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Reading:The Cross of Christ  pg. 98-104 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ  pg. 89-98 For I know my transgressions,and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinnedand done what is evil in your sight,so that you may be justified in your wordsand blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,and in sin did my mother conceive […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 75-86 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?   O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,and by night, but I find no rest.   Yet you are holy,enthroned on the praises of Israel.   In […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg.66-74 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 58-65 Even my close friend in whom I trusted,who late my bread, has lifted his heel against me. Psalm 41.9 We have to look at three individuals-Pilate, Caiaphas and Judas-on whom the evangelists fasten the major blame for the crucifixion of Jesus, and at those associated with them, whether […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 51-58 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” 3 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 45-50 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 38-45 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  1 Peter 2.24 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pages 31-38 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him […]