For the message
about the cross is foolishness
to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved
it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18
God dying?!
How ridiculous! How blasphemous! How foolish!
In ancient Israel, in the earliest years of the church, and even still today, some people could not accept a God – even a Son of God – who could die. Thus … how foolish was the cross?! Indeed, how blasphemous.
But to us who are being saved, the cross means …
· That God so loved the world that he gave his only Son!
· That Jesus so loved you and me that he gave his entire earthly life!
· That sin is conquered and we are forgiven!
· That death is defeated and we don’t have to fear the grave!
· That we have a Savior who understands our pain and walks beside us in it!
Paul says “the message about the cross is the power of God.” Do you have these five hopes … these five confidences … these five “powers”?
In Christ’s Love,
Superman
(a powerfully empowered guy)
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