“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
[John 3:16]
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We don’t often stop to wonder where that cross came from, do we? Rough timber, that’s what we think of. Timber formed into a device of death. But the wood? It was cut from a tree — a tree that grew from a seed, just like every other living thing. God gave it life and allowed it to grow, despite knowing its destiny.
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“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
[Galatians 2:20]
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“It is the Spirit who gives Life, … the words that I speak to you are Spirit,
and they are Life.”