"Christ" Tagged Sermons
1. The truth of the _______________ restated.
2. The identity of the “________________” in prison (vv. 19-20).
3. The connection of __________________ and salvation (vv. 20-21).
The loveless Christian sounds, in Paul’s own image, like the clanging noise of pagan Cybele worship, gifts exercised without love. Though the Trinity is never named in 1 Corinthians 13, treating love as some independent category apart from Christ turns the chapter into an abomination rather than a virtue.
Genesis 3:23-24 and 4:16 together identify the Tree of Life with God’s own perpetual presence. God, righteous men, and Christ himself are each pictured as a tree, and it is Christ who finally takes us to that tree.
The first six verses of Psalm 110 are compared to its startling seventh, drawing out its Messianic and eschatological significance. The river flowing out of Eden already carries the living water later found fully in Christ.
Where the Synoptic Gospels treat creation implicitly, John makes it explicit from his very first verse. Creation joined to Christ becomes new creation, and John 1:1-18 traces a life found only in, with, and through him.
Liberal, conservative, and orthodox readings of the ‘us’ and ‘our’ in Genesis 1:26 are surveyed, landing on the Trinity as the only reading that holds. Man can understand the invisible God only by faith in Christ, the same light John says is now shining in us.
The greater and lesser lights ruling creation are themselves testimony to the hidden light that is Christ. Only God resolves the formlessness of the beginning, which is exactly why worshiping the stars themselves, as Jeremiah warns, is such futility.
God’s omnipotence over the formlessness of Genesis 1:2 becomes concrete in God transforming creation by transforming himself, above all in Christ’s resurrection. Our own faith rests entirely on that transformed righteousness, not on anything we bring.
Light, like God himself, has a pervasive presence throughout creation, and only God’s own transcendent light can truly illuminate us. That light binds the darkness even now, hidden until the risen Christ is revealed to his saints.