Christ's Love for Us - Puritan Thomas Brooks
Summary
TLDRThis transcript reflects on the profound love of Jesus Christ for humanity, emphasizing His sacrifice and willingness to endure suffering for sinners. Thomas Brooks marvels at how Christ chose to die for mankind rather than for the angels, highlighting the boundless, immeasurable love that surpasses human understanding. Through vivid imagery and biblical references, the script contemplates Christ's journey from glory to the cross, His patient suffering under God's wrath, and the immense love that should inspire believers to cherish and follow Him with unwavering devotion.
Takeaways
- ❤️ Christ's love for sinners is astonishing and beyond comprehension, as He chose to die for humanity rather than the angels.
- 😇 Christ's sacrifice for mankind, despite their sinful nature, is admired by angels and envied by devils.
- 🙏 The love of Christ is transcendent, reaching from heaven to the depths of hell, with no limits in time or place.
- 🤲 Christ's love extends to the ungodly, sinners, and enemies, embracing them with care and compassion.
- 👶 Christ humbled Himself by becoming human, enduring suffering and death for the sake of fallen humanity.
- 🔑 Christ, though powerful and divine, willingly accepted condemnation and death to offer salvation to mankind.
- 🌍 The extent of Christ’s love is unparalleled, beyond any created nature's ability to comprehend or express.
- 🔥 The immense sufferings of Christ from His birth to His crucifixion reveal the depth of His love for sinners.
- 🎁 Christ's love compels Christians to respond with superlative love, prioritizing Him above all other worldly attachments.
- 🌟 Christ's sacrifice transforms believers, turning them from enemies of God to sons of God and joint-heirs with Christ.
Q & A
What is the central theme of Thomas Brooks' sermon on Christ's love?
-The central theme of Thomas Brooks' sermon is the immense and sacrificial love of Jesus Christ for sinners. It emphasizes how Christ's love surpasses human understanding and is demonstrated through His willingness to suffer and die for fallen mankind.
Why does Brooks find Christ's love for sinners astonishing?
-Brooks finds Christ's love astonishing because Jesus chose to die for sinful humans rather than for angels, who were more noble creatures. Despite humanity’s sinful nature and unworthiness, Christ's love was unwavering and extended even to His enemies.
How does Brooks describe the contrast between Christ's nature and His suffering?
-Brooks highlights the contrast by showing that Christ, who was divine and glorious, humbled Himself to become human, endure suffering, and die. He emphasizes the shocking reality that the eternal God, clothed in glory, was willing to be born in a manger, suffer immense pain, and die a criminal's death.
What role does Christ's suffering play in demonstrating His love, according to Brooks?
-Christ's suffering is the ultimate proof of His transcendent love. Brooks notes that Jesus endured extreme physical and spiritual suffering, including the wrath of God, to save sinners. This self-sacrificial love highlights Christ's deep compassion for humanity.
How does Brooks compare Christ’s love to natural human love?
-Brooks contrasts Christ's love with human love by pointing out that human nature struggles to love enemies, forgive offenses, or show kindness to those who wrong them. In contrast, Christ's love goes beyond nature, as He loves sinners, forgives them, and offers reconciliation despite their rebellion.
What examples does Brooks provide to illustrate the extraordinary love of early Christians for Christ?
-Brooks gives examples of martyrs and saints who showed extraordinary love for Christ, even at the cost of their lives. He references individuals like Henry Vosges, who was willing to have his head cut off for Christ, and other martyrs who preferred death over renouncing their faith.
What analogy does Brooks use to explain Christ’s sacrifice for humanity?
-Brooks compares Christ's sacrifice to a pelican feeding her young with her own blood to save them from serpents. In the same way, Christ shed His own blood to save humanity, who had been 'bitten' by sin and faced eternal death.
What does Brooks say about the eternal nature of Christ’s love?
-Brooks emphasizes that Christ's love is eternal, stating that time neither began nor will end it. Christ’s love is limitless, transcending time, sin, and human understanding, making it incomprehensible yet constant.
How does Brooks encourage believers to respond to Christ’s love?
-Brooks encourages believers to respond to Christ's love with a 'superlative' love, one that surpasses all other affections. He calls for them to love Christ above worldly possessions, relationships, and even their own lives, as a fitting response to His sacrificial love.
