Calvary--God's Crowning Work

[Thompson, Darryl]

Calvary--God's Crowning Work 

     Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10.  

     The love of God was Christ's theme when speaking of His mission and
His work. "Therefore doth my Father love me," He says, "because I lay
down my life, that I might take it again" (John 10:17). My Father loves
you with a love so unbounded that He loves Me the more because I have
given My life to redeem you. He loves you, and He loves Me more because
I love you, and give My life for you. . . . Well did the disciples
understand this love as they saw their Saviour enduring shame, reproach,
doubt, and betrayal, as they saw His agony in the Garden, and His death
on Calvary's cross. This is a love the depth of which no sounding can
ever fathom. As the disciples comprehended it, as their perception took
hold of God's divine compassion, they realized that there is a sense in
which the sufferings of the Son were the sufferings of the Father. . . .


     When our Redeemer consented to take the cup of suffering in order
to save sinners, His capacity for suffering was the only limitation to
His suffering. . . . By dying in our behalf, He gave an equivalent for
our debt. Thus He removed from God all charge of lessening the guilt of
sin. By virtue of My oneness with the Father, He says, My suffering and
death enable Me to pay the penalty of sin. By My death a restraint is
removed from His love. His grace can act with unbounded efficiency.  

     Christ is our Redeemer. He is the Word that became flesh and dwelt
among us. He is the fountain in which we may be washed and cleansed from
all impurity. He is the costly sacrifice that has been given for the
reconciliation of man. The universe of heaven, the worlds unfallen, the
fallen world, and the confederacy of evil cannot say that God could do
more for the salvation of man than He has done. Never can His gift be
surpassed, never can He display a richer depth of love. Calvary
represents His crowning work. It is man's part to respond to His great
love by appropriating the great salvation the blessing of the Lord has
made it possible for man to obtain.  

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