The message of the cross is the Power of God to us who are being saved.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. —1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV
Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? —Luke 9:23-25 NKJV

1. The message of the cross is the power of God over sin.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. —2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, everyone, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. For the transgressions of My people, He was stricken. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see the travail of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. He poured out His soul to death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. —Isaiah 53:6,8,10-12 NKJV
For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. —Jeremiah 31:34 NKJV
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —1 John 1:7,9 NKJV
1 John 2:1-2

2. The message of the cross is the power of God over sickness.

Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. —Isaiah 53:4-5 NKJV
that it might be fulfilled which is spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.” —Matthew 8:17 NKJV
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. —1 Peter 2:24 NKJV
Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases. —Psalm 103:1-3 NKJV

3. The message of the cross is the power of God over the law.

Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another – to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. —Romans 7:4,6 NKJV
Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. —Colossians 2:14-15 NKJV
1 Corinthians 15:55-58; Hebrews 3:14,15; Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 26:27; 2 Corinthians 3:3,6

4. The message of the cross is the power of God over every curse.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. —Galatians 3:13-14 NKJV
Genesis 12:2-3; 1 Corinthians 15:45,49

5. The message of the cross is the power of God over poverty.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that through His poverty might become rich. —2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again to bear the reproach of famine among the nations. —Ezekiel 36:27-30 NKJV
3 John: verse 2

6. The message of the cross is the power of God over the flesh or human nature.

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. —Romans 6:5-6 NKJV
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. —Galatians 5:24-25 NKJV
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’“ —Matthew 4:4 NKJV
John 6:63; Romans 8:12-15; Philippians 3:3

7. The message of the cross is the power of God over the world.

Do not love the world of the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. —1 John 2:15-17 NKJV
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. —Galatians 6:14 NKJV
Matthew 4:8-11

8. The message of the cross is the power of God over self-life.

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” —Luke 9:23 NKJV
And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done.” —Luke 22:41-42 NKJV
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. —Galatians 2:20 NKJV

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