The Cross: God's Solution and Invitation to Humanity
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The cross puts tremendous emphasis upon that he came there not in order that our bodies might be healed not in order that we might be better fed or clothed or have might more have more information and knowledge no no he came to save the soul the son of men is come to seek and to save that which is lost and what is lost is man's Soul. [00:16:51]
The most important thing to men according to this preaching of the Cross is a man's relationship to God oh I dealt last Sunday night with men's relationship to man and that's very important but you see the message of the Cross as I showed then was this that a man's relationship to his fellow men will never be right unless his relationship to God is first of all put right. [00:18:12]
The thing that makes sin sin or if you prefer it the very essence of sin is the Rebellion against God is the breaking of a relationship with God that is the real meaning of sin now the world doesn't know that but that is the great message of the Cross we tend to think of sin in terms of actions and of acts bad acts wrong things which we've done or wrong things which we've thought or wrong things which we have said but my dear friend that isn't the serious thing about Sin. [00:19:36]
The cross answers the question he dies upon the cross because God hates sin and because God's holy wroth is upon Sin Sin cannot be played with by God his holy nature prohibits it sin is the most serious matter that has ever entered into the whole universe let me put it like this to you the problem of sin I say is the greatest problem that even almighty God has ever had to deal with. [00:23:19]
God cannot forgive sin just by saying I forgive if he could he would have do you imagine that God would ever have sent his only begotten son to that cross if he could have forgiven the sin of men in any other way would God have abandoned his son to that and poured out upon him the vials of his wrath would he have have allowed his only begotten dearly beloved Son to cry out in agony and to say my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me and endure the agony and The Thirst and the shame would he ever have allowed it if there was any other way there wasn't. [00:24:15]
The cross is a public declaration the cross is an historic event it isn't an idea it isn't a theory the cross is a public event it is something that happened on a cross called Calvary nearly 2,000 years ago historic public evident visible the whole world knows about it God has set it forth he's made a pronouncement he's called attention to it. [00:32:21]
The cross is a mighty declaration and what it says is this he's a propitiation in other words God on the cross was punishing sin he said he would he's done it God has always said that sin is to be punished that his holy wrath is upon it and that he cannot deal with sin in any other terms and he has done exactly what he says on the cross he is doing it publicly there he is once and for all at the central point of History pouring out his wroth upon the sins of men in the body of his own son. [00:34:29]
The cross is an event the cross is an historical event as I've been saying it is a set getting forth in public of this great Act of God but thank God it doesn't stop there it is an appeal it is an invitation it asks us to listen as we value our own Immortal Souls you know the Old Testament prophets had seen something of this they hadn't seen it very clearly they were not meant to and they couldn't they saw it a far off they saw the sufferings of Christ and the glory that was to follow. [00:36:29]
The cross the blood of sprinkling speaks tonight to people that nothing else in the whole universe speaks to what do you mean says someone well I'll tell you who does philosophy speak to take your great textbooks on philosophy tonight who do they speak to do they speak to you my friend do any follow them were you listening to Professor AJR on the television a few weeks back could you follow him tell does your philosopher speak your atheistical philosopher he speaks only to the wise he speaks only to those who've Got Brains and understanding who can follow his reason and his logic and his terminology he doesn't speak to anybody else. [00:40:01]
The invitation is too such weary warm have you been engaged in this moral struggle do you feel that you're a failure do you feel the whole thing's hopeless do you despise yourself kick yourself metaphorically and feel you're no good weary forlorn tired and on top of it all sad and miserable nothing can comfort you the pleasures of the world mock you they don't give you anything life has disappointed you and you're sad and you're miserable and unhappy and on top of it all you have a sense of guilt within you your conscience nags at you and condemns you raises up your past and puts it before you and you know that you're unworthy you know that you're a failure you know there's no excuse you're guilty. [00:49:08]
The cross it comes to such a person and it is to such a person above all others that it brings its gracious and its glorious invitation what does it say to you listen my dear friend I'm not speaking to self-satisfied self-righteous persons at this moment I've already spoken to you and I trust that you've seen yourself in all the horror of your self-deception I'm speaking to those who are on the ground gring in their utter helplessness and with a guilt and a sense of uncleanness and shame having lost your Chastity your Purity your morality are everything there you are listen you are a far off and the cross speaks to you with sympathy. [00:49:33]
The blood of sprinkling says that the Son of God has borne all your punishment that everything that stood between God and forgiving you has been removed that God forgives you everything freely and immediately let not let not conscience make you linger or a fitness fundly dream all the fitness he requireth is to see your need of him this he gives you is the spirit's Rising being the cross announces a free gift of Pardon and forgiveness reconciliation and restoration and all you need new life in Christ and an eternal hope and all at once and it all comes from this blessed person whose body was broken and whose blood began to flow on the cross on calvary's Hill. [00:53:08]
