Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

You may know the events of Easter, but do you understand their meaning?

Stay tuned as Dr. Stanley leads us to a clearer, richer understanding of what happened at the cross.

Now, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a historical fact.

But what really happened at the cross has been shaded and clouded and left in a mystery

because the physical events, the outward circumstances and the things that surrounded that

crucifixion have primarily captured people's minds and hearts.

And so that if you were to ask people what really happened at the cross,

more than likely they would begin telling you something like this.

They would say, well,

Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemini.

He was taken before Pilate and condemned.

They put a Roman cross on his shoulders and he drug it all the way up to Galgotha. They drove

spikes in his hands there. The soldiers gambled for his robe. The earth began to tremble. The

sky turned dark in the middle of the day there was an earthquake and people mocked

and jeered and fear came upon the soldiers and upon the people who were there.

That's really what happened at the cross.

Except there were seven sayings they tell us that Jesus said at the cross one of which

was father forgive them for they know not what they do into thy hands I commend my spirit. These are the things that happened at the cross, one of which was Father forgive them, for they know not what they do, into thy hands, I commend my spirit.

These are the things that happened at the cross.

But what I want you to see this morning is this.

What happened at the cross from God's point of view is that the death of Jesus Christ made it possible

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