"ChristsDeity" Tagged Sermons
How Christians view creation itself is at stake here, not just how they view redemption: Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1 both insist Christ is proclaimed by linking the two together, not keeping them separate. Old Testament passages describing God in very specific, personal terms are read as already pointing toward this connection. Creation, on this account, only becomes fully understandable in light of its own recreation in Christ.
John’s prologue does not merely call Christ God’s Son; it identifies him as God, a claim John 3 and Christ’s own exchange with Pilate in John 18 both assume rather than argue for. Christ’s parable of the seven demons in Matthew 12 becomes a warning against mere withdrawal from the world instead of active service in it, the pattern Christ himself set. God’s own giving, the sermon insists, is never stingy.