Christ Crucified

(1Corinthians 2:2) “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

This morning it is with absolute glee that I consider this my blog, not because I am rich with words or filled to the brim with over-flowing knowledge. No, I am rather excited with the message I am about to pen, you see, this message is a springboard for eternal life and not eternal damnation.

I want you to ask yourself a question. If you were given the choice to write your own obituary what would it say? As Christians what message would we leave behind? Or if we were asked what is the most important topic one can explore in the Bible. Would we look to explore the intriguing topics like gifts or angels or even “The Rapture”? These would be topic well worth our time and an interesting study and a study every Christian would need to understand. Maybe God’s sovereignty would be high on our list. Or how about “The Attributes of God”, we could then unpack the truths of God and all His characteristics and study would have no end. Our God is so vast and so magnificent that if we devoted our entire lifetime this side of eternity to this study, we would barely scratch the surface. Alright, then maybe the study of the Word itself, this surely would be the greatest topic of all to study, and let’s be real, what a great topic it is. My skin begins to tingle as I am excited by the thought of the power and revelation I find when immersed in God glorious word. It screens unsearchable riches to most, but to the few it is a river filled with nuggets of gold. But, we must be in the river boots and all with our pan’s sifting through the sand and water looking for great treasures. This cache is available to all God’s children; however we must mine to find. What else besides the Word, surely there is nothing of more importance than the Word? After all the Word spoke creation into being; what a powerful sight the angles witnessed. It must have been breath taking. I am aware of this fact, that the heavens and earth as we know them will pass away, but the words of the Lord will endure forever. The Word holds the key to the discovery of eternal consequences and must be honoured and treated with great care. Surely we have finally found the greatest of all studies, the Word; we are now getting warmer but also only beginning to scratch the surface. The Word became flesh; this must be the greatest study, the birth of Christ. No! Still this is not the greatest possible study. Then what about the Lord’s test in the garden of Gethsemane it was so intense that He began to sweet blood. This arguably must have been the greatest examination in search of sin in Him that our Lord ever faced and yet without fault He came through victoriously. As great as it was, it still would not be the topic I would pen.

The answer is obvious; it will be “Christ and Him Crucified.” There is no other topic this side of eternity or even in eternity that will ever carry more weight in the eyes of our Heavenly Father than this amazing feat that His Son, our Saviour wrought on Calvary.

Let us remember the words of our Father; "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

If we ever wish to get the full attention of our Heavenly father and find favour with Him let us always remember to consider Christ and Him crucified. When we struggle with sin let us remember Christ and Him crucified. When we speak to unsaved family and friends and they present us with objection after objection, bring them back to Christ and Him crucified. The apostle Paul, the same man who was caught into the third heaven and declares to us that some of the things he saw are unlawful for him to even speak about. He tells us that when given the choice he would speak about nothing else except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” Why?

This is why I love God, you see without Christ and Him crucified, we may still have worlds and galaxies, but there would be no eternal hope of life for you or me. We would exist in eternity, forever and ever, but yet, forever dying in constant torment where there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth from pain, separated from God in total darkness and yet without it ever ending and all because of the sentence that sin would require. What a horrible thought, yet God who is rich in mercy sent His Son to die for me. I now can escape the wrath of God and forever be with Him, I will be like him and eventually receive a glorified body like His and it will be only on that side of eternity that life will truly begin and only because of “Christ and Him Crucified.”

Let us then conclude, of all the true riches to be found in God’s Word-the bible, a book that could never be exhausted. The greatest of all studies must be, Christ and Him crucified. God was well please with His sacrifice, let us also esteem our Saviours sacrifice as the priority to all our daily activities and all our casual conversations.

Whoever thought that scars in a glorified body would be commendable to God; we have a scar and plastic surgery is an option, but not with God and Christ crucified; It pleased the Lord to bruise Him, Let us always remember what is cost the lord to buy our salvation, let us remember Christ and Him crucified.

Signing off

Tyrone