Knows it and you see it conveys some meaning to you.
In the same way, God also has chosen the cross whereby from it
He is giving a message to humanity.
So the old ragged cross carries meat meaning and it is God's
ultimate message to us. So I said that why would God the
cross, suffering and shame, a symbol, a symbol of humiliation,
an instrument of death. And it has been tested that it
gave the most excruciating pain till now.
That is the most cruel means of dying.
If you check history, arguably it is the most cruel means of
killing a criminal. So God chose the most, the most
cruel, the heightened form of inflicting pain before you die,
to subject his Son through for us to convey a meaning.
So the cross is very, very, very, very important.
Let's go on. So with me, I'm thinking about
the cross being ghost transmitter, A transmitter.
The cross is a transmitter where the Savior was hanged, suspended
between heaven and earth. So the cross is not just there
for fun, the sun itself is. Plus Jesus hung on it between
two realms, the earthly realm and the heavenly realm.
So whilst he was hanging there, he was transmitting God's love,
that humanity. Look, you should have died, but
I have given my son in place of you.
What else can God do for us? And the Plaza was also
reconciling man and God, reconciling 2 realms,
reconciling the offended and the offender, reconciling and
atoning God, making now God to feel at ease when he looks down
on earth. So the transmission from the
cross has not ended. God is still using the cross to
transmit his message of love and hope to humanity and to
everybody. That is the power of the cross.
So today the message of the
cross is still relevant, it is still powerful, it is caused
message of reconciliation and restoration.
So the vertical one is restoring heaven and earth and the
horizontal 1 is restoring the broken relationships that same
cost. So the cross is not just there
for fun reconciling heaven and earth and reconciling all the
five levels of Brooking relationship one man sin.
I am going over it again. 5 levels of relationship got
destroyed and when Jesus hung on the cross he restored all 51 is
awaiting for the manifestation. One, the relationship between
God and man destroyed when Jesus hung on the cross, the vertical
beam was reconciling God and man also man and man relationship,
typically husband and wife, filial love, every kind of love
vertically Jesus also reconciling them, man with
himself, man with himself. Jesus too came so that the
tripartite being of humanity will be restored and
reconnected, because when sin came there was a disconnect
between the body, soul and spirit.
But through Christ Jesus now the Spirit has received life and is
united with the body and soul. So you are a new creation.
So Jesus hung it on the cross. Also man with creation and
creation with itself. So now the creation is waiting
for the manifestation of the sons of God.
So once we are we manifest then all 5 levels will be reconciled.
That is the hope from the cross. So the message of the cross as
possess to us who have been saved.
It is the power of God. It has you so much power to
transform and to save. That is the wonderful thing the
cross has done for us, and we need to be thankful to God for
what He has done. Again, on the cross you will see
the attributes of God manifested on the cross you see that the
love of God is there, the messes of God abound, and the justice
of God is also being served. God, who is loved, cannot sit
down and let His creation just go like that.
He loves His creation, He loves every human being, He loves the
world. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son. So you see the love of God for
so for God so loved the world. He gave his only Son, that
whosoever he didn't come to be a king for the first coming, but
he came to be killed and to sacrifice his life as a ransom
for us. Also.
You see the message of God. Because of the message of God,
we are not consumed. God.
God should have killed us. He is angry with us because we
have offended him big time. He wasn't at peace, at ease with
us. There was no peace between US
and him. But by the message of God, as
Jesus was hanging on the cross, he took our place and he died
for us. And they just the Sinner that
must, that dies, must pay. So God being just, he had to
come down to become like one of us and to die in our place so
that anyone who believes in Jesus will not die but have
everlasting. That is the message from the
cross and that message still inspires hope for the world.
Let me try and then go to one man called Max Lucado and how he
describes the cross. I like this phrase very well.
So Max Lucado's description, Let's read and see the Cross
rests on the timeline of history like a compelling diamond.
Compelling diamond is tragedy. Sermons all sufferers, is
absurdity, attracts all cynics, is hope.
