The Cross Still Stands!

Wow! All I can say is Wow! I just watched a video of John Piper called You Need the Gospel Every Day. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwn2GLm5MsY
I won't go through all he said, but I'll just tell what impressed me in the video.
In my title here I said the cross still stands, but I don't mean literally. Well in a way it is literal, but not the wood that held our Saviour. The cross is in the past, one time for all, the just for the un just. But the cross still stands. Where is it? It stands in each and every saved soul. We are saved by the sacrifice made upon that cross, the Perfect Spotless Lamb of God endured the Wrath of God the Father for all of us. We have no hope for salvation apart from that cross. And once we are saved, we never out grow our need of the Gospel. So as we go out everyday focusing on The Gospel, and live the Christian life, that old cross stands in us. One event in the past and if we could see it there would be a massive river flowing forward through time from that event. Some one passed it to you, and you became part of the river, and we will pass it on to draw more into the river. Why does this one event stand over all others? Because in it is true power, pure love, and a righteous wrath. The wrath of God is very real, and it is being carried out every day. A lot of non believers say there is no wrath cause God is love. The flaw in that logic is that God is also just. The love , wrath, justice, and righteousness of God were all perfectly exhibited on Calvary's cross. God's wrath is very real, otherwise there would be no reason for the cross. So like John Piper says, preach the Gospel to yourself everyday!

• Romans2:4-11 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.