"Most of us here are familiar with the Biblical account of what happened on Good Friday and then on Easter Sunday.

We look at a cross as religious symbol…some people wear a cross around their neck.

If we were sitting In a synagogue in the first century and that cross were present people would be feeling distinctly uncomfortable.

A cross is an instrument of death. Not just any kind of death either but an incredibly painful death calculated to cause as much pain and suffering as possible."