A crossless Christ ( Galatians 6 v 14)

Every year at  a football final they sing the hymn ,'Abide with Me',it was written by an Anglican minister called H.F.Lyte. He lived in the 19th century,most of his life he suffered from ill health,before he died he wrote that hymn.It is a solemn hymn  emphasising the abiding presence of the Lord through life and into death. Im surprised some hymn books leave a particular verse out which reads,

                                                 'Hold Thou thy cross before my closing eyes

                                                  Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies,

                                                  Heaven's morning break and earth's vain shadows flee

                                                  In life,in death,O Lord, abide with me'.

There are millions of people who believe in a crossless Christ, their Christ is but a prophet, they don't have a Saviour,they are taught that they don't need a Saviour,all they have do is to be obedient to their God. It is a tragedy of monmental proportion ,in doing that they shut themselves out of an eternal place in heaven and condemn thenselves to an eternal place in hell.Over 700yrs before Christ came the prophet Isaiah wrote of one who would bear the sin of many,that means he would suffer the wrath of God,so that if we trust Him we would not bear the wrath of God.Do read Isaiah 52 v 13-15/53.and if you trust Him,your sins will be forgiven,your life will be changed,and your destination will be changed,for the better.