Tag Archives: Cross
What Was a Crucifixion?
The Measure of Christ’s Torment
Biblically faithful Christianity does not present itself as a nice religious structure that makes happier parents and well-ordered children and good taxpaying citizens. It may produce better parents and taxpaying citizens, but the issues at stake in biblical Christianity have to do with eternity: heaven and hell, matters of the utmost significance, your relationship to your Maker, what God has provided in Christ, what the cross is about, the resurrection.
At the end of the day, what hell measures is how much Christ paid for those who escape hell. The measure of his torment (in ways I do not pretend to begin to understand) as the God-man is the measure of torment that we deserve and he bore. And if you see that and believe it, you will find it difficult to contemplate the cross for very long without tears.
The Triumph of Divine Love
Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice. The Cross was an act simultaneously of punishment and amnesty, severity and grace, justice and mercy.
We Are All Involved at Calvary
We need to understand that there is a real sense in which our sins nailed Christ to the horrible cross: we dare not stand at Calvary as spectators. We are all involved.
There Is No Rival for the Cross
The cross possesses no rivals. It reckons with no parallels. It acknowledges no equals. It is supreme.
The Essence of the Cross
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God
We Are Valuable Because Christ Chose To Love Us
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.
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