First Presbyterian Church Of Baton Rouge

The cross is the tree of life restored to us. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reaches backwards in time as well as forwards. He redeemed the people of God who lived before him, who awaited him, though they only knew him in shadows and yearning. In taking all our death upon himself, Jesus reaches back to the very beginning of our human living and dying. In taking the hell due to us, Jesus undoes the curse and opens eternal life to us once more. The killing cross becomes the tree of life returned to us.