- The Cross shows the love of God for what it is...It is gracious, merciful (for us), longsuffering and abundant and/or overflowing from the Fountainhead of Love itself -- God.
- The Cross also shows sin and evil for what it is...It took the death of the Son of Man to put it away forever
- The Cross tells us as Christians that we do not live defeated lives but are victorious in the Lord.
- We were once children of wrath but we are now saved by the blood of the Lamb.
- The Lamb who is the Son of God.
- A promise to Abraham [and us] or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- More specifically through righteousness of faith - διὰ δικαιοσύνης πίστεως
- Righteousness...that had to have been given to us from a righteous source
- A source that cared enough to do so...
- Because we are not righteous--no, not one.
- Faith or trust that God does what He promises.
- Ultimately, what He promised is righteousness-holy like He is holy.
- Without which there is no eternal life.
- Faith, not an act of seeing but rather the eye that believes without seeing.
- Faith or the belief given to us by God.
- Given through grace
- So we may remain obedient to the faith
- Those that are righteous will live by this faith
- Without Christ...none of this is possible
- Because Jesus Christ was the promise
- More specifically He was the "Promised One"
- Of which both the Law and the Prophets spoke of all those ages before.
- Having been justified by faith- we have peace through Jesus Christ.
- We are no longer under His wrath.
- By which we have been introduced by faith into this [God's] grace where we now stand-and exult in the hope of the glory of God
I am so wretched.
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