BEYOND THE CROSS

     And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.  And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.  (Luke 23:45,46).
     It is difficult for people to understand why Jesus died on a cross.  The truth of the matter is this: 
     For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosover believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16). 
     And Christ, in obedience to His Father, became the sin offering as the Lamb of God.  He died for our sins that we can have eternal life in Him, if we place our faith Him, and accept Him as our personal Saviour, who saved us from our sin, and who died for us that will not die for our sins.  In acceptance of Christ we experience the new birth, which is to be born again in Him, and therefore we are accepted by God because we accepted His Son. 
     The born again experience of the believer means that our soul (in the spiritual sense) is deposited in the temple of God in Heaven because we have accepted the gift of the Redeemer because He redeemed us; and when we die, we automatically go to the temple of God in Heaven, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  As it is written, To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 
    On the day that Christ was cruicified, the veil in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was rent (or ripped) from top to bottom by God the Father because Christ the Son, in His office of High Priest, is the Door to Heaven.  And for us to accept Him and get beyond the cross then we must go through the cross by believing that His death on the cross was my substitution for my sin:  that He died in my place!
     The story of Christ is the love story for the ages.  He loved us before the cross and He loves beyond the cross. 
     This is why I love the Lord because He first loved me and gave His life for me as if I was the only person on earth.  And He will do the same for you if you will simply believe in Him.