Guilt is a universal experience. Everybody at some time or other has had the bad feeling of not doing what he ought to have done. Even people who deny that there is any such thing as right and wrong are trapped by the law of God written on their hearts.

Why the Cross? Because man is wicked and evil and God is Holy. In order for the two to be reconciled, something serious has to be done.

“For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased, through the foolishness of what was preached, to save those who believed.”

You and I can not just walk into the presence of God on our own, Jesus must escort us there. How often Jesus would say, there is no other way to the Father but by me.

The Passover is about a Lamb, a Lamb that was slain. The Passover was about a lamb back in the time of Moses, and it is still about a Lamb, whether that lamb be Moses’s lamb or Mary’s Lamb. You see, Mary’s Lamb was a fulfillment of the prophecy of Moses’s lamb.

God’s creates man as male and female and then ordaining marriage as the relationship in which a male leaves mother and father and cleaves to his wife in covenant commitment. This act of creation and this ordinance of marriage seeks the revelation through Christ and his church, and Christianity as the revelation of the mystery.

Complementing each other means that the differences of male and female will be respected and affirmed and valued. Male and female will not try to duplicate each other, but will highlight in each other the unique qualities that make for mutual enrichment.

Why would God come to the man first, and call him to give and account instead of going to the woman first, especially since she ate the fruit first? The most natural answer is that God gave to the man a primary responsibility for the moral life of the garden and therefore man has a primary accountability for the failure to live by it.

It now becomes clear why the first parable, the parable of the soils, is so important. It not only describes the measured advance of the Kingdom in terms of varied human responses, but implicitly challenges the hearer or reader to ask what kind of soil he or she is.

We can’t play around with the Word of God. God’s Word is powerful, and if you fall back into disobedience and unbelief as they did, then you stand under this Word which brings its own judgment.