14 Understanding the Cross

Romans 3:25-26

Romans 3:25-26, Alive at 5, Sunday 7-Sep-2025 5pm, David Robertson

The Romans Road 14 – Understanding the Cross

(6:44) The Mercy Seat

(13:28) The Justice of God

Discussion

1) Why did Jesus die on the Cross?
(see if you can answer this without using religious cliches!)
2) What is propitiation?
3) Why do people object to the Cross?
4) How can God be just and forgive us?

Any questions?

(20:20) About the high priest putting blood on the horns of the alter – did anyone clean it off because it would be an attraction for vermin?

(21:35) The agony of Jesus on the cross and the separation and bearing the sins of everyone … expand on that a bit more?

(24:30) Some commentators have said that when the darkness descended when Jesus was on the cross, was God turning his back on his son? Where do you stand on that David?

(26:00) Can we lose our salvation? I know people who have given their heart to the Lord, been baptised, married a non-Christian and are now living in the world. Have they lost their salvation?

(28:35) Just following on from that if we know family and friends who have drifted off, how do we treat that?

(31:00) There are 3 aspects, the slave market aspect of redemption, the law court aspect of justification and the temple aspect of the sacrifice. Do you think Paul is trying to communicate with different groups… or are they 3 aspects of the same thing… or are they 3 different things?

John Stott 
“Justification is the heart of the Gospel and unique to Christianity. No other system, ideology or religion proclaims a free forgiveness and a new life to those who have done nothing to deserve it but a lot to deserve judgement instead. On the contrary, all other systems teach some form of self-salvation through good works of religion, righteousness or philanthropy. Christianity, by contrast, is not in its essence a religion at all; it is a gospel. The gospel, good news that God’s grace has turned away his wrath, that God’s Son has died our death and borne our judgement, that God has mercy on the undeserving, and that there is nothing left for us to do, or even contribute. Faith’s only function is to receive what grace offers.” 
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