CROSS - THE MESSAGE OF HOPE

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Thursday, June 18 Read: II Timothy 1:8-12

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us

who are being saved it is the power of God.” - I Cor. 1:18

Greg Zanis is a carpenter from Aurora, Illinois, United States. In 1996, Greg’s father-in-law was robbed by two men and was murdered. In an attempt to express his deep grief and personal sense of loss, Greg built an eight foot wooden cross and planted it at the scene of the crime. From that act, his ministry “Crosses for Losses” was born. Greg began building eight foot wooden crosses and erecting them at the scenes of fatal crimes or accidents. “The lumber looks like the type of cross that Jesus would have been crucified on a rough cross” Greg said, “Wherever I go, the crosses are reaching the people. They are crying and coming to the Lord.”

The Cross is central to salvation which is the process “begun by justification, advanced by sanctification and climaxed in glorification.” Cross is not a symbol of shame but it is a symbol of victory. To the people of this world the message of the Cross sounds foolish. “How can a person who had ended His life upon the Cross, possibly be God?” they ask. The truth is, the Son of God died on the Cross, but then He rose again from the dead. He ascended to heaven and now He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and one day He will come again to judge the world. This is the full gospel. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish.” (I Peter 1:3- 4).

So, dear friends, let us not be ashamed to proclaim the message of the Cross - the message of hope - to the dying world.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, let me not be ashamed to proclaim the message of the Cross to this world even if I am ridiculed or persecuted. Let my message kindle the fire of hope in the minds of people who perish in helplessness and despair. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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