6. The Bible puts essentially the same truth in still another form, viz., that _Jesus Christ died as our Passover sacrifice—that is, that His shed blood might serve as a ground upon which God would pass over and spare us_. We read in 1 Cor. 5:7, +"For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ."+ Now what a passover sacrifice was and signified we learn from Ex. 12:12, 13, where our Lord told the children of Israel at the inauguration of the passover, +"For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the Gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."+ And again we read in the 23rd verse of the same chapter, +"For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you."+ Paul wrote his words with all this in mind, and in saying that Christ is our Passover sacrifice beyond a question he meant that _the shed blood of Jesus Christ serves as a ground, and the only ground, upon which God passes over and spares us_. III. THE RESULTS OF THE ATONING DEATH We have seen then the gracious and glorious purposes of the Atoning Death of Jesus Christ. What are the results of that death? They are even more glorious. I can speak of them this morning only in part. 1. The first result of the atoning death of Jesus Christ is that _a propitiation is provided for the whole world_. We read in 1 John 2:2, +"He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world."+ This plainly means that _by the death of Jesus Christ a basis is provided upon which God can deal in mercy and does deal in mercy with the whole world_. All of God's dealings in mercy with any man are on the ground of Christ's death. Only on the ground of Christ's death could God deal in mercy with any man. God's dealings in mercy with the rankest blasphemer or the most blatant atheist is on the ground of the atoning death of Jesus Christ.