Ephesians 5:2, "Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God!" In the sin-atoning sufferings and death of Christ, we behold the most astonishing exhibition of divine love that has ever been manifested to a lost world. Such love as is here displayed, is without a precedent. Yes, without a parallel in the annals of time, or in the records of eternity. To behold the Son of God, the Maker of worlds, bowing His head on the cross, and yielding up His immaculate soul amid the agonies of death, is the most amazing, the most affecting, the most melting sight that mortals ever witnessed! Around the Cross of Christ shine the most resplendent rays of divine love that ever beamed from the Sun of Righteousness--that ever emanated from the Deity. O, my soul, behold and wonder! Behold your Savior bleeding on the cruel cross! See Him bleeding from His head, His hands, His feet, His heart--that your sins might be washed away in the flowing stream! See Him pouring out His soul unto death for your salvation! Is not this a manifestation of unparalleled love to you? Christ's suffering and dying for us is a great mystery--a mystery of unfathomable love! How vehement was the love of Christ, that led Him to endure death in its most terrible form, even the death of the cross! Such is the love of Christ. All the waters of affliction and suffering; all the billows of divine wrath that rolled over our blessed Redeemer, were not sufficient to quench the ardency of that love which He felt for His beloved people! ". . . the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me!" Galatians 2:20