Gospel Prism

Here is Charles Spurgeon and the glory of the Gospel that highlights substitutionary atonement:

What a sight it was to see Him in the garden oppressed with our load of guilt till the bloody sweat was forced from Him! To see Him bearing that stupendous weight up to the Cross and there hanging in agonies of death, bearing the desertion of His Father and all the thick clouds of darkness that came of it—dying—the “Just for the unjust to bring us to God�! It was the Glory of Christ that He was there bereft of all Glory! Never can a more glorious thing be said of Him than that He, for our sakes, was obedient to death, even the death of the Cross! And this is the Gospel we preach, the Gospel of Substitution, that Jesus stood in the sinner’s place and bore in the sinner’s stead what was due to the Law of God on account of man’s transgression. Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord reigns from the Cross—

“Fling out the banner! Let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide!
Our Glory only in the Cross,
Our only hope, the Crucified.�

No more gladsome news could come to man than that the Incarnate God had borne man’s s sins and died in man’s place! Yet there is another note, for He that died and was buried is risen from the dead and has borne our nature up into Glory—and there He wears it at the Father’s right hand. His loving heart is still occupied with the same Divine errand that brought Him down below—He is, by His intercession, saving sinners whom He purchased with His blood! He is able to save them to the uttermost who come unto God by Him, seeing He always lives to make intercession for them!

This is the Gospel of the Glory of Christ! It is our Lord’s Glory that He mediates between man and God, pleading for the unjust ones, using as His all-prevailing argument the blood which He has shed. But I must not leave out the fact that He who now in Glory pleads for sinners will speedily come, again, to gather all His own unto Himself, to shed abroad on them the fullness of His own Glory and to take them up to be with Him where He is. There is wondrous light in the Gospel, both for the future and the present! It sets forth to us the Glory of Christ, the Glory of love, the Glory of mercy, the Glory of a blood which can wash the blackest, white! The Glory of a plea which can make the poorest prayer, acceptable! The Glory of a living and triumphant Savior, who, having put His hands to the work, will not fail nor be discouraged till all the purposes of infinite love shall be achieved by Him. This is “the Gospel of the Glory of Christ� and the light of it is exceedingly clear and bright!