The Cross, Part 3

“Whosoever Believeth”

By Tammy Lacock

“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:11-13)

This week, Warren Litzman digs deeper into exactly what happened at the Cross so that we as believers may really know who we are.

In Ephesians 1:4, the Apostle Paul tells us every single human being was chosen to be in Christ before the world was even created. It was in God’s plan, before the foundation of the world, for us to live a new life, a new life in Christ, holy and blameless by Him.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Warren goes on to explain that because of Christ’s death on the cross, something happened to us. By His death, burial, and resurrection, we all now have a Savior. The only prerequisite to our personal salvation is to believe in Christ as our Savior (Romans 10:11), the one Who, by His death on the cross, made it possible for our old sin-natures, passed down by the curse of Adam by Satan, to be exchanged with Christ’s nature. As believers, the incorruptible Seed of Christ has been literally joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him, brand-new creations. (1 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 5:17). His Spirit supersedes all. And He is now our new life.

Everything that happens in life hinges on Christ’s death on the cross. God brings every human being through the cross so that we all might die to our old lives. As believers, we went from living an Adamic soul-life to a quickened spirit-life in Christ, but only by the cross.

What did Christ mean when He said, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified” (John 12:33)? What’s so glorious about His horrific death on the cross? For the first time, human beings have the opportunity to have a new nature, Christ. Jesus can now be glorified by our new nature. By the help of the Holy Spirit teaching us and comforting us in of our new life in Christ and getting to know the Christ that now lives in us, we can finally understand God’s plan from the beginning and who He created us to be … complete in Christ.

All it takes is believing.