“Jews request a sign,
and Greeks seek after wisdom;
but we preach Christ crucified.”
-1 CORINTHIANS 1:22,23
Unfortunately,
salvation as preached today results not in death, but in
“swooning.” There is an ecstatic joy and the “near death experience” of a
token surrender, but it is not real death. The convert merely changes
his conduct, cries a few tears, yet he still lives. The outward
deportment may be different, but he has not died. He commences to follow
the Lord and fill his life with spiritual activity, but his many
failures and shortcomings prove something is missing in his experience.
What is it?
He
knows the Cross only as something Jesus died on for him. The Cross does
not represent his own death, but his Lord’s death. It is seldom
presented as anything other than the means of atonement and forgiveness
of sins. Few realize it is the means by which we enter, as well as live,
the Christian life.
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