From Pastor and People:
“Let us stand beneath the cross of Calvary, and behold our Lord Jesus hanging there, and remember that His bleeding body was in alliance with the unsuffering Deity. Those wounds of His, that streaming, spear-rent side, was taken into union with the nature of the living and eternal God. The infinite merit of the Godhead was imparted to the sufferings of the manhood. Neither your sins nor mine can ever exceed the merit of the precious blood of Christ. If our sins be high as mountains, the ocean of His atonement, like Noah’s flood, covers the utmost summits of the mountains. It prevails twenty cubits upwards, till all the highest mountains are covered. Though our sins be never so crimson, the blood of Jesus Christ is more crimson, and the one washes out the other. Though our iniquities be never so dark and bitter, His death hath taken away the blackness and bitterness of our sins; and therefore it is that “He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.”” – Charles H. Spurgeon
“O wondrous, glorious cross! Blessed interpreter of God to us! Scene of the great self-manifestation, the great revelation of the mind and heart of God! O cross of Christ, tell us more and more of this grace of God! Preach reconciliation to the alien, pardon to the guilty, assurance of God’s free yet holy love to the dark and foolish soul! Speak to our hearts; speak to our consciences; pour in light; break our bonds; heal our wounds-all by means of your interpretation of the divine character, your revelation of the righteous love of God!” – Horatius Bonar
“Any gospel that talks merely of the Christ-event, meaning the Incarnation without the atonement, is a false gospel. Any gospel that talks about the love of God without pointing out that his love led him to pay the ultimate price for sin in the person of his Son on the cross is a false gospel. The only true gospel is of the ‘one mediator’ (1 Tim. 2:5-6), who gave himself for us. ” – James Montgomery Boice
4 Comments
March 22, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Thank you for these encouraging quotations. The cross of Christ is the only hope for a dying race. Vince R.
March 23, 2008 at 8:54 pm
do you mean meditations?
March 23, 2008 at 10:01 pm
HAHAHAHA. umm…..yes…!
As James Montgomery Boice said above, there is but One mediator! that Man Jesus Christ! (1 Tim. 2:5-6)
But I’ll leave the typo to humble myself…
Although, the case could be made that the quotes do explain “calvary mediations”…but I’ll be man enough to admit that was not my original intent….
“Oh, the Sweet Exchange!”
March 24, 2008 at 11:43 am
i had to wonder… if mayhaps you had done it on purpose… but somehow it just wasn’t right lol