“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:14
It is the pollution within that turns me in on myself. It is the pollution that makes me feel that I have to do something more. It is the inward contamination that causes a conscience to be uneasy. But how much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse my conscience from all those dead works to serve the living God! This means that there is a contamination in my being whenever I try to work out something religiously before God. But the blood cleanses my conscience from that. Here, it does not say “from sin.” It says “from dead works.” Because of this cleansing, we have instant, constant access to participate in God Himself.
What blood! It has done a work in the heavens to cleanse the heavens, and it has done a work in my heart to give me a true heart, so that I might be a participator in God Himself. The value of the blood is beyond our comprehension. To God it means so much. To the heavens it is the gathering factor of all the multitudes of saints through the ages. That is why, in the book of Revelation, those who are “out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation” are singing, “It’s the blood!”
My grandfather through marriage knew the Lord in a real way. When he was over ninety years old, he became ill and was confined to his bed. At that time, some of the family members wondered if Grandpa was getting a little senile because he kept repeating a phrase — “It’s the blood.” These words just kept coming out of him — “It’s the blood. It’s the blood.” When I heard that some of the relatives were wondering if Grandpa was losing his keenness of mind, I thought to myself, “No, I think Grandpa has one foot in the glory and one foot on the earth, and he sees that it’s the blood. It’s the precious blood of Jesus.” And, no doubt, when we are in the heavens with that multitude in the festal gathering, we are all going to say, “It’s the blood! You have redeemed us to God by Your blood.”