Gal. 6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

     The old hymn, “ The Way of the Cross Leads Come” is very true.  Paul said that he would only glory in the Cross of Christ.  Now there is not one thing that is appealing about a Cross.  The Cross means suffering and shame. The Cross was disgrace and death. Yet it is by the Cross of Christ that we have salvation.  It is because of Christ’s death on the Cross that the payment for our sin was fulfilled.  No one can enter God’s Kingdom without trusting in the sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross. Without the Cross of Christ man’s sin would still be separating him form God.  But because of the Cross, our sins can be forgiven because the price is paid.  But that sacrifice of Christ on the Cross is not applied to a person until the individual trust in Christ as Lord and Savior.  As any one believes that Jesus’ death on the Cross covers their sin, then that person receives the gift of eternal life.  Just as the children of Israel had to look of the bronze serpent the Moses lifted so they would not die from the snake bite, so we MUST look to Jesus on the Cross to be healed from Sin’s bite.

Scripture: Col. 1:9-20 ; Acts 2:23 ; I Pet. 1:20 ; Phil. 2:6-8 ; Heb. 9:14 ; I Cor. 15:55-57 ; Rom. 6:9 ; Lk. 23:43 ;

                Eph. 2:1 ; John 3:19 ; John 8:44 ; Is. 53:6 ; Rev. 22:17 ; Gal. 3:22 ; John 3:18 ; II Pet. 3:9 ; Joshua 24:15 ;

                Heb. 9:27 ; Matt. 11:28-30 ; Lk. 10:19 ; I Pet. 1:3-4