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Welcome
Thank you all for allowing me to be here tonight and speak into your lives
We are so grateful for our partnership with Siloam and looking for ward to serving with you in the future.
I am praying this message will edify and challenge you
Pastoral Prayer
Pray for the lost
Pray for transformation of our hearts
Pray for God presence in this place
INTRODUCTION
Everyone corporation has a some kind of logo to reflect to the world who they are and what they do.
People spend crazy amounts of money on the perfect design and what will tell the world who they are.
Christianity also has logo, but it was purchased with blood Jesus Christ.
The cross of Christ is the symbol that God has given to the church to tell the world who we are.
The cross defines our identity.
It is the symbol of both death and triumph.
It is the symbol of death because Jesus died on the cross and for us to follow Him we must die and take up our cross too.
It is a symbol of life because the cross we wear is an empty.
Jesus died on the cross, but rose from the dead and brought new life.
And for Paul, it was to be the center of the church in Corinth.
Notice this was one of the first things Paul addresses in the first chapter.
His vision for this church was to be cross centered.
And what Paul would say to us today is to live lives centered on the cross.
Look with me in 1 Cor 1:18 and lets see what Paul says about the cross:r
When the world sees the cross there are two reactions: one says it is foolish and the other says it is the power of God.
The NIV rightly translates the “word of the cross” as: “the message of the cross”
Our Christain symbol has a message and it is this message that proclaims the doctrine of the death of Christ.
He is talking about the message that we have been given to proclaim to the world that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
The message that proclaims the wrath of God that abides on the whole world that has been satisfied on the cross.
the message that says all men Are sinners and need to be saved.
It is this message that Paul labored and suffered so greatly for.
This is why Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes!”.
It is this message that was central to Paul’s preaching, this message that was central to Paul’s church planting, and this message that demonstrated the power of God to a lost and dying world!
This is why he said to the Corinthians in verse 17, “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.”
What he is saying is I did not persuade you with eloquent speech, or great arguments, but with the plain message of the cross, and it was that message that God used to save them.
This message of the cross is THE central message of the entire Bible
It doesn't matter where you turn in the pages of Scripture, somewhere in the shadows of every story, every institution, every law, every truth you will find an arrow pointing to the cross.
When life began and sin entered the world through Adam, God declared the message of the cross to the world!
The Seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15).
Noah’s ark is a picture of God saving his people from His wrath on sin.
Abraham bundled and took sticks to the alter to sacrifice his son just as Jesus carried his cross to Calvary.
The sacrificial system foreshadowed the Lamb of God
The priesthood mediated God and man
The message of the prophets proclaim a Savior
And this is the message of Jesus Christ himself who gave us life through His death.
The cross is the central truth of the entire Bible
And if this is the central message of the Bible, then it must certainly be the central message of the church Whom Paul called the pillar of truth?
Every soul that has been saved by the power of the cross has the responsibility to proclaim the message of the cross
No one is exempt!
We must not be content with proclamation that only takes place behind the pulpit on Sunday mornings.
We must not be content with the ideology that ONLY those who have the spiritual gift of evangelism should share this message.
We must not think that somehow the Great Commission was only given to the apostles and not to everyone who claims the Christian logo of the cross.
I cannot think of a better time for the church to tell this glorious message than now.
Our churches are dying at an astounding rate and I truly believe it is partly because the church as a whole has stopped telling this message.
This is the message that God has given to us to give to the world 🌎.
This is the message that God has ordained by which He uses to bring people who walk in darkness into the light of Christ
What the world so desperately needs is to hear this message once again and see it permeating all of those who claim the cross of Christ!
It needs to be told in our schools
It needs to be told in our workplaces
It needs to be told in our homes
And it needs to be modeled in our lives
Why is this message so important in our world today?
Because what this world needs most is not a better President, not world peace, not good morals, but deliverance from sin..and only the cross can do that
All things are made right at the cross.
All relationships are restored through the cross.
All sins are washed away at the cross.
Unity in churches can only come through the cross.
And the only hope for our children and grandchildren in this world today will come through cross and WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TELLING THAT MESSAGE!
The cross divides the world into two classes of people: those who are perishing and those who are being saved
1 Cor 1:18 “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
It is amazing what science will try to do with the human race.
They love to divide us up into 78 different kinds of people.
You have white people, black people, asian people, Chinese people, women, men, men who identify as women, blue collared workers, and white collar workers and on and on and on.
And somehow this world has bought the lie that there are all these different kinds of people on earth and you just got to figure out who you are and try to better yourself.
Paul throws all that out and cuts it down to just two classes of people: those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
This goes all the way back to Cain and Abel.
Cain was an unrighteous man and hated Abel because his deeds were righteous.
There has only ever been two kinds of people.
There will be one division at the end of this age, the saved and the lost.
We naturally struggle with the issue of identity.
They are a business owner, or a baseball player, or a they have a doctorate and want to addressed with a title.
We label ourselves with all sorts of things and classify ourselves in all these categories but the cross cuts through it all!
Can I tell you something?
All that really matters in this life is whether or not your sins have been nailed to the cross and you have become a child of God through the power of God!
All of that other stuff that goes on in this world is trivial to that.
What are those two kinds of people?
Paul says they are those who are perishing
The word perishing means “to be destroyed or ruined”
The present tense of this verb refers to a process, not just something that will happen at the end of one’s life.
The idea is this is a road that people are on and headed down toward a final destination.
This is also what Jesus said when He said, “for the road is broad that leads to destruction and many who enter through it”.
And what that says to me is that there is still hope for them!
What that tells me is that there must be a sense of urgency in the church to try to save as many of these who are perishing.
What that tells me is that we who carry this message have the only thing that will bring them to the One who can save them!
What is it that makes the cross foolish to the perishing?
1) The cross stands for the very opposite of what people naturally strive to do.
People naturally try to do enough good that somehow they think God will accept them.
That if we could just be good enough, come to church enough, give enough, pray enough that God will accept us.
But that is the opposite message of the cross.
The cross says no one can be good enough, no one can do enough to be accepted, it can only come through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.
Here is a danger in our churches, and in our personal lives.
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