Lose all searches history has idolized it and despised it,
good plated it and burn it won and trust it.
History has done everything but ignore it.
You can find it from his book called No wonder they called him
the savior experiencing the cross year 2004 Max Lucado.
So with this, Max Lucado has also come forth with a
perspective from the cross and he has put it in connection with
history so that we appreciate the message of the cross and
still transmitting life from the Mount of Calvary, transmitting
life from the studios of God's salvation room, transmitting
hope and life to everybody, that anyone who believes in him will
not die but have everlasting life.
So let us look at how Max Lucado came or one would just explore
some few things about what he said.
So he said that he rests on the timeline of history as a
compelling diamond. So as diamond, Diamond is
brilliant. Diamond gives radiance, Diamond
gives many things. In fact, it is compelling.
It cannot be hidden, it cannot be.
What hidden is conspicuous is visible.
In fact, it cannot be put anywhere else.
It is the centerpiece of history.
So the cross change the narrative of the world.
And there is so much power in the cross, so it draws attention
because anyone who looks at the cross must not just go.
But I need to sit down and think and ponder what is this message
I am hearing so much look at it is of the view that it draws
attention. It is beautiful, though Jesus
was humiliated. But look at the beauty that
comes from the cross. Maybe experience that power in
the cross and it's diamonds are not easy to come by.
They are priceless. So on the history of the world
that the the message of the cross is in fact how God where
God puts the cross and the message and the manifestation of
Jesus and his death is so compelling.
We don't have time to go there. Another thing that we can look
at the diamond is that diamond, they last for a long time.
They last for a long time. So God did not choose something
that is perishable, but He likened or much lucable is
likening the message or the cross to something in our world
that lasts for a long time, which is what diamond diamonds
also come with many faces. It is multifaceted.
And the cross too gives many, many, many things.
So that is the power of the cross.
When you go at the cross, you see love, you will see those who
are mocking Him, you will see those who are repenting, you see
those who are going to hell, and you see those who are going to
heaven. So the cross, it depends on the
hearts that you come to the cross with.
Today, may we approach God's cross or the cross of Jesus so
that we can receive mercy. The next one says that the cross
summons all sufferers. The cross is summons 1 all those
who are suffering. When I finish with his
description, we will just oppose it with the groups that were
found at the feet of the cross. And you see that Max Lucardo's
description is very true. So it's almost all those who are
suffering because the man on the cross was suffering.
So those who have been betrayed, they can identify with Jesus.
So on the cross and His calling, all those who are suffering that
come, come and see the Savior. He knew no wrong.
He knew no sin, but He was made to be sin so that we can become
the righteousness of God. So the cross is calling for all
those who are suffering. Jesus was betrayed by his own.
In fact, of the 12th, it has been said that he came from the
same hometown with Judas Iscariots Nekromunim Iinimayu,
the one who in fact, when you give finances to someone, it
means that you have given him trust.
The finance minister of the Cabinet of Jesus was the very
one who betrayed him. As if that was enough, the 12
when they came, they all left, including the outspoken Peter.
Oh Lord, if all of them will go me, oh Bing, I will be with you.
They say, Peter, tonight you, you, you will leave me.
So all his friends, all his apostles, they, they just left
him. They just left him.
And he was also going through the highest form of pain.
As I said, they would drive the nails through the nerve points
where the nerves meet. That kind of death was very bad.
To date it is the most painful death.
So they will drive the nail and you would die slowly.
Your blood will be oozing out, oozing, dropping.
So before you die, you will be there going through many things.
And so Jesus is saying that look at the cross, look at me.
I did no wrong, I didn't say. But they couldn't find one
ground to crucify him, and they forced the governor to crucify
him. So if you are suffering, if you
have been betrayed, look at the thousands, the thousands he fed.
None of them came to him. Where?
Where were the 4000? Where were the 5000 that he fed?
Where did they go? None of them came and said that,
oh, they all left him. They deserted him and left him.
