22). This truth had a maximum value when it was declared and it presently carries the same validity, because the truth is that no one, from the beginning and to this present day, can truly serve and follow the Lord Jesus if they do not truly have a passionate love for their God.

According to what we always emphasize in the pages of this publication, we are living in the last days of the Age of Grace, when the supreme value of the blessed Blood of the Lord which He shed on the cross at Calvary will cease to save, because it was the Lord Himself who declared: “And the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all the nations; and then shall the end come” (Mt. 24:14). It is precisely in these last days, in the midst of all the terrible things which are occurring in the world, that in many different parts of the world (and it will soon occur in this part of the world) physical persecution and martyrdom have come upon the true followers of the Lord Jesus, and the only weapon that the child of God can rely upon in order to withstand the things which he may suffer is that passion, and that genuine, profound love for his Master.

I am aware that there are many who teach that the Church is not called to suffer and that it will be “raptured” before this time of trouble that the Word of God speaks about. However, this teaching (which we do not have the time or space to elaborate on here) is so absurd and so out of line with what the Holy Book teaches that it does not make sense to stop and take the time in this article to reprove it. What we will do is to continue emphasizing what the Master noted when He stated: “He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worth of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter (inheritances, etc) more than Me is not worthy of Me” (Mt. 10:37). He also declared: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me” (Lk. 9:23). This can only be done when we appreciate with all of the strength of our soul the PRICE OF BLOOD which was the cost for our redemption.

For the man or the woman who living in sin feels overwhelmed by the weight of their burden and desires peace in their soul, those blood stained hands are still inviting them to draw nearer to Calvary to the feet of the Jesus the Lord, so that they can deposit their life in the hands of the Divine Savior. It does not matter how terrible their past might be, the Lord calls out, saying: “Come now and let us reason together: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isa. 1:18). Their part is to simply believe that those hands, those feet, that back and that side shed blood to pay the price of our redemption, and then to ask, just as those first believers inquired on the day of Pentecost: “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30). The answer to that question remains the same. “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins” (Acts 2:38).

Now, for the Christian who is living his life of vanity and carelessness, proud of his religion or of his religious organization, and in whose heart the pain of Calvary does not exist, this invitation from the Lord still stands: “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Mt. 11:29). He knows very well, my brother and my sister, that the appearance of godliness of a superficial Christianity does not and can not bring peace and rest to the soul. On the contrary, it is written: “But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without which partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace” ( Jas. 3:14- 18).

The final words of this brief article are directed to my brother and my sister, whether I know them personally or not, whoever they are and wherever they might be, who in their heart has that passion which makes them feel overwhelmed with emotion when they consider the PRICE OF BLOOD that was the cost of our salvation. My brother, my sister, the struggle at times is very difficult. At times it seems that the trials, instead of decreasing, are increasing. There are times that the feeling that we cannot go another step darkens our path. But the Word which is a “lamp unto our feet” (Ps. 119:105) tells us and will continue telling us until we reach the end of our journey: “For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin” (Heb. 12:3-4).

There are days drawing near in which many of those who “have not yet resisted unto blood” (Heb. 12:4) will have to experience this. This will not be to harm nor to do us evil, much less to judge us. On the contrary, it will occur so that we can partake of the supreme privilege that our brothers experienced who were martyred for Christ the Lord and who were told: “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Phil. 1:29).

How are we going to be able to withstand those days which lie ahead? By daily cultivating in our hearts (in our emotions) that passion, that deep love for the Beloved of our soul, for Him who “though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Cor. 8:9), and for Him who because of His love for us “humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Phil. 2:8). Only by having this type of love for our Lord will we be able to see His face for a blessing on the day of His appearance in glory. Only by having this type of love will we be able to please Him. Only with this type of love will we be able to fulfill what He has commanded us to do: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Mat. 22:39).

“Lord, thou knowest that I love thee” was what Peter answered when the Lord asked him: “Peter, lovest thou Me?” ( Jn. 21:15-17). Almost twenty one centuries have since passed and the same question that our Master posed to our brother Peter, He has asked and continues asking to each one of His true followers, even to this day. As I observe those blood stained hands and remember the PRICE OF BLOOD that my Savior chose to pay for me on that cross, I join with my brother and my sister, who, moved by a passionate love for the Martyr of Golgotha, has shed tears of love for Him as they read these lines and have joined the poet in exclaiming:

⌈I Love You Lord! I am not moved my God to love You, By the things You have promised to give Me. Neither am I moved by the hell, so greatly feared, to cease to offend You. It is You that moves me, Lord, it moves me to see you nailed to the cross, while being scorned. It moves me to see Your Body, so ravaged. I am moved by your anguish and your death. I am moved by your love, and even if there were no heaven, I would still love You. And if there were no hell, I would still fear You. You do not have to give me a reason to love You. Even if what I hope for was not waiting for me, the same way I love You now, I would still love You.⌋

Price of Blood

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