The Old Rugged Cross

Living Stones Church - South Bend

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross The emblem of suffring and shame And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross Till my trophies at last I lay down I will cling to the old rugged cross And exchange it some day for a crown. Sermon Point #1 - Atonement - To cover over someone’s debt Sermon Point #2 - God’s love and grace is evident throughout Scripture Sermon Point #3 - God made a way for us to not have to pay for our own sins Leviticus 17:11 - NLT - for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the LORD. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible. Sermon Point #4 - Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to atone for our sins 1 John 2:2 - NLT - He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. 1 Peter 2:24 - “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Hebrews 9:12 - With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.