The inestimable cost of redemption (2)

Our redemption was effected at a great cost. “Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ... but with the precious blood of Christ.” That redemption is through our Lord’s death, not through His life, or example, or holiness, or mediation, but as Scripture invariably says with unwavering consistency, by “His Blood.” God Himself bore the penalty of human guilt that He might righteously extend His mercy to the guilty.