Skip to main content

Spurgeon

Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost.
 
Seven wonders
 
There were seven wonders which made the death of Christ exceedingly remarkable.
I. Over His head was written an inscription in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." That there should be a distinct recognition of His kingship over the Jewish people has ever been regarded as one of the most remarkable splendors of the Savior's death. Typical of His sovereignty over the entire Church, which is but the prelude to His sovereignty over all worlds. Is He King in your heart?
II. The conversion of the thief (Luk 23:1-56.). See here the majesty of Christ as a Savior, even in His misery as an atonement. What the thief saw about Christ let us all endeavor to see-His almighty power to save. God hath laid help upon One that is mighty. Trust Him only and fully.
III. The total darkness at noon-day made a fitting cavern into which Christ might retire. A picture of Christ's tremendous power. Your darkness is never so black as His.
IV. The rending of the veil. An eminent type of the departure of God from the symbolical dispensation. It was all over now. Now there was no veil between man and God. The dying Savior rends away forever every impediment which shuts us out from the Most High.
V. The earthquake. Here we see Christ's lordship over the world. The Lord of Providence.
VI. The resurrection of certain of the saints. How I should like to know something about them! They were representative men; they arose as specimens of the way in which all the saints shall in their due time arise.
VII. The confession of the centurion. A picture of Christ's convincing power. I hope we have felt this convincing power-it lies in the doctrine of the cross. The unrecorded wonder connected with the cross of Christ is that when we hear of it our hearts do not break, and that our dead souls do not rise. (C. H. Spurgeon.)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

God's Way of Peace, 1

GOD'S WAY OF PEACE. CHAPTER I GOD's TESTIMONY CONCERNING MAN                                                  Gen. 6:5-12.             Eccl. 7:29                Rom. 3:9-1                                                 Job 15: 14-16.         Isa. 53:6                   Eph. 2:1-4                                                Psa.14:1-3                John 15:18-24.      Titus...
Post a Comment
Read more

Spurgeon on 1 John 5: 1-13

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and t...
Post a Comment
Read more

Faith, and the witness upon which it is founded

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son . 1Jn 5:9 -10   Faith, and the witness upon which it is founded Faith stands, under the covenant of grace, in a leading position amongst the works of the regenerate man and the gifts of the Spirit of God. The promise no longer stands to the man who doeth these things that he shall live in them, else we were shut out of it, but " the just shall live by faith ." God now biddeth us live by believing in Him. I. First, then, since our great business is that we believe God, let us see what reason we have for believing Him. I. The external evidence given is stated in the first verse of the text, as the evidence of God to us, and it is prefaced by t...
Post a Comment
Read more