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May 9-11, 2008
Today’s Scripture
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14:2-4)
Daily Power!
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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"The Cross: The Logo of God’s Love"
The story of Jesus does not end with the Crucifixion. If it did, the Cross would be a symbol of crushing defeat and despair. The Good News is that Jesus not only destroyed the power of sin on the Cross, He also destroyed the power of death. On the third day, God raised Him back to life, triumphant over darkness, death and Satan:
“And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it ... And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men. But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”"
Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth, turned the wood of the Cross into the Door to Life. That is the deep heart of the Good News: The Cross has the power to transform us. Minus is turned to plus, negative to positive. On the Cross, darkness changes to light, death to life, hate to love, chains to freedom, fear to faith, despair to joy, brokenness to wholeness, and hell to heaven!
Jesus is still alive! He is here today, to reverse every curse and to cancel Satan’s evil work. Sinners are forgiven. The sick are made well. Broken relationships are restored. Against the power of Jesus on the Cross, the forces of evil will finally be defeated! This is why the Cross is the symbol or logo of the Christian faith. It belongs to Jesus alone. No founder or leader of another religion would dare to use this logo because it stands for something that they themselves have never done!
None of them has been crucified for the sins of the world. None of them has been raised from the dead. None of them can give us the help we so desperately need. Only Jesus is able to save us. As He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Embrace the Cross of Jesus Christ – not as a symbol of death – but as God’s transforming promise to turn negative into positive.
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