The Power and Work of the Cross

“One of the beautiful things about the gospel, about knowing God… with all His mystery, with all the wonder of God, He made our path to know Him simple…

If we are not careful we can make what it is to be a Christian more complicated than it is… Truly it’s all about Jesus and His work… and from that place, the place of the active presence of God, everything else in the Christian life flows…

“Philosophy and empty deceit… human tradition… spirits of the world” three deceptive enemies we all face and trying to follow Jesus…

The church Paul was writing to here was struggling with people trying to add to the gospel… teaching that they needed to combine faith in Christ with some kind of secret knowledge (Gnostics)… another group were Judaizers…

Anytime hoops are added that we have to jump through in order to know Christ, or to be a “real” believer, it’s only a disservice to the work of Christ…

If we are in Christ we have been raised to “new life” through faith in Christ… sin, death and Hell no longer have any claim on us…

If God could overlook sin, the cross would be unnecessary…

We’ve all broken the moral law of God, and outside of Jesus absorbing the punishment on the cross, there is no way of reconciling “the record of debts” we’ve committed against God…

This is the power of the work of the cross… if you are in Christ your completeness is found in Him alone… no secret knowledge or old traditions can get you there…
• In Him we can put off our sinful nature,
• in Him there is resurrection,
• in Him there is forgiveness,
• in Him there is deliverance from every legal requirement of the law,
• and in Him there is deliverance from every evil spirit I would attack your heart…

Jesus has triumphed over Satan, and the cross is on display, forever showing Satan’s defeat… this is the great irony of the cross, in death, it would seem Jesus had lost… but in order for there to be a resurrection, there has to be a death…

Why would Jesus go through all this, because He loves you and wants you to live within your full purpose… You were created for the presence of God, the presence of Jesus…”

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