Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

Christ's agony and distress can receive no consistent explication but on
this ground: "He suffered, the just for the unjust, that he might bring, us
to God." O glorious truth! O infinitely meritorious suffering! And O,
above all, the eternal love that caused him to undergo such sufferings for
the sake of sinners!
There are many things in the person, death, and sacrifice of Christ,
which we can neither explain nor comprehend. All we should say here is,
"It is by this means that the world was redeemed; through this sacrifice
men are saved: it has pleased God that it should be so, and not
otherwise."
The death of Christ was ordered so as to be witnessed by thousands;
and if his resurrection take place, it must be demonstrated; and it cannot
take place without being incontestable: such are the precautions used here
to prevent all imposture.
The more the circumstances of the death of Christ are examined, the
more astonishing the whole will appear. The death is uncommon, the
person uncommon, and the object uncommon; and the whole is grand,
majestic, and awful. Nature itself is thrown into unusual action, and by
means and causes wholly supernatural. In every part the finger of God
most evidently appears.
How glorious does Christ appear in his death! Were it not for his thirst,
his exclamation on the cross, and the piercing of his side, we should have
found it difficult to believe that such a person could ever have entered the
empire of death; but the divinity and the manhood equally appear, and
thus the certainty of the atonement is indubitably established.
Fear of death was in Christ a widely different thing from what it is in
men; they fear death because of what lies beyond the grave; they have
sinned, and they are afraid to meet their Judge. Jesus could have no fear
on these grounds: he was now suffering for man, and he felt as their
expiatory victim; and God only can tell, and perhaps neither men nor