THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS
Brother James
1st Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
The Message of the Cross is so much more than talking about the Death, Burial and Ressurrection of Jesus. The Message of the Cross encompasses the Whole Gospel given from the time Christ walked the Earth through the deeper Revelations that were given by His Holy Spirit after His ascension into the Throne Room of Heaven. The Message of the Cross surpasses the place where we learn to acknowledge the sin that is in us and its debt that the Cross collected from Christ. It surpasses the fact that Christ had the intense Power of True Life and had the ability to lay that Life down and to rise up again a New Creation then to be glorified. The Message of the Cross is about the Narrow Path we must travel and therein travail until we become Born from above. It is the defining place of our total submission to God our Fathers will to Overcome Satan and his demonic forces. It is a place where all true spiritual understanding comes to fruition so that we can proclaim as did Paul that we have become crucified with Christ.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
It is the fruition of our being saved that point and time where being sealed in the Holy Spirit and True Security in Eternal Life is reached not by our own efforts but by our submission to His Work within us.
Ephesians 1:13
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
The Spirit of Promise seals us when we have released our friendships, partnerships and love of this world having come to a deep place of Faith of total reliance on Gods Promises.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
A clear Message of the Cross above in James 4:4 calls those called to be crucified with Christ yet still trusting in the worlds False Solutions Adulterers and Aduteresses. This is the condition oif many in the Church today. They simply trust in the solutions devils and seducing spirits place in the heart of man making them in Truth enemies with God.
The Message of the Cross contains in it the Divine time and place wherein the Promises of God once fully trusted Births the Spirit of Christ (Gods Anointing, Power and Wisdom) within.
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
2 Peter 1:4
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
You see the Cross is carried by us until we reach the place its Message and Promises are fulfilled and we become the Sons and Daughters of God.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
