It’s About The Cross
Galatians 6:14 (UKJV) But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
“We behold in the cross if Christ our efficiency, our inexhaustible Source of power.” (6BC 112.7)
“Behold in the cross of Christ the only sure guarantee for individual excellence and success. And the more the heart is wrapped up in Christ, the more secure is the treasure in the eternal world.” (6 BC 1112.8)
There is one great central truth to be kept ever before the mind in the searching of the Scriptures—Christ and Him crucified. Every other truth is invested with influence and power corresponding to its relation to this theme. It is only in the light of the cross that we can discern the exalted character of the law of God. The soul palsied by sin can be endowed with life only through the work wrought out upon the cross by the Author of our salvation (6BC 1084.8)
Ephesians 2:13 (UKJV)… in Christ Jesus all of you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Hanging upon the cross, Christ was the gospel. Now we have a message, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.” [John 1:29.]
Will not our church members keep their eyes fixed on a crucified and risen Saviour, in whom their hopes of eternal life are centered?
This is our message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our encouragement for the sorrowing, the hope for every believer. If we can awaken an interest in people’s minds that will cause them to fix their eyes on Christ, we may step aside, and ask them only to continue to fix their eyes upon the Lamb of God.
They thus receive their lesson. Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Those whose eyes are fixed on Jesus will leave all. They will die to selfishness. They will believe in all the Word of God, which is so gloriously and wonderfully exalted in Christ. (Ms 49, 1898, par. 41)