Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Cross and God's Love
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Cross, God's Love, Martyn Lloyd-Jones | Posted On Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM
“The cross is not something that influences the love of God; no, the
love of God produced it. That is the order. Were it not for His love, God would have
punished sin in us, and we should all suffer eternal death. Indeed, I do not
hesitate to go so far as to say this: Nothing anywhere in the Scripture in any
way approaches the substitutionary and penal doctrine of the atonement as an
exposition and an explanation of the love of God. Is there anything greater
than this, that God should take your sins and mine and put them on His own Son
and punish His own Son, not sparing Him anything, causing Him to suffer all
that, that you and I might be forgiven? Can
you tell me any greater exhibition of the love of God than that?”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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