Christ Made Sin For Us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 In order to save me, the Lord Jesus Christ was made to be sin for me. The Son of God voluntarily took upon himself that horrible, ugly, vile, ignominious thing which he most hates — sin. O my soul, be forever astonished! The God-man became sin […]
The Robe! From Spurgeon’s, “The Treasure of Grace” God’s children are wrapped around with a robe, a seamless robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of it, were it once lost. For texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms on earth […]
God Sees No Sin In His People “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.” Numbers 23:21 These words do not suggest that there was no sin or perverseness in Israel. There was an abundance of perverseness among them; but the Lord God did not mark the sins of […]
You might as soon yoke a gnat with an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ save you. To join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of a king or a queen cannot be permitted. Christ will be everything, or else he will be nothing. You must […]
“You are absolutely beautiful, My beloved! There is no spot in you!” Song of Solomon 4:7Having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty—our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative, “There is no spot in you!” As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that He had only mentioned her […]
“Every religion except one puts you upon doing something in order to recommend yourself to God… It is the business of all false religion to patch up a righteousness in which the sinner is to stand before God. But it is the business of the glorious gospel to bring near to us, by the hand […]
You will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if you had trusted to your sins. There is a ‘clean’ path to hell as well as a ‘dirty’ one. There is as sure a road to perdition along the ‘highway of morality’, as sure as down the slough of vice. […]