Death of Christ

Paul says that the power of sin is the law. The more clearly we understand the law, the more sin oppresses and stings us.

The implications were clear: Jesus’ death destroyed the things that distinguished people as educated or uneducated, rich or poor, free or enslaved, black or white, pious or godless.

Your faith is not dependent on whether or not you suffer well. Your faith is dependent on the fact that Christ did.

We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.

It’s a delivery of historical facts that tells us who Jesus is and what he has done for us through his dying on the cross and his rising from the grave.