*** Download This Message -> 130331 – Why The Cross

We are all on a journey in our lives even if we never go anywhere.  We are moving from one experience to another continuously. Each of us has a path in life to walk out.  Only we can decide where that pathway takes us. We are on God’s path or Satan’s, one or the other.  Both have definite destinations. You and I are the deciding factor.

God has made a bridge by way of the Cross for each of us if we chose to take it while there is still time to choose. All roads and all paths lead to the Cross.

No matter whether we believe in God or not all of us will encounter the Cross and the One who hung on it and paid our debt.  Everyone will face the cross!

Everyone will face the fact that Jesus died for them.

Hebrews 2: 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. (NKJV)

Everyone will face the fact that their freedom from Satan and damnation was purchased by the blood of Jesus.

2nd Corinthians 5: 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.          (NKJV)

1st John 2: 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (NKJV)

Everyone will face the great love of the Father and Jesus.  Not everyone will enter in, but all will know. Every Knee will Bow.

Romans 14: 7 – 12 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. (8) For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. (9) For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. (10) But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. (11) For it is written: “AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.”  (12) So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. (NKJV)

Some will bow their knees because of their great love for the Lord and as sons and daughter of God.  Their hearts full of joy as they bow in reference to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

They choose Jesus as their Lord and Savior bowing their knee willingly of their own free will during their allotted time in the Earth. They and are now reaping the Glory and Joy of their New Life in Jesus.

Others will bow because they have to.  They will have to bow as defeated subjected enemies of God.  They will see their God Satan bow before the Lord.  They will see him thrown into the pit and will have to follow him because they served him instead of making Jesus their Lord and Savior during their allotted time in the Earth.  They choose darkness rather than light.

The real key questions to your eternity are, how committed are you and to whom?  The jail door is unlocked and open, but you must walk thru the door to your Freedom.

Two things we must know. God loves you and me unconditionally. God hates sin not the sinner.  He loves the sinner and paid the sinners debt on the cross so that the sinner could go free if they desired to do so.

If you are asking why the Cross?  The answer is YOU and me.