Daily Devotional
April 27, Hidden with Christ
When we are first confronted with the cross, we tend to recoil. But the cross of Jesus is the door to a secret place that no animal can find, no bird can see, and all the rest of creation does not know.
April 26, Identifying with Jesus
Looking beyond Christ’s identification with us, we find that, in turn, through faith and repentance, we can be identified with Christ—not only in His death, but also in His subsequent exaltation.
April 25, Our Amazing Representative
Let’s look at some Scriptures that speak about how Christ identified Himself with the human race and expiated its guilt.
April 24, His Suffering for Us
Isaiah 53 gives us a detailed prophetic description of the suffering of Jesus, written more than seven hundred years before it took place.
April 23, Atonement: The Hub
To illustrate the role of the atonement in the total message of the gospel, consider the structure of a wheel, which has three basic sections: the outer circle, the spokes, and the hub.
April 22, We Will Be Delivered
The next part of the Romans Recipe, the practical how-to, is found in Romans 6:11–13.
April 21, Entering into Life
Today, we will look more closely at the ingredients of the “Romans Recipe.” Romans 6 (NIV) presents successive points of identification. First, “we died to sin” (verse 1) when Jesus died, and we identify ourselves with His death.