Christ our Mighty Champion

Consider these words from the Doctor himself, D. Martyn Lloyd Jones, in a sermon on Ezekiel 36:35-36:

“Above, beyond it all, standing in all its glory, its magnificence, the Cross on Calvary is held. God’s way of saving man. Oh loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame a second Adam to the fight and to the conflict came. In the garden secretly and in the Cross on high yes it all involved in this. But supremely on the Cross on high. God’s way is this, to take your sins and mine and to put them on Him. Oh the love of God! Oh the mind and the wisdom of God that ever thought of it! Oh the love of Christ that volunteered to do it and to bear it! And in addition to it all, the power of it all, He was big enough and great enough and holy enough and strong enough to take the sin, to bear the punishment! And yet, though dying to rise again. He satisfied the law, He has conquered death and the grave, He has vanquished hell and every enemy, He rises victorious out of the strife and has gone back to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God’s power and Glory at this very moment! And it is by all that that God saves us.

Therefore as Christians we are witnesses and testifiers of this, I am what I am by the Grace of God! By nothing else. I’m not here because I pulled myself together by the exercise of my will! I’m a sinner saved by the Grace of God! I’m a weakling that has recieved the life of God in Christ. I am what I am solely by His grace and nothing else. I am a debtor to mercy alone and of Covenant mercy I sing! We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works that He has appointed.”