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| How astonishing it is! | |
Jonathan Edwards, "The Wisdom Of God, Displayed In The Way Of Salvation"
How astonishing it is, that One who is blessed forever, and is infinitely and essentially happy, should endure the greatest sufferings that ever were endured on earth!
How astonishing it is, that One who is the supreme Lord and judge of the world, should be arraigned, and should stand at the judgment-seat of mortal worms, and then be condemned!
How astonishing it is, that One who is the living God, and the fountain of life, should be put to death!
How astonishing it is, that One who created the world, and gives life to all his creatures, should be put to death by his own creatures!
How astonishing it is, that One of infinite majesty and glory, and so the object of love, praises, and adorations of angels, should be mocked and spit upon by the vilest of men!
How astonishing it is, that One, infinitely good, and who is love itself, should suffer the greatest cruelty.
How astonishing it is, that One who is infinitely beloved of the Father, should be put to inexpressible anguish under his own Father's wrath!
How astonishing it is, that he who is King of heaven, who has heaven for his throne, and the earth for his footstool, should be buried in the prison of the grave! How astonishing it is!
How wonderful this is! And yet this is the way that God's wisdom has fixed upon, as the way of sinner's salvation!
_________________ CHRISTIAN
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| 2008/5/16 13:33 | Profile | InTheLight Member
Joined: 2003/7/31 Posts: 2850 Phoenix, Arizona USA
| Re: How astonishing it is! | | Pondering these things just makes me break out in praise. Kinda like Paul in Romans...
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. (Rom 11:33-36)
In Christ,
Ron _________________ Ron Halverson
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| 2008/5/16 13:44 | Profile | hmmhmm Member
Joined: 2006/1/31 Posts: 4994 Sweden
| Re: How astonishing it is! | | From Spurgeon's sermon, THE WAY OF SALVATION
Remember, he who died upon the cross, was no less than the everlasting Son of God!
Do you see him there?
Come, turn your eye once more to him.
See his hands and feet trickling with streamlets of gore?
That man is Almighty God!
Those hands that are nailed to the tree, are hands that could shake the world!
Those feet that are there pierced have in them, if he willed to put it forth, a potency of strength that might make the mountains melt beneath their tread!
That head, now bowed in anguish and in weakness, has in it the wisdom of the Godhead, and with its nod it could make the universe tremble!
He who hangs upon the cross yonder, is he without whom was not anything made that was made: by him all things consist - Maker, Creator, Preserver, God of providence, and God of grace- he who died for you is God over all, blessed for ever! _________________ CHRISTIAN
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