Viewpoints Around The Cross

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Viewpoints Around The Cross
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Introduction

• Viewpoint place affording a view of something
  position of observation

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Various Viewpoints

• Judas---money
• Pharisees---silence
• Pilate---self-preservation
• Roman soldiers---sport

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From The Viewpoint Of God The Father It was
about substitution

• In his wonderful grace, God sent Jesus to die for
  us by taking our place on the cross
• Heb. 29
• Is. 535
• I Pet. 221
• 1 Jn. 49-10

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From The Viewpoint Of The Son It Was About
Submission

• To Jesus, the cross meant shame and suffering
• However, Jesus submitted to the Fathers will
  went to the cross
• Mt. 2639, 53
• Heb. 122
• Phil. 28

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From The Viewpoint Of Christians It Was About
Salvation

• The first century Christians saw the cross, and
  the blood shed there, as the means of their
  salvation
• Mt. 2628
• Acts 2028
• 1 Pet. 118-20
• Rev. 15

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Conclusion

• Gal. 614
•  14But God forbid that I should glory, save in
  the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
  world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
  KJV

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Conclusion

• But far be it from me to boast except in the
  cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the
  world has been crucified to me, and I to the
  world. ESV

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Conclusion

• But God forbid that I should boast except in the
  cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world
  has been crucified to me, and I to the world. NKJV