Nuggets from Owen
As I was reading “Communion with God” by John Owen this evening there were a couple of quotes that were especially good and I thought worth sharing.
“It was his only Son that God sent into the world to suffer for sin (John 3:16, Rom. 8:32). Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful than when the punishment of it fell upon the Son of God. When God made his Son to be sin for us, he showed how utterly impossible it was for him to let the least sin go unpunished.”
“God was not pleased with the blood, the tears, the cries, and the terrible torments of the Son of his love. But God required that his law be fulfilled, his justice satisfied and his wrath propitiated for sin. Nothing less than the death of his Son could fulfil these requirements. S o if we would learn the real truth about sin, we must look at Christ crucified.”
“The whole purpose of sin and why God allowed sin into the world is revealed only in Christ. Sin was allowed entry in to the world in order that God’s glorious grace may be praised in the pardoning and forgiveness of sin. Outside Christ, sin in its own nature only brings dishonour to God. But in Christ, God is seen to be a God pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin.”
“So a true saving knowledge of sin is to be found only in Christ and him crucified.”