* MIDWEEK DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT *
SPURGEON: “He hid not his face from shame and spitting; and what shame and spitting it was! To the world the cross must ever be the emblem of shame: to the Jew a stumbling-block, and to the Greek foolishness. How different however is the view which presents itself to the eye of faith. Faith knows no shame in the cross, except the shame of those who nailed the Savior there; it sees no ground for scorn, but it hurls indignant scorn at sin, the enemy which pierced the Lord.” —MTP, Vol 5, 9/4/59, #273
I. TRUTH
A. Col 2:13-14
B. John 18:37
C. John 18:38
D. WHAT IS TRUTH?
1. we were dead in our sins
2. We could not save ourselves
3. we were weak, ungodly, sinners
4. It required nothing less God becoming a Man to save us
II. TRIUMPH
A. John 19:30
HAWKER: “I detain the Reader at the expression in the close of this paragraph, to remark, that when it is said of Christ having spoiled principalities and powers, and made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it; the original is much stronger, for it saith, triumphing over them in himself meaning, that his triumphs were personal. Jesus took the glory to himself. And the margin of the Bible very properly hath so retained it. It is always blessed to eye Christ's Person in all, for his Person, in all the work of redemption, is the glorious object of our faith and hope.”
III. TRUST
A. Rom 8:37
B. Phil 3:10
C. 1 Cor 2:2 |