So if you are suffering, if you have been betrayed, Jesus is
saying that look to me on the cross, I went through the
highest pain for you, so you too you can find meaning from the
cross. Whilst he was in pain He said
that Father forgive them, Father forgive them, they don't know
what they are doing. If you are here and someone has
offended you, forgive them. Let it go because Jesus at the
highest point of death, he forgave them.
So we, we have no excuse not to forgive.
If someone has broken your heart, forgive him or her.
Yeah. If someone has stolen your
money, forgive them. If someone has betrayed your
trust, Jesus is saying that forgive them.
They don't know what they are doing.
The day they get to know, they will repent.
Husband and wives, forgive each other.
True of us, forgive each other no matter what.
Who has offended you, forgive them God.
Jesus is an example to us. Jesus is an example to us.
Let's move on to the next one. It says that its absurdity
attracts all cynics. Its absurdity attracts you, our
cynics, to many, including now. Why would God die if he claims
to be God? Why should he die?
Why should God? Why should he sacrifice himself
to people who rejected him till now many on earth don't even as
acknowledge Jesus yet he went to the cross.
Someone has said that it is only in Christianity that we
humiliate our hero Jesus Christ. It is only in Christianity go
and check all the other faiths. The heroes were not humiliated
as we did, but out of it is what God has pitches for us
redemption. So to the cynics, he, she, if he
says he's a king, he should be on a throne.
Kings don't die like this. It's irrational, it doesn't make
sense. So those who who think that it
doesn't make sense, the absurdity also attracts them.
Let us go and see why would God, why would God?
They have to pause and think again.
They have to sit down and think again and be like what is this?
What is the meaning of this? So the cross is so much powerful
that the message of the cross brings salvation even to those
who don't believe. The first one is that its hope
Leos all searches. So from the cross, again, Max
Lucado is saying that all those who are searching for hope, who
are searching for hope, when they go to the cross, they find
meaning, they find forgiveness, they find identity, they find
peace, and they find direction. That is the cross.
So the cross gives out so much meaning, so much meaning, so
much forgiveness that Jesus could forgive those who are
killing him, including the Roman soldiers.
He forgive them, give so much meaning because Jesus was there
not doing it his own will, but the will of the Father before
the cross. He prayed that oh God, if it is
possible, let this car pass. And he said, I'm not my will,
but your will. Jesus came as a lump of God.
That is why he was born in a Manger, to be given to that He
was. He came to feed us all.
So he came to give his life as a ransom.
He did not live for himself. You find the meaning of life
that living for purpose is what it means to live.
He said live for 33 years and a half but look at the impact he
has had on the world till now. No human being has had that
impact. Why He lived for his father.
That is purpose. Why am I here on earth for?
Go to the cross and you find out that there is so much meaning in
the cross direction. The cross is pointing us back to
God. It is giving us the direction
that the old system has passed away.
And behold, I bring a new one. So it draws all those who came.
How can we end death? How can death end?
Look at the cross. He was killed.
He took away our case. So that we will be in line with
God because the Bible says cares be anyone who is hung on the
cross. On the cross Jesus took life of
sinners and he nailed them to the cross.
That is what the cross means that all those who are looking
for hope when they come to the cross.
The thief on the cross found so much hope and joy.
So today, if you have no hope, look to the cross, look to the
cross. There is so much hope to my
trophies. At last I lay down.
I will cling to the. Old, Ragged and exchanging
something for aircraft, the. Old ragged crown.
Oh, tell my trophies I lost, I lay down.
Hallelujah, I will cling to the old ragged cross.
Oh. So the cross, again, history has
idolized it. Today, if we can search through
the Jew jewelry of our ladies who are here, some of us are
wearing that. The cross has earrings,
necklaces, many things. So we have idolized it.
When you go to the Catholic churches, you find real crosses
all over, fixed on the walls everywhere.
History has idolized this cross, and some have also despised it.
Some in history have despised it.
