Saturday 4 November 2017

The Significance of the Cross

What was God really doing in and through the cross?

What did Paul say God was really doing, in and through the cross?

What was the world of Paul's day hearing Paul saying, when Paul referenced the cross?

In the cross and resurrection of Jesus, God was fulfilling His covenant faithfulness to Abraham and to David and to Israel. He was fulfilling the law and the psalms and the prophets. He was undoing the fall, overthrowing tyranny, even defeating death. He was installing His Son as Lord and Messiah. Which meant that what He did for His Son, He was doing for David, for Jacob's house first, for Abraham, and also for the whole world.

So the gospel is the announcement of a complete covenant-fulfilling, spiritual, priestly, judicial, royal, social, intranational, physical, cosmic achievement. Achieved and declared through Jesus - through His cross and resurrection - by God.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. 

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