Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read in the 7th chapter of Romans teaching how the believer is to have freedom from the dominion of the sin nature. Believers do not have the ability within themselves to defeat sin. We all sin, and fall short of the glory o...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:21 discussing the sin nature and how it is ever present with the believer until the trump sounds. However, the sin nature is to be addressed by faith in the finished work of Christ, and that alone. The believer...

VICTORY- Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss the Apostle Paul’s teachings on the law of sin and death. Brother Swaggart reminds us that when we try to address sin in our own way, and not God’s way, we will fail. Placing our faith in the finished work o...

GOD'S WAY OF VICTORY- Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:20 as they continue their study on the sin nature. The sin nature will always be a part of the believer’s life until we make glory, for the old man will always exist. We are faced with c...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss God’s prescribed order of victory reading Romans 7:19-20. If we misplace our faith in a person, or a good deed, or religion, we will not live a victorious Christian life. The only way we can find true life this side o...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss temptation and sin in the life of the believer. We cannot depend on our own willpower. It is not strong enough to overcome the devil. We must keep our faith anchored in the finished work of Christ. This is the only...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel welcome back Pastor Loren Larson from his recent brain surgery for a cancerous tumor. The tumor has now been removed, and Brother Larson says he has stage four melanoma in four other different locations in his body. The pane...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:18 and share why there is such a need for the preaching of the message of the Cross. The church today is a slave to sin just as the children of Israel were once slaves to Pharaoh. Victory over the sin nature only...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss how the key to a consistent victorious Christian life is faith in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The object of our faith should always remain in the Cross of Christ and never on our own efforts or agenda. When we em...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel welcome special guest, Pastor Tommy Bates from Independence Kentucky. The panel reads Romans 7:19 discussing how God has given us the Cross in order for every Christian to live a victorious life. The Christian must not look ...

Today on The Message of the Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel welcome special guests, Pastors Tommy Bates, and Caleb Farfsing from Independence Kentucky. The panel reads Romans 7:18-19 discussing how most Christians are trying to live for God by willpower instead of depending on the Cro...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Dr. Dave Watts and panel read Romans 7:14-17 discussing the carnality of man and the transformation that only comes when we give our hearts to Jesus Christ. Man cannot save himself, for there is only one answer for sin, and that is faith in the finished work of ...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:14 as they discuss keeping our faith in the finished work of Christ. The panel explains the Apostle Paul’s words, as he describes himself as carnal and sold under sin. Describing the war between the flesh and t...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss the carnality of man. Reading Romans 7:14, the panel looks at the Apostle Paul’s words made even in a saved state, we can struggle and have failures, as we still have a sin nature present within. Paul calls it a war ...

Religion, based on good deeds and traditions, are devised by man, and God has no part of it. Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss good works, and how they do not lead to salvation. Jesus fulfilled the law on Calvary’s Cross. His death on the Cross put ...

God devised the law to show man that he is in a weakened condition and cannot accomplish what only faith in Christ can do. Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:13 as they continue to discuss the law and the sin nature. The Law was good, and is goo...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Jimmy DuPree and panel discuss trusting on the finished work of Christ as we walk out a victorious Christian life. The Apostle Paul warned new converts in his day of returning to the Mosaic Law after being saved by faith in Christ alone. The panel says ...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss the denial of self for every believer. We must keep our eyes on Christ alone and His finished work or we will see a revival of the sin nature in our lives. No one could keep the law perfectly but Jesus Christ. The b...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:10, discussing the wages of sin and the idea we can deal with sin by living by the law. We can only have justification and sanctification by faith. Anything outside of faith in Christ will only bring about deat...

When we don’t understand sanctification, we really don’t understand justification. Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:10 discussing how the believer is to walk out a victorious Christian life by faith in Christ alone. We are justified by faith i...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss walking by faith in the New Covenant. Man’s problem is the sin nature, which will influence the heart and mind to move back to works and away from grace and faith. If we do not understand how to live for God, we will...

The law is holy, just, and good and exposes the sin of humanity, but it cannot provide what only faith in Christ and Him crucified can provide. Today on The Message of The Cross, Pastor Loren Larson and panel read Romans 7:7 looking at the threat of the law to a believer. Man’s willpower is a t...

What is the inward nature of humanity? Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel read Romans 7:1 discussing God’s law being fulfilled in Christ. The law would say it is wrong to steal, while the root of the matter is a covetous heart. In the New Covenant, we have a...

Today on The Message of The Cross, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and panel discuss the Apostle Paul’s teaching of the New Covenant using very strong language so the new converts could understand. From the Mosaic Law, to today’s ways and means of righteousness, everywhere we turn, man thinks our work...