# “Pride cannot live beneath the cross” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2013-06-03T12:30:49-05:00
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“He humbled Himself.”—**Philippians 2:8**

“Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him.
See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ,
wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou
canst not be proud!

Is not this sentence the compendium of His biography, ‘He humbled Himself’? Was 
He not on earth always stripping off first one robe of honour and then another, 
till, naked, He was fastened to the cross, and there did He not empty out His inmost
self, pouring out His life-blood, giving up for all of us, till they laid Him penniless
in a borrowed grave?

How low was our dear Redeemer brought! How then can we be proud? Stand at the foot
of the cross, and count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed. See the
thorn-crown. Mark His scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned rills.

See hands and feet given up to the rough iron, and His whole self to mockery and
scorn. See the bitterness, and the pangs, and the throes of inward grief, showing
themselves in His outward frame. Hear the thrilling shriek, ‘My God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken Me?’

And if you do not lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never 
seen it: if you are not humbled in the presence of Jesus, then you do not know Him.
You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s only begotten
Son.

Think of that, and as Jesus stooped for you, bow yourself in lowliness at His feet.
A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a greater tendency to humble us than 
even a consciousness of our own guilt.

May the Lord bring us in contemplation to Calvary, then our position will no longer
be that of the pompous man of pride, but we shall take the humble place of one who
loves much because much has been forgiven him.

Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and 
then rise and carry it into practice.”

–Charles Spurgeon, “June 3 –  Evening” in [_Morning and Evening_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433598663?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Geanies House, Fearn, Scotland, UK: Christian Focus, 1994),  329.

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