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About The Cross: God's Way Of Salvation
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Cross God's Way of Salvation By D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Christopher Catherwood Good News PublishersCopyright © 1986 Bethan Lloyd-Jones All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-89107-382-6 Contents Foreword, Introduction, 1. 'The Wondrous Cross', 2. The Acid Test, 3. The Wisdom of God, 4. 'Love Not the World', 5. The Triumph of the Cross, 6. 'He Is Our Peace', 7. The Cross of Christ Speaks, 8. A New Nature, 9. Bought Out and Set Free, Scripture Index, CHAPTER 1 'The Wondrous Cross' Give me the faith which can remove And sink the mountain to a plain; Give me the childlike, praying love Which longs to build Thy house again; Thy love, let it my heart o'erpower, Let it my ransomed soul devour. I would the precious time redeem And longer live for this alone — To spend and to be spent for them Who have not yet my Saviour known; Fully on these my mission prove, And only breathe, to breathe Thy love. My talents, gifts and graces, Lord, Into Thy blessed hands receive; And let me live to preach Thy word, And let me to Thy glory live; My every sacred moment spend In publishing the sinners' Friend. Enlarge, inflame and fill my heart With boundless charity divine; So shall I all my strength exert, And love them with a zeal like Thine; And lead them to Thine open side, The sheep for whom their shepherd died. C. Wesley Could you and would you gladly spend all your days in that way? That is the question. Is it your desire to spend all your days in praising this friend, of whom all those words are true? Well, in order to try to help you to answer that question, I would like to call your attention to the words found in Paul's epistle to the Galatians. In chapter 6 verse 14, he writes: 'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.' Now, this verse follows on from what went before, the word 'but' suggests it. Verses 12 and 13 read like this: 'As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.' As I have just reminded you, this statement can only be understood properly if we also take it in its own context, since this helps us to see why the Apostle speaks as he does in this way about the death of the Son of God, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, upon the cross on Calvary's hill. He is finishing his letter to the Galatians. These were people who had become Christians as the result of his own preaching and teaching. But certain other teachers had gone round, who had been upsetting them. They had taught that while it is all right to believe in the gospel, yet, if you really want to be a full blown Christian and want to be truly blessed of God, you have also got to submit to circumcision and go back under the old Jewish law. The Apostle has written this, his own epistle, in order to deal with that question. And here he is now at the very end of his letter summarizing all he has been saying. And, at the same time, he is reminding the Galatians, and all others through them, of certain fundamental truths and principles of the Christian faith. The first thing of which he reminds them is that life in this world is a very serious and a very solemn matter. Life when truly understood is not the sort of thing that the world would teach you to think of, it is not something flippant and light, through which you waltz having a good time. Not at all. It is a tremendously serious matter. For this reason: 'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of
