Tag Archives: Cross
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.
The Portrait of Calvary
Calvary is a portrait of Christ autographed in His own blood and presented as His choicest gift to man — a picture of redemption.
The Cost of Calvary
It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
The Place of the Cross in Our Lives
Without the Cross in our Gospel, without the Cross at the heart of our preaching, without the Cross centrally enthroned in our lives, there is no hope.
Edward Jeffries Rees, Christ Speaks from Calvary, p. 12
Take up Your Cross
We often read in the Gospels that Jesus asked His disciples to carry their cross and follow Him (Matt. 16.24). The Cross is not the difficulties we meet on the road of our discipleship. It is not poverty or sickness or antagonism. The Cross is the burden we bear because in Jesus’ name we keep on loving those who do not want us to love them.
D. T. Niles, The Preacher’s Task and the Stone of Stumbling, p. 53
What the Cross Teaches Us
By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s love towards men.
Richard Wurmbrand, If That Were Christ, Would You Give Him Your Blanket?, p. 40
Life Is Worship 