The Cross

“When Jesus Christ was put to death by being nailed to a wooden cross, wicked men thought they were just executing a man who was disturbing their way of life.  They did not realise that the Cross was planned by God from the beginning of the world.

Through His Son’s death on the cross, the great Creator God was dealing with every person’s sin, suffering and sorrow.  Jesus was dying in the place of every individual in the world.  Receiving personally what He has done on the Cross brings the answer to all our needs.

Wickedness

“Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind,  to do what ought not to be done.  They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil greed and depravity.  They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.

“They are gossips, slanders, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless,  ruthless.

“Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these things, they approve of those who practise them” (Rom 1:28-32)

Immorality

“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen.

“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.

“Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion” )Rom 1:24-27)