POWER IN THE BLOOD
“There is Power in the Blood” is one of our best-loved songs, Robert Cummings, missionary-educator, brought a powerful illustration of this truth many years ago. The antitoxin serum used in India for cobra snakebite, he said, vividly pictures how the blood of Jesus Christ can deliver even the vilest sinner from the venom of sin. A cobra’s bite is one of the most venomous known, but scientists developed a procedure to nullify the poison’s power. First, they milk the venom from the snake and then inject some of it into the bloodstream of one of the huge Belgian stallions kept for that purpose. The horse becomes deathly sick, but it survives because its blood is stronger than the cobra’s poison. The horse’s blood becomes the basis for an antitoxin serum, which is injected into the bloodstream of a cobra-bite victim. This blood which has conquered the power of the venom preserves the person’s life. At Calvary Jesus met “that old…
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