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The sermon presents Jesus as God’s chosen, spotless, and complete substitute whose blood alone saves sinners. His resurrection is God’s confirming seal that the ransom was accepted and sin forgiven. Salvation does not rest on works, sacraments, feelings, spiritual experiences, or the strength of one’s faith, but on Christ’s finished work. Spurgeon therefore calls both doubters and unbelievers to trust Jesus Christ alone, assuring them that His blood is sufficient for every sin.
Theological center: Christ’s sacrificial blood is the divinely appointed, sufficient, and accepted atonement by which sinners are forgiven and saved through faith.
Applications: Trust Christ’s blood alone · Keep your eyes on the cross · Trust Jesus now · Consider Christ’s finished work
Primary texts: Exodus 12:13 · Hebrews 10:7 · Acts 16:31
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Exodus 12:13 GOD’S people are always safe. “All the saints are in His hands,” and the hand of God is a place of safety, as well as a place of honor. Nothing can hurt the man who has made his refuge God. “Thou hast given commandment to save me,” said David and every believing child of God may say the same. Plague, famine, war, tempest—all these have received commandment of God to save His people. Though the earth should rock beneath the feet of man, yet the Christian may stand fast, and though the heavens should be rolled up and the firmament should pass away like a scroll that is burned by fervent heat, yet need not a Christian fear, God’s people shall be saved, if they cannot be saved under the heavens, they shall be saved in the heavens, if there is no safety for them in the time of trouble upon this solid earth, they shall be “caught up together with the Lord in the air, and so shall they be ever with the Lord,” and ever safe. Now, at the time of which this book of Exodus speaks, Egypt was exposed to a terrible peril. JEHOVAH Himself was about to march through the streets of all the cities of Egypt. It was not merely a destroying angel, but JEHOVAH Himself, for thus it is written, “I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.” No one less than I AM, the great God, had vowed to “cut Rahab” with the sword of vengeance. Tremble, ye inhabitants of the earth, for God has come down among you, provoked, incensed, and at last awakened from His seeming sleep of patience. He has girded on His terrible sword, and He has come to smite you. Quake for fear, all ye that have sin within you, for when God walks through the streets, sword in hand, will He not smite you all? But hark! The voice of covenant mercy speaks. God’s children are safe, even though an angry God is in the streets. As they are safe from the rod of the wicked, so are they safe from the sword of justice— always and ever safe, for there was not a hair of the head of an Israelite that was so much as touched, JEHOVAH kept them safe beneath His wings. While He did rend His enemies like a lion, yet did He protect His children, every one of them. But beloved, while this is always true, that God’s people are safe, there is another fact that is equally true, namely, that God’s people are only safe through the blood. The reason why God spares His people in the time of calamity is because He sees the blood-mark on their brow. What is the basis of that great truth, that all things work…