Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. It was a death of horror; yet inflicted on Jesus, the Son of God, whose crime was mercy, whose mission here was one of redeeming love. I. ALL THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN NATURE ARE HERE. 1. Sin. 2. Freewill. 3. Judgment. After these things must there not be some reckoning? II. THE MYSTERIES OF DIVINE REVELATION. 1. God's love. 2. God's meekness. 3. God's method of curing sin. By enduring its strokes He shames and vanquishes transgression. III. THE MYSTERIES OF SALVATION. 1. Atonement. 2. Reconciliation. In the cross our love meets God's love, and we are reconciled. 3. A great inspiration. Ever since, the cross has been the pattern on the mount which holy lives have copied, and it has inspired love and sacrifice into countless hearts. IV. ALL MYSTERIES OF CONSOLATION. Had Christ evaded death, who would have dared to face it? He has changed Jordan's streams into still waters, and its banks to green pastures. Death fixed its sting in Christ, and left and lost it there. Thus Christ's cross is our Alpha and Omega, glowing with law and gospel, comfort and restraint, power and peace; it is the new Tree of life in the midst of life's wilderness. (R. Glover.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. |
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