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Tidings of Light and Peace
• 2 min. read • grade level: 4
“WOULD I know what sin is? I look there. Righteousness? I look there. Hatred without a cause? I look there. Love without bounds? I look there. Judgment and condemnation of sin? I look there. Deliverance and peace? I look there. Divine wrath against evil? I look there. Perfect divine favor and delight in what infinitely glorified God? I look there. Weakness and death, though willingly bowing under it? It is there. Strength, divine strength, which has met and removed evil? It is there. Peace and wrath? It is there also: the world under Satan’s power rising up, to get finally rid of a God of love; and God, by this very act, delivering the world and making peace by the blood of His own Son. As it is said, ‘That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage’ (
Heb. 2:14,15
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Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
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And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:14‑15)
). As I have said, good and evil in all their extremes and forms meet there for the triumph of love in once suffering the evil that good may have its full force.”
You may not have, my reader, in peace of soul been able to contemplate all the glory of the cross. You have a blessed portion yet before you; but remember, it is presented to you just as you are, for your need in all the grace of it towards a poor sinner. It meets you in your sins, if it infinitely glorifies God. A Jesus dying on the cross for the vilest meets the wants and burdens of the vilest—comes home through grace to his heart. If his sins are a burden to him, he may see Christ bearing them, that he may be free and have peace. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (
John 3:16
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
). “And by Him all that believe are justified from all things” (
Acts 13:39
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39)
). Were his “sins as scarlet they shall be as white as snow” (
Isa. 1:18
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
). “If you are heavy laden, come to Him who came in love to give you rest, and has died in love for you.”
J. N. D.
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