The Cross

Intro: As I prepare to do some messages on living by faith, I felt I should preach on a matter I have not spoken on in some time, but a must crucial subject for the Christian. It is the subject of the cross. Jessie Pounds, a hymn writer has put it like this in his song, “The Way Of The Cross Leads Home.”

1. I must needs go home by the way of the cross,
   There’s no other way but this;
   I shall ne’er get sight of the Gates of Light,
   If the way of the cross I miss.
2. I must needs go on in the blood-sprinkled way,
   The path that the Savior trod,
   If I ever climb to the heights sublime,
   Where the soul is at home with God.
3. Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
   To walk in it nevermore;
   For my Lord says, “Come,” and I seek my home,
   Where He waits at the open door.
   Refrain:
   The way of the cross leads home,
   The way of the cross leads home;
   It is sweet to know, as I onward go,
   The way of the cross leads home.