 The cross is a one time, visual representation of God's grief over sin.
- Dean H. Harvey Author: Assorted Authors |
Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God.
- Donald Bloesch Author: Assorted Authors |
| Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. Author: George Whitefield |
| The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents. Author: George Whitefield |
| Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. Author: George Whitefield |
He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with his obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.
- Henry Smith Author: Assorted Authors |
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| Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. Author: John Stott |
| Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous. Author: Martin Luther |
| For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven. Author: Martin Luther |
| We all carry about in our pockets His very nails. Author: Martin Luther |
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.
- John W. Wenham Author: Assorted Authors |
Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.
- Paris Reidhead Author: Assorted Authors |
