“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. The event at Calvary culminated with the death of Jesus Christ, but what were its results? We have spoken about the disarming of Satan, and his defeat, but is there more? Yes! Christ’s victory on the cross means victory for you and me! And the victory that we have is all because of his love for us which compelled Him to sacrifice Himself on our behalf - and nothing can change it. Here we have the meaning of it all - the victory of the cross. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/didoi The Victory of the Cross What can be said that hasn’t been said about Jesus? This is truly remarkable, but it only begins to tell the story of the value of the cross.
My sins in the eyes of the Lord are forgiven and forgotten. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world” ( 1 John 2:1-2).īecause of the cross, my sins are gone! They are no longer counted against me. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” ( 1 John 1:9). When we speak of the value of the Cross, we are speaking about His blood that was shed for me, and for you. “And such were some of you, but you are washed…” Look at the value of the cross! The chorus of an old hymn says it well: “I know it was the blood, I know it was the blood! I know it was the blood for me! One day when I was lost, Jesus died upon the cross! Yes I know it was the blood for me!” But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” ( 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. I have often asked the question, “How do people live without Jesus?” Then I remember that I once lived without Him too:
Without the cross we have no life worth living. How can we adequately describe the worth, and importance of the cross? What can we say that will express its unequaled merits? We can state a few things that will only just begin to scratch the surface. But what did it all mean? What was its value? Defining the word value, we read from Lexico: “The regard that something is held to deserve the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.” But rather we speak of the event at the hill called Golgotha and what transpired there. It must be understood that when we speak of the cross, we are not speaking of the wooden beam that Jesus died on.
Photo credit: ©Getty Images/Gordon Images The Value of the Cross Yes, it is all true! And it means everything to all, especially to those in the household of faith. “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” ( 1 Corinthians 15:3-4). The apostle Paul tells us about the truth of the cross: “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it” ( Colossians 2:15). Most of all he would love to erase his memories of that fateful day for him when Jesus died on the cross, sealing his fate. But I am sure that Satan himself would love to wipe away the memories he has of Christ and himself in the wilderness, where he went down in defeat. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” ( John 1:1). All I need to know in Scripture concerning His existence, and by solidifying all that he ever did, is found in one verse: None of the reasons are valid, and none of them stand under biblical truth. While the reasons are varied, I believe it takes a very darkened heart to even suggest such a thing.
It should not be a surprise to any of us that there are those in this world who do not believe that Jesus ever existed, thereby wiping out all that he ever did, including dying on the cross.
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