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  GREATEST DISPLAY OF GOD'S HOLINESS？ THE CROSS
  by Michael Durham
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes that the greatest display of holiness is
not in grandiose events like the burning bush or Isaiah chapter 6, but
in the sacrificial act of Jesus being crucified on a hill outside
Jerusalem. It highlights how Jesus, as the Son of God, bore the absence
of God's presence and the wrath of a holy God against sin on behalf of
humanity. Through His death, Jesus not only saves from condemnation but
also delivers from the power of sin, offering complete redemption and
freedom from iniquity.

Topics: "Sacrifice of Christ", "Redemption and Freedom from Sin"
Scripture References: Romans 5:8, 1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5, Ephesians 1:7, Revelation 3:20

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This sermon emphasizes that the greatest display of holiness is not in
grandiose events like the burning bush or Isaiah chapter 6, but in the
sacrificial act of Jesus being crucified on a hill outside Jerusalem. It
highlights how Jesus, as the Son of God, bore the absence of God's
presence and the wrath of a holy God against sin on behalf of humanity.
Through His death, Jesus not only saves from condemnation but also
delivers from the power of sin, offering complete redemption and freedom
from iniquity.

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The greatest display of holiness is not the burning bush, the greatest
display of holiness is not Isaiah chapter 6, no sir, the greatest
display of the holiness of God is a little hill outside the walls of
Jerusalem where they took our Lord and pinned Him to a tree. There,
there the sun refused to shine, it could not participate in the shameful
acts of wicked men as its creator was being put to death and there in
one moment, one excruciating indescribable moment when the Son of God
Jesus Christ, the eternal second person of the Godhead and that man born
of the virgin is gripped with the absence of God's presence. I remind
you why He's there, He's there because of you.

He's experiencing the wrath of God, a holy God against your sin and by
His substitutionary death, you can be set free not only from the
condemnation but set free from sin. You can be delivered from sin right
here, right now. God is a redeemer, a deliverer of His people.

He didn't suffer the agonies of a holy and righteous God just to keep
you out of hell. Oh no, He's a greater deliverer than that. He means to
deliver you from sin, all of your sin, all of your filthiness, all of
your idols, all of your iniquity He took upon you.

All of our iniquities was laid upon Him and look at Him there, look at
Him as the Father pours out the cup of holy wrath and He drinks it all.
So that God now can look at you and come to you and visit you without
destroying you and say come, come away my beloved, come. Behold I stand
at the door.

Oh it's not an evangelistic text for a church, a church and I think it's
an appropriate text for this hour. This excerpt was taken from the full
sermon, Surprised by Grace. It was preached at Sovereign Grace Community
Church's conference in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Find the messages on their sermon audio page at sermonaudio.com slash
corpuschristians.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/6Qmffkd2bew.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/michael-durham/greatest-display-of-gods-holiness-the-cross/
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