Sin stains are indelible.  Only the blood of Jesus Christ can remove them!

Part 4

“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
What color is sin?  Scarlet.  Bright red!  A color that stands out against just about every background: the scarlet dye used in the Middle East was obtained from a small insect that lived in the leaves of the Oak trees in Spain.  The cloth was double-dipped in the dye, and once set, it is said that the scarlet color was impossible to remove.[1]

One of the many problems with our sin is that a person can’t remove it by themselves.  The stain of sin in our hearts is ingrained and unremovable for any cleaning agent, except for God.  But here is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ: “Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.”[2]

David wrote of sin’s cleansing when of his own sins he asked God to,

“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:7).

Imagine being forgiven and that old dark stain removed!

 

“Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
To emphasize the enduring color and the absurdity for any human to try to remove them, Isaiah continued his thought, sins are “red like crimson.”  God is in the business of cleaning up these crimson stains.  When He removes the stain, it is gone, and the color of bright white lamb’s wool is there in its place.  A beautiful picture of sins forgiven!  Sinners, have your sins been forgiven?

 

Note what Jehovah said to Israel,
“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.”

Two words stand out, “willing” and “obedient.”  If Israel is willing and obedient, their land will prosper, and they will do well.

 

“But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword.”

Two more words stand out, “refuse” and “rebel.”  If Israel resisted His grace and refused what God laid out for them, they would die if she rebelled against Him.

 

Why?
Because coming to God may only be done on His terms.
“For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.”

Jehovah has said it, and it is as good as done!  Here is the opportunity to make the right choice!

Sinners, just as Israel had the chance to repent and turn to God, so do you.  Please do not ignore God’s invitation for you to come to Him.  Are your sins red or white?

 

Quote:

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow’r?[3]
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

 

 

 

[1] See Barnes.  Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible, the electronic version in eSword.
[2] From “Jesus Paid it All,” by Elvina M. Hall (1865).  Tune by John T. Grape (1868).  Copyright status: Public Domain.
[3] “Have You Been to Jesus for the Cleansing Power?” By Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929).  Tune by Hoffman.  Copyright status: Public Domain.