The Message of the Cross

Salvation through Jesus Christ

“When he had received the drink, Jesus said 'It is finished'. With that He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit.” John 19:30

Every so-called Christian in the world knows that Jesus Christ was crucified, died, buried and was resurrected into life on the third day. The world commemorates that death and celebrates the resurrection of the one Savior Jesus Christ.
However, to know the fact about such event is one thing, while to understand the essence of that same event is another. Though many knows that Jesus Christ came to live with men and died to save men, the truth stands that many professing Christians do not really understand the finished work that gives them salvation for free. It is obvious from the different ways people remember His sacrificial death. In my country alone, Easter fanatics believe that submitting themselves to penitence or having themselves crucified would gain heaven's approval or wash their guilt away.

Jesus said as quoted above, “It is finished.” The work of salvation by the Savior is culminated in His death. The message of John 3:16 that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”, is perfected in His death and resurrection. You don't have to do anything except to believe that Jesus Christ alone can save you from sin. Just accept the fact that you have been a sinner who cannot be righteous no matter how hard you try. For the Word of God says in Romans 3:23-24 that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

Salvation is free to everyone who believes. Why free? Ephesians 2:8 says, “For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast.” There's no way you can buy your way to God except through Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, submit to His Lordship and acknowledge that He alone can take your guilt away. He died a terrible death to give you a new life. In Him there is peace, in Him there is freedom- freedom from sin and the curses that come with it. Jesus Christ offers you forgiveness, salvation and a new life. It's all yours for the taking. Let this Easter be the mark of a newly resurrected you through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you do, soon you will be able to say with Paul in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”