Point of Grace Worship LOVING THE CROSS 9.15.23
LOVING THE CROSS
THE CROSS GIVES ME GOD THEN GOD GIVES ME A CROSS.
Matthew 16:21-23
21From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” 23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
HIS Rebuke IS His LOVE.
JESUS loves us enough to lovingly rebuke us.
He disciplines those He loves.
He loves us so much that He will not let us follow him VOID of a Cross.
1 Corinthians 2:1-2
2 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Matthew 16:24-28
24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? 27For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Your Cross is a GIFT and not a PUNISHMENT.
THE CROSS GIVES ME GOD THEN GOD GIVES ME A CROSS.