Crucified

You must settle in your mind how the Cross of Christ organizes the universe.  It is the power of God for salvation first to the Jews, then to everyone not Jewish.  This is never violated nor reduced to rhetoric.  The Cross of Christ is not a tool of propagandists to win over converts.  It is how we are taken out of the slavery of sin and made new creations.  All the world is bent by its will to redeem and the stars and the planets will be swept away by its power to remake them free of all Sin.  The Cross of Christ contains everything we need to know about life and death and eternity.  Whatever religion one may hold, it is all a barren tree if the Cross of Christ does not fill it through and through.  "Repent", John the Baptist proclaimed.  Why?  You cannot enter into the work of the Cross of Christ unless you repent.  "Believe" our Savior announced.  Why?  You do not have life unless you believe the work the Cross of Christ has done.   It is the stone over which the entire world stumbles and until we stand upon this great stone of life, we are crushed under the weight of our sins...we are wrecks that are wasting away from sin's wresting power.    In the Cross, our blood becomes mingled with our Lord's so that as we are transformed by the Crucified Son of Man, we have Him as a part of us.  There is no other name under heaven by which we may be saved but the Name of the One whose blood poured down from an old clumsy Cross.  Nothing matters but the salvation of our crucified Lord...all else falls apart under the weight of Sin.    A day like today is the one when the Savior of the World died; a day like today is one upon which He will return and take all those carried out of the slavery of this world and bring them into the Crucified Home.  The Cross is at the Center of the Gospel; it is The Good News!

The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.     Matthew 28:5 NIV