The Keystone of the Gospel Arch

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. – Revelation 5:12

The very Christ that died has risen again. There is no illusion: there could be no mistake. It is not somebody else foisted upon us in His place; but Jesus who died has left the dead, for there are the marks of the crucifixion in His hands and in His feet, and there is the spear-thrust still. It is Jesus: this same Jesus. This is a matter of great comfort to a Christian-this indisputably proven doctrine of the resurrection of our Lord. It is the keystone of the gospel arch. Take that away, or doubt it, and there remains nothing to console you. But because Jesus died and in the selfsame person rose again, and ever lives, therefore does our heart sweetly rest, believing that “them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him”; and also that the whole of the work of Jesus is true, is completed, and is accepted of God.

Centuries have gone by, and yet He looks like a Lamb that has been slain. Our first glance will assure us that this is He of whom they said, “Crucify Him; crucify Him.” Steadily look with the eyes of your faith into the glory, and see your Master’s wounds, and say within yourself, “He has compassion upon us still: He bears the marks of His passion.” Look up, poor sufferer! Jesus knows what physical pain means. Look up, poor depressed one! He knows what a broken heart means. Canst thou not perceive this? Those prints upon His hands, these sacred stigmata, declare that He has not forgotten what He underwent for us, but still has a fellow-feeling for us.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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