Jesus paid it all. ( Hebrews 7 v 25 )

 When Patricia Gearing's daughter died of Batten's disease in 1998,her grave in a cemetery in the small   Lincolnshire seaside  town of Mablethorpe was marked by a simple cross. The local authority informed them to remove it. Their rules said;'Crosses are discouraged,as excessive use of the supreme Christian symbol is undesirable'. The family was given permission to erect a headstone featuring Mickey  Mouse   instead'. (From the Message of Cross by Derek Tidball) The cross  of course was a terrible  means of putting people to death,and from the very beginning a crucified Saviour was seen as foolishness,a stumbling block,and an offence.But Paul declares,'For the message of  the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,but to those who are being saved it is the power of  God'.Only God could have thought up the cross as a means of our salvation,The cross became the alter on which the Lamb of God,Jesus would bear the punishment for sin,it satisfied the justice of God ,for the penalty of  sin ,so Christ paid that penalty,( Hebrews 9 v 15)  The price of redeeming sinners was not silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ' 1Peter 1 v  18-19 ) Through that one time offering on the cross the work of salvation was complete,it cannot be added to or taken away  from,Jesus paid it all.

                                                 'Therefore He is able to save completely

                                                  those who come to God through Him.

                                                                 Hebrews 9 v25.