In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Confronting the Cross.

Why would anybody want to make such a statement as this?

The only thing that I will ever boast of in life is in the cross of Jesus

Christ. Well, it is a symbol. It is an emblem of what we as believers believe in. Why would anybody

want to make that kind of statement? Well, the Apostle Paul made it because he understood something

about the nature and the meaning of the cross. that when he looked at everything else in life,

he says, the only thing I know worth boasting of is the cross of Jesus Christ. Now, we see them on

church steeples. We see them in stained glass windows. People have them around their neck on

gold chains. You see them on t-shirts you see them everywhere now

the important thing is not that you shouldn't wear it around your neck or put it on a steeple all those

things are fine what god's looking for he's looking for people who have the cross on their mind

in their heart and on their lips that's where god is looking for the cross on their mind, in their heart, and on their lips.

That's where God is looking for the cross.

And so I want you to turn, if you will, to 1st Corinthians, chapter 1, beginning in verse 18.

Here's that classic passage of scripture about the cross and its meaning.

And what Paul gives us in these verses here, he tells us why people respond to the cross the way they do.

And so I want us to begin reading in this 18th verse and read through verse 25.

And, you know, one of the things about being a Christian that sometimes works at disadvantage is that some of us who've been a Christian so long,

we are so familiar with some things, just like some hymns.

You can stand here and sing a hymn, sing all the words correctly, never even think about what you're singing.

And if we're not careful, that can happen to us when we think about the cross.

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