Men and women are always glorying and boasting about something or someone. Human nature tends to be boastful and full of vanity. Lost men glory in their shame and sinfulness. Some people glory in their intellect, physical strength, money and talents, and they forget to give the God the glory who enabled them have anything. To live only for personal vain glory is to live in emptiness. Men will throw their soul away for a little praise from men and temporal success in worldly vanities. But a Christian will glory only in the Cross. A Christian's motto is "The Cross Alone". I glory in the Cross: I am not ashamed of what Jesus did for me. I preach Christ Crucified!
The very worst part of Christ's life (The Cross) is what we glory in. We do not glory in the incarnation where Jesus was virgin born, or the sinless life which He lived, or His resurrection from the dead, or His ascension into Heaven where He sat down on the right hand of God, or His Second Coming at the rapture. The very center and highest glory of Christianity is the Cross where God manifest in the flesh suffered the wrath of God to pay the full penalty due to human sin. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered especially for you - He was the LORD OF LORDS, He was Jesus the Savior, and He was Christ the anointed one. Christ Jesus was the Godhead and manhood in one Person.
The Lord Jesus was made to be Sin for us, He bore our sins in His own body, He was Propitiation for our sins, Christ died for the ungodly, He appeared to put away Sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and He was the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. A full Atonement and an utmost ransom was paid for human sin with the life and blood of the Lamb of God. At the Cross we see the Just giving His life for the unjust that He might bring us to God, and the Innocent Savior bearing the crimes of guilty sinners, that we might be forgiven freely and accepted in the Beloved.
Whosoever believeth in Jesus is justified from all sin, that whosoever trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ is immediately forgiven, justified, and redeemed forever. God showed His tender mercy to sinners at the Cross. Salvation is not of your doings or ceremonies, but by simply and alone believing in the Crucified and Risen Creator. You need divine Righteousness imputed to your soul by an act of trust in the Righteousness that Jesus has already finished and completed by His sinless life and bloody death on the Cross.
The bloody death of the Son of God upon Calvary's Cross is the crux of Christianity. The Cross is a stigma, stumbling block, and rock of offense. Upon the Cross, Christ worked out the perfect Salvation of sinful men. The Cross is my Gospel and Glory, and nothing else at all. Be wise - set aside vanity and clearly declare the Cross throughout your life. Make Christ's Perfect and Full Blood Atonement for human sin your central message, main ambition and chief point, always bring the Cross to front and center. Glory in God Incarnate's effectual Atoning Blood Sacrifice.
The old, old story of the Cross is still what sinners near to hear about, the grace and mercy of God was shown there to a world of lost sinners. Jesus made a real substitutionary sacrifice for human guilt, that is a plain matter of Fact. Spread the word about the blood-stained Cross and Savior who loved you and gave Himself for you. At the Cross there was a final vindication of Divine Justice. The death God Himself in the Person of His dear Son, Jesus of Nazareth, had to happen in order for Divine Justice to be assuaged and satisfied. God exacted the penalty due to human sin, but He paid the penalty Himself. Jesus endured the punishment for my sins. My sin had to be punished, and Jesus paid the full debt that was incurred by my sins. Self-righteousness is a foul, rotten thing - throw it overboard before it damns you.
Jesus removed all my guilt by His precious blood. He that believeth in Jesus is justified from all things which he could not be justified by the law of Moses. My sins were laid on Jesus, and God's justice struck Him with full force. My Substitute endured my sins' chastisement. Only the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ can kill sin's sting and pain you have within due to your sinning against God. Free Salvation for the guilty is yours through the Substitution of the Innocent Son of God. At the Cross, we see Sin and Justice, Misery and Mercy, Folly and Wisdom, Wrath and Tenderness, Recompense and Grace, Vengeance and Pity.
A wise man will prepare for the inevitable - be wise - Prepare to enter Eternity at the Cross now. The Cross lifts of the fallen and delivers the depraved. The Lord Jesus bore my sins away as my Scapegoat, dying for me as my Sin-Offering. His Blood brings peace of heart and satisfaction of conscience. Perfect cleansing and divine Salvation is available at the Cross. Jesus' Atoning Sacrifice is my Rock. Jesus stood in my place, bore and put my sins away. Atonement by Blood, Full deliverance from Sin's Curse, Perfect Safety, Wisdom, Joy, Gratitude, Purity, Worship, Zeal. Christ took my human guilt, I live in Him, for Him, and through Him. Faith in the Cross is my Eternal Life.
The Cross Alone!
