THE MEANING IS? AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS!!!

May 16, 2014

THE MEANING IS? AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS!!!

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 1 Peter 3:18 (NKJV)

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.”Romans 5:8 (NIV) My friends how do our finite minds define such a feeling, a feeling that transcends from a God of grace and mercy who looked beyond the CROSS to May 16, 2014 and saw in spite of Calvary and the price that was paid for mankind that sin would abound and man would disregard what was done on there behalf as a meaningless and insufficient act.

So How do we truly understand such a degree of love. As a child of God, my conclusion is, it cannot be defined in words and since it is beyond any definition, then only the ACT itself can we consider for any human explanation, a explanation that goes far beyond some enclosed boundary that has limits. Simply put AT THE CROSS is the only thing that can take us to some semblance or level of where I am trying to take you today.

AT THE CROSS is where it starts and where it will all end. AT THE CROSS is where self-dies and Christ lives in us. AT THE CROSS is where we receive the mind of Christ as we become a candidate for life eternal. AT THE CROSS is where our life can be measured by the sacrifice of a risen Savior. AT THE CROSS is where we can take our feelings to the level of anything we could ever imagine about God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness, creation, life, death, Salvation, and His Word and Spirit and make since of it all.

In consistent with that, AT THE CROSS is the only place where we can ever feel what we call love and try to reciprocate that same feeling to others of what God has and is still doing for us. AT THE CROSS also refines, restores and replaces what the world deems as LOVE, to the awesome power of FAITH, ENDURANCE, AND THE PASSION OF WHAT DEFINES AT THE CROSS.

So with that PASSION in us we can now walk like Christ, talk like Christ, treat others differently, as we use Christ as our example and Each Day of our life is now spent with The one who now lives in us as we no longer conform to the world’s definition of LOVE  But only Christ definition which is AT THE CROSS.

So friends love is simply defined as Jesus Christ and Him crucified who lives in His Children today, tomorrow, and soon to be, throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity. I know that all sounds complicated but it is only complicated if you continue to tell yourself or allow the god of this world to tell you that he has a better way. But his way is only better if he suffered and died AT THE CROSS for my sins and now sits at the right hand of “our Father which art in heaven.”

Also his way is only better if  He continues to advocate on our behalf, to the Father for our Salvation. My friends we don’t have time to hesitate on our decision to make the name of Christ and the cross the only pathway to Salvation for “none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved. Acts 4:12 (ASV) and “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” Mark 8:34 (NIV)

Christ tells us Himself  “behold, I COME QUICKLY; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Rev. 22:12 (NIV) So friends today focus on the words I COME QUICK-LY MEANING WITH SPEED; RAPIDLY; VERY SOON. “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.” Matt. 24:42-43 (ASV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY