Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

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Monday
Apr062009

Cross Quotes: April 6

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They Are the Murders of Christ!

A sight of Christ on the cross will cause us to hate our sins. If you ever, by the eye of faith, see Jesus Christ dying for you, sin will never be sweet to you again. What was it slew our blessed Lord? It was our sin! “It was you, my sins, my cruel sins, his chief tormentors were; each of my crimes became a nail, and unbelief the spear.” When we discover that our iniquities put our dearest and best friend to death, we vow revenge against our iniquities, and henceforth hate them with a perfect hatred.

Let me illustrate this very simply—Here is a knife, with a richly carved ivoryhandle, a knife of excellent workmanship. Yonder woman, we will suppose, has had a dear child murdered by a cruel enemy. This knife is hers, she is pleased with it, and prizes it much. How can I make her throw that knife away? I can do it easily, for that is the knife with which her child was killed. Look at it; there is blood still upon the handle. She drops it as though it were a scorpion; she cannot bear it. “Put it away,” says she, “it killed my child! Oh, hateful thing!”

Now, sin is such a thing—we play with it until we are told it was sin that killed the Lord Jesus, who died out of love to us—pure, self sacrificing love. Then we say, “Hateful thing, get you gone! How can I endure you?”

See there the wounds of the Son of God; behold the crimson stains which mark his blessed body; mark the thorn-crown; gaze upon the pierced hands; weep over the nailed feet; see the deep gash which thelance made in his side! Sin did this cruel work, this bloody deed!

Down with our sins! Drag them to the cross! Slay them at Calvary! Let not one of them escape, for they are the murderers of Christ!

—Charles Sprugeon in his sermon Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

During this week in which Christians commemorate Christ’s death and resurrection, I plan to post daily quotes about Christ’s work on the cross. You are invited to join me. Just post a quote having to do with Christ’s death and/or resurrection and let me know about it in a comment here or by emailing me using the Contact link right below the header. I’ll link back to your post.

I think it’d be a wonderful thing to saturate our corner of the blogosphere and beyond with the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection.

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