Sin separates us from God, but the cross unites us to Him.

Year after year, since the crucifixion and death of the Lord Jesus Christ, people have been celebrating and observing the Holy Week. However, for many, the Holy Week has become merely a tradition.

The Holy Week is not just a tradition—it is a remembrance of real events. The final days of the Lord Jesus on earth were powerful and significant.

But why did Jesus need to go to the cross?

Jesus needed to go to the cross because there was no other way to save mankind from eternal condemnation. His sacrifice on the cross was God’s offering for your soul. The Bible says, “The soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:20).

We are all sinners and are condemned to eternal separation, suffering, and punishment—unless we accept God’s offering for us: the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because of sin, humanity has come under the dominion of the devil. The world is the way it is—filled with increasing suffering, evil, and injustice—because people are living far from God. When a person lives far from God, they give room for all kinds of evil to enter their life.

People suffer because of sin, for sin opens the door to the devil’s influence in our lives.

Even if you come to church, call yourself a Christian, give your tithe, and know the Scriptures, if you are living in sin, it means you are living separated from God.

The hardest thing for many people is to let go of their own will. But you need to understand that if we keep doing what we want, we will end up with what we don’t want.

Sin separates us from God, but the cross unites us with Him.

The reason the Lord Jesus had to give His life on the cross was to reconcile us to God. Heaven is the place where God dwells, and it is where He desires us to be, for we came from Him. God longs for us to return to Him.

“For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” Colossians 1:19-20

God wants to make peace with you and with all humanity. He is not the one to blame for people’s misery and suffering—the devil is. People turn away from God, do what they want, and do not want God to interfere in their lives. And if you do not want God to lead, guide, and teach you, do not blame Him for your suffering.

“And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.” Colossians 1:21-23

A soul is saved from the moment that person realizes that he is a sinner, repents of the way he had lived, confesses his sins, and walks away from it. A person needs to repent in order to be forgiven, and the result of forgiveness is peace.

Jesus died for your soul, but He cannot save you unless you surrender your soul to Him. Only Jesus can save you —not the church, not religion.