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GUEST DEVOTIONS
Christ’s loveliness consists mainly in this … He knew no sin! If He had had just one tiny sin of His own, He could not Have suffered for ours. Remember, in Hebrews 7:26 we are told that our High Priest (Jesus) was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. We would think that such a person should be welcome in any community. But no! He got terrible treatment. The people despised, rejected and hated Him… But Jesus suffered this wretched behaviour on our behalf. That makes Him altogether lovely.
Do any of us hate Him? Hate Him? Yes, hate Him. Do any of us use His name as a common swear word? If we do, we are speaking as though we despise Him. If we are guilty of that crime, it doesn´t seem that He is lovely to us.
Also, if we will not trust Him alone for our salvation is that not yet another way of despising Him! When you stand before God on Judgement Day, is there anything more that you would like to add to the perfect righteousness of Christ to save you? If there is, you have not yet grasped the Gospel and the Gospel has not grasped you. However, when believers stand before God, it will be as if they had never sinned. They will stand before him in the immaculate righteousness of the worthy Lamb.
He is altogether Lovely!
So, how did the Father deal with the spotless Christ? In Isaiah 53:5-6 we are told the shocking truth that ‘the Lord laid on Him the iniquities of us all.’
This is dreadful.
The Father heaped upon the Lord Jesus the thousands and millions of our sins till at last He was so covered, in God’s sight, that nothing but sin appeared.
He was treated as though He was one entire mass of sin.
He was dealt with by the Father as if He was sin from head to toe. We tend to think of the agonies of the cross as being merely physical. But the physical pain was only a small part of His suffering. There was a torrent of torment that hit Him when our sin was imputed to His pure and lovely being.
As the hymnwriter said, “We may not know, we cannot tell what pains He had to bear but we believe it was for us He hung and suffered there.”
He is altogether lovely!
But why was He made sin?
He was made sin so that we would be declared to be the righteousness of God in Him. Just as Christ, at Calvary, was covered with innumerable sins and, in a manner of speaking, appeared as one mass of sin, so the vilest one of us who trusts in Christ is so covered with the Lord’s glorious righteousness that in God’s eye we, as it were, appear to be one mass of uprightness.
We are swallowed up by the righteousness of Christ. ( see again 2 Corinthians 5:21).
What an amazing provision He has made for us!
He is altogether lovely!
“Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb,
I love to hear of Thee;
No music like Thy charming name,
Is half so sweet to me,
Is half so sweet to me.
My Jesus shall be still my theme,
While in this world I stay;
I’ll sing my Jesus’ lovely name
When all things else decay,
When all things else decay.
When I appear in yonder cloud,
With all Thy favored throng,
Then I will sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ shall be my song,
And Christ shall be my song.”
Cennick
And that´s the Gospel Truth!
‘Til He Comes!
Altogether lovely!
(Charles Spurgeon, "The Best Beloved" Play Audio! Download Audio
No words can ever express the gratitude we owe to Him who loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sins.
The love of Jesus is unutterably precious, and worthy of daily praise.
No songs can ever fitly celebrate the triumphs of that salvation which He wrought single-handed on our behalf.
The work of Jesus is glorious beyond all comparison, and all the harps of angels fall short of its worthy honor.
We prize His bounty to us, but we worship HIM.
His gifts are valued, but He Himself is adored.
While we contemplate with mingled feelings of awe, admiration, and thankfulness—His atonement, His resurrection, His glory in Heaven, and His second coming—still it is Christ Himself, stupendous in His dignity as the Son of God, and superbly beautiful as the Son of man, who sheds an incomparable charm on all those wonderful achievements, wherein His might and His merit, His goodness and His grace appear so conspicuous.
For HIM let our choicest spices be reserved; and to HIM let our sweetest anthems be raised.
Our choicest ointment must be poured upon His head; and for His own self alone our most costly alabaster boxes must be broken.
"He is altogether lovely."
Not only is . . .
His teaching attractive,
His doctrine persuasive,
His life irreproachable,
His character enchanting, and
His work a self-denying labor for the common good of all His people,
but He Himself is altogether lovely!
Do not look for anything lovely outside of Jesus, for He has all the loveliness.
All perfections are in Him making up one consummate perfection. And all the loveliness which is to be seen elsewhere, is but a reflection of His own unrivalled charms.
Jesus is the monopolizer of all loveliness!
He is the engrosser of all that is admirable in the entire universe!
"Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend!" Song of Songs 5:16
The Wednesday Word
2 Corinthians 5:21.Christ’s loveliness consists mainly in this … He knew no sin! If He had had just one tiny sin of His own, He could not Have suffered for ours. Remember, in Hebrews 7:26 we are told that our High Priest (Jesus) was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. We would think that such a person should be welcome in any community. But no! He got terrible treatment. The people despised, rejected and hated Him… But Jesus suffered this wretched behaviour on our behalf. That makes Him altogether lovely.
Do any of us hate Him? Hate Him? Yes, hate Him. Do any of us use His name as a common swear word? If we do, we are speaking as though we despise Him. If we are guilty of that crime, it doesn´t seem that He is lovely to us.
Also, if we will not trust Him alone for our salvation is that not yet another way of despising Him! When you stand before God on Judgement Day, is there anything more that you would like to add to the perfect righteousness of Christ to save you? If there is, you have not yet grasped the Gospel and the Gospel has not grasped you. However, when believers stand before God, it will be as if they had never sinned. They will stand before him in the immaculate righteousness of the worthy Lamb.
He is altogether Lovely!
So, how did the Father deal with the spotless Christ? In Isaiah 53:5-6 we are told the shocking truth that ‘the Lord laid on Him the iniquities of us all.’
This is dreadful.
The Father heaped upon the Lord Jesus the thousands and millions of our sins till at last He was so covered, in God’s sight, that nothing but sin appeared.
He was treated as though He was one entire mass of sin.
He was dealt with by the Father as if He was sin from head to toe. We tend to think of the agonies of the cross as being merely physical. But the physical pain was only a small part of His suffering. There was a torrent of torment that hit Him when our sin was imputed to His pure and lovely being.
As the hymnwriter said, “We may not know, we cannot tell what pains He had to bear but we believe it was for us He hung and suffered there.”
He is altogether lovely!
But why was He made sin?
He was made sin so that we would be declared to be the righteousness of God in Him. Just as Christ, at Calvary, was covered with innumerable sins and, in a manner of speaking, appeared as one mass of sin, so the vilest one of us who trusts in Christ is so covered with the Lord’s glorious righteousness that in God’s eye we, as it were, appear to be one mass of uprightness.
We are swallowed up by the righteousness of Christ. ( see again 2 Corinthians 5:21).
What an amazing provision He has made for us!
He is altogether lovely!
“Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb,
I love to hear of Thee;
No music like Thy charming name,
Is half so sweet to me,
Is half so sweet to me.
My Jesus shall be still my theme,
While in this world I stay;
I’ll sing my Jesus’ lovely name
When all things else decay,
When all things else decay.
When I appear in yonder cloud,
With all Thy favored throng,
Then I will sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ shall be my song,
And Christ shall be my song.”
Cennick
And that´s the Gospel Truth!
‘Til He Comes!
Altogether lovely!
(Charles Spurgeon, "The Best Beloved" Play Audio! Download Audio
No words can ever express the gratitude we owe to Him who loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sins.
The love of Jesus is unutterably precious, and worthy of daily praise.
No songs can ever fitly celebrate the triumphs of that salvation which He wrought single-handed on our behalf.
The work of Jesus is glorious beyond all comparison, and all the harps of angels fall short of its worthy honor.
We prize His bounty to us, but we worship HIM.
His gifts are valued, but He Himself is adored.
While we contemplate with mingled feelings of awe, admiration, and thankfulness—His atonement, His resurrection, His glory in Heaven, and His second coming—still it is Christ Himself, stupendous in His dignity as the Son of God, and superbly beautiful as the Son of man, who sheds an incomparable charm on all those wonderful achievements, wherein His might and His merit, His goodness and His grace appear so conspicuous.
For HIM let our choicest spices be reserved; and to HIM let our sweetest anthems be raised.
Our choicest ointment must be poured upon His head; and for His own self alone our most costly alabaster boxes must be broken.
"He is altogether lovely."
Not only is . . .
His teaching attractive,
His doctrine persuasive,
His life irreproachable,
His character enchanting, and
His work a self-denying labor for the common good of all His people,
but He Himself is altogether lovely!
Do not look for anything lovely outside of Jesus, for He has all the loveliness.
All perfections are in Him making up one consummate perfection. And all the loveliness which is to be seen elsewhere, is but a reflection of His own unrivalled charms.
Jesus is the monopolizer of all loveliness!
He is the engrosser of all that is admirable in the entire universe!
"Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend!" Song of Songs 5:16