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Evil and good came to an issue at the cross. It was the turning-point; it was where the two met. And now the whole question is, Am I with the world that turned Christ out, or with Christ whom the world turned out? There is nothing like the cross. It is both the righteousness of God against sin, and the righteousness of God in pardoning sin. It is the end of the world of judgment, and the beginning of the world of life. It is the work that put away sin, and yet it is the greatest sin that ever was committed. The more we think of it, the more we see it is the turning-point of everything. So, if a person follows the world, he is an enemy of the cross of Christ.

J. N. Darby (‘Coll. Wrtgs.’. Vol. 27, p.202)

It is not so much what one does, or what one is, but what one is to Him; and not to Him only, but to His own here. Can anything conduce more to render my stay in this scene happy and cheerful, however enfeebled in health, or tried in circumstances, than the simple fact that, staying here, I can please my Lord, and be in fellowship with His interests in His people?

J. B. Stoney (Vol. 12, p.236)

... God cannot own the flesh in us; it is not simply the rejection of it in its gross form, but the flesh in every form; it is the man gone You are prepared for the power of the Spirit; you are not prepared for the power of the Spirit except as you are consciously weak in the flesh, for you would naturally cling to the flesh; but everything is gone in circumcision.

F. E. Raven (Vol. 8, pp.350, 351)

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