Tag Archives: Christ
The Dear Cost of God’s Love
God loves His saints as the purchase of His Son’s blood. They cost Him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend His Son’s blood to gain them, will not deny His power to keep them.
Jesus Presents Himself before God in Your Behalf
Jesus presents Himself before God in your behalf, and God sees you only in Him. Jesus wraps around you, in exchange for the leprous garment of your sins, the white robe of His divine, unsullied righteousness, which presents you to God without spot or wrinkle; and God, thus beholding you only in the Son of His love, sees in you no perverseness, and traces in you no sin…. Oh what a mercy that, when we go to God in prayer, in confession, in supplication, these poor trembling, unclean hands can repose upon the Head of a sinless Victim, and lift up a holy sacrifice, and present a sin-offering in which the holy, searching eye of God can see no sin.
More Love to Thee, O Christ
The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love Him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to Him; the more he hates sin, the more he desires to hate it, and laments that he has so much remaining love to it; the more he mourns for sin, the more he longs to mourn for sin; the more his heart is broke, the more he desires it should be broke: the more he thirsts and longs after God and holiness, the more he longs to long, and breathe out his very soul in longings after God.
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
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