Why the Cross?
1 Corinthians 1:18
A true story was reported about a couple visiting a jewelry store. As the jeweler showed them various crosses, the woman commented, "I like these, but do you have any without this little man on them?"
That is what so many people want today: a cross without Jesus. They want a cross without any offense. But if we could travel back in time and see the cross in its original context, we would realize that it was a bloody and vile symbol.
The Romans chose crucifixion because it was meant to be a slow, torturous way to die. It was designed to humiliate a person.
If there had been any other way, do you think that God would have allowed His Son to suffer like this? If there had been any other way we could have been forgiven, then God surely would have found it. If living a good moral life would get us to heaven, then Jesus never would have died for us. But He did because there was and is no other way. Amen
Greg Laurie
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