When you got saved, God delivered you from hell.

But Dr Tony Evans says there's more to Jesus' death on the cross than simply our salvation.

Now that you and I are being saved, he's delivering us from Earth.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban

Alternative. Because of Jesus' death, those of us who believe have life, but today we'll find out that it's not just a life that begins when our physical bodies die.

Let's turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 1 as we join Dr Evans.

Our series is called returning to the cross.

Our concern is that far too many of us have distanced ourselves from the cross.

Or we have turned the cross into something it was never meant to be,

a piece of jewelry or a symbol on a building indicating it's a church. Not that any of those

things are in themselves wrong but there's no power in jewelry and there's no power in symbols that stand alone, but there is

power in the cross. The power in the cross is not the power of wooden sticks that are

crossing each other, one vertical, one horizontal. That's not where the power is. The power is in who died there, why he died

there, and what was accomplished in his death there. That's the power of the cross and so the power of the

cross is inseparable to the person of Jesus Christ. As Christians, we hold on to the cross, not the crucifix.

A crucifix is a cross with somebody still there.

There's still a figure on it. There's power in

the cross because no one is there. But its work continues to be efficacious.

His work still continues to be ongoing and effective.

Paul writes to the church at Corinth and he wants to talk to them and us about the power of the cross,

a power that if we would ever understand it and

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