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

When two people have a disagreement, it takes effort on both parties to fix the relationship.

But, being rightly related to God is, in fact, very one-sided.

If you'll turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 5,

2 Corinthians, chapter 5, and I want us to read verses 17 through 21,

so he begins in verse 17 by saying,

therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, all things have passed away and behold all things have become new.

And all things are of God who have reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

As that, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing the trespasses unto them and has committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ.

As though God did besiege you by us, we pray you in Christ dead the reconciled to God.

For He had made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

As you and I understand the message of the cross, what really transpired the cross, there's going to be a deeper devotion to God,

there's going to be a deeper understanding of every other facet of the Christian life,

and until we dig deeper into the meaning of the cross, our Christian life will always be slightly frothy and surface.

It is one thing for God to do His work, it is something else for us to respond on the other hand in the negative.

It's either negative or positive.

And I want you to see something very clearly here and all of these messages, and that's this.

When you think about the possibility of any man being made acceptable in the eyes of God,

when you think about the possibility of anybody getting to heaven and ignoring or bypassing the cross of Jesus Christ,

if there is one thing the Scripture teaches, it is absolutely and totally impossible for anybody to get to heaven and to bypass the cross.

And as we've said, some of these things over and over and over again, my purpose is that you understand until they begin to ring in your ears, what is the message of the cross?

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