ASIN: B00KST3QHC
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 12
Our RedemptionWe’ve come to the zenith of Hope and the unbearable weight of glory revealed to us in Christ. The early stages of the Incarnation could no way have been fully realized without the rising of Christ from the dead on the third day. There are two themes which run side by side in the Gospel. On the one hand Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is at hand and that people must repent and change their hearts. On the other hand, Jesus begins to tell his disciples that he must suffer, die and rise again. These two themes are the essence of the Gospel. (Durwell,1960, 7) The one cannot survive without the other. The kingdom is already at hand in Jesus, since as Jesus says, “he who sees me sees the Father.” “I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” Yet, the sacrificial death of Jesus, the offering of his life in obedience to the Father is the only way that we can ...
