Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 1st.

The events surrounding Easter may be familiar, but what took place at Calvary isn't just historic drama.

Stay with us as we learn about the eternal significance of the cross of Christ.

Well, I see them hanging in automobiles in front of the windshield. Then I see

them oftentimes on the wall. Sometimes I see them around people's necks. And then I oftentimes see it in a

hymn book. Sometimes people have them on the rings, sometimes they have

something in their pocket. They think it's a good luck charm. I'm talking about the cross. The cross is not a

good luck charm. It is an object that has the most profound message the world will ever hear.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message,

why the cross?

And as we begin the message, you'll understand rather quickly,

why I question the idea of why a cross.

And the Apostle Paul made a statement in Galatians that is an astounding statement.

When you think about who he was and all the things that had gone on his life, things he

accomplished in life, and he made an awesome statement in the sixth chapter of Galatians.

And so I want you to turn there, if you will, for a moment. And I'll just read one verse.

He'd been talking and writing to the Galatians about their dependence upon the law and so forth

and the freedom that you and I have as a result of a personal relationship with Christ.

And so then he says in the 14th verse, may it never be, may it never be that I would boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Now, it might be interesting, if you know, that the whole idea of the Christians and the use of the cross

did not begin when Jesus was crucified.

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