By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross once again in the hopes that we can understand its deep root: God’s love.

Christ’s journey to the Cross started before the foundation of the world, for God’s deep love for us was in His plan before we were even born. God’s Word tells us:

“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)

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:19-20)

God’s deepest expression of His Love is through His Son’s life and death. Warren takes us through this journey, culminating at the Cross. It’s here where the very death of Christ ushers in God’s grace and love poured out unto us. At the Cross, Christ conquered all sin — past, present, and future — and conquered death.

What takes place within each and every believer at the Cross is the uprooting of Satan’s natures, which was passed down by the curse of Adam’s sin and was literally replaced with the Seed of Christ, the Incorruptible Seed of God’s Son. We are no longer bound by Satan and this fallen world. Our new life is Christ. He is now alive and well in each and every one of us. By Him, we now have eternal life. We are joined to Christ’s Spirit making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). By God’s grace, all we have to do is believe.

God sent a part of Himself to be born into this world to show us who He is and to save us from a fallen world that is spiraling deeper and deeper into the lies of Satan, to die a lonely and horrific death on the Cross as the ultimate sacrifice to redeem us and bring us back to Him, not to mention that all we need to do is believe. If this isn’t deep love, then I don’t know what is!

God is love. God is true love. What happens at the Cross is at the deepest root of who He is.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)