What does Brooks say about the effect of Christ’s love on believers?
-Brooks asserts that Christ’s love should ignite a passionate love for Him in the hearts of believers. He compares it to fire, which transforms everything it touches, urging that Christ's fiery love should make believers' hearts burn with devotion and commitment to Him.
Outlines
💖 Christ's Astonishing Love for Sinners
This paragraph delves into the extraordinary and incomprehensible love of Christ for mankind, surpassing even His love for angels. Despite humanity’s fallenness and misery, Christ’s love remained steadfast and unfathomable. The passage reflects on Christ’s willingness to suffer for sinners, extending His embrace to those in rebellion against Him, highlighting the stark contrast between the Creator’s glory and His sacrifice. Through vivid imagery, the writer emphasizes the deep cost Christ endured from His birth to His death, all motivated by a love that transcends human understanding.
🌟 The Superlative Nature of Christ’s Love
This paragraph focuses on the limitless and eternal nature of Christ's love. It is described as immeasurable, boundless by time or place, and incomparable to any human love. Christ's love is remarkable for forgiving enemies and offering reconciliation to those who provoked Him. The passage urges believers to love Christ with a 'superlative love,' surpassing all other attachments and desires, as Christ endured immense suffering on their behalf. Historical examples of deep, sacrificial love for Christ are provided, encouraging the reader to match such devotion.
🔥 The Glory in Suffering for Christ
Here, the focus shifts to how suffering for Christ is the ultimate glory for believers. Saints throughout history have willingly endured trials, persecution, and even death out of love for Christ. Various examples from Christian history illustrate the strength of this 'overtopping love,' where believers prioritized Christ above all worldly attachments, including family and personal well-being. The paragraph challenges modern Christians to reflect on their own love for Christ, questioning whether it measures up to the sacrificial love shown by the saints of the past.
🌹 Christ's Fiery Love and Our Response
This concluding paragraph reflects on how Christ’s love, symbolized as a consuming fire, should ignite a passionate response in believers. Despite being surrounded by the 'fiery furnace' of Christ’s love, many Christians remain cold and indifferent. The author expresses astonishment that such immense love does not inspire greater devotion. The passage ends with a plea for believers to be profoundly affected by Christ’s suffering and love, urging them to keep Him close to their hearts and let His sacrifice inspire a life of passionate faith and worship.
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Keywords
💡Christ's Love
💡Sacrifice
💡Transcendent Love
💡Wrath of God
💡Depravity of Man
💡Reconciliation
💡Eternal Life
💡Suffering
💡Redemption
💡Divine Mystery
Highlights
Christ's love is so profound that he chose to die for sinners rather than angels, despite angels being more noble creatures.
Christ’s love surpasses all understanding and is admired by both angels and saints.
Despite humanity’s extreme misery and unworthiness, Christ’s love remained unshaken and even grew stronger.
Christ willingly embraced suffering, from the cradle to the cross, to save sinners.
The pure and infinite wrath of God was endured by Christ out of love for mankind.
Christ’s love is compared to that of a pelican feeding her young with her own blood, symbolizing his sacrifice for humanity.
The love of Christ fastened him to the cross and made him die willingly for sinners.
Christ left the eternal bosom of his Father to come to earth, experiencing suffering and death for mankind.
Christ’s love transcends all measures, beyond angels, time, and human understanding.
Despite being hated and provoked by humanity, Christ extended forgiveness and reconciliation.
The saints and martyrs of old have demonstrated superlative love for Christ, willing to sacrifice everything for him.
The extent of Christ’s sufferings for mankind should provoke a deep love and admiration in return.
Christ’s love turned wrath into salvation, offering the golden oil of salvation through his sacrifice.
Even in the face of immense suffering, Christ’s love for humanity remained fiery and unwavering.
Christ’s love should kindle a flame of devotion in the hearts of believers, leading to lives lived in praise and gratitude.
