Sermon Quotes from More than Slavery

No matter how well we speak of Jesus as a pattern we have done nothing unless we point him out as the substitute and sinbearer. – C.H. Spurgeon in Death for Sin, and Death to Sin

He himself dying while he made our sins to die; Himself crucified while He crucified our sins once for all. – C.H. Spurgeon in Death for Sin, and Death to Sin

What looked like (and indeed was) the defeat of goodness by evil is also, and more certainly, the defeat of evil by goodness. Overcome there, He was himself overcoming. Crushed by the ruthless power of Rome, He was Himself crushing the serpent’s head (Gen 3:15). The victim was the victor, and the cross is still the throne from which He rules the world. – John R.W. Stott in The Cross of Christ