Ordained by God to confound the wise, and save the lost.
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” [1 Cor 1:18]
You might ask How is it that something so gruesome as a brutal lashing and crucifixion can have such a redemptive result, in the life of whosoever believes?
The answer was foreshadowed in the garden of Eden when; after Adam and Eve sinned against the counsel of God, the Lord made “coats of skins, and (covered their nakedness)” ...and more fully expressed when the Lord entreated, thru His prophet Isaiah: “Come now, and let us reason together ...though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson (blood), they shall be as wool.” [Gen 2:16-17; Gen 3:17, 21; Isa 1:18]
Therein is the “mystery of godliness” revealed; that “it pleased the Lord (our Father/God) to bruise (scourge/crucify) (Christ/His Son) to make His soul an offering for (our) sin.” [1 Tim 3:16; Isa 53:10]
That is why “We preach Christ crucified ...who died for our sins...was buried, and rose again (in 3 days) according to the scriptures” [1 Cor 1:23-25; 1 Cor 15:3-4]
ThenSingsMySoul:
YOUR GRACE STILL AMAZES ME
YOUR LOVE IS A MYSTERY
EACH DAY I FALL ON MY KNEES
YOUR GRACE STILL AMAZES ME
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