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Page four: “Nailed To The Cross” 4/7/13
  Folks, the very next purchase you make with your credit card is your personal reminder of the work the Jesus did for you. There’s no more debt on your card. The charges have been removed. No one; no one ever; no one ever again can put those charges on you. You are no longer condemned. You’ve been set free.

 Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

  Do you remember the hymn “It Is Well With My Soul”?
 Here’s the third verse of that wonderful Christian hymn:

It is Well With My Soul” by Horatio G. Spafford

(3) My sin – O, the bliss of this glorious tho’t –
My sin, not in part, but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross,
And I bear it no more,
Praise the LORD, praise the LORD, O my soul.”

And here a poem by Carrie Breck. “Nailed to the Cross” by Carrie E. Breck 1899

1) There was One Who was willing to die in my stead,
That a soul so unworthy might live;
And the path to the cross He was willing to tread,
All the sins of my life to forgive.

Refrain:
They are nailed to the cross! They are nailed to the cross!
Oh, how much He was willing to bear!
With what anguish and loss Jesus went to the cross,
But He carried my sins with Him there.

2) He is tender and loving and patient with me,
While He cleanses my heart of the dross;
But “there’s no condemnation”—I know I am free,
For my sins are all nailed to the cross.

3) I will cling to my Savior and never depart,
I will joyfully journey each day,
With a song on my lips and a song in my heart,
That my sins have been taken away.
  1. Debt and forgiveness
  2. The charges against us are what was nailed to the cross of Christ.
  3. Our complete forgiveness.
    Colossians 2:13. “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; (14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;…”

  The cross is clearly the place where the mightiest work of God in history was done. Why? Because it’s at the Cross where God worked on your sins.

  The great hymn-writer Isaac Watts wrote these words in 1701

1. Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sov’reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

Refrain: At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

2. Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, Thine--
And bathed in its own blood--
While the firm mark of wrath divine,
His soul in anguish stood.

3. Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

4. Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker died,
For man the creature’s sin.

5. Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.

6. But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give myself away,
’Tis all that I can do.

Refrain: At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!