The Wonders/Marvels Of The Cross Of Christ.

The Wonders/Marvels Of The Cross Of Christ. 

On the cross, the One who on the mount was once transfigured above the brightness of the sun, lay with that glory eclipsed in utter darkness, his visage so marred more than any man and his form utterly beyond that of the sons of men; yet the pressure of that whole agony upon His soul could get nothing contrary from Him in response, but perfect submission & alignment to the divine will. The more the pressure, the more manifest the perfection - the absolute perfection that was His: absolute goodness -"the Son of Man glorified, and God glorified in Him."

His unfaltering & unwavering obedience was absolute even unto death. 
This was the victory, that the Holy One should go into death, the spotless Lamb delivered into the hands of death...this was the undoing of death as the sting of sin with which it holds it's captive ones, was no where to be found, the Lamb had borne and taken away in the offering of himself, the sins of the whole world; thus there lay death utterly shocked, rendered useless and not knowing what to do with Him, and just like the unclean spirit/demons in Capernaum, death itself could be pictured saying in utter bewilderment, "what have i to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy me before my time? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God".

 Yes indeed, the last enemy to be destroyed is death, but the Holy one through death, rendered inoperative, him that had the power of death, that is the devil. Thus he has delivered us, who through fear of death, were subject to bondage. Now we can gladly say like the apostle that we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear death, but the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry "Abba Father". Mark 1:21-24; 1 Corinthians 15:26; Hebrews 2:14-15; Romans 8:15.

Friends, such was the cross! And thus, and only thus, could flow out, as now we know them, those "rivers of waters in a dry place "-yea, from the Rock itself, now smitten, the streams of abounding grace. There had been no compromise; nothing had been given up; He had borne all. Righteousness had been displayed, not merely conciliated. I look at the cross to see in its fullness what the righteousness of God is. Righteousness, holiness, love,- all that God is, has been displayed and glorified.

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