![]() ![]() Jesus represents one person of the Triune God, God’s only Son. “The cross is as central to living the Christian life as it is to entering into it.” - Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” ( Galatians 2:20). ![]() Paul significantly stated, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Crucifixion is also defined as unjust treatment or persecution, aptly defining what it often costs us in this life to follow Christ. Jesus’ death on the cross symbolizes the Christian call to “take up our cross” daily and choose God each day by the power of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes the legs of the criminals are broken to speed up the process, but Christ was pierced in the side and determined to be dead already so His legs were not broken. While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. He was given a crown of thorns, beaten along the way, mocked and humiliated. The crucifixion Jesus endured was even more brutal than the typical punishment for criminals. Crucifixion is a death sentence, a nailing or tying of the hands and feet to a wooden beam and being left to hang there until death by exhaustion or asphyxiation. ![]()
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