The Rescue

When Adam was an innocent being, the original sin took man out of the hand of the Creator and put him into the power of Satan as a sinner and with an evil nature! What must progressive history be, founded on this double rebellion, but God brightens up the dark pages of its records by promises and types and shadows of good things to come. By sovereign and effectual grace He brings in this remedy for the rescue of the sinner, and the maintenance of His own holiness. The grand reserve of God is Jesus Christ, the Son of His own love!
Man, in the fruitless search after the happiness he has lost, little thinks he is leaving it behind him by still going out, like Cain, from the presence of God who is the only source of blessing, present or eternal. Nor can there be either permanent peace, or personal security, till we are brought by gifts (certainly by "His unspeakable gift") to God Himself. Providence cannot supply these wants, nor reconcile a sinner to God. The cross of Christ is the only meeting-place for needs such as ours. The cross is the place of Satan's defeat and of our salvation.
Mere gifts of whatever kind or range can never put us outside the enemy's power, nor plant us inside the circle of the coming glory. But an association and oneness through grace with a risen and ascended Savior and Lord does place us where the devil has neither title nor dominion. We are beyond the reach of the enemy, and with Christ and through Christ, with God and with the giver, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Blessed portion! "The Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more forever." Ex. 14:13.
God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Galatians 6:14