It has been good plated. The cross that was now a symbol
of shame now has been gold pleated.
And you find it that it is gold pleated.
And some have hung it in their room as in the ham.
So there's so much message and power from that simple wooden
old rugged cross because the Savior hung there.
And some 2 have been it, some have been it trying to eliminate
it. So the cross is a turning point.
The cross is a mystery. The cross has that paradox, the
extremes, but it's also power that God has used to save us.
Let's transition to the groups of the cross.
Let's go to the groups of the cross, the sufferers, those who
are betrayed and abandoned. They meet there.
We all meet there, those who have come there, There were
people who were suffering because the mother of Jesus too
came there. The close relatives of Jesus
were there and they were suffering.
They also came there to suffer. So Jesus friends, including the
woman who had followed him, stood at a distance.
So at the cross there were other groups who were there suffering
and identifying with him. And we have the cynics.
The leaders and the soldiers were mocking Christ.
They were there too, mocking him, scoff at him.
And they were like he saved others, let him save himself.
If he's really God, then we'll be believing.
They came there to mock him. There was a satcher at the
cross, the thief seeking hope. Say that.
Oh Lord Jesus, Remember Me when you enter your Kingdom and Jesus
gave him the best that guy is that he had the shortest path to
redemption. Today you will be with me in
paradise. That is the cross and the
centurion and the crowd. The centurion also confessed
that this man is indeed the Son of God.
When he looked at what had happened, he confessed that this
man is truly the Son of God. This man and the crowd too, they
were there somewhere, mourning, and some went home sorrowful.
So all these groups, they can be found at the cross.
But today the power to save is still there.
Jesus is still saving those who are suffering because He
identifies with them. We do not have a high priest who
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
He was tempted in all things, as we are yet without sin.
Therefore He is able to help us. So if you are suffering, go to
the cross because the man who suffered.
If you are a cynic, you don't believe anything, go there
because it wouldn't make sense to you that God would die for
us. If you are searching for hope,
look at the teeth on the cross. The centurion found hope and the
crowd also did seem so. What has the cross achieved for
us? The accomplishments of the
cross? Reconciliation.
The first one is what reconciliation.
God has forgiven us. God has forgiven us.
Ephesians 216 He says that together as one body, Christ
reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross.
By what? By means of his death on the
cross. So if you would say that, and in
one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by
which He put death to their hostility.
So Jesus came and He brought reconciliation.
Ephesians 120 says that. And through Him God reconciled
everything to himself. He made peace with everything in
the earth, in heaven and on earth by means of Christ's blood
on the cross. By means of what?
Christ's blood on the cross, please.
I took it from Colossians 120. If you want to protect it, yes,
you see that. And through Him to reconcile to
Himself all things. So God is reconciling all things
to Himself. What are things on earth or
things in heaven? By making peace through His
blood shed on the cross. Shed on the cross.
The accomplishment of the cross again is victory.
Victory. The cross is the battleground
designated by God where Satan and the seed of the woman wage
war for life of humans. So on the cross, that seed of
woman, that God promised that the seed of this woman will
crush your head. It happened on the cross.
And when we read from Colossians to 13.
Let's go there and try and read it. 213 Fleeing when you were
dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh.
God made you alive with Christ. He forgive us all our sins.
Next verse. Having cancelled the charge of
our legal indebtedness which stood against us and condemned
us, He has taken out. He has taken it away.
Kneeling it to the cross. Next verse please.
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a
public spectacle of them. Triumphant over them by what?
Oh, you are not here triumphant over them by the So Jesus
triumphed and crushed the head of the serpent by the cross.
That is why the cross is still powerful and the message it
carries will be transmitting the message of hope and victory
throughout the world. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
So at the cross, God has done many things for us.
Also at the cross. What the, the, the cross has
done. Forgiveness.
Let's look at that one. Forgiveness.
The records of our deaths were wiped clean.
Next slide, the records of our death were wiped clean, all the
records that, that was what we read, Colossians 214 records.
