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The theology of the cross is not a cerebral thing; it profoundly affects our Christian experience and existence, making demands upon our whole lives and turning theology into something which controls not just our thoughts, but the very way in which we experience the world around and taste the blessing and fellowship of God himself.
The cross is the object of faith, the theme of worship, the means of bringing men to God, the basis of living the saved life, the burden of apostolic preaching, and the reality signified by the sacraments.
In the Cross - we will not only find our forgiveness - but there we will find our reason for living - the explanation for our own sufferings - the cure for all your anxieties - and the reason and purpose for our livesBacktothebible.ca
There are hundreds of places of worship, in this day, in which there is everything almost except the cross. There is carved oak, and sculptured stone; there is stained glass, and brilliant painting; there are solemn services, and a constant round of ordinances; but the real cross of Christ is not there. Jesus crucified is not proclaimed in the pulpit. The Lamb of God is not lifted up, and salvation by faith in Him is not freely proclaimed.Old Paths, Ch IX
The greatest punishment inflicted upon Christ, when he stood as a sacrifice for sin, was not the act of men, but the act of God
The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;
Jesus was humiliated, brutalized, and killed not because of the nobility of the human heart, but because of its cruelty and wickedness.This Book Changed Everything, 21
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book. It is like the Egyptian hieroglyphics without the key that interprets their meaning, -curious and wonderful, but of no real use.Old Paths, Ch IX
the cross of Christ, -the death of Christ on the cross to make atonement for sinners, -is the centre truth in the whole Bible.Old Paths, Ch IX
Is Jesus Christ ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead? Great then is the security believers have, that they shall not be condemned on that day.
He died to save them, and he will never cross and over throw the designs and ends of his own death.
So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself-that He created the tree upon which He was to die; and nurtured from infancy, the wicked men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood!
Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross—than we do to the throne of grace.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.
On first blush this may seem rather narrow and limited. After all, Paul spent eighteen months in Corinth and would have engaged in pastoral work alongside evangelism. However, as 1 Corinthians 1:10-4:17 itself demonstrates, for Paul even the most practical ills, such as divisions and problems of leadership in the church, are remedied by focusing on the cross. For Paul, Christ crucified is more than just the means of forgiveness and salvation, but informs his total vision of the Christian life and ministry.Pillar Commentary
The cross is nonsense to some because it represents such a repugnant worldview. It is an assault on the values of power, glory, honor and success, so dear to Corinthian and many other societies.Pillar (Ch1)
In regard of that which was taken from Christ, it was a sad hour; which I desire to be considered thus. 1. The most spiritual life that ever was, the life of him, who saw and enjoyed God in a personal union, was vailed and covered. (1.) Posession in many degrees was lessened: but in jure, in right, and in the foundation, not removed. 2. The sense and actual fruition of God, in vision, was over-clouded, but life in the fountain stood safe in the blessed union. #. The most direful effects, in breaking, bruising, and grinding the Son of God, between the millstones of divine wrath, were here; yet the infinite love and heart of God, remained the same to Christ, without any shadow of variation or change. God's hand was against Christ, his heart was for him. 4. Hence his saddest sufferings were by divine dispensation and economy. God could not hate the Son of his love; in a free dispensation, he pursued in wrath the surety, and loved the Son of God. 5. It cannot be determined, what that wall of separation, that covering and vail was, that went between the two united natures, the union personal still remaining entire, how the Godhead suspended its divine and soul rejoicing influence, and the man Christ suffered to the bottom of the highest and deepest pain, to the full satisfaction of divine justice.Christ Dying, and Drawing Sinners to Himself, 154-155
I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the one Nietzsche ridiculed as 'God on the Cross.' In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples and stood respectfully before the statue of Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote look on his face, detached from the agonies of the world. But each time after a while I have had to turn away. And in imagination I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in God-forsaken darkness. That is the God for me! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us.
The reason why many people give the wrong answers to questions about the cross, and even ask the wrong questions, is that they have carefully considered neither the seriousness of sin nor the majesty of God.The Cross of Christ (89)
On this interpretation of the work of Christ the whole Church rests. If you move faith from that centre, you have driven the nail into the Church's coffin. The Church is then doomed to death, and it is only a matter of time when she shall expire.Work of Christ (53)
Christ is to us just what his cross is. All that Christ was in heaven or on earth was put into what he did there... Christ, I repeat, is to us just waht his cross is. You do not understand Christ till you understand his crossCruciality of the Cross (44-45)
At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out, when we put on our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at table, when we light the lamps, on couch, on seat, in all the ordinary actions of daily life, we trace upon the forehead the sign [the cross].Cross of Christ (John Stott) P21
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