Devotionals on Work of the Cross

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• When we come to see that all the old nature was taken down into the death of the Cross, and in Christ Jesus we are completely clear of its penalty and power, it is then that we begin to welcome the work of the Cross upon all that of which the Holy Spirit convicts us.

• By such sympathy, you may, indeed, draw him away from the work of the Cross.” “

• God accepted the finished work of the cross,  and because of that, He accepts us.

• We are free, by the finished work of the Cross, from the domination of the man who is now so repugnant to us, and we discover with untold delight that the One who so attracted our hearts is our very life. -C.A.C.

• It represents a deep work of the Cross within, but surely we can accept nothing less than this?

• Experientially, He applies the work of the Cross to our old life, thereby progressively holding it in the grip of that death.

• They may be present and they may be valuable, but the Spirit's object is something far greater - to form the Lord Jesus Christ in us through the work of the Cross.

• The modern teaching adds repentance as a work – as an extra requirement – as an addition that has to be added to the finished work of the cross – if man is to be saved, which would require a sinner to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ AND also repent.
• Finished Work When anything other than believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is added to the finished work of the cross, it means that Christ’s sacrifice at Calvary was insufficient – and the only way to resolve this issue is to apply the correct meaning to the word – repent. Remember – the correct meaning ‘repent’  – is to ‘change…’ We must not use the incorrect meaning of the word’ repent’, which is often taught  as going through a process of listing all our sins – as an addition to believing on Christ.

• When the believer truly sees Calvary he says, There, through the work of the Cross, I died with the Lord Jesus unto sin.

• As the finished work of the Cross is applied to the life by the Holy Spirit, thereby progressively holding the old man in the position of death, the believer is conditioned for the Spirit's fulness.

• Positionally, in the finished work of the Cross and resurrection, we have been cut off from the old man through death, and have been born into the new Man by the new birth.
• Experientially, day by day, our part is to choose against the old (put off) in favor of the new (put on), thus allowing the Holy Spirit freedom to apply the finished work of the Cross (Rom. 6:11).

• The wondrous depths of the finished work of the Cross will always be adequate to deal with the terrible depths of the unfinished work of the old man.
• There are always remaining, however much we have advanced, hidden strongholds of the old man which must be rendered inoperative by the finished work of the Cross. -F.J.H.

• Reckoning on the work of the Cross is the only relief from the carnal burden of self.

• God does not change, and He recognises Christ’s work of the cross as finished.

• The believer can never overcome the old man' even by the power of the new' apart from the work of the Cross, and therefore the death of Christ is indispensable, and unless the Cross is made the basis upon which he overcomes the old nature,' he only drops into another form of morality; in other words, he is seeking by self-effort to overcome sin and self, and the struggle is a hopeless one. -C.U.

• But this is just the beginning of that deep work of the Cross which is to deal with the carnality of our cherished affections, our spiritual comforts, our dearest friendships, our creeds, and our denominations, our devotion to which prevents the dying of the old man that makes impossible whole-hearted devotion to the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. -J.M.

• First, the believer understands that he has a right to be free in the Lord Jesus because of the finished work of the Cross; then he sees that same work of the Cross as his means to be free.

• There are three vital factors that will keep us on the path, and in the power, of spiritual growth: (1) study to know that God's purpose in saving us is to conform us to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:28, 29); (2) learn to reckon upon the finished work of the Cross as His provision for that purpose (Rom. 6:11); (3) yield to the Holy Spirit as He carries out the daily process of that purpose (2 Cor. 4:11).

• Any time there is effort involved in the matter of resisting sin, we can be sure that we are depending to some extent upon the flesh, instead of resting in the finished work of the Cross.

• But remember... when Jesus died on the cross, the work of the cross was finished, yet when He died on the cross, the plan of redemption was not yet fully complete.

• When it comes to spiritual growth, sooner or later the thought arises, Surely the work of the Cross produced more than this!

• The resultant failure leads him to reliance upon the work of the Cross, which is effectively applied to the root of the matter by the Holy Spirit.

• The Lord Jesus carried out the work of the Cross as to our eternal position.
• The Holy Spirit carries out the work of the Cross as to our present condition.

• The work of the Cross is finished.

• It is through suffering, it is through the difficult way the Lord has led you, it is through the work of the Cross that He has wrought in you.

• The work of the Cross was done.

• Just as the work of the Cross provides salvation when we believe it to be true, the work of the Cross also provides victory over the old sin nature when it is believed.