Our great God is the Expert on what I call “reversals.”

Sorrow, with Him, can (immediately or eventually) become joy!

Sickness … health!

Even this change, death into life!

How about a destiny in Hell … turned into an eternity in Heaven?

Yes, He can!

And really, He does all these things through the greatest reversal of all. Through the Power of an old rugged cross!

Through the Death, the shed Blood, of His Son Jesus Christ!

I recently bought and have now received a book on crucifixion. What ancient people had to say about that terrible form of execution.

Quite revealing!

If I could put it in today’s terminology, the Roman method of torturing a man to death by nailing him to a cross is the equivalent of the “electric chair” of my younger years.

Anyone eliminated that way … pretty much the “dregs” of society!

Certainly not a hero of any kind!

Yet that Roman “electric chair” (I mean “cross”) has, in God’s Hands, been given such a miraculous Reversal that we sing songs about it!

“So, I’ll cherish that old rugged Cross,” for example.

Jesus’ Death there has become my life there, eternal life at that!

Jesus’ Hell (His untold suffering and agony) there has become my ticket to Heaven for all eternity! A painless Heaven!

Let’s call it the “REVERSAL OF REVERSALS!”

Friend, have you been to Calvary?

That Roman form of execution, the cross, because of JESUS … is mentioned over and over again in the Bible.

Galatians 6:14 is a great specimen … “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the CROSS of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”

Ponder this Colossians 1:20 Line today … “Having made peace through the blood of his CROSS …” The Verse is saying that God made “peace” for us who believe … through the Blood of Jesus sacrificed on that Roman Cross!

And 26 more “mentionings” of the Cross are available for us to study, in the New Testament I mean.

Calvary …

Reversal!

Miracle!

Salvation!

Praise the Lord!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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