C.H. Mackintosh in his classic book, “The All-Sufficiency of Christ,” made a great statement on how the work of Christ on the cross provides a resting place for the believer’s conscience. Enjoy reading:
In considering this great subject (The work of Christ as the only resting place for the conscience), two things claim our attention; first, what Christ has done for us; secondly, what He is doing for us. In the former, we have atonement, in the latter, advocacy. He died for us on the cross; He lives for us on the throne. By His precious atoning death, He has met our entire condition as sinners. He has borne our sins and put them away forever. He stood charged with all our sins – the sins of all who believe in His Name. “Jehovah laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53). And again, “for Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
This is a grand and all-important truth for the anxious soul—a truth which lies at the very foundation of the whole Christian position. It is impossible that any truly awakened soul, any spiritually enlightened conscience, can enjoy divinely settled peace until this most precious truth is laid hold of in simple faith. must know, upon Divine authority, that all my sins are put away forever out of God’s sight; that He Himself has disposed of them in such a manner as to satisfy all the claims of His throne and all the attributes of His nature; that He has glorified Himself in the putting away of my sins, in a far higher and more wonderful manner than if He had sent me to an everlasting hell on account of them.
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