“These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the Contrary I am well satisfied it will not be a burden to me at the hour of death, nor be laid to my charge at the day of judgment, that I have thought too highly of the Lord Jesus Christ, expected too much from Him myself, or labored too much in commending and setting Him forth to others, as the Alpha and Omega, the Lord our righteousness, the sufficient atonement for sin, the only Mediator between God and men, the true God and eternal life. On the contrary, alas! My guilt and grief are that my thoughts of Him are so faint, so infrequent, and my commendations of Him so lamentably cold and disproportionate to what they ought to be. --John Newton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christ our Substitute and Head Author: Unknown Tune: O For A Thousand Tongues
1. God’s wisdom formed the vast design To ransom us when lost; And Christ’s own blood and righteousness Provided all the costs.
2. Strict justice with approving look, God’s covenant was sealed; When God incarnate undertook To see the whole fulfilled.
3. Now sin appears deserving death And would its curse impose; But Christ our Substitute and Head Has lived and died and rose.
4. Upon the merits of His blood, Secure and saved by grace; We dare approach the throne of God In Christ who took our place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Robe! God’s children are wrapped around with a robe, a seamless robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of if it, were it once lost. For texture it excels the fine linen of the merchants; for whiteness it is purer than the driven snow; no looms on earth could make it, but Jesus spent His life to make my robe of righteousness. There was a drop of blood in every throw of the shuttle, and every thread was made of His own heart’s agonies. It is a robe that is divine, complete; a better one than Adam wore in the perfection of Eden. Adam had but a human righteousness though a perfect one, but we have a divinely perfect righteousness. Strangely, my soul, are you arrayed, for your Savior’s garment is on you- the royal robe of David is wrapped about His Jonathan. Look at God’s people as they are clothed also in the garments of “sanctification.” Was there ever such a robe as that? It is literally stiff with jewels. Every day He arrays the lowliest of His people as though it were a wedding day. He arrays them as a bride adorns herself with jewels. He will have them dressed in gold of Ophir. What riches of grace then must there be in God who thus clothes His children! --C.H. Spurgeon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the ungodly! “Christ died for the ungodly!” (Romans 5:6)
To redeem poor sinners, Jesus . . . came down from heaven, put on the rags of our mortality, agonized, bled, died.
Jesus is made His people’s . . . substitute, burden-bearer, sin-remover, guilt-sustainer.
Their debt is placed to His account. His riches pay the full amount. Sin is removed from the sinner, and placed on the Sinless! Their curse is rolled on Him, and He endures it, until no more remains! God deals with Jesus as the guilty one! He, as spotless Deity, receives imputed sins, and fully expiates them all. In the vicarious victim, God's justice is satisfied, and wrath expires! Jesus, in His life, in the garden, on the cross . . . suffers their sufferings, dies their death, and so becomes their uttermost salvation! His pains are their pardon! His stripes are their healing! His agony is their recovery! “Christ died for the ungodly!” (Romans 5:6) --Henry Law
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Daily Readings February 9-15 9 - Leviticus 6-7; Matthew 25:1-30 10 - Leviticus 8-10; Matthew 25:31-46 11 - Leviticus 11-12; Matthew 26:1-25 12 - Leviticus 13; Matthew 26:26-50 13 - Leviticus 14; Matthew 26:51-75 14 - Leviticus 15-16; Matthew 27:1-26 15 - Leviticus 17-18; Matthew 27:27-50
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