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Last Updated on : July 10, 2013

 

 

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The Bedside Watchman

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SUBMITTING TO THE CROSS

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"THOUGH He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered" (Hebrews 5:8). Jesus was of our nature, and the apostle Paul finds no incongruity in describing Him as sent "in the likeness of sinful flesh." As long as that flesh remained un-humiliated, the possibility of sin remained, and the life of temptation continued. It was the seat of potential sin, and to cling to it would have been pride. The proper culmination of a life in which all had been done to the glory of God, was to repudiate that which, from its ancestry, bore the stamp of rebellion against God.This Jesus did in submitting to the Crucifixion.... There was nothing glorious or beautiful about "the wondrous Cross on which my Saviour died," though it was wonderfully calculated to make us "pour contempt on all our pride." What hung there was put to shame.

ALFRED NORRIS, Understanding the Bible, page 76

 

 


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