The Cross of Christ Is the Way into the Kingdom of God
With the cross of Christ, the time has come “to gather all nations and tongues” (Isaiah66:18). The sign of the cross is set forth in the preaching of the Gospel, the declaration of the Lord’s glory “among the nations” (Isaiah 66:19). Many “will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29), but only by the narrow way of the cross. Those who refuse to follow Christ crucified will ultimately find only “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Luke 13:28), whereas Christ’s disciples, called from all nations, will eat and drink with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God. They will come into “the city of the living God, the heavenly, Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22).
Isaiah 66:18-23; Hebrews 12:4-29; Luke 13:22-30
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