Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Why the Cross?

BY AARON GRAVETT

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:8

This world has changed its idea of Jesus Christ into something He is not. Their “Jesus” winks at sin, condones all sin, and now calls righteous all the sins His blood was shed to wash away.

We need to realize that the enemy of our soul is out to destroy us and ultimately get us to be sent into the lake of fire. He hates people because He knows the value God puts on them to pay such a high price to redeem them.

When Satan gets us to believe that nothing we do is sin, then there is no reason for the cross - no reason for what Christ did on the cross - no reason to repent and seek His forgiveness. This will leave us eternally separated from Christ.

Why the cross then? The reason is that sin is real and when we come to the place of acknowledging we are a sinner and ask Christ to forgive us and wash our sins away, He will do it!  He will make us brand new, new creatures - born again!  We will be saved and become a child of God - a child of the King!

I implore you to not spend time claiming, (against your own conscious), that sin isn’t sin, but to acknowledge it and cry out to God. Stop fighting and surrender to the Lord. He is here with open arms, ready to make you new!

“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

1 Corinthians 15:3-4