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The Cross of Christ is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. Never
associate the idea of martyrdom with the Cross of Christ. It was the supreme
triumph, and it shook the very foundations of hell. There is nothing in time or
eternity more absolutely certain and irrefutable than what Jesus Christ
accomplished on the Cross— He made it possible for the entire human race to be
brought back into a right-standing relationship with God. He made redemption the
foundation of human life; that is, He made a way for every person to have
fellowship with God.
The Cross was not something that happened to Jesus— He came to die; the Cross
was His purpose in coming. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world” ( Revelation 13:8 ). The incarnation of Christ would have no meaning
without the Cross. Beware of separating “God was manifested in the flesh. . .”
from “. . . He made Him. . . to be sin for us. . .” ( 1 Timothy 3:16 ; 2
Corinthians 5:21 ). The purpose of the incarnation was redemption. God came in
the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself. The Cross
is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of
both.
The Cross is not the cross of a man, but the Cross of God, and it can never be
fully comprehended through human experience. The Cross is God exhibiting His
nature. It is the gate through which any and every individual can enter into
oneness with God. But it is not a gate we pass right through; it is one where we
abide in the life that is found there.
The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy
to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and
sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was
opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of
God.
". . . who Himself bore our sins in His own body on
the tree . . ." — 1 Peter 2:24
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