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The most important thing to men according to this preaching of the Cross is a man's relationship to God oh I dealt last Sunday night with men's relationship to man and that's very important but you see the message of the Cross as I showed then was this that a man's relationship to his fellow men will never be right unless his relationship to God is first of all put right. [00:18:12]
The thing that makes sin sin or if you prefer it the very essence of sin is the Rebellion against God is the breaking of a relationship with God that is the real meaning of sin now the world doesn't know that but that is the great message of the Cross we tend to think of sin in terms of actions and of acts bad acts wrong things which we've done or wrong things which we've thought or wrong things which we have said but my dear friend that isn't the serious thing about Sin. [00:19:36]
The cross answers the question he dies upon the cross because God hates sin and because God's holy wroth is upon Sin Sin cannot be played with by God his holy nature prohibits it sin is the most serious matter that has ever entered into the whole universe let me put it like this to you the problem of sin I say is the greatest problem that even almighty God has ever had to deal with. [00:23:19]
God cannot forgive sin just by saying I forgive if he could he would have do you imagine that God would ever have sent his only begotten son to that cross if he could have forgiven the sin of men in any other way would God have abandoned his son to that and poured out upon him the vials of his wrath would he have have allowed his only begotten dearly beloved Son to cry out in agony and to say my God my God why hast Thou forsaken me and endure the agony and The Thirst and the shame would he ever have allowed it if there was any other way there wasn't. [00:24:15]
The cross is a public declaration the cross is an historic event it isn't an idea it isn't a theory the cross is a public event it is something that happened on a cross called Calvary nearly 2,000 years ago historic public evident visible the whole world knows about it God has set it forth he's made a pronouncement he's called attention to it. [00:32:21]
The cross is a mighty declaration and what it says is this he's a propitiation in other words God on the cross was punishing sin he said he would he's done it God has always said that sin is to be punished that his holy wrath is upon it and that he cannot deal with sin in any other terms and he has done exactly what he says on the cross he is doing it publicly there he is once and for all at the central point of History pouring out his wroth upon the sins of men in the body of his own son. [00:34:29]
The cross is an event the cross is an historical event as I've been saying it is a set getting forth in public of this great Act of God but thank God it doesn't stop there it is an appeal it is an invitation it asks us to listen as we value our own Immortal Souls you know the Old Testament prophets had seen something of this they hadn't seen it very clearly they were not meant to and they couldn't they saw it a far off they saw the sufferings of Christ and the glory that was to follow. [00:36:29]
The cross the blood of sprinkling speaks tonight to people that nothing else in the whole universe speaks to what do you mean says someone well I'll tell you who does philosophy speak to take your great textbooks on philosophy tonight who do they speak to do they speak to you my friend do any follow them were you listening to Professor AJR on the television a few weeks back could you follow him tell does your philosopher speak your atheistical philosopher he speaks only to the wise he speaks only to those who've Got Brains and understanding who can follow his reason and his logic and his terminology he doesn't speak to anybody else. [00:40:01]
The invitation is too such weary warm have you been engaged in this moral struggle do you feel that you're a failure do you feel the whole thing's hopeless do you despise yourself kick yourself metaphorically and feel you're no good weary forlorn tired and on top of it all sad and miserable nothing can comfort you the pleasures of the world mock you they don't give you anything life has disappointed you and you're sad and you're miserable and unhappy and on top of it all you have a sense of guilt within you your conscience nags at you and condemns you raises up your past and puts it before you and you know that you're unworthy you know that you're a failure you know there's no excuse you're guilty. [00:49:08]
The cross it comes to such a person and it is to such a person above all others that it brings its gracious and its glorious invitation what does it say to you listen my dear friend I'm not speaking to self-satisfied self-righteous persons at this moment I've already spoken to you and I trust that you've seen yourself in all the horror of your self-deception I'm speaking to those who are on the ground gring in their utter helplessness and with a guilt and a sense of uncleanness and shame having lost your Chastity your Purity your morality are everything there you are listen you are a far off and the cross speaks to you with sympathy. [00:49:33]
The blood of sprinkling says that the Son of God has borne all your punishment that everything that stood between God and forgiving you has been removed that God forgives you everything freely and immediately let not let not conscience make you linger or a fitness fundly dream all the fitness he requireth is to see your need of him this he gives you is the spirit's Rising being the cross announces a free gift of Pardon and forgiveness reconciliation and restoration and all you need new life in Christ and an eternal hope and all at once and it all comes from this blessed person whose body was broken and whose blood began to flow on the cross on calvary's Hill. [00:53:08]
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