+II. Christ was not only a dead Saviour, but a condemned Saviour.+ +III. A disgraced Saviour,+ because the cross was a disgraceful kind of punishment. +IV. Paul gloried in the cross because it is an exhibition of the righteousness of God.+ +V. Because it proclaims His love.+ +VI. The contemplation of Christ's cross helps us to conquer the world.+--_Newman Hall._ _Glorying in the Cross._ +I. The subjects in which the apostle gloried.+--1. He might have gloried in his distinguished ancestry. 2. In his polished education. 3. In the morality of his former life. 4. In his extraordinary call to the apostleship. 5. In his high ecclesiastical position. 6. He did not glory in the literal cross. 7. Nor in the metaphorical cross. 8. But in the metonymical cross (1 Cor. i. 17; Col. i. 20). +II. The characteristics of the apostle's glorying.+--1. His glorying was not merely verbal, but practical. 2. Not sectarian, but Christian and catholic. 3. Not temporary, but permanent. +III. The reasons of the apostle's glorying.+--1. Here he saw a grander display of the Divine character and perfections than elsewhere. 2. This was the scene of the most glorious victory ever witnessed. 3. It was the centre of all God's dispensations. 4. The cross was the most powerful incentive to true morality. 5. Hence flowed all the blessings of the Gospel economy. 6. Here was made an atonement equal to the needs of our fallen world. +Lessons.+--1. _Let us here see the purity of the moral law and the heinousness of sin._ 2. _Let the sinner come to the cross for pardon, purity, peace, and joy._--_W. Antliff._ _Glorying in the Cross._ +I. Paul's enthusiasm as expressed in the exclamation of the text.+ +II. One main source of his zeal lay in the subject of his enthusiasm.+--1. The cross is a fit subject for glory as symbolising _an infinite, boundless truth._ 2. Because it is _an eternal fact._ 3. Because it is _the ground of man's justification and the symbol of his redemption._ +III. Look at the result--crucifixion to the world.+--The true solution of the Christian's relationship to the world lies in the fact that it is a separation not in space but in spirit.--_J. Hutchinson, in "Scottish Pulpit."_ Ver. 15. _Scriptural View of True Religion._ +I. What true religion is not.+--1. It is not circumcision nor uncircumcision. 2. It is not an outward thing. (1) You are not religious because you have been baptised. (2) Because you are called a Christian, and have been born of Christian parents. (3) Because you frequent the Church, attend the Lord's Supper, and are regular at your devotions.