The crisis of which Jesus preached was the crisis of an impending judgment of the world.

At which point God is going to pour out his wrath against the unredeined and the ungodly, the impenitent, and that the only hope of escape

from the wrath of God was how?

To be covered by the atonement of Christ.

At the center of the good news of the Gospel is what Christ accomplished on the

cross. To get this wrong, to distort it is to destroy the gospel message. Christianity with no cross is no

Christianity at all. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind. I'm your

host Nathan W Bingham.

R.C. Sprawl, the founder of Linear Ministries, spent his entire ministry helping people

understand the cross of Christ. And in this week's series he dedicated six messages

looking at the cross from different angles to help you in your devotion and love

for the Lord as you see the beautiful scope of God's grace and to help you defend the

biblical testimony of Christ's work on the cross against those who deny or downplay

this monumental essential and central truth of Christianity.

So don't forget that you can own this series and Dr. Sproll's book The Truth of the Cross

at renewing your mind dot org

Jesus told his disciples that he came to give his life as a ransom for many.

What was this ransom and to whom was it paid?

Here's Dr Sprawl.

I'm sure that there were times in Jesus' life,

particularly toward the close of his earthly ministry when touching his

human nature he just had to be super frustrated. When he made his last trip from Galilee down to Jerusalem, he had an extended tour as it were of speaking along the way,

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