A Gospel Sermon: Jonathan Edwards
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 05:59AM The wisdom of God has made Christ’s humiliation the means of our exaltation. His coming down from heaven is that which brings us to heaven. The wisdom of God has made life the fruit of death. The death of Christ was the only means by which we could have eternal life. The death of a person who was God, was the only way by which we could come to have life in God. — Here favor is made to arise out of wrath; our acceptance into God’s favor out of God’s wrath upon his own Son. A blessing rises out of curse; our everlasting blessedness, from Christ being made a curse for us. Our righteousness is made to rise out Christ’s imputed guilt. He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God, 2 Cor. 5:21. By such wonderful means has the wisdom of God procured our salvation.
Jonathan Edwards,
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Reader Comments (1)
I love the succinct way that Jonathan Edwards states the essence of the gospel. And that phrase "our everlasting blessedness" in relation to the work of Christ makes me think of the passage we are studying from Hebrews this week; chapter 7, verses 20-25.