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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 52.

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Christ Crucified

THE cross of Christ is the glory of the gospel. There can be no gospel without Calvary. “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
On the cross the divine sacrifice was made for sin. “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.” “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
The only possible deliverance from sin is by the way of the cross. “The wages of sin is death.” The Son of man, “the last Adam,” paid the penalty in behalf of humanity. “We thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died.” In Jesus, the divine sacrifice, the redemption price was paid. “Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” Jesus in his humanity passed through the grave, and thus opened the doors of the prison house. Over the rent sepulcher of Joseph he proclaimed, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” He thus made a way of escape for all who are willing to accept the death of the cross. “Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him.”
“The offense of the cross” is found in the fact that “not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us.” “For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, thatno man should glory.” “Far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
“Where'er I go, I'll tell the story Of the cross, of the cross; In nothing else my soul shall glory, Save the cross, save the cross. And this my song shall ever be, In time and through eternity, That Jesus shed his blood for me, On the cross, on the cross.”