Boldness | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

Boldness.

THAT which gives the believer boldness in coming to God, is the blood. "Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." The believer enters by faith where Jesus is, worships in the courts of Heaven, feels at home even in the presence of God, because he who was wounded for our transgressions is there for him. This makes him bold, not because he is anything, but because the great High Priest is everything, his righteousness being the righteousness of God. Many a child of God is in bondage from seeking to superadd, though he is not aware of it, something to the finished work of Jesus, just as if this were not enough; and yet God, by raising up Jesus and setting him at his right hand, has shown himself fully satisfied with the work of Jesus, and for the sake of Jesus and the life he laid down on the cross, he now passes over every poor sinner who trusts only in him. Millions have been sheltered under that blood. God has set him forth to be a propitiation, or covering, through faith in his blood. All who are quickened by the Father and draw to Jesus as lost sinners, and made to trust only in the blood of Christ, are safe. God has given his word that they are safe, for "when I see the blood," he says, "I will pass over you." "He that believeth on him is not condemned." Condemnation fell on Jesus; the judgment came down upon the Lamb—the Lamb was slain, and all who trust in that are free.—Sel.