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 how sinful we are so we can fully appreciate the meaning of the

cross.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible

Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative. 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. something that

hangs in the living room, or the den of your house as a religious symbol.

It's more than jewelry that you hang around your neck.

It is the crimdella crim. It is the Cine quaune. 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 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? The first thing you need to

understand about why the cross is necessary is that you have to understand the standard of God. He says in

chapter 3 of the book of Romans.

He says, verse 21, but now apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made manifest.

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