Author Archives: Matt Jury
My Unworthiness Must Actually Be Useful to God
My unworthiness must actually be useful to God, because it magnifies the degree to which His grace might be glorified as He lavishes His saving kindness upon me.
Preaching Is an Invitation to a Celebration
In delivering God’s message, we do not ask men to come to a funeral, but to a wedding feast.
Charles Spurgeon, The Fullness of Joy, p. 59
The Cross Was Done By You
Until you see the cross as that which is done by you, you will never appreciate that it is done for you.
Was God Sovereign in the Cross?
If God was sovereignly in control when the unlawful hands of murderous men put His beloved Son on a cross, why would anyone balk at the notion that God is still sovereignly in control even when lesser evils occur? The Cross therefore establishes God’s absolute sovereignty beyond question.
The Withdrawal and Deprivation of Good
Look at the cross, therefore, and you see what form God’s judicial reaction to human sin will finally take. What form is that? In a word, withdrawal and deprivation of good. On the cross Jesus lost all the good that He had before: all sense of His father’s presence and love, all sense of physical, mental and spiritual well-being, all enjoyment of God and of created things, all ease and solace of friendship, were taken from Him, and in their place was nothing but loneliness, pain, a killing sense of human malice and callousness, and a horror of great spiritual darkness.
Not Wanting To Be Loved
The Cross was … the result of loving those who did not want to be loved.
D. T. Niles, The Preacher’s Task and the Stone of Stumbling, p. 52
The Cross Is Extreme
The cross is the symbol of Christianity, and the cross speaks of death and separation, never of compromise. No one ever compromised with a cross. The cross separated between the dead and the living. The timid and the fearful will cry ‘Extreme!’ and they will be right. The cross is the essence of all that is extreme and final. The message of Christ is a call across a gulf from death to life, from sin to righteousness and from Satan to God.
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Life Is Worship 