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

Next on In Touch, the cross, grace displayed.

If someone should ask you, what is the greatest need in your life? How would you respond? Well, you may say,

well, the greatest need in my life is a job or finances or a house, an automobile, or a husband,

or a wife, or children, whatever it might be. There's only one real answer to that question.

The greatest need in your life is the same as it is in everyone else's

life. And that need is the need for the grace of God. The grace of God is His kindness and

graciousness toward us without regard to merit on our part or our worth. And in spite of what

you and I deserve, that's what the grace

of God is. And all of us need His grace, not only for the forgiveness of our sin, but we need

His grace for everyday living, because you see, everything that comes our way comes through

the grace of God. And what I want to talk about in this passage of scripture here and in this

message, the title of it is this, the cross grace displayed. Because at no time in all of human history

did God so display his grace as he did the day Jesus Christ dotted Calvary.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Romans chapter 3, and in this passage, one of

the most important passages of Scripture in all the Bible is the explanation of the

foundational truth, the bottom line of everything you and I believe about God is to be found

in this passage and it is absolutely related to the cross of Jesus Christ because apart

from the cross you and I have no promise of anything. And my friends you may not even be

a believe in you say well the only thing I know about a cross is I see them on church steeples and hanging around people's necks and I see them here and there.

Well, if that's all you know about the cross, then somewhere along the way you've missed

the real truth. But many people who sit in church pews week after week, they sing about

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