Gospel of the cross

It was passion. The cross could not be understood except through the power of God and his Spirit. An outpouring of the passion of almighty God, passion made into words of death, life, resurrection; words that have the taste of wood, the taste of the cross. We preach the crucified Christ, not dead, but risen, alive in all his immensity. The word of the cross remains madness until Christ heals the schizophrenia of human wisdom in the mind and heart of the unbeliever. that receives the beautiful touch of God. The gospel of the cross cannot be understood by human reason, but in the Spirit. Jesus is the power and wisdom of God. The gospel is based on the word of the cross, on the crucified Christ who rose again on the third day.

We must know that our old man was crucified with him (Ro 6.6). We must remember that we have crucified the flesh (Galatians 5.24) and we walk in newness of life (Ro 6.4). We were dead and he resurrected us along with him. The passion of the Lord is understood by the revelation of the word of the cross, of the gospel of salvation.

The gospel of the cross heals mental sight and sets the lame in spirit to walk, demolishes cares and nourishes faith. God wants the world to know him by the message of the cross, by the madness of preaching. That is why we celebrate the living Christ. The resurrection dealt a mortal blow to human wisdom, to the rational intellect. Nobody can know God if it is not through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, eternal life; argument that breaks the molds of science and reason.

Celebrating the passion of Jesus is celebrating life. God seated us in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2.6) because he rose again. His death gave us death of a corrupt nature, his resurrection made us born again to understand from the spiritual perspective the greatness of the gospel of the cross. The cross continues to be the center of Christianity. The resurrection was the irrefutable historical fact by which thousands of Christians allowed themselves to be burned at the stake, abandoned themselves to the jaws of lions, endured the wildest martyrdoms in all ages. The resurrection is the gateway to saving faith, its crown, its banner. It can only be assimilated from the word of the cross, from the gospel of the hammer and the nails, from the blood of the paschal lamb.

All the wrath of God unloaded on his Son so that the world could believe in him and be saved, the just for sinners, the innocent for the guilty, the holy for the irreconcilable. And death could not. He could not prevent all the glory of God from lodging in his head. For an instant; In spite of the vinegar, the sharp crown, the drunken soldier girl risking her clothes. That is why it is passion; for his inclination to die so that the world may live, for the love of those who follow him, for his vocation to redeem millions of slaves of sin who boast of their perverse condition.

The gospel of the cross has not stopped announcing itself and is still looking for "madmen" who preach their madness, who do not boast of anything other than the cross of the Lord (Galatians 6.14), who are aware of their resurrection with Christ and to embody the privilege of being a new creature. God looks for men and women who understand the value of the cross; simple as his fishermen, learned as Nicodemus, foolish to shame the wise, weak to antagonize the strong, despised for their anonymity to instruct the lofty wise, passionate as the women who stood at the foot of his cross and then announced to the disciples the miracle of the empty tomb.

If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. (Col 3.1). Here is the challenge, to look to heaven so that our message loses its fragile humanity, our preaching drowns in its inconsistencies and Christ remains, his gospel from heaven, the irreplaceable word of the cross.

God bless your Word!