Oh the wonder of wonders, that the thrice-holy God should come down to sinners of every race and class with words! of reconciliation, a message of pardon and peace, through the death and resurrection of His only-begotten Son! This is divine love; this levels men, with all their boastful pretensions, to the dust; this shows God's judgment of man, whether Jew or Gentile; this reveals the fact that God is a sin-pardoning as well as a sin-hating God, giving remission of sins to every lost sinner that believes. Paul's preaching, then, was the cross. Wherever he went, he set forth Christ-crucified and risen, because this alone can deliver from the wrath to come; this alone is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. But though he said, "We preach Christ crucified," we know he sometimes entered also into the coming glory of Christ, as well as of His past humiliation and suffering, as we find he did at Thessalonica. He preached to them about "another King, one Jesus." This magnifies the glory of the cross. The fact that Christ is soon coming to receive. His people unto Himself, that God is yet going to set up' His blessed Son as King over all the earth, and put everything in subjection under His feet, bring every knee to bow, and every tongue to confess to Him, reflects greatly on the value of His cross, and Shows God's estimate of His finished work, however men despise and reject it.