Mt 10:26-33 12th Sunday Year A

12th Sunday Year A

Do you not know, dear friends, that the very essence of Christianity is for a man to deny himself?

All Or None - Or, Compromises Refused - A Sermon With Five Texts, Volume 31, Sermon #1830 - Exodus 10:26

Charles Spurgeon

In the NT, the concept of the unmerited forgiveness of God is extended, intensified by the death of Christ, offered on our behalf. The human creature is an insolvent debtor (Mt 18:23–35) who has no hope of repayment. Sinners all, we cannot keep the Law or save ourselves (Mk 10:26, 27). This highlights the NT teaching that it is in the person of Christ himself that there is forgiveness. He alone has the power to forgive sins (Mk 2:5, 7, 10). It is his death that is redemptive (Mt 26:28; Mk 10:45) and his blood that is the basis of a new covenant (1 Cor 11:25). It is through him that one can enter into the living experience of forgiveness (Heb 9:15, 22). So forgiveness is inseparable from the proclamation of Jesus Christ (Acts 13:38; Eph 1:7; Col 1:14; 1 Jn 2:12).

James M. Houston

Our Lord’s great object in laying down his life upon the cross was the father’s glory.

Good News For Seekers, Volume 22, Sermon #1312 - Psalm 22:26.

Charles Spurgeon