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September 3
THE PLACE CALLED CALVARY

Scripture:   Luke 23:33 “And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.”

    Today we come to Calvary. Where we see man at his worse and God at His best! Calvary, where we see the awful depths of human sin and the tremendous heights of divine love.  Calvary, where every man must come if he expects to be saved. Calvary, where the rich, red, royal blood of the King was shed for sinful humanity.  Where all the sin of the world was laid on the One who had no sin. Calvary, where sinners plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.  Where God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
    No wonder the songwriter said, “Now my ransomed soul can only sing of Calvary.” In 1 Corinthians 1:18 it says, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”  
    The cross makes the difference between light and darkness, good and evil, victory and defeat, success and failure, life and death and heaven and hell. There at the cross Jesus took my sin and my guilt and gave me forgiveness, cleansing and justification.
There at the cross He clarified my purpose of life.  My life now belongs to Him.  My time, my strength, my energy, my money, my all is His.
    A simple acrostic of the word Cross is C stands for Christ, the person of the Cross.  The R stands for reconciliation, the purpose of the Cross.  The O stands for obedience, the path to the Cross.  The first S stands for salvation, the provision of the Cross.  The second S stands for security, the power of the Cross.  
    The Cross of Calvary to Jesus was a symbol of suffering, of shame, of rejection and death.  But now it’s a symbol of God’s hatred of sin and His love for mankind.  I will glory in the cross!