If you don't see yourself as a sinner, then you don't see you need to be saved.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about why God gave us a set of standards we could never perfectly meet.

God wants us to clearly see the meaning of the cross.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

With enough discipline and commitment, most debts can be paid off eventually, but not the most

important one of all. And that's the one Dr. Evans will talk about today. Let's join him.

The cross is more than something that hangs on a steeple, identifying a church. It's more

than something that hangs in the living room or the din of your house as a religious symbol.

It's more than jewelry that you hang around your neck. It is the crim delacrim.

It is the sine qua non.

It is the irreducible

substantive essence

of our faith.

Sinners don't fully understand

it because if they did, they'd run

to it.

Saints don't appreciate it because if they did, they'd run to it. Saints don't appreciate it because if they did, we would live differently.

It is because the cross has been reduced.

It has been lowered that we do not understand its pragmatic, practical relevancy for life today.

Why the cross?

That is the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.

Why?

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