Pre-Lenten Thoughts

Yes, indeed, power Christ had to lay down His life in order that He might take it again! Had it not been so, His death would still have been vain, and could not have had the value of a sacrifice blotting out our sins. No one could possibly offer His life as a vicarious sacrifice, unless he had been authorized by the Judge of heaven and earth. Christ, however, had power so to lay down His life that he might take it again in glory, and that by this voluntary death He might obtain forgiveness,...