The Bible and the Cross
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The Bible and the Cross is a classic sermon by G. Campbell Morgan.
G. Campbell Morgan
George Campbell Morgan was born in Tetbury, England, on December 9, 1893. At the young age of thirteen, Morgan began preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Morgan and his wife, Annie, had four boys and three girls. His four sons followed him into the ministry.Morgan visited the United States for the first time in 1896, the first of fifty-four times he crossed the Atlantic to preach and teach. In 1897, Morgan accepted a pastorate in London, where he often traveled as a preacher and was involved in the London Missionary Society. After the death of D. L. Moody in 1899, Morgan assumed the position of director of the Northfield Bible Conference in Massachusetts. After five successful years in this capacity, in 1904 he returned to England and became pastor of Westminster Chapel, London, where he served for the next thirteen years, from 1904 to 1917. Thousands of people attended his services and weekly Friday night Bible classes.He had no formal training for the ministry, but his devotion to studying the Bible made him one of the leading Bible teachers of his day. In 1902, Chicago Theological Seminary conferred on him an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Although he did not have the privilege of studying in a seminary or a Bible college, he has written books that are used in seminaries and Bible colleges all over the world. Morgan died on May 16, 1945, at the age of eighty-one.
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The Bible and the Cross - G. Campbell Morgan
THE BIBLE AND THE CROSS
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G. Campbell Morgan
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Bible and the Cross
THE DEATH OF JESUS: UNNATURAL
THE DEATH OF JESUS: SUPERNATURAL
THE DEATH OF THE LORD: RECONCILING
THE CROSS AND THE SINNER
THE CROSS AND THE SAINT
THE CROSS AND THE AGES TO COME
THE BIBLE AND THE CROSS
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By
G. Campbell Morgan
THE DEATH OF JESUS: UNNATURAL
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THE PRESENT SERIES OF STUDIES assumes that the Christian religion is the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Bible is its authoritative exposition. Of the Christian system, the Cross of Christ is the central truth. It is at once a profound mystery, and a most glorious revelation. As to its deepest and hidden method it is a mystery; in its unveiling of the heart of God and in the declaration of the possibility of forgiveness of sins, it is a revelation.
Our purpose is to gather about the cross in order that we may consider it in the light of Bible teaching. I shall endeavor resolutely to avoid making any appeal to speculations or philosophies which are not founded on acceptance of the authority of Scripture.
The two passages which indicate our starting point contain much teaching with which I do not propose now to deal. I refer to them because they set forth certain truths of supreme importance to our argument. The quotations are taken respectively from the first and second discourses of Peter, delivered in the power of the outpoured Spirit. In the last days of our Lord’s ministry, during which He foretold His Cross with great distinctness, these men quite honestly believed that the Cross would inevitably mean defeat of His purpose and disaster to His enterprise. Immediately after the reception of the Spirit they referred to the Cross in such language as to make it plain that there had come to them an entirely new conception of its meaning.
In each of these passages, Peter emphasized two facts: first, that of the sinlessness of Jesus and secondly, that of the sin of His murder.
When, in the second passage, the Apostle charged those to whom he spoke with having slain the Holy and the Righteous One,
his words were carefully chosen. The word holy
describes inward purity, which is the perfection of character. The word righteous
describes active rectitude, which is perfection of conduct. Thus Peter affirmed that Jesus whom they slew was both holy
and righteous
that is true in conduct.
He moreover, in each case charged upon the men to whom he was speaking that their putting to death of a sinless Man was an act of sin. We are thus confronted with a problem which we are compelled to recognize and of which we must attempt to find the solution. That solution is not found in these passages, and we shall not reach it in this study. The matter of first importance is that we should recognize the problem.
Let me state that problem briefly. In the midst of that universe which the Bible declares to be under the government of God, the one perfect Man in all human history is put to death by the hands of sinful men. Men of impure character slay the one Man