When I say the cross. I am not talking about a wooden beam. Although if someone said they found the actual cross that He was crucified on, people would worship it. My friend, His death did not save us, His suffering did not save us. His resurrection was an open display, that He had conquered death, hell, and the grave. We are to trust in His sacrifice and nothing else. Many say well you must keep law, or you cant be saved until your baptised in water or the Holy Spirit. Jesus paid the price once and for all. All we have to do is accept it and say thank you. Can you tell me something different?
Yes, I can tell you something different. He, being the sacrifice sent from God, saved us from the curse of the Law, and that curse was death. By His death, we, through faith in Him, shall never see death as those of the Law did. His suffering saved us from the wrath of God. By His suffering, He took God's anger out of the way. We are to trust Him when He said He did what He said He did, and does what He says He does, and will do what He says He will do, and this is the confidence we have in Him.
His death brought in a new Covenant and it is by that Covenant we stand before God righteous. If we neglect the ways of that Covenant, then what Covenant do we remain under, if not the Law. So yes, it is that sacrifice which brought all this in, but we place our confidence in Him in bringing about God's Salvational plan which was laid out as principles of that new Contract. If we only see His death, then we miss out on our victorious King. If we only see Him as the Lamb, then we miss out on Him being our Christ.Yet, it is by that death by which everything else of that Contract is to be adhered to.
So, can I tell you something different then Jesus having paid "the price"? No!!!! But, I can tell you, faith alone saves, but a dead faith saves not. But, there are those who will say that we need works to be righteous before God. Are we then to say only, "Jesus died"? There are those who will say that we can live in habitual sin. Are we then to say only, "Jesus died"? No to both!!! Yet, you say that we are to study Paul. How then can you say that we "preachers" are preaching to our itchy ears when we expound on that death by the same writings of Paul?
Are you saying that there is no need to talk about anything else, that things will fall in place by themselves? Are we not to teach one is to die to the flesh? You say that we die to the flesh by coming to the Cross and you have said well. How then is it different if one teaches that to die to the flesh makes one alive to their spirit and by the Spirit are lead to Live (Jesus)? I teach Jesus put as resurrected. And to have been resurrected, surely He died. If He died, surely He lived. If He lived, surely He came with a message from God. He who has an ear, hearken unto what the Spirit says......By His death, God leads us Home. Praise God, He was raised..Yes?
