{"id":7249,"date":"2026-09-09T02:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:47:49","slug":"the-flaming-sword-of-justice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7249","title":{"rendered":"The flaming sword of justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The flaming sword of justice quenched in the holy, loving bosom of Jesus!

<\/strong>(Octavius Winslow)

\u201cWho His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree!\u201d 1 Peter 2:24

The most significant and appalling demonstration of God\u2019s holiness that the universe ever beheld, infinitely distancing and transcending every other \u2014 is the sufferings and death of His only and beloved Son! The cross of Calvary exhibits God\u2019s hatred and punishment of sin in a way and to an extent which the annihilation of millions of worlds, swept from the face of the universe by the broom of His wrath, could never have done!

Behold the most solemn display of God\u2019s hatred of sin!<\/em> Finding the sins of the Church upon Christ as its Surety, Substitute, and Saviour \u2014 the wrath of God was poured out upon Him without measure! <\/em>Finding the sins of His people laid upon His Son \u2014 God emptied all the vials of His wrath due to their <\/em>transgressions, upon His <\/em>holy soul! Go, my soul, to Calvary, and learn how holy God <\/em>is, and what a monstrous thing sin <\/em>is, and how imperiously, solemnly, and holily bound, Jehovah is to punish it, either in the person of the sinner, or in the person of a Surety. Never was the Son of God dearer to the Father \u2014 than at the very moment that the sword of divine justice, flaming and flashing, pierced His holy heart to its hilt!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was the wrath of God, not against His beloved Son \u2014 but against the sins <\/em>which met on Him when presenting Himself on the cross as the substitutionary sacrifice and offering for His Church. He gave Himself for us!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a new conception must angels have formed of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, when they beheld the flaming sword of justice quenched in the holy, loving bosom of Jesus! <\/strong>And in what a dazzling light does this fact place the marvellous love of God to sinners! Man\u2019s sin \u2014 and God\u2019s love; the indescribable enormity of the one \u2014 and the immeasurable greatness of the other; are exhibited in the cross of Christ <\/em>as nowhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, to learn experimentally these two great facts: sin\u2019s infinite hatefulness \u2014 and a loving God\u2019s infinite holiness! The love of God in giving His Son to die; the love of Christ in dying \u2014 and the essential turpitude and unmitigated enormity of sin, which demanded a Sacrifice <\/em>so Divine, so holy, and so precious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flaming sword of justice quenched in the holy, loving bosom of Jesus! (Octavius Winslow) \u201cWho His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree!\u201d 1 Peter 2:24 The most significant and appalling demonstration of God\u2019s holiness that the universe ever beheld, infinitely distancing and transcending every other \u2014 is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-gods-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","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=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}