Emphasis Preaching Journal

To a first-century Hebrew, the cross made no sense at all. Anyone who was executed on a tree was accursed. How could God's Messiah die on a tree? What those ancient Hebrews and much of the world today still misses is the length to which God would go to communicate his love to sinful men and women. He came into the world to tell us he loved us. He came to tell us that our past sins are forgiven, that he was willing to bring us into his kingdom again if we will only want it.