Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the sacrificial nature of Jesus's death, emphasizing the wonder and significance of His sacrifice for humanity.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the profound theological belief that Jesus Christ took on the consequences of sin by sacrificing Himself on the cross. This act is seen as the ultimate demonstration of love and grace, providing a deep sense of awe and reverence for believers who recognize the magnitude of this sacrifice on their behalf.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the significance of sacrifice in our lives, one might reference this quote to emphasize selflessness.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
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