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God Makes the Message of the Cross the Power of Salvation ㅡ

 “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:18).

 We should not wish to invent something to make a cross; but if God presents to us a cross, we should cheerfully bear it.

In the acceptance of the cross we are distinguished from the world, who love us not and ridicule our peculiarity.

Christ was hated by the world because He was not of the world.

Can His followers expect to fare better than their Master?

If we pass along without receiving censure or frowns from the world we may be alarmed, for it is our conformity to the world which makes us so much like them that there is nothing to arouse their envy or malice; there is no collision of spirits.

The world despises the cross.

“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.” (Galatians 6:14).

 (Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 525)

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