Properly understood the cross is the grounds for assurance, gratitude and joy.
The cross points to the love of the Father and the Son. 'This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us . . . This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins’ (1 John 3:16 and 4:10).
The cross point to the fact that our salvation is all of God—as Paul writes God is both just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Rom. 3:26).
Because God is loving, because salvation depends on his work and not our works and because he is just (it would be unjust to punish people for a crime that demand punishment when the punishment has already been served) God’s people can claim with assurance, gratitude and joy ‘there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus' (Romans 8:1).
The cross points to the love of the Father and the Son. 'This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us . . . This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins’ (1 John 3:16 and 4:10).
The cross point to the fact that our salvation is all of God—as Paul writes God is both just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Rom. 3:26).
Because God is loving, because salvation depends on his work and not our works and because he is just (it would be unjust to punish people for a crime that demand punishment when the punishment has already been served) God’s people can claim with assurance, gratitude and joy ‘there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus' (Romans 8:1).
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