Is The Cross Of Christ The Most Important Part Of The Plan Of God?

Romans 6:11
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:10
If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

2 Timothy 1:10
but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who
abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL "
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

John 17:3
"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 6:57
"As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

John 8:12
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who
follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

John 10:28
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

John 5:21
"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:9
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His
only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

If you go beyond the Cross you walk away from God and enter death! In other words, you are no longer crucified with Christ.

Isn't it weird how people seem to gravitate to symbols and "icons" instead of the person of Christ? I think there is a general danger/error when people put icons ahead of the actual person of Christ.

Is The Cross Of Christ The Most Important Part Of The Plan Of God?

The cross is the expression of Gods Love toward us.

1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The cross is the means by which we call on Christ. Because we know He loves us we can ask for Salvation. We can ask for forgiveness. We can ask for Wisdom and Revelation.

It is Christ, Himself, who gives these things. You can ask the cross to give you those things but I don't think the cross can do it.

Isn't it weird how people seem to gravitate to symbols and "icons" instead of the person of Christ? I think there is a general danger/error when people put icons ahead of the actual person of Christ.

Where is this written in Scripture?

hmm the cross the crucifix He was placed on?

When the Apostle Paul said we preach Christ Crucified, he was talking about who Christ is and what Christ accomplished on the Cross; we are not speaking about the wooden beam. By placing your Faith and maintaining it in Christ and the Finished Work at Calvary Cross, the Believer receives all the benefits of the resurrection life (life more abundantly - the help of the Holy Spirit - Rom. 8:2). That is why Psalm 103:2 says, "DON'T FOGET ABOUT ALL HIS BENEFITS."

Ninety percent of Christians are proclaiming Christ but have forsaking the Cross; this is called spiritual adultery also lukewarm. They have change Gods prescribed order of victory for their lives, over sin, the world, the flesh, and the Devil. They have come up with a new way of victory which is called LAW. They are no longer abiding in Christ; the fruit becomes rotten! They are then removed from the body of Christ.

Notice, Jesus is talking about Christians:

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned (John 15:6). Jesus also said most people are going to hell (Matthew 7:14)

This is why your Faith must be exclusively in Christ and the Cross. This is why Paul says we preach Christ and Him Crucified. Paul also said I am determine to know nothing among you, save Christ and Him Crucified. He also said, “the message of the Cross is foolish to them whom are perishing, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.” Two subjects - Christ and the Cross, i.e., The Finished Work, i.e., The Blood of Jesus. Why would the Apostle Paul say this? Because this is the ONLY WAY!!!!!!!

That’s how easily wording can get misconstrued best to keep it simple, is Christ the most important part

Who in this thread has advocated justification by the law?

For the most part, the replies to your OP have pointed out the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You accused Nehemiah6 of "going in the way of Cain" when he pointed out God's plan of salvation included both the cross and the resurrection of Christ ... see Post #5 and Post #6.

When LordsHandmaiden indicated "there is so much more after the cross, the baptism in the Holy Ghost, spiritual gifts,operations according to His word and working and walking in His calling on a life" (Post #3), your response was "If you leave the Cross, you enter death!" (Post #10).


No one has stated that justification comes by the law. For the most part, all who have responded in this thread have pointed to the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you then claim that we have "gone beyond the Cross ... walk away from God and enter death!"

Do you realize that Christ was raised again for our justification (Rom 4:25)? That if we leave Christ on the cross, we are still in sin (1 Cor 15:15)?

So in reply to your use of Gal 5:4 as your justification of claiming that if "you go beyond the Cross you walk away from God and enter death! In other words, you are no longer crucified with Christ", you are completely without merit in claiming the believers who have replied to your OP in this thread have in any way, shape, or form pointed to the law as our means of justification before God.

So in reply to your use of Gal 5:4 as your justification of claiming that if "you go beyond the Cross you walk away from God and enter death! In other words, you are no longer crucified with Christ", you are completely without merit in claiming the believers who have replied to your OP in this thread have in any way, shape, or form pointed to the law as our means of justification before God.

Here is the gospel Paul preached to the Corinthian believers:

1 Corinthians 15:

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures


What Paul is saying in 1 Cor 1:17 is that he did not teach man's wisdom ... he taught the crucifixion and the resurrection. That is the gospel. The cross of Christ becomes "of none effect" if we teach man's wisdom in place of the gospel (the crucifixion and resurrection).





MessageOfTheCross ... you do understand that the "Power of God" is exhibited in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and His ascension into heaven, yes?

To those who are saved, the preaching of the cross is the power of God. The power of God is exhibited in the resurrection and the ascension (And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places - Eph 1:19-20),





1 Cor 2:2 is actually reproof to some of the believers in the church at Corinth because of their carnality. In 1 Cor 1:11-13 and in 1 Cor 3:1-4, Paul points out the cause of their carnality. They followed men rather than the Lord Jesus Christ.

In 1 Cor 2:6-16, Paul wrote that he was able to speak of more substantive matters with believers who were more mature. Paul taught the believers at levels that they could understand and benefit most from God's Word in order that all would grow and mature.





All believers begin their life in the Lord Jesus Christ at the cross. This is where our sins are laid and this is where we die to self. However, God calls us to walk in newness of life:

Romans 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.


In order to walk in newness of life, we must begin at the cross. And then we begin our new life of abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ, holding out His fruit to those we come in contact with ... those who are in desperate need of deliverance from this present evil world. Bring others to the Lord Jesus Christ. God has chosen the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe (1 Cor 1:21).

Those who are saved confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead.

Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.