The Cross in Christian Experience
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Title | The Cross in Christian Experience | |||
| Author | W.M. Clow | ||||
| Pages | 335 | ||||
| Date | From editions published in 1908 & 1911 | ||||
| Extras | Updated language; added headings; added index | ||||
| Description | The Cross in Christian Experience is a collection of sermons by the author presenting the several implications and applications of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ by His divine work on the Cross coupled with the work of the Holy Spirit on the conscience of the believer. |
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| A FOREWORD | |||
| Simply to Thy Cross I Cling | 1 | ||
| “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”—Romans 5:1. | |||
| THE LOVE AND GIFT OF GOD | |||
| The Sacrifice of God the Father | 14 | ||
| “The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood”—Acts 20:28. | |||
| The Dark Line in God’s Face | 28 | ||
| “That will by no means clear the guilty”—Exodus 34:7. | |||
| Love’s Supreme Disclosure | 41 | ||
| “God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him”—I John 4:8-9. | |||
| Love in Four Dimensions | 52 | ||
| “God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”—John 3:16. “Able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ”—Ephesians 3:18. |
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| THE PASSION AND WORK OF CHRIST | |||
| Christ Shrinking from the Cross | 65 | ||
| “Let this cup pass from me”—Matthew 26:29. | |||
| The Contrasts of the Night of Betrayal | 77 | ||
| “The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread”—I Corinthians 11:23. | |||
| The Joy Set before Him | 89 | ||
| “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit”—Luke 10:20. “Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross”—Hebrews 12:2. |
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| Jesus the One Mediator | 101 | ||
| “For there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all”—I Timothy 2:5-6. | |||
| The Offence of the Cross | 115 | ||
| “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief”—Isaiah 53:3. “The offence of the cross”—Galatians 5:2. |
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| Christ’s Finished Work | 127 | ||
| “It is finished”—John 19:30. | |||
| The Lamb and the Book | 139 | ||
| “Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood”—Revelation 5:9. | |||
| THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE | |||
| Receiving the Atonement | 152 | ||
| “We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement”—Romans 5:11. | |||
| Do Our Sins Always Find Us Out? | 167 | ||
| “He hath not dealt with us after our sins”—Psalm 103:10. | |||
| The Cleansing Blood | 180 | ||
| “The blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin”—I John 1:7. | |||
| The Dynamic of the Cross | 193 | ||
| “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God”—I Corinthians 1:18. | |||
| The Cross and the Conscience | 206 | ||
| “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God”—Hebrews 9:14. | |||
| The Cross and the Memory of Sin | 219 | ||
| “Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious”—I Timothy 1:13. | |||
| The Mark of the Disciple | 231 | ||
| “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me”—Matthew 16:24. | |||
| THE CROSS AND THE EVANGEL | |||
| The Gospel According to Jesus | 243 | ||
| “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”—Luke 15:4. | |||
| Christ’s Last Gospel Message | 256 | ||
| “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me”—Acts 26:18. | |||
| The Word of the Evangelist—the Forgiveness of Sins | 268 | ||
| “Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins”—Acts 13:3. | |||
| The Hem of Christ’s Garment | 281 | ||
| “And behold, a woman came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment”—Matthew 9:20. | |||
| A Hymn of the Cross | 294 | ||
| “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out”—John 6:37. | |||
| AN AFTERWORD | |||
| The Primacy of the Atonement | 306 | ||
| “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures”—I Corinthians 15:3. | |||
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