{"id":2939,"date":"2014-07-05T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T09:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2014-07-05T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T09:15:25","slug":"proof-and-triumph-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"PROOF AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROOF AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose\u201d\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cHe loved me and gave Himself for me.\u201d\u00a0Galatians 2:20<\/p>\n

Travelers tell us that it is those palm trees whose stems have been broken by the sweep of the tempest which are generally seen to shoot forth the largest and most sheltering branches. The \u201ccorn of wheat\u201d in the divine parable, by falling into the ground and dying, brought forth \u201cmuch fruit.\u201d So is it from the death of Jesus that the new and glorious life of God\u2019s people is derived\u2014\u201dI came that they might have life, and that\u00a0they might have it more abundantly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Reader, are you able fully to accept and appropriate this sublime truth? to view it, not as a beautiful figure, a typical fiction, but as a sober reality. \u201cHe loved me, and gave Himself FORme<\/em>;\u201d that He surrendered His life\u2019s blood, in order to have the right to say, as He beckons under the shelter of the Elim palm-grove, \u201cCome unto Me, and I will give you\u00a0rest<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In obeying the gracious invitation, rejoice, too, that the negotiation is completed, the Substitute has been provided, the ransom\u00a0has<\/em> been paid. It is not a matter which now remains in suspense and unaccomplished. Many on earth have noble and lofty\u00a0intentions<\/em>which have never been fulfilled. Many a high enterprise has been thought of; but the enthusiasm wears past, the opportunity is lost, or the resolve is strangled at the birth. Not so this Great Salvation. What Christ\u00a0undertook<\/em> He has\u00a0performed<\/em>. He does not utter the unavailing soliloquy and lament in His heavenly palace, over an apostate world, which David did on the occasion of the death of his ruined child, \u201cWould God I had died for you.\u201d He\u00a0has<\/em>died; He\u00a0has<\/em> fulfilled His covenant-pledge as our Surety. Our mortgaged inheritance\u00a0has<\/em>been recovered. The prophetic words have become now the utterance of an historic fact\u2014He HAS seen of the travail of His soul, and is satisfied!<\/p>\n

Well do we know that this doctrine is in these modern times disliked by many; by not a few rejected. Many prefer coming with Cain\u2019s bloodless offerings of thanksgiving (the deist sacrifice) rather than, like Abel, bringing the bleating victim from his fold. They are willing to behold Christ the Son; not Christ the \u201cLamb of God.\u201d They build the temple while they disown the altar. But it is not the philosophic divinity which consists in the glorification of mere virtue\u2014it is not eliminating these peculiar doctrines of the cross, and substituting cold negations\u2014that will pacify conscience. The most familiar of lines embody, in simple language, the only Scripture creed\u2014the only accepted and acceptable \u2018Song of the pardoned\u2019\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen from the dust of death I rise
\nTo take my mansion in the skies,
\nThis all my hope, this all my plea,
\nThat Jesus lived and died for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

See how He has \u201cblotted out the handwriting that was against you, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to His cross!\u201d See how God, the injured Creditor, has cancelled your obligations! Never again, in point of law, can your multitude of sins appear\u2014they are obliterated forever. \u201cI will forgive,\u201d says He (what\u00a0man<\/em> often does not), \u201cyour wickedness and will remember your sins no more\u201d (Heb. 3:12). Let the mightiest angel in heaven be delegated to go in quest of these pardoned sins! Let him roam creation! Let him search every corner of the earth, and every cavern of the ocean. He will come back from the mission with the tidings\u2014\u201dSearch will be made for Israel\u2019s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found.\u201d He is faithful who promised\u2014\u201dI have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist\u201d (Isa. 44:22).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John MacDuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROOF AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE \u201cThis is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose\u201d\u2014 \u201cHe loved me and gave Himself for me.\u201d\u00a0Galatians 2:20 Travelers tell us that it is those palm trees whose stems have been broken by the sweep of the tempest which are generally seen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-atonement","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}