While this life often brings hardship and mourning, if Jesus is your king, you have modified comfort in this life and complete comfort in the life to come.

Just as the Father preserved Jesus (in Egypt) and brought Him back into the Promised Land, so today He preserves believers (in the Church) until He brings them into the final Promised Land, the New Heavens and Earth.

Jesus says the cross is a marker of how Satan will be driven out completely from the earth (and the presence of Christians) when Jesus comes back and establishes the New Heavens and New Earth.

The cross gives us a preview of how, at Jesus’ return, judgment will come upon the world.  This fact benefits Christians now.

How the cross affects this era, between Jesus' ascension to heaven and His return to earth. Specifically, how is "judgment on the world" and how is "Satan driven out" in our era?

Jesus said that with the cross, judgment was coming on the world and Satan would be driven out. How was this true in Jesus’ death and ascension to heaven 2,000 years ago? The answer is good news to believers today.

The Church proclaims a Jesus on the cross, a thing of shame to the world.  Why does it do this?

Jesus is a king who came to earth not to receive glory, but to die for His people, a group from all walks of life and all spots on the earth, so that He could bring them to heaven to be with Him.

Jesus is worthy of your worship. Why?

Know as a Christian that doing good and believing in Jesus will bring you persecution, just as it did for Jesus. Knowing this will help you endure it.