Christianity is an enigma. It is the law of opposites. It is full of contradictions to the carnal thinking of fallen men. What man finds attractive God can abhor. What is outwardly beautiful can be full of inward corruption and stench. Humanism defaults to pride. Christianity calls for humility. God's way up is down. That means that it required humiliation for the Son of God to redeem sinners. I was thinking about an introduction for this text, when there on my desk was a magazine cover with a woolly lamb with its four feet tied together with a rope. The poor lamb's nose was outstretched resting passively on the floor. It had come to total submission with its captivity. The picture of that sheep, with its wool, the horns, the four tied feet and all its fight gone out of it – whispered submission. A lamb, a victim waiting for death – what could be more pathetic.
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Ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1981 after studying at The Whitefield College of the Bible in Northern Ireland, Pastor Ian Goligher was the pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Cloverdale, B.C. Canada, since pioneering the church there in 1984 until his retirement in...
