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If there is any one thing that is the focal point of Christianity...
it’s Jesus Christ - and the Cross
The cross of Jesus Christ
The Centrality of the Cross is the heart of Christianity
The theological framework of Christianity all leads back to Jesus and His work on the cross
And when we SAY - The Cross of Christ - INFERRED IN THAT Cross - is the resurrection!
The WORK of Christ on the cross - includes the resurrection
And so - The Cross is VITAL when it comes to the MESSAGE of our faith
John Owen once said:
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ
As we know - it took the DEATH - the shedding of blood - of the RIGHTEOUS ONE - Jesus...
to CONQUER DEATH!
And so as we come to our text today - we’ll see this very thing
If you remember last week - Jesus spoke about the grain of wheat needing to fall into the earth…TO DIE…if it was going to bear fruit!
And what we SAW last week was - THE HARD THINGS that Jesus calls us to...
ALONG WITH the blessings that come on the other side of those HARD THINGS!
And now today - we come to our text...
We’re going to summarize this passage FIRST....and then focus in on what I believe to be the MAIN POINT of it...
Remember, last week Jesus eluded to His own DEATH...
And begins today by saying...
WHAT - shall I pray - “Father, save me from this hour?” - “Hep me AVOID what’s coming for Me?”
He then says - NO - it’s for this VERY PURPOSE that I have come to THIS HOUR!
My purpose for COMING - was to DIE...
INSTEAD - Father - GLORIFY YOUR NAME!
And then the Father speaks from heaven and says - “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”
To SOME there it just sounded like THUNDER - but to others they said - OH, an angel has spoken to Him!
Jesus then describes that He must be LIFTED Up...
which revealed to the crowd how He was going to die...
And the people UNDERSTOOD that He was describing His own death...
They then say
The people knew what the OT said about the coming Christ...
They knew the Christ was to REMAIN forever…and so they were trying to CORRELATE that with Jesus (this guy claiming to BE the Messiah)
…saying that He- the Messiah - was going to DIE...
And so what’s CLEAR in all of this - is that - WHILE they seem to understand that Jesus was going to DIE...
They DID NOT understand the IMPACT that the Cross would have on HUMANITY and the DEEPEST MEANING of what the CROSS was ABOUT!
They didn’t GRASP the weight of the CENTRALITY of the CROSS
SO, let’s focus in on that DEEP MEANING today...
We’re going to focus in on v30-32… as we gaze upon the CENTRALITY of the CROSS
What’s Jesus referring to?
What we see here is...
SLIDE: The Centrality of the Cross: The Cross of Jesus Glorifies God
The Centrality of the Cross
Let’s go to Romans 3:23-26 to see this...
And AS we read through this - Ask yourself this:
Is God SELF-EXALTING in His giving of Christ for me?
ALL people are SINNERS...
And we FALL SHORT of the glory of God...
We are WITHOUT God
So we’re MADE RIGHT with God - how?
by His GRACE (undeserved favor)
WHICH means - this is a - GIFT
And that GIFT - THROUGH the redemption that is in - JESUS CHRIST
Propitiation: a sacrifice that removes WRATH
THIS PUTTING FORTH of Jesus - BY GOD...
…was to SHOW God’s RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Why?
Because in God’s divine forbearance - He had passed over former sins...
So WHY did God - passing over former sins - NEED TO SHOW His righteousness?
*Texas church shooting
So now - THINK about OLD TESTAMENT times....
And ALL the sins that took place back then - BEFORE Jesus came to earth
God didn’t END existence as we know it because people in the OLD TESTAMENT sinned...
Abraham - sinned
David - sinned
and YET - SAVED!
Forgiven!
by God!
How could God PASS OVER THEIR SINS?
It’s as if GOD doesn’t think SIN is a big deal!....right?
MAYBE - until - God sends His son to DIE on the cross…PLACING upon Him - the WRATH DUE - US!
That’s PROPITIATION....
A sacrifice that removes WRATH!
And so GOD - SHOWS His righteousness in sending Jesus to the cross...
God is GLORIFIED at the CROSS!!
God is EXALTED at the CROSS!!
God’s GLORY shines BRIGHTEST - at the cross of Christ...
and God’s glory will REFLECT off the cross for all of eternity!
And so as we LOOK to the CENTER of HISTORY - we see the CROSS of Jesus Christ...
and 1 of the things we SEE there - is - the GLORY of GOD!
What else do we see?
We see here that…as we look at the CENTRALITY of the Cross...
SLIDE: The Centrality of the Cross: The Cross of Jesus Conquered Sin and Death
The Centrality of the Cross
The SERIOUSNESS of sin - on FULL display - on the CROSS!
The CROSS gave us EYES to see the JUDGMENT of a HOLY God upon SIN…Not the SIN of Christ...
But - OUR SIN!
JUDGMENT came down!
CONDEMNATION poured out on the SON
And if we go back to the text in Romans 3...
The CROSS displayed:
the JUSTNESS of God - that God IS JUST....
It looked like to the world that God was NOT JUST - He passed over former SINS...
He does so TODAY - for you and me - EVERY SINGLE DAY!!
We TRAMPLE His glory EVERY DAY!!
YET - He doesn’t CONSUME US IN FIRE - He doesn’t DESTROY US - which we deserve....WHY?
Because of the CROSS!!
Yes - God PASSED over FORMER sins and He passes over OURS today - BUT - He is JUST...
His WRATH was POURED out on CHRIST...
His wrath against SIN - was satisfied poured out on Christ!!
He is JUST!
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