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John Gossner's Treasury
Devotional: March 18th

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And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. Mark 15:27. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.

He hung between thieves and transgressors as if He were the chief among them. Thus He would have it. All men are transgressors (Romans 3:12). He had taken upon Himself the transgressions of all men and bore them in His body on the tree. What shame, what disgrace, was then laid upon the most holy Son of God! How could the eyes of the most loving Father endure to see Him in such company, in such a place, hanging between thieves on the cursed tree? The Father did see Him and suffered Him to hang. Why? Because He hated Him? O no! but because He loved you; because He would blot out your transgressions and out of transgressors make righteous and blessed men. Thus only God loves. Thus no man or angel can love. But because He humbled Himself so deeply, not despising the transgressors, He shall receive a multitudinous host of sinners as His portion and peculiar possession; yea, He shall even make ’’the strong," the grossest and most hardened transgressors, His spoil. O soul, consider your Savior on the cross in His disgrace and in His love! How much is not wrought by His love! What glorious and innumerable fruits does not this tree bear! How far does not the power of His sufferings and prayers for sinners reach! Sinners of all centuries and of all peoples on earth may thank His bleeding intercession Upon the cross for salvation and blessedness. The granting of His prayers has no end. The world without end shall declare it.

In the cross of Christ I glory,

Towering o’er the wrecks of time;

All the light of sacred story

Gathers round its head sublime.

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