Monday July 1, 2024

Luke 23:46
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I
commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Even when Christ Jesus died on that unholy, fly-infested cross for mankind, He never divided the Godhead. As the old theologians pointed out, you cannot divide the substance. Not all of Nero’s swords could ever cut down through the substance of the Godhead to cut off the Father from the Son.

It was Mary’s son who cried out, “Why have you forsaken Me?” It was the human body which God had given Him. It was the sacrifice that cried, the lamb about to die. It was the human Jesus. It was the Son of Man who cried.

Believe it that the ancient and timeless Deity was never separated; He was still in the bosom of the Father when He cried, “Into thy hands I commit my spirit.

So the cross did not divide the Godhead—nothing can ever do that. One forever, indivisible, the substance undivided, three persons unconfounded.

Oh, the wonder of the ancient theology of the Christian Church! How little we know of it in our day of lightminded shallowness. How much we ought to know of it.

Tozer on the Almighty God : A 366-Day Devotional (WingSpread, 2004)
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