July 10, 2008

• NO OTHER FOUNDATION

  
  

  
  

  “The
  foundation of the true church was laid at a mighty cost. It needed that
  the Son of God should take our nature upon Him, and in that nature
  live, suffer and die, not for His own sins, but for ours. It needed
  that in that nature Christ should go to the grave, and rise again. In
  needed that in that nature Christ should go up to heaven, to sit at the
  right hand of God, having obtained eternal redemption for all His
  people. No other foundation could have met the necessities of lost,
  guilty, corrupt, weak, helpless sinners.

  The foundation, once obtained, is very strong. It can bear the
  weight of the sins of the world. It has borne the weight of all the
  sins of all the believers who have built on it. Sins of thought, sins
  of imagination, sins of the heart, sins of the head, sins which
  everyone has seen, and sins which no man knows, sins against God, and
  sins against man, sins of all kinds and descriptions — that mighty rock
  can bear the weight of all these sins, and not give way. The
  mediatorial office of Christ is a remedy sufficient for all the sins of
  all the world.”

  - J.C. Ryle, Holiness (Darlington, Co. Durham: Evangelical Press, 1991), 215.

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