Blood Of The Lamb Our LORD'S Death Substitutionary Sacrifice

By "the blood of the Lamb" we understand our Lord's death as a substitutionary sacrifice.

Let us be very clear here. It is not said that they overcame the arch-enemy by the blood of Jesus, or the blood of Christ, but by the blood of the Lamb; and the words are expressly chosen because, under the figure of a lamb, we have set before us a sacrifice. 

The blood of Jesus Christ, shed because of his courage for the truth, or out of pure philanthropy, or out of self-denial, conveys no special gospel to men, and has no peculiar power about it. Truly it is an example worthy to beget martyrs; but it is not the way of salvation for guilty men. 

If you proclaim the death of the Son of God, but do not show that he died the just for the unjust to bring us to God, you have not preached the blood of the Lamb. 

You must make it known that "the chastisement of our peace was upon him," and that "the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all," or you have not declared the meaning of the blood of the Lamb.

There is no overcoming sin without a substitutionary sacrifice. 

The lamb under the old law was brought by the offender to make atonement for his offense, and in his place it was slain: 

This was the type of Christ taking the sinner's place, bearing the sinner's sin, and suffering in the sinner's stead, and thus vindicating the justice of God, and making it possible for him to be just and the justifier of him that believeth.

I understand this to be the conquering weapon-the death of the Son of God set forth as the propitiation for sin. 

Sin must be punished: it is punished in Christ's death. Here is the hope of men. 

~Charles Spurgeon~