Tag Archives: Christ

We Are Valuable Because Christ Chose To Love Us

Posted on by under Erwin Lutzer

Believers were purchased at high cost; understandably, we are God’s property.  If the value of an object is determined by the price paid for it, then we are valuable indeed.  We are not purchased with silver and gold but with the costly blood of Christ.  The cross of Christ is an everlasting testimony to how much believers are actually worth to God!  Of course, we are not valuable in and of ourselves; we are valuable because he chose to love us. in choosing to die for us, our Lord affirmed that we are infinitely precious to him.

Erwin Lutzer, Pastor to Pastor (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998), 120.

Exchanging a Diadem for a Cross

Posted on by under Octavius Winslow

‎Eternal love moved the heart of Jesus to relinquish heaven for earth—a diadem for a cross—the robe of divine majesty for the garment of our nature; by taking upon Himself the leprosy of our sin. Oh, the infinite love of Christ! What a boundless, fathomless ocean! Ask the ransomed of the Lord, whose chains He has dissolved, whose dungeon He has opened, whose liberty He has conferred, if there ever was love like His!

Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

A Total Saviour

Posted on by under Richard D. Phillips

Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, became like us to be a total Savior, sufficient for the whole range of our need. How hollow, then, ring the world’s complaints against our God. People are saying all the time today, lamenting in this world of woe, ‘Where is God? Why doesn’t he do something?’ Meanwhile, he has done everything, indeed, more than ever we could ask or imagine. God has entered into our world. He has walked through the dust of this earth. He who is life has wept before the grave, and he who is the Bread of Life has felt the aching of hunger in his belly.

Is there anything more lovely in all of Scripture than the scenes of Jesus supping with the weak and the weary, the sinners and the publicans? He has taken the thorns that afflict this sin-scarred world and woven them into a crown to be pressed upon his head. And he has stretched open his arms in love, that the hands that wove creation might be nailed to a wooden cross. Then he rose from the dead, conquering all that would conquer us, setting us free to live in peace and joy before the face of God.

Richard D. Phillips, Hebrews: Reformed Expository Commentary (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2006), 82.

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Lord Jesus, You Are My Righteousness, I Am Your Sin

Posted on by under J. I. Packer, Martin Luther

Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not.’

Martin Luther, quoted by J. I. Packer in Growing in Christ

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You Can Never Think Too Highly of Christ

Posted on by under J. C. Ryle

We can never make too much of Christ. Our thoughts about the Church, the ministry, and the sacraments, may easily become too high and extravagant. We can never have too high thoughts about Christ, can never love Him too much, trust Him too implicitly, lay too much weight upon Him, and speak too highly in His praise. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him. He will be all in heaven. Let us see to it, that He is all in our hearts on earth.

J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

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