Please Read I Corinthians 15:29-34

Please read I Corinthians 15: 29-34

When the devil tempted Jesus, it was a real temptation. He tempted Him to turn stones into bread (see Matthew 4:1-4). What a temptation that must have been! Jesus was hungry; He had been fasting for 40 days and 40 nights.

He had the power to turn those stones into bread. But there was another reason that made the temptation so powerful: the great need of the human race. Think of the starving people He could have fed!

Jesus could have done it, but He was here to take people to Heaven, to give them eternal life. Ministering to their physical needs was secondary. And He could achieve His primary mission only by going to the cross and taking the judgment of all mankind for sin and enduring their well-deserved punishment of Hell.

From the cross He was saying, "I love you. I love you, whoever you are, whatever you've done."

He would have died on that cross for you if you had been the only person in the whole world. He loves you. You are more important than life to Him as evidenced by His refusal to meet His own need for food in order to satisfy your need for salvation.

Outside the influence of the cross there is bitterness, intolerance, ill will, prejudice, hatred, crime, and war. That is why--if the world does not turn to Christ crucified and raised from the dead--we could see the judgment of God falling upon our world.

Have you met Christ at the foot of the cross, turned from your sin, and put your life completely under His control? Until you do, you cannot understand the magnitude of what Jesus has done on the cross for you.