Cross
How to Lead People to Christ, Part 1: The Content of Our Message – 2000 Grace Evangelical Society Conference – YouTube / Transcript (page 129)
In this first message given at the 2000 Grace Evangelical Society conference, Zane focuses on the core issue in bringing men and women to faith and eternal life, that Jesus guarantees the eternal well-being of every believer. Passages discussed include: John 6:43,47; 11:25-27.
How to Lead People to Christ, Part 2: Our Invitation to Respond – 2000 Grace Evangelical Society Conference – YouTube / Transcript (page 141)
In this second message given at the 2000 Grace Evangelical Society conference, Zane focuses on various evangelistic invitations. John 6:35-40 is discussed.
What Do We Mean By Propitiation? Does It Only Count If We Accept It? – 2006 Grace Evangelical Society Conference – YouTube / Transcript (page 35)
Zane Hodges delivers a message at the 2006 Grace Evangelical Society Conference on propitiation as taught in 1 John 2:2. People are not condemned to the lake of fire because their sins have not been paid for, as Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Rather, according to Revelation 20:15, people go to the lake of fire there because they are not found written in the Book of Life. According to John we get that life by believing in Jesus, and in John 3:36 we see that people are “condemned” because they do not believe.
Luke 18:31-43 – Get It Straight; Do It Right! (December 12, 1993) – MP3 / YouTube
One of the reasons that we are often blind to the significance of the cross of Christ for our daily life and experience, is because we never ask Jesus for eyesight. One reason is that we don’t open the Bible and we don’t ask God to give us insight, to give us vision and to take away any blindness in our hearts. If your eyes are really open to the significance of the cross of Christ, it will inspire you to follow Him through your life and to glorify His name. This is what life is all about, following Jesus Christ and giving glory to God. If we do it right, then other people will see what God has done for us and they too will glorify God. Other passage: Acts 16:31.
Luke 23:26 – Climb, Climb up Calvary’s Mountain (October 1995) – MP3 / YouTube
The experience of Simon of Cyrenia presents us with one of the most remarkable examples and striking illustrations of the real significance and meaning of Christian living. Simon becomes a part of the Calvary experience of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. The Christian life is a process of cross bearing. It is taking up the burden and carrying that burden in fidelity to Jesus Christ. There is a sense that every dedicated disciple is compelled and forced to follow Jesus Christ. You won’t last as a disciple unless the driving force of your discipleship is the love of Jesus Christ for you. Other passages mentioned: Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 2:20; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23, 14:27; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15.
Luke 23:39-43 – Be Impossible to Forget (December 17, 1995) – MP3 / YouTube
One of the deepest felt needs of the human heart is the need to be remembered. However, all of us have the capacity to forget people. Was the thief on the cross asking Jesus to save him or take him into the kingdom? Nobody in the New Testament has ever asked Jesus to save them from eternal punishment. We are not saved by asking Jesus to save us. We are saved by believing that Jesus keeps His promise to save us when we trust Him to do that. We do not need to pray or ask to be saved. We just need to believe in Jesus for the free gift of everlasting life. By the thief’s faithfulness to Jesus Christ when Jesus was dying alone, the thief on the cross became impossible to forget and was rewarded in the kingdom. The question is whether Jesus will remember us in the same way.
Luke 23:44-46 – The Cross of Christ Is God’s Waiting Room (April 7, 1996) – MP3 / YouTube
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is an amazing story. It is heartwarming, inspiring and absolutely true. Will the living Lord find you in the waiting room? All the pain in God’s waiting room has been borne by the Great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ. Every Christian has entered God’s waiting room and is waiting for the return of Christ to take them back to be with Himself. The only way to get into God’s waiting room is faith in the One, who loved you, died for you, and rose again. The only way we can take advantage of what Jesus has done for us is to believe on Him for everlasting life. The Christian can also learn something in God’s waiting room. Jesus died the way He lived His life, in confident trust of His loving heavenly Father. The cross of Jesus Christ is not only God’s waiting room, where we wait confidently for the coming of His Son, but it is also our school room where we learn to trust God through all our lives. If you have trusted in Jesus Christ for everlasting life, then you can trust Jesus for everything else regardless of what it may be. Other passages: John 14:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1Peter 2:24; Hebrews 9:1-9; Hebrews 10:20; 1 Peter 3:18; Philippians 3:20; John 3:16; Titus 3:5; John 5:24; Psalms 22:14-15; John 20:5-7; Revelation 1:18; Hebrews 10:23.