Notes on John Stott’s
The Cross of Christ
Chapter 8: The Revelation of God
The cross not only accomplished our salvation–it also revealed God’s nature.
In the cross, God demonstrated His justice: His wrath poured out on sin.
In the cross, God demonstrated His love: His mercy in dying for us.
In the cross, God demonstrates His wisdom and power: using the world’s foolish cross and the Son’s human weakness to accomplish the greatest miracle ever–our salvation.
“So when we look at the cross, we see the justice, love, wisdom, and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believer. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom, and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind, and beyond the universe.”
~John Stott, The Cross of Christ
(See more of my notes on The Cross of Christ.)