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He Wanted You • Feb 25th 1973

The Love of God in Christ (Part 3): Why Jesus Went to the Cross

Before the Beginning Eternal Purpose Genesis The Gospels

In Part 3 of The Love of God in Christ, this message explores the heart of the cross—not merely as redemption from sin, but as the expression of God’s eternal love.

Jesus Christ was not driven to Golgotha by obligation alone, but by love—love for a bride He longed to bring forth in purity and perfection. This teaching examines Christ’s passion, His willingness to face death, and the mystery of how sin, the world, and even death itself were brought to an end in Him.

Through powerful biblical imagery—from John resting on Jesus’ chest to the grain of wheat falling into the ground—you’ll see the cross as the decisive moment where Christ ended the old creation and began the new.

This message invites believers to see themselves through God’s eyes: forgiven, complete, and born after the fall was erased.

If you desire a deeper understanding of union with Christ and the love of God revealed at the cross, this teaching will open new ground in your heart.

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Brothers and sisters, in the eyes of God, they were gone. How long? How long? Forever. Who sees that? God sees that. Is God right? Answer me. Is He right? Is God right? Is sin gone? Yes or no? Your sin? All of it? Forever? Do you believe that? Is God right? I’m going to use a shock method. No, He’s wrong, and everybody in this room knows He’s wrong. The flesh is still here. Sin is still here. Is that true? No! You know it’s true because you act that way, you talk that way, you live that way, you’re related to Him that way. Listen: it’s God who believes it.

Now, the first creature who ever died, died. Everybody else had “type” died. Adam “type” died to give forth Eve. Jesus Christ is the first whoever died. Of our species…Praise the Lord…of our species, the only one who ever will die. The rest of that species will never die. You’re immortal, and you’re sinless, and you were born after the fall was erased. The Lord Jesus died, and the centurion had to open His side. Adam “typed” a bride out of his side. Brothers, His side was opened, and what came out? Blood and water. What’s the blood? Yes, redemption, but something else. Does God have blood? Humanity, and life is in that blood. The water? There’s no water in the side. The water is His divinity. He didn’t dare begin until Jesus was dead.

Brothers, I want you to know there wouldn’t be one speck of dirt left in the universe where His bride would walk. She would never know anything but perfection and purity. God reached in from the side of the Lord and began building something. What? God was going to have something: a counterpart. If you think Eve was beautiful, was she beautiful? She couldn’t hold a candle to God’s wife. God took out of Jesus blood and water, and began to build the most beautiful thing ever seen. He would literally make her the new creation. He began to build a perfect woman who was beyond sin. She would never know what it meant.

Pure beyond purity, holy beyond holiness, oh, beautiful beyond beauty. And put deep within her being would be a love and a passion that would equal the love and passion of the Spirit of God, and the love and THE PASSION OF THE humanity of a perfect Christ.

Oh, Lord, I dare not ever again look through any eyes but Yours. Bring your church to rest. She has been completed out of Christ, and she is perfect in Your eyes. Who are we to argue with Thee? Oh Lord, blind us to all but the beauty of You. We gladly turn to the lover of this universe. There is nothing to distract us from Thee. Lord, love me with a passion the likes of which I never dreamed I could experience.

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