Transcripts
Christ's love for us by Thomas Brooks
let us stand still and admire and wonder
at the love of Jesus Christ
two poor sinners that Christ should
rather die for us than for the angels
they were creatures of a more noble
extract and in all probability might
have brought greater revenues of glory
to God yet that Christ should pass by
those golden vessels and make us vessels
of glory oh what amazing and astonishing
love is this this is the envy of devils
and the admiration of angels and saints
the Apostle holy admiring Christ's love
affirms it to pass knowledge that God
who is the eternal being should love man
when he had scarce a being that he
should be enamored with deformity that
he should love us when in our blood that
he should pity us when no I pitied us
know not our own Oh such was Christ's
transcendent love that man's extreme
misery could not abate it the deplored
nests of man's condition did but
heighten the holy flame of Christ's love
it is as high as heaven who can reach it
it is as low as hell who can understand
it heaven through its glory could not
contain him man being miserable nor
hells torments make him refrain such was
his perfect match love to fallen man
that Christ's love should extend to the
ungodly to sinners to enemies that were
in arms of rebellion against him yes not
only so but that he should hug them in
his arms Lodge them in his bosom dandle
them upon his knees and lay them to his
breasts that they may suck and be
satisfied is the highest improvement
of love that Christ should come from the
eternal bosom of his father to a region
of sorrow and death that God should be
manifested in the flesh the creator made
a creature that he that was clothed with
glory should be wrapped with rags of
flesh that he that filled heaven should
be cradled in a manger that the God of
Israel should fly into Egypt that the
god of strength should be weary that the
judge of all flesh should be condemned
that the god of life should be put to
death that he that is one with his
father should cry out of misery oh my
father if it be possible let this cup
pass from me that he that had the keys
of hell and death should lie imprisoned
in the Sepulcher of another having in
his lifetime nowhere to lay his head nor
after death to lay his body and all this
for man for fallen man for miserable man
for worthless man it's beyond the
thoughts of created nature's the sharp
the universal and continual sufferings
of our Lord Jesus Christ from the cradle
to the cross does above all other things
speak out the transcendent love of Jesus
Christ to poor sinners that wrath that
great wrath that fierce wrath that pure
wrath that infinite wrath that matchless
wrath of an angry god that was so
terribly impressed upon the soul of
Christ quickly spent his natural
strength and turned his moisture into
the drought of summer and yet all this
wrath he patiently underwent that
sinners might be saved and that he might
bring many sons unto glory Oh wonder of
love love enables Jesus to suffer it was
love that made
dear Lord Jesus lay down his life to
save us from hell and to bring us to
heaven as the Pelican out of her love to
her young ones when they are bitten with
serpents feeds them with her own blood
to recover them again so when we were
bitten by the old serpent and our wound
incurable and we in danger of eternal
death then did our dear Lord Jesus that
he might recover us and heal us feed us
with his own blood o love unspeakable
this made barnard cry out Lord you have
loved me more than yourself for you have
laid down your life for me it was only
the golden link of love that fastened
Christ to the cross and that made him
die freely for us and that made him
willing to be numbered among
transgressors
that we might be numbered among the
General Assembly and Church of the
firstborn which are written in heaven
Christ's love is like his name and that
is wonderful yes it is so wonderful that
it is above all creatures beyond all
measure contrary to all nature it is
above all creatures for it is above the
Angels and therefore above all others it
is beyond all measure for time did not
begin it and time shall never end it
place does not bound it sin does not
exceed it no estate no age no sex is
denied it tongues cannot express it
understandings cannot conceive it and it
is contrary to all nature for what
nature can love where it is hated what
nature can forgive where it is provoked
what nature can offer reconciliation
where it receives wrong what nature can
heap up kindness upon contempt
favor upon ingratitude mercy upon sin
and yet Christ's love has led him to all
this so that well may we spend all our
days in admiring and adoring of this
wonderful love and be always ravished
with the thoughts of it see that you
love the Lord Jesus Christ with a
superlative love with an overtopping
love there are none that have suffered
so much for you as Christ there are none
that can suffer so much for you as
Christ the least measure of that wrath
that Christ has sustained for you would
have broke the hearts necks and backs of
all created beings oh my friends there
is no love but a superlative love that
is suitable to the transcendent
sufferings of dear Jesus oh love him
above your lusts love him above your
relations love him above the world love
him above all your outward contentment
and enjoyments yes
love him above your very lives for thus
