Grace Quotes

(Spurgeon, "The Great Mystery of Godliness") The condescension of Christ became most extraordinary when, at last, our Lord stooped to be put to death by His own creatures! Arraigned before human tribunals, condemned as guilty of the gravest crimes, He is fastened to the accursed wood, and put to a death of deepest shame, and bitterest torture. What a wondrous sight was the dying Redeemer! Jesus comes to save His people from their sins, by taking the sins of His people upon Himself! This is a mystery surpassing all comprehension! O you whose loving eyes have looked upon the ensanguined rills which gush from the wounds of your bleeding Lord, and have delighted to behold the Lily of the valleys reddened into the Rose of Sharon with the crimson of His own blood; behold in the writhing form of the Crucified Man at once the vengeance and the love of God. Behold divine power sustaining the load of human guilt, and divine compassion enduring such agonies for rebels so ill deserving!