The Cross

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The Cross

• Gods greatest glory

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• The achievement of Christs cross must be seen
  in terms of revelation as well as salvation.
  (John Stott)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)

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• but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the
  hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the
  ages to our glory (1 Corinthians 27)

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• knowing that you were not redeemed with
  perishable things like silver or gold from your
  futile way of life inherited from your
  forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a
  lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of
  Christ. For He was foreknown before the
  foundation of the world, but has appeared in
  these last times for the sake of you (1 Peter
  118-20)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)

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• And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
  and between your seed and her seed He shall
  bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him
  on the heel. (Genesis 315)
• And I will bless those who bless you, and the one
  who curses you I will curse. And in you all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed.(Genesis
  123)

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• All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us
  has turned to his own way But the Lord has
  caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
  (Isaiah 536)
• Now He said to them, These are My words which I
  spoke to you while I was still with you, that all
  things which are written about Me in the Law of
  Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be
  fulfilled. (Luke 2444)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty

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• this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan
  and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross
  by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
  (Acts 223)
• But when the fullness of the time came, God sent
  forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the
  Law, (Galatians 44)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness

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• He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
  behalf, that we might become the righteousness of
  God in Him. (2 Corinthians 521)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice

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• This was to demonstrate His righteousness,
  because in the forbearance of God He passed over
  the sins previously committed for the
  demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the
  present time, that He might be just and the
  justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
  (Romans 325-26)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

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• and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins
  and not for ours only, but also for those of the
  whole world. (1 John 22)
• Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to
  be baptized with the baptism with which I am
  baptized? (Mark 1038)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Love

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

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• For God so loved the world, that He gave His
  only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
  should not perish, but have eternal life. (John
  316)

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• For one will hardly die for a righteous man
  though perhaps for the good man someone would
  dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own
  love toward us, in that while we were yet
  sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 57-8)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

• Love
• Grace

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• But we do see Him who has been made for a little
  while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus,
  because of the suffering of death crowned with
  glory and honor, that by the grace of God He
  might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 29)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

• Love
• Grace
• Power(Omnipotence)

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• For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the
  power of God for salvation to everyone who
  believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
  (Romans 116)
• Gods inactivity in the face of His Sons death
  demonstrates an awesome power!

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

• Love
• Grace
• Power(Omnipotence)
• Goodness(Mercy)

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• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
  (Ephesians 13)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath

• Love
• Grace
• Power(Omnipotence)
• Goodness(Mercy)
• Eternality

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• And all who dwell on the earth will worship him,
  everyone whose name has not been written from the
  foundation of the world in the book of life of
  the Lamb who has been slain. (Revelation 138)
• Hence, also, He is able to save forever those who
  draw near to God through Him, since He always
  lives to make intercession for them. (Hebrews
  725)

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The Cross manifests the glory of Gods

• Love
• Grace
• Power(Omnipotence)
• Goodness(Mercy)
• Eternality
• Immutability

• Wisdom(Omniscience)
• Veracity(Faithfulness)
• Sovereignty
• Holiness
• Justice
• Wrath