Author: Jojo Agot

Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.

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The single most frequent reason I see for misinterpreting a text or Scripture is not ignorance of the original language as helpful as that is, and not the ignorance of the life situation whence it came but rather the glaring, flagrant errors of inferences [that] we draw from the text.

—RC Sproul in an interview with D.A. Carson

The Dagger of the Cross

Everything that is in us naturally stands in direct opposition to the cross of Christ. Even after we believe, there is a remnant of sin that remains inside us that will never really be defeated until we die or until the Lord comes back to take us. This indwelling sin may have been weakened inside but it’s still there lying dormant. And just when we feel confident that we are free from it, it suddenly comes back to life and sabotages our relationship with God.

The Apostle Paul recognized this when he wrote in Romans 7:21: “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.” Whenever we want to do the right thing, our indwelling sin fights us left and right. It opposes us at every turn and drags us down so our spirit could not commune with God. There is not a single fiber of our being that is not infected with indwelling sin. Everything about us is contaminated.

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The Message of the Cross

crossThe cross declares that we are loved with an intensity that defies our capacity to comprehend, not because we are intrinsically lovable but because God is intrinsically love. These are the twin messages of the cross– brutal honesty about our guilt and impotence and the glorious assurance of our welcome by the Father in His beloved Son.

—Dennis E. Johnson