MESSAGE OF THE CROSS

1 Corinthians 1:18 in the Amplified says, “ For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God.

One of the messages of the cross is that an empty cross—He is no longer there—and an empty tomb, means that there can be no empty heart in a believer—He must be there in reality or it was all in vain.

The message of the cross is that the FATHER of Glory so loved the world—me—that he sent his ONLY begotten Son that I might truly experience his presence on a day to day, and hour by hour basis. I must experience the fact that God loves me greater than Jacob loved Benjamin, of which it is written, “His life is bound up in the lad’s life.” I must know that IN CHRIST, He loves me as He loved Jesus!!

The message of the cross is that of saving grace: God took things into his own hand. From its inception to its completion to its glorious outworking of resurrection life, it is all about God taking the first step toward man. After Jesus had risen from the dead, who approached whom? Did the disciples seek the Lord in great faith, or did the Lord seek the disciples knowing they had no faith?

He sought them. It must be the same with us or else, we to will demonstrate to the world that our God is dead. We must experience the same grace the apostles experienced if we are to walk in the power of the gospel. Jesus having made a way for us, must reveal himself to us by taking our hand and leading us every step of the way. This is how Peter, James, and Paul made it; it is the only way that we will make it.