You have hid these things from the wise
and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. Matthew 11:25
How
ridiculous it is for people to talk about arriving at God apart from our Lord!
God has committed everything to Him. Christ is central; Christ is absolutely essential.
He once put it in these words:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man comes to the Father, except by me” John 14:6.
This is
the content of the revelation. He, Jesus of Nazareth, claimed that He was none
other than the Son of God who had come to earth, and He said that He had done
so because God had sent Him. Men and women had sinned against God and were
therefore under His wrath; so God would have to punish their sin, and that
would mean death and separation from God. So our Lord came, sent, He said, by
God in order to deal with that problem.
So these,
He says, are the things that have been “hid . . . from the wise and prudent,
and . . . revealed . . . unto babes” (Matthew 11:25). Christ is the Son of God,
and He has come into this world not only to teach and to work miracles. The
real purpose of His coming was that He might die on the cross. God sent Him,
says the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in order to “taste death for every
man” (Hebrews 2:9). He said He came to bear the sins of mankind in His own
precious body on the cross on Calvary’s Hill.
There He
was punished for our sins. That is the message; that is the thing that “babes”
have understood. These things are as simple as that, that God in Christ was
making a way of salvation through the cross. Therefore what have we to do? We
have nothing to do but to believe that and to accept it as a free gift. For
God’s way of salvation is that all my sins and failure and shame have been put
upon the Son and dealt with and punished.
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