1 Corinthians 15:1

Title: The Gospel

No one can be labeled “good” without being “just” at the same time.

The act of taking away sin is not put into effect at the expense of justice. We can be sorry all we want for our transgressions, and perform all the good deeds in the hope of tipping the scale of right or wrong in our favor, but to no avail will these earn us forgiveness. In the Christian economy forgiveness is not earned; forgiveness is received as a gift by faith.

The gospel message is not about forgiveness per se; it is the good news of the Lord Jesus taking our place in order for him to pay in full the penalty for our sins, so that repentance might be made possible and forgiveness received as a gift.

Luke 23:34

Title: Father, forgive them

Volumes have been written about the seven utterances of the Lord Jesus on the cross, but the silence of the Lamb those six fateful hours had been largely ignored.

We know from experience that pain becomes more pronounced when it is endured in silence. But, still, we shall never know the sorrow of the sinless Savior, when he was crushed under the weight of man’s indifference to the price that had to be paid for the redemption of the sinner’s soul.

But how should we know, when, instead of living our days at the foot of the cross, as a witness to our intimacy with the Crucified in his agony, we opted to get the most out of life, and exchanged the stillness of Calvary for the gaiety of the world?