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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friday, September 14, 2018*
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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

John 3:13-17


*Friends, today we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. How strange
this feast would have sounded to someone in the ancient world! The triumph
of the cross! It would have been analogous to someone speaking today of the
triumph of the electric chair or the exaltation of the noose.The cross
terrified people in Greco-Roman times,* and that was the point.



*The cross was state-sponsored terrorism, a form of capital punishment
reserved for those who had in the most egregious ways undermined the
authority of the Roman state.So why in the heck are we celebrating the
cross’s triumph? There is only one possible explanation, and that is the
Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. All the attempts to soft-pedal and
explain away the Resurrection are ruled out by this feast. If Jesus was a
victim of that terrible cross tout court, then we should all go home. Once
they had taken in the experience of the Resurrection, the first Christians
turned with rapt attention to the cross, convinced that in it they would
find something decisive. Somehow, in the strange providence of God, that
cross was ingredient in the very process by which God would save the world.*
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