07. Chapter 2: Our Indebtedness to the Cross

Our Indebtedness to the Cross

Chapter 2

We saw, in the threefold aspect of the cross, that the death of the Lord Jesus redeems us from sin and brings us back to the Father; that it deals with the old Adam nature in each one of us, which is the source of our weakness and trouble, and just as we, by faith on the authority of God’s Word, take up the position of death in and through Christ to every form of self life and maintain that attitude hour by hour, we live the life of continuous deliverance and victory. We saw also that the cross is the great weapon which the Lord puts into our hands to defeat the devil and to resist the pressure of the forces of evil, and to scatter the powers of darkness, to deliver souls and to keep our own feet from falling.

“Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Revelation 1:5)—this tells us of our indebtedness to the cross, what we owe to the death of the Son of God. I am going to turn to a number of familiar passages which will show us that the roots of all our blessings through time and eternity are in the cross, in that atoning sacrifice of the Son of God on Calvary, the fullness and the wonderfulness of which grow the greater and the clearer as we stand in spirit before the cross and seek the enlightening grace of the Holy Spirit to understand its meaning and to enter into its experience.