Certain well known theologians are gaining popularity by preaching a skewed view of the Cross of Christ. Don’t fall for it. The Cross is not just a metaphor for human suffering. It is a space/time event. It is a visceral, literal blood and guts tearing, ripping open of the flesh and blood body of Jesus, the Man who is God. It reveals to us the full extent of the Love of God. This ultimate sacrifice, the Life of the Son of God Himself, is the only solution to the dark night in our souls. Nothing else is enough to rescue us back from the hand of our enemy.
This perfect sacrifice, the sinless One, His life blood poured out on Calvary, was eternally sufficient to cover the heinous extent of our rebellion. There on that Cross we died with Him, and then rose with Him to a new life, the life God intended for us, life with Him forever. It is finished.
Thank you, Stuart Townend and Keith Getty, for these lyrics:
“In Christ alone!- who took on flesh, fullness of God in helpless babe! This gift of love and righteousness, scorned by the ones He came to save: Till on the Cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied, for every sin on Him was laid; here in the death of Christ I live.
There in the ground His body lay, Light of the world by darkness slain: Then bursting forth in glorious day, up from the grave He rose again! And as He stands in victory, sin’s curse has lost its grip on me, For I am His and He is mine, bought with the precious blood of Christ.”
We can’t really improve on the Apostle Paul’s words in Galatians Chapter 6. “May I never boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” God forbid – may it never be.
