John Stott on the cross, and honoring Christ.
“Remembering that Jesus Christ has bought us with his blood and that in consequence we belong to him should motivate us as individual Christians to holiness… Our body has not only been created by God and will one day be resurrected by him, but it has been bought by Christ’s blood and is indwelled by his spirit. Thus it belongs to God three times over, by creation, redemption, and indwelling. How then, since it does not belong to us, can we misuse it? Instead, we are to honor God with it, by obedience and self-control. Bought by Christ, we have no business to become the slaves of anybody or anything else. Once we were the slaves of sin; now we are the slaves of Christ, and his service is true freedom.” John Stott - The Cross of Christ pg.179
AMEN!