# “The great public act of God” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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- Published: 2009-08-01T19:29:26-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross on Calvary was not an accident;
it was God’s work. It was God who ‘set Him forth’ there. How often is the whole 
glory of the Cross missed when men sentimentalize it away and say, ‘Ah, He was too
good for the world, He was too pure. His teaching was too wonderful; and cruel men
crucified Him!’ The result is that we begin to feel sorry for Him, forgetting that
He Himself turned on those ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ that were beginning to feel 
sorry for Him, and said, ‘Weep not for me but weep for yourselves.’

If our view of the Cross is one that makes us feel sorry for the Lord Jesus Christ,
it just means that we have never seen it truly. It is God who ‘set Him forth.’ It
was not an accident, but something deliberate… It is a great public act of God. 
God has done something here in public on the stage of the world history, in order
that it might be seen, and looked at, and recorded once and forever– the most public
action that has ever taken place.”

–D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, [_The Cross: The Vindication of God_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0891073825?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1976/1999), 4.

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