Some Thoughts From Dr. Octavius Winslow This Lord’s Day
I thought it’d be nice to share some excerpts from Dr. Octavius Winslow’s The Precious Things of God for your consideration this Lord’s Day. Blessings and enjoy! 
On the Preciousness of Christ:
The Bible recognises but two specific and distinctive characters — the SINNER — the SAVIOUR; and all others are but modifications of these. The saint is but the sinner converted, justified, pardoned, adopted, sanctified, saved, glorified. And all the official relations sustained by Christ in the economy of salvation are but so many varied and beautiful forms of the one Saviour, of whom it is said, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heave given among men whereby we must be saved.” Thus, then, as you feel your sinfulness, you will estimate the fitness and suitableness of the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. There will be a perfect agreement between your consciousness of guilt and your believing apprehension of the excellence of the Atonement to meet your case. Your sinnership and Christ’s Saviourship will harmonise and dovetail in exact and beautiful fitness and proportion. Oh, what a divine and blessed arrangement is this! With what grandeur, yet with what simplicity, does it i nvest the scheme of salvation! What solemnity, yet what hope, does it throw around the present and the future of the soul! It seems to fathom the lowest depth of my sinfulness, while it lift me to the loftiest height of God’s grace.
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We have need, beloved, to be cautioned against an error into which some have fallen — of exalting the work of Christ above the person of Christ — in other words, not tracing the efficacy of Christ’s sacrifice to the essential dignity of Christ’s person. The Godhead ofthe Saviour admitted — His atoning death becomes a fact of easy belief. Once concede that He who died upon the cross was “GOD manifest in the flesh,” and the mind will experience no difficulty in admitting that that death was sacrificial and expiatory. The sufferings and death of a Being so illustrious must be in harmony with an object and in connexion with a result of equal dignity and momentousness; and where will there be found such an object and such a result as the SALVATION of man? The brilliant achievements of a general rushing to the rescue of a beleaguered garrison may so exalt his personal genius and valour as to invest his name with a glory peerless and immortal; but the reverse of this holds good with Christ. There had been no glory in His achievements, no significance in His work, no efficacy in His blood, had there been no divine dignity and worth in His person. And, had He not taken a single step in working out the salvation of man — had He repaired no breach, wept no tear, endured no agony, shed no blood in the redemptionof His Church — had He, in a word, conferred not a solitary blessing upon our race — He still had been the ETERNAL SON OF GOD, divine, peerless, glorious — the object of supreme love, adoration, and worship by all celestial beings and through all eternal ages. While, then, His sacrificial work illustrates His marvelous grace and love to sinners, that work owes all its acceptance and efficacy to the value imparted to it by the essential Deity of His person. Thus, it is the personal preciousness of Christ that imparts an official preciousness to His work.
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