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Disagree, agree, or have a question: Contact us through the contact page on our website; http://www.biblebulldog.com PASTOR WILLIAM'S BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-Shifflett/author/B005H0F1GG True Contemplation of the Cross – Martin Luther Hebrews 12:2-3 - looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. “The true contemplation is that in which the heart is crushed and the conscience smitten.” A fascination with the miraculous Do you think that those who seek miracles are interested in what the miracles point to? "A wicked generation seeks for signs," Jesus said, followed by Paul's reminder that his fellow Jews were so busy looking for miraculous wonders that they stumbled over the Gospel of Christ crucified. Did His disciples understand Him when He said He must suffer and die? A fascination with moralism Is Jesus merely an example of how we should live? Jesus told the Pharisees that despite their devotion to the Scriptures, they did not really understand what they were reading, since he (Jesus) is the point of all of Scripture. Is it possible to go to hell by striving to go to heaven? A fascination with the mysterious Do you think there is a fascination with the mysteriousness of spiritual things, such as “end times”? Should we be content to know God as He has graciously manifested Himself in the written Word? “The more you ponder, the deeper you will tremble.” “If you are so hardened that you do not tremble, then you have reason to tremble.” “The whole value of the meditation of the suffering of Christ lies in this, that man should come to the knowledge of himself and sink and tremble.” How valuable is a human soul? “What should it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what should a man give in exchange for his soul?” Jesus,God,Holy Spirit,devotional,Easter,resurrection,contemplation,jerusalem,innocent,crushed,cup,gethsemane,betrayed,denied,deserted,spit,lamb,silence,suffer,forgive,cries,tears,destroy,devil,thirsty,forsaken,cursed,commit,spirit,blood,water,decended,ascended,savor,sweet-smelling,peace,power,suffering,crucified,crucify,Christ,reformed,Martin Luther,John Calvin,church,christian,worship,devotion,Bible,Scripture,prayer,service,death,saved,life,eternal,heaven,hell,calvinism