Holy Week Service
March 27, 2024
Four Realities of the Cross in my life:
1. The Cross is God’s love on display for me to see.
(Romans 5:6–8) For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die — 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2. The Cross is God’s saving activity in my life.
(1 Colossians 1:18) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
(Colossians 2:13–14) And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
(1 Peter 2:24) 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.
3. The Cross is the only way I can have peace with God.
(Colossians 1:20–22) and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. 21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
4. The Cross is my testimony.
(Matthew 16:24) Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
(1 Corinthians 2:2) For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.