THE MEANING OF THE CROSS

THE MEANING OF THE CROSS

 The cross of Calvary means so much to so many.  Because of Christ’s vicarious sacrifice, believers have at-one-ment and peace with The Father.  Thank you, Jesus!  You came to pay a debt You did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay.

 Allow me to cite just a few faith perspectives of that wondrous, old, rugged cross:

 “All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell is terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.”  –Oswald Chambers

 “The cross is God's way of uniting suffering with love.”  –Georgia Harkness

 “The figure of the Crucified invalidates any thought which takes success for its standard.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 “It was on the cross of Calvary that God-in-Christ dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.”  –Miles J. Stanford

 “The deformity of Christ forms you.  If He had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost.  Therefore He was deformed when He hung on the cross.  But His deformity is our comeliness.  In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.”  –Augustine

 “It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary.  As we think about it, we will be overwhelmed by the wonder and greatness of His love for us.”  –Billy Graham

 “From all that dims Mount Calvary, Oh Lamb of God deliver me.”  –Amy Carmichael

 Amen, sisters and brothers, Amen!  Hallelujah, what a Savior!

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!