THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB

"The Blood is for atonement and has to do first with our standing before God. We need forgiveness for the sins we have committed; and they are forgiven, not because God overlooks what we have done, but because He sees the Blood. The Blood is therefore not primarily for us but for God... It is God's holiness, God's righteousness, which demands that a sinless life should be given for man. There is life in the Blood, and that Blood has to be poured out for me, for my sins. God is the One who requires it to be so. God is the One who demands that the Blood be presented, in order to satisfy His own righteousness, and it is He who says: 'When I see the blood, I will pass over you' (Exodus 12:23). The Blood of Christ wholly satisfies God.... The Blood is first for God to see. We then have to accept God's valuation of it. In doing so we shall find our salvation... We have to believe that the Blood is precious to God because He says it is so (1 Peter 1:18-19). If God can accept the Blood as payment for our sins and as the price of our redemption, then we can rest assured that the debt has been paid.

-Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life