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Chapter 27
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now. We need not marvel at any developments of horror. Those
who trample under their unholy feet the law of God have the same
spirit as had the men who insulted and betrayed Jesus. Without any
compunction of conscience, they will do the deeds of their father,
the devil. They will ask the question that came from the traitorous
lips of Judas, What will you give me if I betray unto you Jesus the
Christ? Even now Christ is being betrayed in the person of His
saints.
In view of the history of the life and death of Christ, can we be
surprised if the world is hollow and insincere? Can we in our day
trust in man, or make flesh our arm? Shall we not choose Christ as
our Leader? He alone can save us from sin.
When the world is at last brought up for trial before the great
white throne, to account for its rejection of Jesus Christ, God’s own
messenger to our world, what a solemn scene it will be! What a
reckoning will have to be made for nailing to the cross One who
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came to our world as a living epistle of the law. God will ask each
one the question, What have you done with My only-begotten Son?
What will those answer who have refused to accept the truth? They
will be obliged to say, We hated Jesus, and cast Him out. We cried,
Crucify Him, crucify Him. We chose Barabbas in His stead. If those
to whom the light of Heaven is presented reject it, they reject Christ.
They reject the only provision whereby they may be cleansed from
pollution. They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
put Him to an open shame. To them it will be said, “I never knew
you: depart from me.” God will assuredly avenge the death of His
Son (
The Review and Herald, January 30, 1900
).
21
. See
EGW comment on Romans 3:19
.
21, 22, 29 (
Philippians 2:9
;
Hebrews 2:9
;
Revelation 6:16
;
14:10
). Two Kinds of Crowns
—On whose side are we? The world
cast Christ out, the heavens received Him. Man, finite man, rejected
the Prince of life; God, our sovereign Ruler, received Him into the
heavens. God has exalted Him. Man crowned Him with a crown of
thorns, God has crowned Him with a crown of royal majesty. We
must all think candidly. Will you have this man Christ Jesus to rule
over you, or will you have Barabbas? The death of Christ brings to
the rejecter of His mercy the wrath and judgments of God, unmixed
with mercy. This is the wrath of the Lamb. But the death of Christ