. . . the blood of sprinkling, that
speaks better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 12:24
Has the
cross of Christ ever spoken to you? Have you heard its message? The cross of
Christ preaches. The cross of Christ speaks. The blood of the cross speaks. It
has something to say. Have you heard it? The writer to the Hebrews thanks God
that this blood speaks something better than the blood of Abel spoke. You
remember the story of Cain and Abel, the first two sons of Adam and Eve, and
the story of how Cain slew his brother Abel and shed his blood.
He murdered him. And the blood of Abel, spilled there upon the ground, spoke as it cried out for vengeance, punishment, and retribution. The blood of Abel spoke. And God tells us through the writer to the Hebrews that is not the blood that you and I have come to. We have come to a blood of sprinkling that “speaks better things than that of Abel.” This is why all these men in the New Testament rejoice in it. This is why the saints of the ages rejoiced in it. The blood speaks, and it speaks the best things that the world has ever heard.
Let me
call your attention to some of the things that the cross of Christ, the blood
of the cross, speaks and says to men and women today. In other words, let us
listen to the cross speaking in the form of exposition. There is nothing that
so expounds the truth of God to us as the cross of Christ. The Bible expounds
the same truth. The cross of Christ lays it open before us and makes it speak
to us.
Have you
ever regarded it as a sermon and sat and listened to it, and have you heard
what it has to say to you? What an exposition of truth there is in that cross
on Calvary’s hill!
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