In fact, there were legal requirements against us when in
the ancient times, in the Jewish time or in the Greek or whatever
world, when you sin and they put you in a dungeon, a cell, they
write your liquor required the things you did and they hang it
at the door. They hang it at the door that as
soon as he stole one goat, he did ABCD and they hang it at
your door. So anyone who passes in front of
yourself immediately knows that this man is a thief, that that
is why he's been, he's been kept there.
But when Jesus went to the cross, he came to the cells
where the devil and sin has kept us and took all the legal
requirements that they are written our name.
He took them one by one, one by one, and he took all of them to
the cross and they knelt it there, buying, buying, buying.
And he said that you are free to go, go out, go out, go out.
That is the power of the cross. Hallelujah.
So Jesus, he nailed them to the cross.
So today, if you're holding on to anything in the past, Jesus
is saying on the cross, bring it.
Let me nail it there. Hang it over there on the cross.
So you have no right to cling on to the sins you do, Yes.
And whom? So if you are here and you are
trapped by your past, Jesus looks at you and it's like till
when will you appreciate my sacrifice on the cross?
Today, if the devil is bringing back your passings, tell the
devil to go to the cross. Jesus has tell them there, Jesus
has finished them and the devil can't go to the cross because
that was where he suffered shame and defeat.
So he did not go there because it will remind him of his field
work. So every record of our death has
been cancelled. This man said.
Dear Philip, he says that all the incriminating evidence has
been erased because our debt has been paid in full.
This one, if you have not been to the court before, you will
not understand it. When you are accused, you are
tried and you are charged and you are sentenced, it enters
into the law books. So now your kids become the
Republic versus Attai and future will study it.
Anyone who will go to the Ghana Law School will go and read how
Attai's case was tried, sentenced evidence, evidential
BBR sequence by sequence and they will list it and now they
will charge you as guilty for crime, ABCD and your sentence
too will be there. When we sin, all these things
were done for us but when Jesus went to the cross, he said that
I have come to pay in full and I am expunging everything about
them as far as the east is from the West.
So has God removed our sins away from us?
That is the beautiful thing, God.
He doesn't remember your past. It is gone, it is dissolved.
He doesn't use it in any way. No, caught in this world, in
eternal court, can they use it against you?
Because the moment they raise it up, the work of the cross will
cancel it. That is what the cross has done
for us. So we need to cherish that cross
because he has paid it all, He has paid it all, He has paid it
all. And now what is left for us is
victory is victory. Let me end next slide because my
time is up. Go ahead.
So here the cross is a battleground.
So when you are praying, when the devil comes to you to remind
you, don't argue with him man, don't waste your time.
Tell the devil that please can you go to the cross and engage
my Savior. He has finished it all.
I don't, I don't need to answer. You point him to the cross and
when the devil goes there, it ends it all.
So Paul wrote that text that disarming them, making a
spectacle of them. He was using the victory image
of the Roman triumph. So when they come from war, they
display their trophies in the streets of Rome, so that
everybody will see that yaquoi and yechenipe tobacco, ye nin
Ababa, we got gold, we will bring it.
We captured their king, we will bring it.
And the slaves that they got, they will line them up and pass
through the streets of Rome for the whole city to know that they
have won the victory. In the same way, Paul is using
that imagery for us, that when Christ finished the work on the
cross, he made a public spectacle of them on the cross.
He disarmed those who was ruled over us.
Nyamir raw upon some coward fanabethi disarming his power.
That was not enough, and like captives of war, he put them on
display to show the world his victory over them by means of
the cross. So Jesus, when he died, he
descended into the depths and he that was where he transitioned
paradise. Let me take you a bit into
escathos. He went into the depths and he
transitioned the very place of paradise.
So Abraham, David and Code, they were all waiting for Jesus to
come there. So when he died and he went
there, he transitioned. He transitioned them, He
transitioned them. Let us read efficience 4 so that
you would know what I am talking about.
