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You are joining us for the third part of a three-part series on Soltis, healthy and unhealthy bonds between people and this week the

role of the cross of Christ and the power of the work of Christ to keep human relationships healthy. So welcome back.

So let me go to breaking it because I think that as we begin to bring all these pieces together, clarity will really come.

One of my favorite passages is Paul in Galatian 6, where he says, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world

has been crucified to me and I to the world.

The word that Paul uses therefore the world is Cosmos.

And if you look up in any kind of Bible dictionary Greek lexicon, the Cosmos means the circle of the earth,

the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family, the ungodly multitude, the whole mass of men alienated from God,

world affairs, the aggregate of things earthly, or the whole circle of earthly goods, endowments, advantages, pleasures.

In other words, everything.

Paul is saying, the cross of Jesus Christ changes my relationship to the world and to people, to all people through the

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