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The Cross, the Blood and the Death of Jesus Christ
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George Vicesimus Wigram
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1. DEATH, powerless to the Lord because it was revealed in scripture as His appointed passage into conferred blessing. (
Acts 2:23
23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23)
.)
2. His death and rejection the measure of Israel's sin. (
Acts 3:14, 15
14
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. (Acts 3:14‑15)
.)
3. Victory through the Lord, in resurrection over death, the preaching of the apostles, and that which offended the religionists of that day. (
Acts 4:2
2
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. (Acts 4:2)
.)
4. His death and rejection laid home as the sin of the ecclesiastical rulers. (
Acts 4:10, 11
10
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. (Acts 4:10‑11)
.)
5. And so, to the apostles, that which neutralized the commandments of the priests and rulers. (
Acts 5:29
29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29)
.)
6. Testified of by Stephen as the expression and climax of the nation Israel's ways before God. (
Acts 7:52
52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: (Acts 7:52)
.)
7. The special way of blessing to any beyond Israel. (
Acts 8:32
32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: (Acts 8:32)
.)
8. As connected with remission of sins to them that believe, and the office of Judge of quick and dead, the testimony which let. in the Gentiles by Peter. (
Acts 10:38
38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. (Acts 10:38)
)
9. His death and resurrection to Israelites out of the land, and to Gentiles, the basis of fuller and more gracious testimony than to Jews in Jerusalem, compare xvii. 3. (
Acts 13:28, 34, 38
28
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. (Acts 13:28)
34
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. (Acts 13:34)
38
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: (Acts 13:38)
.)
10. The resurrection of the Lord out of death, the proof of His being Judge of the world, and, therefore, the subject of derision to those wise in their own conceits.
Acts 17:31, 32
31
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. (Acts 17:31‑32)
.
11. The death of the Lord reckoned among men as His end, and the assertion of the resurrection by the apostles attributed to madness, and the whole considered a question subject to intellect. (
Acts 25:10
10
Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest. (Acts 25:10)
.)
12. Testimony thereunto the sure place for the presence and power of the Spirit and of boldness. (
Acts 26:23
23
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26:23)
.)
13. Victory over death the proof of Jesus being the Son of God, upon which all the church's blessing hangs. (
Rom. 1:4
4
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (Romans 1:4)
.)
14. And the pattern to which in principle every saint is conformed. (
Rom. 4:23
23
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; (Romans 4:23)
.)
15. The death of Christ God's mode of commending His love toward us. In all our weakness, ungodliness, hostile character and sinfulness, God gave His Son to die for us, and thus are we reconciled. (
Rom. 5:6, 8
6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)
8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
.)
16. The Lord's death, that through which the saint is free from sin, grace counting us one with Him in it by the Spirit. (Ram. vi. 2-13.)
17. The Lord's death, in like manner, our exemption from the power and claim of the law. (Roma vii. 4.)
18. The Lord's triumph through God over death, the pledge of the perfection of quickening power to them 'that have the Spirit. (
Rom. 8:11
11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11)
.)
19. His death the clearing from all condemnation, as the resurrection is the proof thereof. (
Rom. 8:34
34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:34)
.).
20. Therein as the expression of God's grace is the contrast of the law, which was God's search into what was in man. (
Rom. 10:6-9
6
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:6‑9)
.)
21. Christ's object herein the basis of the disciples' general conduct. (
Rom. 14:8
8
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. (Romans 14:8)
.)
22. And His constraint in brotherly love. (
Rom. 14:15
15
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. (Romans 14:15)
.)
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