THE TRUE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST

 

THE TRUE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST.                             Easter 7/4/2023

 

If we could have sat with God in heaven on the day Jesus was crucified, what would we see is happening on earth? We would see a holy Man who was sent from God with the Word and Spirit of God, One who did mighty works and miracles of God proving He was from God, who confronted the hypocrites, who was hated, despised and rejected for no reason, was denied and betrayed by His friends, family and generation, who was unfairly tried and condemned to death, and One who was most shamefully, painfully and brutally tortured to death on a cross.  In totality, we would see the greatest injustice ever, namely evil sinful mankind despising, rejecting, denying, betraying and killing God’s Word, God’s Spirit, God’s Son, and even their own Father and Creator.  

 

And every man on earth who sins or who allows sin and unrighteousness, does exactly the same to God and Jesus in his own heart and life. Every time we sin, we damage, crush and destroy the likeness and will of God in our hearts and lives and we give life to Satan. Every time we turn a blind eye to sin and suffering, we allow Jesus to be wounded and to bleed and we allow the Word and likeness of God to be destroyed in our presence.

 

Jesus bore our sins in His body on the cross. Our sins pierced and killed Him. We spilled His blood and life. We are damned and doomed to hell for it. Without holiness we will continue piercing and killing Jesus in our hearts and will not see God.

 

What shall we do for we are all guilty of the death of Jesus through every sin of co-mission and omission? We can only fall down on our faces and confess our sins and guilt to God, to Jesus and to man with deep remorse and repent utterly and thoroughly and make right what we have done wrong. Graciously God then promises us forgiveness, deliverance and cleansing from all our sins and filling with His Holy Spirit and Likeness – that we may stop sinning, live a holy life and see Him after death. 

 

This is the true message of the Cross of Jesus – Jesus bleeds and dies when I sin, I have no excuse for and cannot continue in sins, I must confess and repent and stop. Then Jesus makes a new covenant with us in His blood shed by all of us - if we do confess it and repent, He will forgive, deliver and cleanse us through His blood we have spilled. Oh, His mercy! This is the message of the cross of Jesus, which is the power and wisdom of God unto deliverance from sin and holiness.  However, if we keep on sinning, we remain guilty of His body and blood and will be condemned.

 

SELA! Pause and think.

 

Faan Oosthuizen sdoosthuizen@xsinet.co.za