The Power of the Cross: Putting It to Work in Your Life - Hardcover

Tony Evans

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802411185 ISBN 13: 9780802411181

Publisher: Moody Press, 2016

Synopsis

The cross is an historical event that can bring us to heaven...<br/>And a current event bringing heaven to bear on us

In The Power of the Cross, Tony Evans applies Christ's work to life today.

In three parts, he systematically and pastorally explains three aspects of the cross:

• Its Person What makes Christ unique, and how He is the center of salvation history
• Its Purpose What was accomplished on it, and how it is to be the centerpiece of our lives
• Its Power The stability and deliverance it provides in our everyday living

We wear crosses around our necks, but do we apply it to our lives? Jesus' work holds incredible power for us. It's time we embrace it, for God's glory and our joy. Read The Power of the Cross to find out how.

About this title

About the Author

DR. TONY EVANS is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on over 1,200 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Dr. Evans launched the Tony Evans Training Center in 2017, an online learning platform providing quality seminary-style courses for a fraction of the cost to any person in any place. The goal is to increase Bible literacy not only in lay people but also in those Christian leaders who cannot afford nor find the time for formal ongoing education. For more information, visit: http: //www.TonyEvans.org.

From the Back Cover

"We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that can take us to heaven, and a current event that can bring heaven to bear on earth."¿--Tony Evans

In The Power of the Cross, Tony Evans applies Christ's work to life today.

He systematically and pastorally explains three aspects of the cross:

• Its Person: What makes Christ unique, and how He is the center of salvation history
• Its Purpose: What was accomplished on it, and how it is to be the centerpiece of our lives
• Its Power: The stability and deliverance it provides in our everyday living

We may wear a cross around our necks, but do we apply it to our lives? Jesus' work holds incredible power for us. It's time we embrace it, for God's glory and our good.

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The Power of the cross

Putting it to Work in Your Life

By Anthony T. Evans, Jim Vincent

Moody Publishers

Copyright © 2016 Anthony T. Evans
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8024-1118-1

Contents

Introduction: The Centerpiece, 9, 
Part 1: The Person of the Cross, 
The Uniqueness, 25, 
The Foretelling, 41, 
The Death, 57, 
The Resurrection and the Ascension, 69, 
Part 2: The Purpose of the Cross, 
The Accomplishments, 83, 
The Identification, 97, 
The Authority, 109, 
The Release, 121, 
Part 3: The Power of the Cross, 
The Stability, 135, 
The Deliverance, 149, 
The Remembrance, 163, 
The Blessings, 175, 
Conclusion: The Final Victory, 187, 
Epilogue: Unity at the Foot of the Cross, 197, 
The Urban Alternative, 203, 

CHAPTER 1

THE UNIQUENESS

JESUS CHRIST IS the one-of-a-kind person in all of history. Jesus of Nazareth, the unique One, has undoubtedly been the subject of more books, more songs, and more devotion than anyone who has ever lived. His appearance on earth was so monumental that history divided around His life, before Christ (BC) and in the year of our Lord (anno Domini, or AD). Time has meaning to us as it is defined by the presence of Jesus Christ in history.

On one occasion Jesus' disciples voiced the question that people have continued to ask about Him for almost two thousand years. Having witnessed His miraculous calming of the sea, the Twelve looked at each other and asked, "What kind of a man is this?" (Matthew 8:27). In other words, who is this Jesus? The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament were written to answer that question and explain its implications for our lives.

In part 1 we will explore this greatest of all subjects, considering the uniqueness and authority of Jesus and then looking more deeply at His death and resurrection.

His Unique Identity

Jesus is unique because He is the only person who existed before He was born (see John 1:1, 14) and who is today what He has always been (Hebrews 13:8). That makes him Deity. But He is more than Deity. He is the only person whose earthly conception had no relationship to His origin. By virtue of His birth as a man, Jesus Christ is now both Son of God and Son of Man. He is Deity and He is humanity. He is the Godman — Deity incarnated, given flesh.

+His nature is "very God of very God," to use a phrase theologians coined to try to declare Christ's divine nature. A lot of people respect Jesus Christ as a great person, an inspiring teacher, and a great leader, but reject His deity.

This is heresy. You cannot hold Jesus in high regard while denying He is the eternal God, a point Jesus Himself made clear to the religious rulers, the crowds, and His closest disciples (for example, John 8:23-24, 28-29; 10:30-37).

Jesus Christ clearly and directly claimed to be God when He said, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30). This statement is significant because the word "one" is neuter in form, meaning that He and the Father are one, perfect in nature and unified in essence. This was a personal claim of total equality with the Father. Those who heard this statement clearly understood it to be a claim to deity, for they immediately tried to stone Him for blasphemy because He made Himself equal to God (v. 33).

Four Proofs of His Deity

We could use a number of lines of argument to demonstrate Jesus' deity but I want to consider four of them, beginning with His preexistence. We have already said that Christ existed before His birth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802411185
• ISBN 13: 9780802411181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208