Efficience 4. Let's start from probably 10.
Efficience 4 verse 10. Efficience 4 verse 10 He who
descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the
heavens in order to fill the whole universe.
Next verse please. So Christ himself gave apostles,
prophets and all of those things to equip his church blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah and to the end the most important thing
is the 10. So when he descended, he took
all those who are held captive away from Satan.
He took the keys of the king of death and help from him.
And whilst he was living that deepest path show well he said
after we know Obian Imachi, Obian Imachi message.
So Abraham, David and could all fall in Christ out of show well
into the highest points in heaven.
So by means of the cross and while they were living, he made
a public display. I was some displaying them and
shaming them that the works of the devil has come to an end.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Another thing that I want to end
with you is that poor asked death, oh, death, where is your
victory? Where is your victory?
Do you know why he asked that? Because when Jesus died, he
tested death on our behalf. He tested death for all
humanity. And when he conquered death, he
posed a question to death, death, where is your victory?
And Paul says that the victory. Oh, let's go there and then read
first Corinthians 15. Oh oh oh I am trying to stop but
I need to say this for someone to hear and link it up.
First Corinthians chapter 15 and let's try and read from verse 55
or let's start from the the 54. OK, when the perishable has been
clothed with the imperishable and the mortar with immortality,
then the saying that is written will come true.
Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Gone where O death is your victory?
Where O death is your sting? Next verse The sting of death is
sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Next verse. But thank me to God, He gives
US1 through who? So death.
Jesus settled the score of death by testing it.
And when he finishes that, now death, where is your victory and
where is your sting? Your sting comes from sin, sin.
I have dealt it on the cross. So Death has no victory again,
and Jesus rose back from the dead Death has.
Now. Death has a final terminal point
that it will end. And if Death is celebrating some
victory over us, don't mind it. It will be the last enemy to be
thrown into the Lake of Fire. When Death is thrown into the
Lake of fire, we will be there laughing at it and it's a woman
for Obi Kwa men through because a day is coming we to celebrate
our victory over death. And we tell them that when our
Shono, you are going to hell, you are going to burn and burn
and burn. So the cross has done all these
things for us and that is the message of the cross.
In conclusion, last slide, last slide, last slide.
So the cross is God's mouthpiece of love.
The cross, that is what Paul says, that to us who are being
saved, it is the power of God. So the cross is still
transmitting love, and it's also the mouthpiece of forgiveness.
The cross is the battleground of victory, and after the victory
over sin, over Satan, over death, over hell, and the cross
is the ultimate symbol of hope in a messy age.
Let us all be on our feet as we pray.
So I cherish the old ragged cross to my throat.
Alas, I lay down. I will cling.
To the old ragged cross. And I've.
Changed it something for red ground so.
I cherished the old rocket. Grow to my trophies I lost I.
Lay down, I will clean. To the old rugged road and it's
changing something for that ground so.
I cherish the old. Rugged Rd.
Oh still my trophies. I lost.
I lay down. We.
Want to just thank God for the cross today?
We want to thank God that He so loved us and gave us His only
begotten Son to die a shameful death.
He went through the pain. Thank God.
Let us thank God for the cross. Let us thank Jesus that He went
through for us. He did not sin, He did not
wrong, but He was meant to be sin.
Thank you, O Lord. Thank you, O Lord, thank you,
thank you, thank you. We are so.
Much thank you. Thank you Lord, thank you, Lord
for the cross. Thank you, Lord, for the cross.
We are most grateful unto you for the.
Cross. Thank you, Lord, for the cross.
You did not wait for us. Thank you for the cross.
We celebrate you for the cross. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord, thank you.
Lord. Your mummy.
Die, die.
Oh, now my name Paji kuruwani SU na ma boli STI I cha ma Sai.
Let me give you another reason why we need to thank God for the
cross. The cross has dealt with our
pasts. It went into the very beginning
of the fall of man and dealt with it.
