Paula,
After reading Chips message to us today and then reading your response, I was wondering what brought you to listen to a service on the radio? Did you since that God was trying to show you something? Since I have left Babylon or what I refer to as Egypt, the man made temple, I find the man made system has to grieve the Lord. What is so sad is those that are still there see nothing wrong with it all and if they do, they don’t say anything. The system today does not teach the cross of Christ like Chip does. The gospel they teach is all about work’s and what are we doing for the system so it can keep functioning. Dying on the cross with Christ is something I have never thought of before. This really makes Christ and His cross even more powerful and personal for us. I can get in the habit of not personalizing the cross as much as I should, and do we really know what it is to bare the cross? I think of Christ suffering, that a sinless man bore our sin and placed them on Himself for our redemption, do we sit and ponder this awesome miracle? When I think of His awesome power and the ability to do such a thing for us, it’s His power that helps us with our own cross and dying to self. Without Him we can do nothing. This really should take a burden off us, knowing He’s already done what He came to do and all we have to do is believe Him at His word and stay very close to Him and the cross and He will help us carry it. I’m thinking of Peter when he was walking on water and he took his eyes off Christ and fell in the sea. If we take our eye’s off Him we will fall.