John 3:16
If you want to know the heart of God just look at Calvary…
If you think that no one loves you, just take a look at that old tree.
Can you see the blood that flows as Jesus died for you and me
If you want to see the heart of God, just look at Calvary Jack Shuler Family
Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”
I John 4:9 “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”
- In all the travels around the world of J. Wilber Chapman, the early 1900’s preacher, he said the most profound thought he ever had was “Jesus Loves Me This I Know.”
WE SEE THE CROSS AND THE FATHER’S HEART IN ETERNITY
The cross was the theme of eternity.
The cross came out of the Foreknowledge of God and the Predestination of God.
The cross was not a last resort but the cross was on His Mind before time. You and I were on His mind.
The cross was God’s plan and only Plan untainted by man.
The cross was not a tragedy a disaster, calamity, catastrophe nor did the cross put heaven into a tailspin.
1 Peter 1:18-20 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,”
Acts 2:22-23 “Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know; Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:”
WE SEE THE CROSS AND SON’S HEART IN HIS HUMANITY
2 Corinthians 5:19 “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
1 Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”
1 Peter 2:24 “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Matthew 20:28 “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
His did not come to do miracles, walk on the water, be crowned by man, etc.
Hebrews 12:2 “…Who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame…”
WE SEE THE CROSS AS THE HEART OF THE SCRIPTURES IN PROPHECY
Acts 3:18 “But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.”
Matthew 16:21 “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.”
Matthew 20:18-19 “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.”
Luke 24:44-46 “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:”
WE SEE THE CROSS AND THE HEART OF THE SAINTS WHO LOVE CALVARY
1 Corinthians 1:31 “That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
Romans 8:32 “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”