“Couldn’t God have done it a different way?”

In this week’s sermon, Dan looks at the necessity of the cross – from both the legal aspect of the cross and the transformational aspect of the cross. What he reveals is that, if we will be self-sacrificing as Jesus was on the cross, we can have life.

2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

John 1:10-11
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

Romans 7:21-25
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

 John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.