Who gave Himself for our sins… – Galatians 1:4

“He gave Himself.” I will not say that He gave His royal crown, that diadem which did outshine the sun; I will not say that He laid aside His azure vest and hung it on the sky as He came down to earth; I will not say that He gave up for us the thrones and royalties of heaven. You know that He did all this, and far more…I need not say that He gave His body, His soul, and His spirit, but you have it all in these three words: “He gave Himself.” “He gave Himself for our sins.” That is the wonder of Christ’s death, our sins could not be put away except by His dying in our stead. There was no expiation of our sin, and consequently no deliverance from its condemnation, except by Christ’s bearing in our room, and place, and stead, that wrath of God which was due to us; and He did do it. “He gave Himself for our sins.” I need not say more upon that point except just this. Do not, I pray you, let us permit Him in any sense or measure to fail of His supreme object. “He gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world,” therefore, out of gratitude to Him, if for no other reason, let us not be of the world, and like the world, servants of the world, slaves of the world. What! did Christ die to deliver us from the world, and do we go back to it, and deliberately put our necks under the world’s yoke, and wear the world’s yoke, and become again the world’s slaves? I am ashamed of myself, and of you, whenever we for a moment act as the ungodly world acts, and become as the world is, self-seeking, rebellious against God’s will, living contrary to the divine law of Christ. Oh, let every drop of blood He shed on Calvary purge you from all resemblance to the world! Let the dying Savior’s cries move you to hate the sin which the world loves; from Calvary, hear Him cry, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.” By the blood with which He bought you, be ye not of the world, seeing that He hath redeemed you from among men that you might be altogether His own. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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