It is a subject of rejoicing and glorying that we have such a Savior.The world looked upon Him with contempt,and the cross was a stumbling-block to the Jew and folly to the Greek.But to the Christian,that cross is the subject of glorying.The place where I first saw the light. It is so because; of the love of Him who suffered there; of the purity and holiness of his character,for the innocent died there for the guilty;of the honor there put on the law of God by his dying; of the reconcilliation there made for sin; of the pardon there procured for the guilty; of the fact that through it we become dead to the world and are made alive unto God; of the fact that it purchased us admission into Heaven, a title to the world of glory.All is glory around the cross.It was a glorious Savior who died;it was glorious love that led him to die;it was a glorious object to redeem a world; and it is unspeakable glory to which he will raise lost and ruined sinners to have life by his death.Who would not glory in such a Savior.
If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume,you haven't been studying God's word.Your religion is a one without a foundation of truth,like a lamp without light,you will be left in darkness,and your religion will not deliever your soul from Hell.Don't get hung up on the traditions of man and his religious ritual, and miss the glory on the cross.The glory of the cross is that it was not only to Jesus the path to life,but that each moment it can become to us the power that destroys sin and death, and keep us in the power of the eternal life.Faith in the power of Jesus dying on the cross and His victory over sin and death, will daily kill off the deeds of the body, and the lust of the flesh.
Look at the glory on the cross;Christ crucified,as he accepted for us the wage paid by sin.The world was crucified, as he took on the sins of the world, like a felon executed upon the cross,its character condemned,its judgments condemed,its teachings despised, its treasures,pleasures, joys and toys all rejected by the Savior as is the glory of the cross. The believer crucified, as we by faith accept the death of the Savior and walk in a newness of life."Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,that the body of sin might be destroyed,that henceforth we should not serve sin".(Rom.6:6) Let us glory in the light seen at the cross.
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