Classic Sermon Outlines
Slexander Maclaren
SERMON EIGHTEEN
THE CROSS, THE GLORY OF
CHRIST, AND GOD
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IN IMMEDIATE connection with the departure of the traitor comes this singular burst of triumph in our text. What Judas went to do was the beginning of Christ's glorifying. We have here, then, a triple glorification—the Son of Man glorified in His cross; God glorified in the Son of Man; and the Son of Man glorified in God.
I. THE SON OF MAN GLORIFIED IN HIS CROSS.
A. Christ's Twofold Attitude toward the Cross.
1. The innocent shrinking of His manhood. On the one hand we mark in Him an unmistakable shrinking from the cross, the innocent shrinking of His manhood expressed in such words as "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished" (Luke 12:50); and in such incidents as the agony in Gethsemane.
2. The triumphant anticipation. And yet, side by side with that, not overcome by it, but not overcoming it, there is the opposite feeling, the reaching out almost with eagerness to bring the cross nearer to Himself.
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren cence ae by drops through His words, through His deeds, through His whole demeanor and bearing; but in His death it comes in a flood and pours itself upon the world.
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