by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
If the
Bible makes anything clear, it is the fact that the secret of all God’s good
news to men is centered in Calvary. It was because Christ was to die for sin
that God could proclaim good news to sinners down through the ages.
It was
not until some time after the crucifixion, however, that “the preaching of the
cross” was widely proclaimed as a message by Paul in “the gospel [good news] of
the grace of God” ( I Corinthians1:18; Acts 20:24).
The
proclamation of “the gospel of the grace of God” was the natural accompaniment
to the revelation of the cross as the secret of God’s good news to man. In this
proclamation of His over-abounding grace to sinners, everything centers in the
cross.
According
to Paul’s epistles “we have redemption through His [Christ’s] blood” (Ephesians
1:7), we are “justified by His blood” (Romans 5:9), “reconciled to God by the
death of His Son” (Romans 5:10), “made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Epesians
2:13), and “made the righteousness of God in Him” because “God hath made Him to
be sin for us” (II Corinthians 5:21).
The
“covenant” of the Law was abolished by the cross (Colossians .2:14), the curse
of the Law was removed by the cross (Galatians 3:13), the “middle wall of
partition” was broken down by the cross (Ephesians2:14,15), and believers in
Christ are “reconciled to God in one body by the cross” (Ephesians. 2:16).
Little wonder Paul calls this message “the preaching of the cross”!
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