the patriarchs prophets apostles Saints
primitive Christians and the martyrs of
old have loved our Lord Jesus Christ
with an overtopping love they loved not
their lives unto the death
that is they slighted condemned
yes despised their lives exposing them
to hazard and loss out of love to the
Lamb who had washed them in his blood I
have read of one Killion a Dutch
schoolmaster who being asked whether he
did not love his wife and children
answered were all the world a lump of
gold and in my hands to dispose of I
would leave it at my enemy's feet to
live with them
in a prison but my soul and my Savior
are dear to me
than all if my father says Jerome should
stand before me and to my mother hang
upon and my brethren should press about
me
I would break through my brethren throw
down my father and tread underfoot my
mother to cleave to Jesus Christ had I
ten heads said Henry Vosges they should
all be cut off for Christ if every hair
of my head said martyr John Ardley were
a man they should all suffer for the
faith of Christ let fire racks pulleys
said Ignatius and all the torments of
hell come upon me so I may win Christ
love made you Rome to say o my Savior
did you die for love of me a love sadder
than death but to me a death more lovely
than love itself
I cannot live love you and be longer
from you George carpenter being asked
whether he did not love his wife and
children which stood weeping before him
answered my wife and children my wife
and children their dearer to me than all
the Varia yet for the love of Christ I
know them not that Blessed Virgin in
basil being condemned for Christianity
to the fire and having her estate and
life offered her if she would worship
idols cried out let money perish and
life vanish Christ is better than all
sufferings for Christ are the Saints
greatest glory
they are those things wherein they have
most glory your cruelty is our glory
says Tertullian it is reported of Babel
s that when he was to die for Christ he
desired this favour that his chains
might be buried with him as the incense
of his honor thus you see with what a
superlative love with what an
overtopping love
Saints have loved our Lord Jesus and can
you Christians who are cold and low in
your love to Christ hear these instances
and not blush certainly the more Christ
has suffered for us the more dear Christ
should be unto us the more bitter his
sufferings have been for us the more
sweet his love should be to us and the
more eminent should be our love to him
oh let a suffering Christ lie nearest
your hearts let him be your manna your
Tree of Life your Morningstar it is
better to part with all than with this
pearl of price Christ is that golden
pipe through which the golden oil of
salvation runs and oh how should this
inflame our loved to Christ
oh that our hearts were more affected
with the sufferings of Christ who can
tread upon these hot coals and his heart
not burn in love to Christ and cry out
with ignatius Christ my love is
crucified if a friend should die for us
how would our hearts be affected with
his kindness and shall the God of glory
lay down his life for us and shall we
not be affected with his goodness shall
Saul be affected with David's kindness
in sparing his life and shall not we be
affected with Christ's kindness who to
save our life lost his own oh the
infinite love of Christ that he should
leave his father's bosom and come down
from heaven that he might carry you up
to heaven that he that was the son
should take upon him the form of a
servant that you of slaves should be
made sons of enemies should be made
friends of heirs of Wrath should be made
heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ
that to save us from everlasting ruin
Christ should
but nothing but be willing to be made
flesh to lie in a manger to be tempted
deserted persecuted and to die upon a
cross Oh what flames of love should
these things Kindle in all our hearts to
Christ love is compared to fire in
heaping love upon our enemy we heap
coals of fire upon his head now the
property of fire is to turn all it meets
with into its own nature fire makes all
things fire the coal makes burning coals
and is it not a wonder then that Christ
having heaped abundance of the fiery
coals of his love upon our heads we
should yet be as cold as corpses and our
love to him ah what sad metal are we
made of that Christ fiery love cannot
inflame our love to Christ Moses
wondered why the bush consumed not when
he sees it all on fire and if you please
but to look into your own hearts you
shall see a greater wonder for you shall
see that though you walk like those
three children in the fiery furnace even
in the midst of Christ's fiery love
flaming around you yet there is but
little very little true smell of that
sweet fire of love to be felt or found
upon you or in you Oh
winch other sufferings of a dear and
tender-hearted Savior Kindles such a
flame of love in all our hearts as shall
still be a breaking forth in our lips
and lives in our words and ways to the
praise and glory of free grace oh that
the sufferings of a loving Jesus might
at last make us all sick with love oh
let him forever lie between our breasts
who has left his father's bosom for a
time that he might be in boozing by us
forever this concludes Christ's love for
us
by Thomas Brooks
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