You know, one of the things that I love about being a Christian is that the cross of Jesus Christ

is the answer to every situation. The cross is the answer. If you see things in the world you don't

like, Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. And anybody who wants to be saved can repent and

turn to Jesus because of the cross.

And it's the cross of loan.

There's no other thing that will save you than the cross.

It's just a really clear, decisive part of history when Jesus died on the cross.

And then proving who he was, who he claimed to be, he rose from the grave.

And if it wasn't for Jesus dying on the cross, we'd all be doomed.

There's no other name under heaven by which men can be saved.

Not Muhammad, not Confucius, not Buddha, not Oprah.

None of these people can save you from your sins.

But it's Jesus who died on the cross. That's why the

cross, well, you might say it's the crux of history. You know, it's the crux of the matter.

The word crux means cross, and that's where that old saying came from. But we have the high point

of scripture here in John chapter 19, where Jesus dies on the cross. But one of the

things we're going to see, especially in the last half of John 19, is how John is going to deal with

the cross or talk about the cross. You know, if you read the rest of the gospel of John, you think,

oh, John's going to slow down and really take time to explain the cross and man he was the one there at

the cross uh the other disciples we don't see them at the cross but john was there we know that for sure

and he watched the whole thing go down so he's going to give us an elaborate detailed heartfelt

passionate if you know john he's going to give us that,

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