A Sure Pathway To Living An Overcoming Christian Life.
Bible Passage – 1 Cor 1:17-18; Heb 12:2; Rom 1:16; Matt 16:24-25
The Cross and The Names of Jesus : The Power of the Cross: 1 Corinthians 1:17-18 | Matthew 27:45-51 | John 1:12 | Matt 28:18
Understanding The Power of The Cross Through The Power of Space Shuttle According to – Pastor Jeff Schreve, Space has been called “The Final Frontier.” At least, that’s what Captain Kirk called it.
It seemed, some years ago, to be outlandish and impossible for man ever to make it into space, for man ever to walk on the moon, but we know that it is possible because we have done it. And we have put people into space many, many times.
Now it’s an amazing thing when you think about it, that man would have the capability, the brain power, the creativity, the ingenuity, the engineering, and the wisdom to be able to create a craft, a space craft that can go from earth into outer space and have people make it to the moon and walk on the moon.
Wow! Create a Space Station in outer space. And you think about the Space Shuttle and what it took to build that thing. You know, we’ve had several series of the Space Shuttle: The Space Shuttle Columbia, the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Space Shuttle Enterprise and Atlantis. You know, each one of those space shuttles cost about 1.7 billion dollars to make it. It takes a long time to make it. It’s an incredible thing.
And when that space shuttle, the last one that went off, I think, was in February of 2011, Space Shuttle Discovery. When it was getting ready to take off, as it sits there on the landing pad, it weighs 4.5 million pounds. So, you have this thing that weighs 4.5 million pounds, and you’re going to get it up off the ground, into the air. It gets into space in eight minutes. Tremendous power! Watch the screens.
Wow! In eight minutes, it gets into space. You know, that Space Shuttle, it travels about 17,000 miles an hour when it orbits. To go around the earth, it’s 24,906 miles, the circumference of the earth, and it makes that trip sixteen times a day! That thing is moving. We would all have to say that’s got a lot of power.
But as powerful as the Space Shuttle is, as powerful as a launch is: man’s perhaps, crowning achievement in power, it pales in comparison to the power ever generated every second from the Cross of Jesus…
What a glory….
i. Consider the power of the wind that open the Red Sea
ii. Consider the power that made a way inside it.
iii. Consider the power that closed the Red Sea up
iv. Consider the power to pump out water for two million people to drink.
v. Consider also the power of creation that made all the things we see and do not see
vi. Compare to the power of the Cross of Jesus, this power cannot compare up to one percent in all.
There is a blood that has not stopped flowing since Calvary Actually, before the foundation of the world
It may only cease at the end of time, when there comes the rapture age
It is not the blood of the dead but the eternal blood of the living Saviour.
On this note we want to study the Cross of Jesus; and it’s power and impact for us before we were born, now and eternally.
The focus of our new Bible Study today
The Cross of Jesus and I – The Power of The Cross
The Categories of Jesus’ Sufferings and The Power Such Release
From the events before the cross and in the cross, let us look at these:
The Shame and Humiliation He suffered
The thorns, the 39 lashes and the pains of the mailings with the hanging
The Blood that flowed at Calvary: Isa 53:4-7 | Isa 53:8-9 | Isa 53:10-11
Implications of The Power
Matthew 26:28 | John 6:53 | Acts 20:28 | Romans 3:25
Here about this blood again: Ephesians 1:7 | Ephesians 2:13 | Colossians 1:20 | Hebrews 9:14 | Hebrews 13:20
⁃ The Cross and the stripes – By his stripes we were healed
⁃ The Cross and The Blood
⁃ No cross without the blood, No blood without the cross
⁃ No power outside the cross and the blood
⁃ So stained and drenched by the blood
⁃ It had to flow
⁃ It had to be poured out
⁃ It had to cleanse and still cleanses
⁃ It had to wash away our sins
⁃ It had to speak and keep speaking
Conclusion
The Song – The Old Rugged Cross
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
Refrain:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
and exchange it some day for a crown.
O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God, left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.
Refrain:
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
Refrain:
To that old rugged cross I will ever be true,
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.
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