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“Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
It is a solemn thing for us to remember that the Lord Jesus Christ was just, and that we were unjust. In order to bring us to God, He had to suffer for us. While it is not unusual in human history for someone to have suffered for someone else, yet there is nothing in man’s history to compare to the cross of Christ. Here was the Son of God, who came into this world in love and grace, nailed to a cross and left there, while people who passed by mocked and taunted Him, telling Him to come down if He could. Yet in that very place, where the very worst in man’s heart was being displayed, God was laying upon His Son the sins of millions of souls—souls that would eventually spend eternity in glory with that same Son of God who hung there. No human mind could have invented a story like that; it is well expressed in the words of another, “O God, the thought was Thine: Thine only it could be.”
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