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Thought for the Day 17 December 2009

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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Christ then took our nature, when He would redeem it; He redeemed it by making it suffer in His own Person; He purified it, by making it pure in His own Person. He first sanctified it in Himself, made it righteous, made it acceptable to God, submitted it to an expiatory passion [on the Cross], and then He imparted it to us. He took it, consecrated it, broke it, and said, “Take, and divide it among yourselves.”

From the sermon ‘Christian Sympathy’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)