Last year Tim Challies said that The Cross He Bore by Frederick Leahy would be the best $4.03 I would ever spend. I think he might have been right. It is easily one of the best books I read last year, and one of my favorite books about the cross of Christ, which is why I wanted to share it with the NRBC. I thereafter researched Leahy and found out that The Cross He Bore is part of a trilogy he wrote on the cross so I quickly ordered the other two. The Victory of the Lamb pack a similar punch in its brief pages (126). Whereas in The Cross He Bore Leahy stirs the emotions concerning the themes of propitiation, redemption, and atonement, here he develops the theme of Christus Victor. While I don’t think the book as good as The Cross He Bore, it is a great bargain at $5.40.
How can there be enmity between Satan and the woman where there has been agreement and friendship between them? Only God can effect such a change, and he does.
Three crosses stood starkly against an eastern sky. Two of the crucified were dying. The one in the center was already dead. His death was unique. There had never been a death like this before, and never would be again. Other deaths make only slight impact on the course of history; his death was crucial for mankind. All other deaths are largely of local and temporary interest; his death had cosmic and eternal implications. Other deaths involve only personal and individual struggle; his death was the meeting-point of the mighty forces of divine wrath on the one hand and satanic fury on the other. Here, in this death, all the power of God and all the malice of Satan were exerted to the full and borne by the one on that centre cross, to the satisfaction of God and defeat of Satan. This was the death that overcame death.
No Other Boast 