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A Cleansing Word

1 John 1:7 – “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

            In the church I attended growing up, we frequently sang a beautiful hymn entitled, Nothing but the blood.  It begins with a question, “What can wash away my sin?” and then answers, “Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”  People are asking the same question today, “What can wash away my sin. In Jeremiah 2:22 the Prophet writes, “’Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,’ declares the Sovereign Lord” (NIV).

         Sin results in condemnation, guilt, and shame. When Adam sinned, he was ashamed. We learn in Genesis 3:10, he hid from the Lord because he was naked and afraid. Jesus came to liberate us from the yoke and bondage of sin. He gives an invitation in Matthew 11:29-30 for those who are weary, to “take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”  

What is the remedy for our sins?  The blood of Jesus.  Revelation 1:5 reads, “and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.”  The Apostle Paul writes in Colossians 1:14, “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”

The precious blood of Jesus has the power to transform the sinner into a saint. Hebrews 9:14 gives us a glimpse of that power, “how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

How do we experience this cleansing?  How do we enter into this promised freedom?  The answer is found in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  There is cleansing power available through the blood of Jesus for those who are willing to confess and forsake their sins.

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