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February 28 - Second Sunday in Lent

By the Cross of Our Lord Jesus, We Inherit Life Everlasting with God

In His covenant with Abraham, the Lord promised to be with him, to bless him and to make him “the father of a multitude of nations.” It is “an everlasting covenant” in Christ Jesus, the seed of Abraham who is blameless before God Almighty. All who believe in this Lord Jesus are the offspring of Abraham and are blessed “throughout their generations” (Genesis 17:1–7), because the Christ has suffered many things. 

He was rejected and killed, and after three days He rose again (Mark 8:31). To comprehend this theology of the cross, we must set our minds “on the things of God,” and not “on the things of man” (Mark 8:33). 

“God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Therefore, having been “reconciled to God by the death of his Son,” much more “shall we be saved by his life” (Romans 5:10). Baptized into His cross and resurrection, “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” and by faith we rejoice in the hope of His glory (Romans 5:1–2).

 

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