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A Cross for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Carl H. Stevens Jr. was the pastor of Greater Grace
World Outreach located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Pastor Stevens was also chancellor of Maryland Bible
College & Seminary and host of the international
Christian radio program “The Grace Hour.”
This
booklet was created from a message preached by
Pastor Stevens.
Pastor Stevens can be seen weekly on cable
television stations throughout the United States.
Call us for information re g a rding programming in
your area.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from
the King James Version.
Italics for emphasis are ours.
GRACE PUBLICATIONS
P.O.
BOX 18715
BALTIMORE, MD 21206
Printed in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Copyright © 2003
Grace Publications is a ministry of
Greater Grace World Outreach, Inc.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF THE CROSS
Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RESURRECTION LIFE CONQUERS DEATH
Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THE FLOW OF THE FINISHED WORK
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
!! INTRODUCTION
On the Cross, Jesus Christ paid for the sins
of the world and made a way for us to be saved.
He made us His own through His death on the
tree of Calvary.
That moment in time marked t h e
pivotal point in the history of the world.
There,
God established His Tree of Life.
What God did on Calvary takes care of everything
about us.
Jesus is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, and His Cross takes care of
our yesterdays, today, and tomorrows.
Through the Finished Work of Calvary, we
have been hid with Christ in God.
As this booklet
will reveal, what we have done is no longer
an issue; who we are can be governed by Who
He is; and, what we shall become is being fashioned
according to His eternal purpose.
!!! *Chapter One*
/THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF THE CROSS/
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the thro n e
of God and of the Lamb.
“In the midst of the street of it, and on either
side of the river, was there the Tree of Life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded
her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations” (Revelation 22:1-2).
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water.
“(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him should receive: for the Holy
[Spirit] was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet glorified.)”
(John 7:38-39).
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall never thirst; but the water
that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).
In the twenty-second chapter of Revelation,
the Word of God speaks of a throne, a Lamb,
and a pure river, clear as crystal, flowing out of
the throne.
Think of that scene and the awesome
beauty of it.
This passage also mentions the Tree of Life
on each side of the river and in the midst of it.
No curse is there—just the Throne of God, the
Lamb of God, and the redeemed people of God.
I have received more joy and happiness from the
blessings that come from the throne and that
river because of the Tree of Life and the fruit that
grows there.
/The Past, the Present, the Future/
From the very beginning of time, God has
spoken of the Tree of Life (Genesis 2:9).
Through
the years, I have pondered on that tree and the
river.
As you consider the river, there is nothing
cloudy about it.
It is all pure, all clean.
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