Here we see what is in every
human heart by nature. By Don Fortner. What shall I
do with Jesus, who is called Christ? Pilate asked. They shouted
back, Crucify Him! Matthew 27, verse 22. Oh, what a revelation of man
the cross is! Man hating God, and hating Him
most when God displayed His love most fully. Man acting like the
devil, taking Satan's side against God. Yes, the cross was a public
declaration of man's hatred for God and His Son. The cross is
proud man, spitting in God's face and saying, I am holy. I need no Savior. To hell with
God and His Son. Our Savior asked, what do you
think you of Christ? Man's answer was, crucify Him. Man's heart, his hands, his tongue
all combined to scream out hatred for God and His Son. Calvary's
Hill displays man's utter hatred for God. How deep, bitter, universal,
and vile is the hatred of the human heart for God! Oh, how
fallen man hates God! The arrest, the scourging, the
mockery, the spitting, the smiting, The cries, Crucify Him! Crucify
Him! The wagging the heads. The cruel
nails. The thieves railing. Everything
was but the outpouring of man's utter hatred for God. Here we
see what is in every human heart by nature. Man declares his heart
in the crucifixion of God's darling son. God seems to have said,
vent the feelings of your heart. And he did, taking God by the
throat, as it were. Man snatched the only begotten
son from his father's heart and crucified him with hellish delight. Reckoning the death of the cross,
the worst of all deaths, man said, this is the best way to
show my contempt for God. This is exactly what I think
of the Son of God. Thus, the enmity of the heart
speaks out. And man not only confesses publicly
that he is a hater of God, but he takes pains to show the intensity
of that hatred. The cross interprets what's in
a man's heart. The cross rips the mask of pretended
religion off of the face of our race. The cross of Christ exhibits
man's heart as a cesspool overflowing with the malignity of hell.