Christ Spans
the Gulf of Sin - Part 2
A sermon by
Ellen G. White delivered at
Armadale, Australia,
November 1895
Christ died for the sins of
the world that we might have an opportunity of showing to the universe
loyalty to God and His law. Today He is making an atonement for us before
the Father. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1). Pointing to the palms of
His hands, pierced by the fury and prejudice of wicked men, He says of
us, "I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands." The Father
bows in recognition of the price paid for humanity, and the angels approach
the cross of Calvary with reverence. What a sacrifice is this! Who can
fathom it! It will take the whole of eternity for man to understand the
plan of redemption. It will open to him line upon line, here a little
and there a little.
By transgression man was severed
from God, the communion between them was broken. But Jesus Christ died
upon the cross of Calvary, bearing in His body the sins of the whole world,
and the gulf between heaven and earth was bridged by that cross. Christ
leads men to the gulf and points to the bridge by which it is spanned,
saying, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow Me" (Matt. 16:24).
God gives us a probation in
which we may prove whether or not we will be loyal to Him. Christ calls
upon us to lay our sins upon Him, the Sin-Bearer, that we may represent
God. But if we refuse to let them go, taking the responsibility ourselves,
we will be lost. We may fall upon Christ, the living stone, and be broken,
but if that stone falls upon us, it will grind us to powder.
In our warfare we have Christ's
promise, "He that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest Myself to him." He manifested Himself
to John, who had been banished by his persecutors to the lonely isle of
Patmos. But there He who rules the earth and keeps the waters in their
appointed channel, manifested Himself to John. "I John, who also
am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and
patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the
word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last" (Rev. 1:9-11):
"the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which
was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (verse 8).
Christ manifested Himself to
Peter, and delivered him from prison by the hand of an angel. He manifested
himself to Stephen, and he, "being full of the Holy Ghost, looked
up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing
on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened,
and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God" (Acts 7:55).
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