The cross of popular evangelicalism is Not the cross of the New Testament.
It is, rather-a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a Self-assured and Carnal Christianity.
The Old cross Slew men...
The New Cross Entertains them...
The Old cross Humbled men..
The New Cross Amuses them...
The Old cross Destroyed Confidence in the Flesh...
The New Cross Encourages it...
The Old cross brought tears and blood...
The New Cross Brings Laughter.
The flesh, smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross.
Before that cross it bows, and toward that cross it points with carefully staged histrionics...
But upon that cross it will not die...
And the reproach of that cross, it stubbornly refuses to bear.
We must do something about the cross, and only one of two things we can do...
Flee from it, or Die upon it.
The man who takes up the cross no longer controls his destiny...
He lost control, when he picked up his cross.
That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming passion.
No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do...
That is, move on toward the place of crucifixion!
Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
~A. W. Tozer~
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