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Rom. 3:1,2 asks, Is there advantage, and answers YES.
Rom. 3:9 asks, Are we better than the Gentiles, and answers NO.
Sin is the great leveller:
"There is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:22-24).
"There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon
Him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:12,13).
Nothing availed Israel that night but the blood of the lamb that had been slain. Nothing will avail you and me,
dear reader, but the precious blood of Christ, shed for the remission of sins, when He died the Just for the unjust that
He might bring us to God.
(4) A wonderful principle.
"And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of
Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; ... there was not a house
where there was not one dead" (Exod. 12:29,30).
"Not a house".õ This was true not only of the Egyptians, but of Israel as well. There was "not a house where
there was not one dead"õeither a man or a lamb, one or the other. Either, dear reader, the Son of God died for you
and your sins, and you, like Israel, go out free, or you perish unsaved, you die in your sins, and never know His
salvation.
Isaiah 53, so well known, yet so unknown, contains all that the passover typifies õ and more:
"Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. BUT HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS. HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES: ... the LORD
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all ... He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter ... by His knowledge shall My
righteous servant justify many; for HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES" (Isa. 53:4-7,11).
It is a principle established in Scripture that whosoever bears sin õ dies: "Lest they bear sin, and die" (Num.
18:22). Therefore we face solemn issues together. Either we flee for refuge to Christ, as the Bearer of our sin, and
are saved, or we reject the gospel of grace, and perish.
May the God of mercy bless these words to not a few and may many behold in the Lord Jesus Christõ
"The Lamb of God, which taketh (beareth) away the sin of the world".