The Conquest of the Cross Tune: Rock of Ages Words: Jim Byrd
1) Christ the mighty Conqueror died, For His own was crucified; Fought our enemies to win, Freedom from the guilt of sin; Jesus came our souls to save, So His life He freely gave.
2) At the cross of Calvary, Christ obtained the victory! Took our sins and bore them all, Then upon Him wrath did fall; O the conquest of that day, Jesus washed our sins away!
3) Come ye children of the King, Join with me this song to sing; Praise the Lamb of Calvary, By His blood we are set free! For the conquest of the cross, Saved us from eternal loss!
***** The Flaming Sword of Justice Quenched in the Holy, Loving Bosom Of Jesus!
The most significant and appalling demonstration of God's holiness that the universe ever beheld, infinitely distancing and transcending every other, is the sufferings and death of His only and beloved Son! The cross of Calvary exhibits God's hatred and punishment of sin in a way and to an extent which the annihilation of millions of worlds, swept from the face of the universe by the broom of His wrath, could never have done! "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree." Behold the most awful display of God's hatred of sin! Finding the sins of the Church upon Christ as its Surety, Substitute, and Savior, the wrath of God was poured out upon Him without measure! God finding the sins of His people laid upon His Son, emptied upon His holy soul all the vials of His wrath due to their transgressions! Go, my soul, to Calvary, and learn how holy God is, and what a monstrous thing sin is, and how imperiously, solemnly, and holily bound Jehovah is to punish it, either in the person of the sinner, or in the person of a Surety. Never was the Son of God dearer to the Father than at the very moment that the sword of divine justice, flaming and flashing, pierced to its hilt His holy heart! But it was the wrath of God, not against His beloved Son, but against the sins which met on Him when presenting Himself on the cross as the substitutionary sacrifice and offering for His Church—He gave Himself for us. What a new conception must angels have formed of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, when they beheld the flaming sword of justice quenched in the holy, loving bosom of Jesus! And in what a dazzling light does this fact place the marvelous love of God to sinners! Man's sin and God's love; the indescribable enormity of the one, and the immeasurable greatness of the other; are exhibited in the cross of Christ as nowhere else. Oh, to learn experimentally these two great facts—sin's infinite hatefulness, and love's infinite holiness! The love of God in giving His Son to die; the love of Christ in dying; the essential turpitude and unmitigated enormity of sin, which demanded a sacrifice so Divine, so holy, and so precious! --Octavius Winslow (1808 - 1878) *****
Saved by Grace Alone through Christ Alone "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8) We believe that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification, and faith is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious, and irresistible GRACE OF GOD! John Anderson wrote of Spurgeon, “He preaches salvation, not of man's free will, but of the Lord's good will, which few in London now do!” I suppose that this could be said of us today, but truth is usually in the minority in this world. As one of the Lord's preachers once said, “Long ago, I ceased to count people. I thank God, what I believe and preach, I SHALL believe and preach, even if I believe it alone!” --Henry Mahan
***** God's chain and God's plan God's ways are unsearchable. God's judgments are past finding out. God's compassions are infinite. God's power is almighty. God's wisdom is unerring. "I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from Thee." Job 42:2 Providences are long chains with many links in them. If one link were missing, the event would fail. But it is God's chain and God's plan. The thing is fixed. The outcome is not doubtful. "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth My counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.” (Isaiah 46:10-11) "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will" Ephesians 1:11 “This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations." Isaiah 14:26 --William S. Plumer *****
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