Repentance stands at the Cross and sees sin forgiven and then repents more than she ever did when she could not spy out forgiveness. Because evil is so hateful to the heart of Jesus we loathe it intensely. This is the repentance which glorifies God. The Lord grant such repentance to every one of us!
God’s salvation is a great reality, a great Truth of God, the Truth of your salvation. There is a substance in it. It is not a shadow, it is not a myth, it is not a mere type or figure of speech. It is a substantial thing, there is the Truth of God in it. You need, therefore, to find in Christ Jesus the Truth of His salvation, a real salvation which, though you cannot touch it, is yet tangible to your soul, and which, if you cannot see it, is yet to be surely seen by the eyes of your spirit.
Wherever our eyes spiritually light upon the Christ of God, there we see God’s Salvation! I learned that if I looked to Jesus, just looked, that was all, that if I simply trusted in Jesus, I would be saved! I looked and, happy day, my eyes saw God’s Salvation!
Jesus Christ is always Himself. It is enough for us to remember that Jesus Christ is the same today as He always was. If Jesus Christ is Immutable, He has an evident claim to our most solemn worship. Immutability can be the attribute of none but God.
Beyond all argument or miracle, Jesus Christ Himself is the proof of His own Gospel. And as He is the proof of it, so, Beloved, He is the marrow and essence of it. In the forefront of all must always stand Jesus Christ Himself, the personal, living, loving Jesus! Christ in us the hope of Glory. Christ for us our full redemption. Christ with us our guide and our solace and Christ above us pleading and preparing our place in Heaven.
Jesus Christ is the truth: the whole testimony of God about Christ is the truth. A saving knowledge of the truth works in this way. Do I know that there is salvation for me in Christ? For real solid soul-work before God, telling men the truth is the main thing. What truth? It is gospel truth, truth about Christ that they want.
Christ did not merely speak the Truth, He was Truth. Had He been truth embodied in an angelic form, He would have possessed little power over our hearts and lives. The Lord Jesus retains His power over His saints because He reveals the substance, for Grace and Truth are by Jesus Christ.
Consider how great this man was and is, and is to be, even the Man Christ Jesus. God the Father saw in the divine decree the mystical Christ, and he was well pleased with all his redeemed for Christ Jesus’ sake.
If you get rid of Christ from your creed you have at the same time destroyed all its good news. The more Gospel we would preach, the more of Christ we must proclaim. If you lift up Christ, you lift up the Gospel. In proportion as the Lord Jesus is set up on a glorious high throne He becomes salvation to the sons of men. A little Christ means a little Gospel. But the true Gospel is the Gospel of the glory of Christ.
No soul that has come to trust in Jesus Christ loves sin. Sin is slain in the heart by Jesus. We cannot love sin since Christ has died. The wounds of Jesus can do what nothing else can do. When I am pardoned, I hate sin! When I see the love of God in Christ Jesus, sin becomes a condemned and destroyed thing!