What happened on the Cross

We all love stories of hope and sacrifice.

From Star Wars to Avengers, we keep coming back.

And why is that?

It’s because, deep down, we have an instinctual resonance with these themes.

And it all has to do with what happened on the Cross.

The Descendant 

 Adam and Eve messed up.

They rejected God’s path to peace in favor of their own. In doing so, they introduced the “Human Problem,” the wrongness in the world and ourselves.

But all hope wasn’t lost.

Adam and Eve were convinced to sin by the Serpent, a spiritual being bent on separating God and humanity.

After Adam and Eve sin, God confronts this Serpent and gives an important prophecy:

To make a symbolic and theological story short, God was saying that, one day, a human would arise able to vanquish sin’s separating power.

The whole of the Old Testament is filled with potential “Descendants” who, ultimately, fail and succumb to sin’s power themselves.

No matter how hard humanity tried, we could never beat sin on our own.

So God stepped in.

What Happened on the Cross

The “Descendant” of Genesis 3v15 is none other than God Himself.

God in human form.

AKA Jesus.

Due to His divinity, Jesus was the only human to be free from sin.

The only one qualified to confront and beat it.

And that’s exactly what He did on the Cross.

There, Jesus took the combined weight of humanity’s - sin, past, present, and future.

And it killed Him.

But only for three days. 

Because it was at that point that Jesus rose Himself from the dead, proving that sin could not overcome Him.

So what happened?

Through the sacrifice of Jesus, the separation sin created between God and humanity no longer had the final say.

Once more, humanity could partake in their purpose - intimacy with God.

And, yet, the Human Problem remains.

The world is still messed up.

We are still messed up.

So what gives?

We’ll explore that tomorrow.

For now, be blessed.

Jon,

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