The Passion of Our Lord

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1Corinthians 6:19-20

There in the midnight hour, amidst the olives of Gethsemane, kneels Immanuel the Son of God; He groans, He pleads in prayer, He wrestles; see the beady drops stand on His brow, drops of sweat, but not of such sweat as pours from men when they earn the bread of life, but the sweat of Him who is procuring life itself for us. It is blood, it is crimson blood; great gouts of it are falling to the ground. O soul, thy Savior speaks to thee from out Gethsemane at this hour, and He says: “Here and thus I bought thee with a price.” Come, stand and view Him in the agony of the olive garden, and understand at what a cost He procured thy deliverance. Track Him in all His path of shame and sorrow till you see Him on the Pavement; mark how they bind His hands and fasten Him to the whipping-post; see, they bring the scourges and the cruel Roman whips; they tear His flesh; the ploughers make deep furrows on His blessed body, and the blood gushes forth in streams, while rivulets from His temples, where the crown of thorns has pierced them, join to swell the purple stream. From beneath the scourges, He speaks to you with accents soft and low, and He says, “My child, it is here and thus I bought thee with a price.” But see Him on the cross itself when the consummation of all has come; His hands and feet are fountains of blood, His soul is full of anguish even to heartbreak; and there, ere the soldier pierces with a spear His side, bowing down He whispers to thee and to me, “It was here and thus, I bought thee with a price.” O by Gethsemane, by Gabbatha, by Golgotha, by every sacred name collected with the passion of our Lord, by sponge and vinegar, and nail and spear, and everything that helped the pang and increased the anguish of His death, I conjure you, my beloved brethren, to remember that ye were “bought with a price,” and “are not your own.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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