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Devotional: October 11th

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"Who was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification." - Romans 4:25.

That we might not fall into the hands of the living God, Christ was delivered into the hands of sinful men. He stood before an earthly tribunal where Injustice sat in state, in order that we might escape the dread tribunal where infinite Justice sits. He was delivered up by sinful men to sinful men. Yet he was delivered up by a righteous God, with his own glad consent, to all the sufferings that man could inflict. He that was delivered up, was the only sinless being that ever walked this earth; was divine as well as human; his sinlessness as a man made him a meet sacrifice for the sins of men; his divine nature gave infinite value to his sufferings, so that it became right in view of them to offer all men deliverance from all the woe that they are obnoxious to, by sin.

How amazing that there should be found in all the wide world a single being reluctant to avail himself of the expiation thus made for sin. The utmost eloquence of men, the most terrible warnings in providence, the profoundest experience of the misery springing out of their league with sin, all fail to obtain for this wondrous gospel of the grace of God, entrance into the hearts of men. They say unto God, day by day, hour by hour, " Thou holy God, impute unto us all our offenses. Let it be with us as though Christ had not died. Let there be no Gethsemane or Calvary for us. We know that we are not sinless beings and must forever drink without draining the cup which threw him into an agony of unutterable Buffering; that we are not invested with omnipotence, and cannot rise from the grave victorious; our Calvary conducts us to endless torment. Nevertheless we wish to appear before the tribunal of divine justice with all our sins upon our head. Had we any other wish, we would express it by believing on Christ."

As for thee, semi-believer, convinced of thy sins, sensible of their enormity, longing for deliverance, assured that Christ alone can give it, yet stopping there, spending thy days in lamentation, imploring grace and yet neglecting to appropriate it, why dost thou live as though Christ were still in the tomb? The unbeliever lives as though Christ had not died; thou livest as though he had not risen. Repent of this thy folly, and hasten to bear before the world thine own special testimony to the truth of Christ’s resurrection, by a joyful trust in him that ever liveth to make intercession.

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