I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God, of all the things that I’ve seen and heard there’s only one message that can change people’s lives and hearts. There is a way if you come by the way of the cross, the cross the cross I want to tell people about the meaning of the Cross, not the cross that hangs on a wall or around someone’s neck we receive our freedom purchased by The Ransom at the cross but the real Cross of Christ the cross expresses the great love of God for man, it’s scarred and Blood Stained, his was a ragged cross his real purpose for coming was to die I know, that many will react to this message, but it is the truth and with all my heart, I want to lead you with the truth.
God says I love you, I love you, I love you, with an everlasting ing love that he loves you willing to forgive you of all your sins. The cross is offensive because itconfronts people even so it’s a confrontation that all of us must face. I look out across an audience when I stand up to preach and I think of all the people with their different backgrounds and their various needs and I know that they are objects of God’s Mighty love to the point that he gave his son, his only son to die upon a cross and the cross was the the most terrible form of execution by the Romans for criminals and Jesus endured all that in our place, because of our sins. We deserve the cross, we deserve hell, we deserve judgment and all that it means.
I know that there are many people, that dispute that people don’t want to hear, that they’re sinners. To many people, it’s an offense. The cross is offensive, because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world. One reason the cross is an offense to people, is because it demands doesn’t suggest it. It Demands a new lifestyle in all of us. sin is a disease in the human heart, it affects the mind and the will and the emotions, every part of our being is affected by this disease.
How can we break this bondage? How can we be set free? God helps us break those chains. The Bible says if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things pass away everything becomes new. He can make you a totally new person.
On that cross, God was laying on Jesus our sins they not only put nails in his hands but before that they scourged him. A Roman Scourge was a terrible thing they took whips and pellets on those whips, and beat a person almost to death, and then they took that cross and made him Carry the Cross, which was in its weakened condition was almost impossible. But he carried that cross to a place outside of Jerusalem, and then they put nails in his hands, but that was not the real suffering. The real suffering is when he said my God,why hast Thou forsaken me? In that terrible moment, he and God the Father were separated he Shed his blood and the shedding of that blood carries with it, God’s very life. There is no other way of Salvation, except through the Cross of Christ, Jesus said I’m the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me. The only way to the father father God, is through his son Jesus Christ. Now why Jesus? He’s the only one that was born into this world without sin. But more than that, he was a righteous one, and when you come to him, you’re clothed in his righteousness. God no longer sees your sin he no longer sees your own heart, he sees Jesus when you come to Christ, you come by the way of repentance.
Repent means to change, to change your way of living, and turn from your sins, and turn to Jesus Christ, and say I’m a sinner I need forgiveness and I know that you’re the only one that can change me today I’m asking you to put your trust in Christ. I’m going to ask you to pray this prayer sentence by sentence after me. Dear heavenly father, I know that I’m a sinner and I ask for your forgiveness I believe you’ve died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins, I Repent of my sins. I invite you to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow you, as my Lord and Savior, in Jesus name amen. He’s alive I’ve given my my life, not to a dead Christ, but to a living Christ. He’s given me a song to sing, he’s given me a flag to follow. I have a reason for existence, I know where I’ve come from, I know why I’m here, I know where I’m going, do You?”
one.faithful to God, the Gospel, and his calling as an evangelist, husband, father, and friend. He acknowledged his imperfections,but found comfort in Christ’s forgiveness and God’s ability to use even flawed efforts for His glory. Graham looked forward to heaven, emphasizing that his eternal hope was rooted not in his deeds, but in faith in Jesus Christ who died for humanity’s sins and rose again for eternal life. 