He Clothed and Made Entire

Michael E. Wood
April 20, 2011

2nd Corinthians 2:2
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

While there are many things of which we have been so graciously blessed of God to contemplate and delight in as His children, all hinge upon the fact that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures. That is the gospel in its simplicity, and the gospel is the means by which we live and die unto Him.

How far it seems some times we stray
From this one central thought,
That Jesus Christ was crucified
And by Him we were brought
Out of the depths of sin’s dark pit
Where once we thought to hide
From God Himself, Who showed His face
And heard when once we cried
Out to Him for mercy
As none other could have turned
The wrath of God away from us,
The due which we had earned.


Oh love yet so unfathomable
That caused us to believe
And look to Christ; His sacrifice
Whose blood atoned to cleave
Unto Himself a precious bride;
Oh weigh the price He paid
As all our sins most infinite
Was on our Savior laid.


If thoughts of Him bring not at times
Both tears and joy now mixed,
Then better that you check the faith
On what or whom you’re fixed.
For when the time shall come
And will of which to give account,
The cross of Jesus Christ alone
Will be your strength to mount
Above the torrents that will test
True faith like gold in fire,
Where Jesus will be found by those
He clothed and made entire.

“Our soul must live and die on Jesus crucified.”
C. H. Spurgeon, The Man Of One Subject

“The righteous, loving Father humbled Himself to become in and through His only Son flesh, sin and a curse for us, in order to redeem us without compromising His own character. The Biblical Gospel of atonement is of God satisfying Himself by substituting Himself for us.”
Excerpt taken from Desiring God blog quoting, John Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 159, 160