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September 11
Tuesday


LEAD THEM
TO THE CROSS

READ:
1 Cor. 1:18-25
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God forbid that I
should boast except in
the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
__Galatians 6:14
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Many heart-touching stories were circulated after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. None seems more spiritually significant than that of ironworker Frank Silecchia. As he was helping to recover bodies, Frank noticed two steel beams in the shape of a cross standing upright in the middle of all the debris.

Appointing himself as the curator of that striking symbol of God's love, he often took heartbroken visitors to see it. Many of them were comforted by the silent testimony to the divine Presence in the worst of tragedies. One day when journalist Barbara Walters came with tearful friends who had lost a son in the catastrophe, Frank simply led them to the cross.

The answer to the world's terrible pain and evil is not a philosophical argument or a theological treatise. The allsufficient answer is Calvary's cross, where in fathomless grace Jesus, the incarnate God, took upon Himself the burden of our sins and bore them "in His own body on the tree, that we...might live for righteousness" (1 Peter 2:24).

If you have not been led to Calvary's cross, let me take you there. He died for you and then rose again. Believe in Him and you will be saved (1 Cor. 1:21). __ Vernon Grounds
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~~~~~~They are nailed to the cross, they are nailed to the cross!~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~O how much He was willing to bear.~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~With what anguish and loss, Jesus went to the cross,~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~But He carried my sins with Him there. __ Breck~~~~~~~~
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The pathway to heaven begins at the foot of the cross.

***********Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 1:18-25**********

18 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. 19 For it
is written: "I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise,
and bring to nothing the
understanding of the
prudent."

20 Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe? Where
is the disputer of this age?
Has not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?

21 For since, in the wisdom
of God, the world through
wisdom did not know God,
it pleased God through the
foolishness of the message
preached to save those who
believe. 22 For Jews request
a sign, and Greeks seek
after wisdom; 23 but we
preach Christ crucified, to
the Jews a stumbling block
and to the Greeks
foolishness, 24 but to those
who are called, both Jews
and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the
wisdom of God. 25 Because
the foolishness of God is
wiser than men, and the
weakness of God is stronger
than men.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Jesus was often asked to work miracles to validate His message
(Matt. 12:38 ). The apostles also received this challenge (1 Cor.
1:22). In contrast, because of their philosophies, the Greeks would
sometimes scoff at the miracle of resurrection (Acts 17:32). But to
those who were called to salvation, the gospel became the power of
God. __HDf