There’s a kind of fancy and fantasy and projection that takes place in the minds of many saints.
And though we use the name Jesus, probably every one of us have another variation on the same theme. Without exception, if our Jesus is one other than that which was crucified, it’s a self-serving Jesus which we have projected out of the fancies of our own mind.
These Jesuses are manful and attractive and beguiling. But I’ll tell you that however great the artistry and however great the imagination, it falls short of THE Jesus crucified. We need desperately and urgently to know Him exactly as He is, radically and utterly, and I have a suspicion that He is nowhere presented as the reflection and the image of God more accurately than in His suffering and death.
That there has been no thing more grossly neglected in modern Christendom than the cross of Christ Jesus. The many Jesuses of today are soppy, sentimental, and self-serving and a complete contradiction to the Christ who suffered and died. And if God is to correct our image of Him, which means also the correction of our image of ourselves,
it’s my conviction tonight that the only place where it can be done is at the cross of Christ Jesus. Have you been there? “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” The real and pathetic condition of the lives of many Christians and the woeful condition of the Church, the enormous fascination of the world, and its powerful influence on God’s people all testify to the fact that we have tragically avoided the cross of Jesus. Paul said, “He gloried only in the cross of Christ Jesus, by which the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world.”
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