The Mind That Was in the Crucified Christ

Tre Cross must necessarily be viewed from two — standpoints. First, the work it has accomplished — — the pardon and conquest of sin. This is the first — message with which the Cross comes to the sinner. It proclaims to him free and full deliverance from — the power of sin. And then the second, the spirit —

or disposition which was there manifested. We find —

this expressed in Phil. 2: 8: ‘‘He humbled Himself, —

and became obedient unto death, even the death of

the Cross.’’ Here we see Self-abasement to the lowest place which could be found under the bur-

den of our sin and curse; Obedience to the utter-

most to all the will of God; Self-sacrifice to the —

death of the Cross — these three words reveal

to us the holy perfection of His Person and work. Therefore God hath so greatly exalted Him. It was the spirit of the Cross which made Him the object — of His Father’s good-pleasure, of the worship of — the angels, of the love and confidence of all the re- deemed. The self-abasement of Christ, His obedi- ence to the will of God even to death, His self-sac- rifice even to the death of the Cross — these made Him to be ‘‘the Lamb, as it had been slain, standing — in the midst of the Throne.’’