Oxygen session 6
(rough notes)
Preaching Christ
Colossians 1:15-20
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For everything was created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together. 18 He is also the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything. 19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile everything to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross — whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Preaching Christ means regularly making clear that all things exist to display the glory of Jesus Christ.
These things mean within the trinity that whether intrinsically His or The Fathers.?? (check that from audio)
Everything exists to display Christ.
There is the trinity to come to terms with.
It isn’t wrong to say that the universe exists for the glory of God or to say the glory of God the Father.
2 Peter 3:18
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2 Theselonians 1:12
so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:21
21 equip a you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.
Passages that show Jesus reflecting the Fathers glory Jude 25
to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
Philippians 1:11
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Romans 16:27
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to Him be the glory forever! Amen.
Philippians 2:11
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Third group of texts that show these two glories are one glory because we have a trinity.
Titus 2:13
while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
Preach Christ in a profoundly theocentric way.
Romans 11:36
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
God accomplished the display of His glory in creation and redemption through Jesus.
3 effects of preaching Christ theocentric ally
- It protects your preaching and your gospel from man-centeredness.
- Makes sin intelligible.
- The cross won’t make sense.
at the heart of preaching Christ is love.
The love of Christ for sinners should be really big.
You can’t know love apart from the love of Christ for sinners.
John 11:1-6
Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.” 4 When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after that, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”
Don’t miss the ’so’ in the passage. Why did Jesus let Lazarus die? Look back at verse 4 which answers the question. It was done for the glory of God. So that we can see as much of Gods glory as possible.
The ultimate end of love is not me, but God.
Why does God, whom loves me so much and makes much of me, do so for His glory?
It is a greater love displayed by God to make Himself your glory rather than yourself.
The human heart is made for God and He loves His children infinitely.
You are precious to God and the greatest gift He has for you is for Him to be your treasure, your God.
We are designed to enjoy God forever.
preach the cross from its eternal foundation past to its eternal consummation future.
The cross was planned from eternity 1 Corinthians 15 Revelation 13:8
The cross is an event in History Jesus Christ died under Pilate.
The cross was in the event an achievement. It happened at one time It was accomplished and applied (John Murrey) The wrath if God was absorbed by Jesus for His elect - Romans 8:3
What the law could not do h since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.
Sins were covered. Colossians 2:14
He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.
He completed a perfect righteousness for us.
Christ became obedient unto death. Therefor Christ had highly exulted Him.
Philippians 2:8 is the setup for 3:8
2:8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.
3:8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ
- a free offer that all of that can be yours through faith alone
Believe is part of the Gospel, even though you say believe the gospel.
There is no good news if it is by works.
The offer to faith alone apart from works is essential
applied by the Holy Spirit to all believers
Reconciliation.
- Forgiveness becomes mine
- Justification becomes mine
Eternal life becomes mine
the gospel is not good news until we realize it takes us somewhere
2 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm.
Christ must become for us redeemer and reward. Sacrifice offered and satisfaction enjoyed.
Jesus purchased for us fellowship with God.
Preaching Christ means preaching the gospel.
God himself is our reward.
preaching Christ involves preaching conversion in opening blind eyes to see the glory in the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves because of Jesus. 6 For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
They can’t see Jesus as ultimately beautiful.
God opened your heart to see the glory of Christ.
Some people are arminian to the core. They have no idea how they got saved.
Preaching Christ is preaching what is conversion.
preaching sanctification as the effect of seeing the glory of Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:18
We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
How do your people get changed?
How do they fall out of love of money?
Be holding the glory of the Lord we are being transformed.
The reason it works that way: When we see Him we are more satisfied with Him. When we admire Him we tend to be like what we admire.
