Now in that cross is my salvation. And that is wherein the chief glory consists. I live because Christ died. I am reconciled to God because Christ bore the load for me. I am adopted into God's family because of the death of Jesus Christ. And as he died he opened the grave, he opened heaven, and through his death I shall die to sin, and through his resurrection I shall rise to righteousness. And as, risen from the grave, he went up to glory, as the firstfruits of them that slept, the time is coming when I shall hear his voice. I shall rest in the grave, but he shall call me and I shall hear, and the dead shall live again. And as he shall ascend, so shall I ascend; as he triumphed over the grave, so shall I triumph.
Matthew Simpson — Bishop Matthew Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sermons (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885), "Glorying in the Cross," p. 253
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