00:00Hello dear brothers and sisters! Greeting you again in these capsules of Knowing to Love.
00:06We are now working on a text that was sent to us by a good friend from the Republic of Paraguay
00:14and tells us that he doesn't understand why Jesus saved us through the cross.
00:30The cross of Christ
01:00The cross of Christ to God shows that God's message will be rejected, which forces Christ to assume the consequences of his faithfulness, that is, the cross.
01:11We can say that the message brought by Jesus regarding justice, love, mercy, and forgiveness is so diametrically opposed that he knew that anyone who followed it would experience the same rejection that he would have.
01:30And that is why, well, one would have to go through the same process of death as he did, because of what he told all his disciples, all those who followed him.
01:40In other words, if a person decides to live the Gospel of Christ, they will also be crucified with him, even though, in our time, the cross is not the instrument of death.
02:00The world will kill him and reject him in many ways. All of them will emulate the cross of Christ.
02:10In this way, the cross of Christ becomes not only the sign of our salvation, since our sin died on it, but also the element that reminds us that our life will always be marked by persecution and rejection from the world.
02:30That's what Jesus said: if they persecuted me, they will persecute you too.
02:36Finally, we have the sacrificial aspect in which soteriological theology presents the cross as the altar on which the Lamb of God is immolated.
02:49According to this theology based on Holy Scripture, we know that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
02:57And well, this is the reason why the Jews sacrificed lambs, whose blood served as an instrument to purify the people.
03:08Once sacrificed and offered on the altar, the blood was collected and sprinkled over the people.
03:16John the Baptist presents Jesus under this image, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
03:23Death on the cross is understood as the perfect offering that, because Jesus is true God and true man, purifies and washes away all sins.
03:37It is the ultimate holocaust that redeems and justifies man.
03:41In this regard, the Letter to the Hebrews tells us
03:45But when Christ appeared as high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with human hands, that is, not of this creation, and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood,
04:06He entered the place of leaps once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
04:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify them for the purification of the flesh,
04:27How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to serve the living God!
04:41Thus the cross of Christ became the altar on which the Lamb who has sanctified us was sacrificed.
04:51We can say then that, strictly speaking, we have been saved by the death and resurrection of Christ and not precisely by the cross.
05:01However, since this death was carried out through and on a cross, it has become a sign of obedience to the Father,
05:12of humiliation, in a showcase that displays what love for God and men means,
05:19on the altar that presents the holocaust that redeems us and therefore is the cause of our salvation.
05:25Therefore, it is valid to say that through his cross we have been saved.
05:34I hope, my dear Juan de Dios, that in these few notes I have been able to help you understand the importance of the cross in our lives
05:43And why do we say that we have been saved by the cross of Christ?
05:50And well, that's all for this topic.
05:53See you in our next capsule.
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06:01And also invite your friends to learn about all of this.
06:06Many people are not Catholic and do not truly connect with the life of Christ because they do not know him.
06:13Let's help him.
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