Daily Sacrifice, July 31 (18:37)
“To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth”— John 18:37.
THE crucifixion of our Lord Jesus was far more than a martyrdom for truth, though it was that. A witness is a martyr. But the cross was the display of God’s hatred against sin and His infinite love for lost mankind. We should never think of Calvary as though it simply involved an innocent man dying for guilty men. It was God giving Himself in the Person of His Son to bear the judgment which His righteous law declared to be the penalty of sin. There “the Offended died to set the offender free.”