But it's bigger than that. The cross is not just offensive to Jews. The cross is offensive to everybody.

You know, Alfred Jules Ayer who was a very prominent British philosopher in the 20th Century. Bertrand Russell, also a prominent philosopher. These are what these men said. These were British philosophers. Here's what they said about the cross. Alfred Jules Ayer said, "The doctrine of the atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross was 'intellectually contemptible and morally outrageous." This is just typical. Bertrand Russel says that "No one who is profoundly human can really believe God would punish sin like that," and he called the cross, "The doctrine of cruelty." That's typical. But let me get down to earth. You know what the doctrine of the cross does? A lot of people in the world think religion's okay, not bad. Morality, religion is good for us. The doctrine of the cross, offensive. "Are you saying," they say to us, "that those of us who have worked our entire lives to keep ourselves out of the gutter are in the exact same place spiritually as the people who are in the gutter? So that we both have to be saved in exactly the same way? How dare you? Or they say to us, "Are you saying that good people in other religions who have lived good lives and are extremely moral in all these ways, if they don't believe in the cross of Christ, they're lost? How dare you?" The cross of Christ is offensive in all sorts of ways. And if you haven't come to grips with it, if you haven't felt it, if you haven't ever struggled with it, I don't think you get it and, therefore, it's not going to change you.