Can the believer lose his or her justification? Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel look at the life of David, a perfect example of why a believer can expect to stumble. By faith, our righteousness in imputed, and cannot be achieved by works. Only repentance and f...

You can’t understand the New Covenant without a proper understanding of the Old Covenant. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss faith in the finished work of Christ looking at the lives of Abraham and David. The Old Testament is not obsolete with the coming of...

God’s grace never changes. Our understanding of His grace is what changes. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the trials a believer will go through. God has a purpose for the sufferings we endure. He has strength for the journey for whatever we are going ...

Where’s boasting? It is excluded through faith. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:1-3 discussing man’s inability to earn salvation. The law was not made void through the finished work of Christ; God forbid, the law is established by faith. The Apo...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 4:1-2 discussing falling short of the glory of God. As believers, we can expect that we will fail, but we don’t have to get saved again. We must only repent. Looking at the great model of Abraham, the panel explains f...

The law is good if man use it lawfully. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss law keeping, and the promise that overrides the Mosaic Law. All scripture is God given and profitable. There are benefits to the law. God exposes His nature and His character in th...

We cannot work for justification, it is based solely on our faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel are studying in Romans chapter three, discussing justification and its misunderstanding by much of the church. It is a legal d...

If all men are guilty before God, then what is God’s solution? Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss obedience to the faith, which is righteousness without law keeping. Anything God reveals to any human being will be proven in scripture; if it cannot be, then ...

Where is boasting then? Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss empty boasting and the pride in man that wrongly rises up. How do we make eternity spent with the Lord? We must only place our faith in Christa and His finished work. Everything we receive from Go...

Everything we need was provided us at the Cross of Christ. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the penalty of sin being paid for by Christ crucified, and the power of sin being broken at the Cross. Redemption is, entering into Christ’s victory. It is not our...

Justification is not a license to sin. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how the believer cannot earn justification. God’s plan is for the entire world, and those who come to Christ through repentance, is forgiven and covered by the blood of Jesus. 1st Jo...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss freedom in Christ. Just because our justification was a free gift, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t expensive. It cost God His only son, to redeem lost mankind. Christ’s death bought us, paying a very great price for our souls. ...

The greatest thing that can ever happened to a Christian who is trying to live for God is to have the revelation that you can’t. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the true meaning of justification. Wrong actions, in the life of the believer, often times co...

Are you going to rely on self, or what God has provided? Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss justification by faith, and what it means to be righteous in the eyes of God. We cannot workout our own righteousness by good deeds and law keeping. The believer ne...

Revelation is the means by how God brings faith to us, and scripture confirms all. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how first century Christians were exposed to the Word of God, with the first church being a mix of Jews and Gentiles. The Apostle Paul taug...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the Holy Spirit inspiration of the Word of God. The Apostle Paul taught on the looking through a dark veil, and the need of Holy Spirit revelation, and other means that will help us to understand what we are studying. Dr. ...

There is none who does good, neither Jew, nor Gentile. All people are guilty before God. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 3:13-16 looking at the depravity of lost humanity without the Lord. Believers are called to tell the lost that we are all born i...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss lost humanity without Jesus Christ. Lost humanity can only enter into righteousness by faith in the finished work of Christ. The heart of man must be led by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to stir our will and bring us...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 3:9 discuss the only way of escape from being born dead in our trespasses and sin. The panel discusses that the bondage of religion needs to be broken just as much as those struggling with the big five sins. Jesus is th...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss how all of humanity is born separated from God, due to The Fall of Adam and Eve in the garden. Every person will face judgment, at either the Judgment seat of Christ, or at the Great White Throne Judgment. Continuing their...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the Apostle Paul’s teaching style through the use of questions. Paul’s questions address the many issues of the people to make them stop and think. Just because there is unbelief among the people, God forbid, it doesn’t me...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss the plan of God and timing for Israel. God is not done with His chosen people. Romans 11 explains God’s intentions for His chosen nation. He will once again gather the nation of Israel when she finally comes to believe on...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 2:28-29 as they continue their discussion on the New Covenant born again experience. This is an internal work of the Holy Spirit that was prophesied in the Old Covenant. In the Old, there was external moves of the Spir...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel discuss what it means to be judged according to the gospel. Pastor Loren explains the life and living of the Jew versus Gentile, and the understanding of law keeping as works, which comes against the righteousness of being born aga...