It has also come to deal with our present and it has dealt
with our destination where we will go in future.
They have all been made possible by the kindest courtesy of Jesus
on the cross. So if you have any acts of
gratitude to express this morning, we need to pour it out
unto Jesus. We need to thank God that he
gave his Son, that he gave his Son his begotten Son for us for
redemption. Thank the Lord, thank the Lord,
thank the Lord, worship Jesus, worship Jesus.
Thank him, thank the Lord, bless his name, worship him.
I saw. His name?
We celebrate you. You came from heaven to earth
to. Show the rain from the earth to
the cross, my death to pain. From the cross to the grave,
from the grave to the sky. Lord, I live to live on heart.
Hallelujah. You came from heaven to earth to
show the way. From the earth to the cross
might die to pain. From the growth to the grave.
From the grace to the stars. We are praying, we want to
enforce all the benefits bequeath to us from the cross in
our lives. We are enforcing it.
Through prayer, that through the.
Cross the devil has been disarmed, he has made he has
been made a public show, and this is our triumph of.
Our. God has forgiven.
Us our sins. So we are going.
You are praying and enforcing anything you had.
Enforce it in your life. If you have no hope, pray to God
for hope. If you have been betrayed, ask
Jesus for grace. If you are suffering, ask for
grace to carry through. Because for the joy that was set
before him, He endured the cross, despising the shame
thereof. So that same grace is available.
If you are a cynic, you don't believe anything.
Just look at the absurdity of the cross, that how could God
die for me. And if you are searching, Jesus
is still giving out hope. So whatever you had from the
sermon, we are enforcing it in our lives that I am forgiven.
I am wash. I have been cleansed.
Devil back up from me. Lift up your voice.
Thank you.
Thank you for the power of the cross.
None. Shall we please sit?
Shall we place it? The triumph that Jesus, the
triumphant possession over the devil.
May God cause us to triumph in everyday life.
Father, we enforce this victory in our lives.
Victory over relationship with you, victory over sin, victory
over death, victory over the devil.
Lord, we enforce this in our lives that every day.
Oh God, may we live and walk in this victory in the
consciousness of what you have done.
You have purchased our redemption.
And therefore, Lord, by faith in your Word, we enforce all the
benefits of the cross in our lives.
As far as the east is from the West.
So have you taken away our transgressions?
Law reinforces that we are no longer slaves of sin, and we
yield the members of our bodies as instrument of righteousness,
not as instruments of sin. Law possess us so that we can
walk in the victory. Today may we walk in your stead
that we also triumph over every limitation.
Lord, through the cross we are we find peace, meaning of life,
purpose, and hope. If anyone is here and is looking
for these things, may we have an encounter with You.
Are the feet of the cross. Oh are the cross, Oh are the
cross. We have come, oh, we have come
by the faith we are clinging unto you, that through the
cross, Lord, settle every doubt, every chaos, every messy life.
If somebody's life is in a mess right now, may the cross that
brings order bring order right now in our lives.
It brings order because the old self has been crucified with
Christ. Lord, if perhaps our old self is
still reigning, we submit them unto you.
Nail them to the cross. Nail them to the cross.
We thank you that you share that it is finished.
You finished paying for everything.
And so, Lord, we walk in this grace.
Lord, bestow grace upon us. That same grace that enable you
to despise the shame and for the joy that was set before you.
May we always continually look and focus on you, looking on to
Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith, who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despise and
the shame. Jesus will look to you.
You are example. So help us and bestow the same
grace so that if anyone is going through a very tough time as we
look to you, help us to endure and to finish in victory.
We thank you, O Lord, as we come to dine with you.
We are celebrating your goodness, we are thanking you
for your finished work on the cross, We are thanking you for
your vicarious death, that you died for us.
We should have died, but you stood in and you died for us.
Thank you Lord, thank you our God for what you have done for
us. As we dine with you, give us
more understanding, give us more insights in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. We want to dine with the Lord,
as I read from.