What must we believe about Christ's death and blood?
We must believe that Christ died and shed His divine, precious, sinless blood as the required blood payment for men's sin debt. Justification comes through faith in His blood, by which God declares His righteousness for the remission of sins, freely by His grace. Nothing else can be added.
Les explains that we are justified freely by God's grace, not by anything we do, but through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God set forth Christ as a propitiation through faith in His blood. Many do not like to hear this, but we cannot go around it. There must be an abiding faith that when Christ died, He shed His divine, precious, sinless blood, which was the requirement from the Creator Himself—a blood payment for men's sin debt. Through faith in His blood, God declares His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed, through His forbearance. Christ is just and the justifier of the one who believes. Nothing else can be added.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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Why do we place faith in Jesus' blood?
Faith in Christ's blood is for the remission of past sins and, through God's forbearance, to declare His righteousness at this time.