In Romans 3:25 Paul says that God has set Christ forth to be the propitiation and that we receive this propitiation through faith in the blood of Christ; i.e. the sacrificial death. “Faith in the blood” implies a number of elements. Faith in the supreme sacrifice for the supreme offence. 1.Faith in the Setting Forth of the Blood This was the plan of God from the beginning of time. God has “set forth” from the beginning of time. This is not a blind faith therefore. The evidence is there of four thousand years of “exhibiting” the blood in the record of Scripture 2.Faith at the sight of his blood The Jews stumbled and the Greeks thought it foolish because it is the sight of failure and defeat. Nowhere in the New Testament are we commanded to look to the miracles of Jesus for our salvation. Indeed there where those in Jerusalem who followed Jesus because of his miracles (John 2:23ff; Acts 8:18). In contrast to this, the thief on the cross came to faith in the Messiah as He hung, apparently defeated, deserted by his friends. It was to the blood that the thief looked believed when he recognized the Lamb of God. 3.Faith in the Spotless Blood He died for no other reason than to substitute the place of the sinner; a spotless lamb. This is what Judas Iscariot believed and testified before he went to Hell – “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.” It was the innocence of the blood of Christ that tormented Judas in his death. Judas’ problem was that he focused on himself and his own sin rather than the Saviour’s sacrifice for sin. 4.Faith in the Sufficiency of the Blood The death of Christ and nothing else. It is faith alone in his blood.
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Aaron Dunlop, who is originally from Northern Ireland, graduated from the Geneva Reformed Seminary, SC. He pastored for ten years in Victoria, British Columbia and is currently preparing to move to Kenya with his family to work with the FAME Reformed Theological College.
