Think Deeply About the Cross
Take a moment and read through some very profound words about the incomparable cross work of Jesus Christ.
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:18
“Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ’s wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.” Matthew Henry (1662–1714)
“There is no tribunal so magnificent, no throne so stately, no show of triumph so distinguished, no chariot so elevated, as is the cross on which Christ hath subdued death and the devil.” John Calvin (1509–1564)
“But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Paul in Galatians 6:14
“The devil doesn't need to get rid of the cross of Christ, he's content simply to make professed Christians bored with it.” Burk Parsons
“Through the blood of Christ on the cross, not only does He pay the penalty we deserve, but He also grants us the righteousness we do not deserve.” Dustin Benge
“For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” Paul in Colossians 1:19–20
“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.” John Stott
“The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.” R.C. Sproul (1939–2017)
“For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.” Paul in Ephesians 2:14–16
“Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy an eternity of making much of God?” John Piper
“The cross alone is our theology.” Martin Luther (1483–1546)
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2
“God treated Jesus on the cross as if He lived your life so He could treat you as if you lived His.” John MacArthur
“Jesus went to the cross willingly. He did not go there helplessly.” Alistair Begg
“The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.” J.I. Packer (1926–2020)
“And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.” Peter in 1 Peter 2:24
As the hymnwriter George Bennard wrote in 1913: “O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, has a wondrous attraction for me; for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above to bear it to dark Calvary. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.”
Pastor Jeff
““I say unequivocally that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.””