The Big Idea:
God decided to devise a plan of salvation where he would remain holy and just, and still provide a way of forgiveness for guilty sinners. It must be a place where grace and wrath could meet. That place is called the cross of Christ.
Main Points:
1. For the believer, the cross is everything. Our salvation and eternity is based on the work of Jesus at the cross.
2. There are many reasons Jesus died on the cross for us, but Jesus died in obedience to the will of the Father. The salvation of mankind was the plan of God. The plan for our salvation originated in the mind of God. No one informed God. No one gave God this plan. No one advised God in this plan. It was all him.
3. For Jesus, the cross was about obedience to the Father.
Today’s Scripture Verse:
Acts 2:23 says, Jesus was “handed over by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge.”
Isaiah 53:10-11 - “It was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a sin offering…after the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life.”
John 10:17-18 – “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Philippians 2:8 - “he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!”
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