Been a while
It has been some time since I’ve posted – a lot of different reasons for that – but I’m making a attempt to get back to some consistency with regards to posting on the B.D.
There are several things on which I’m trying to stay focused. The Ephesians series – (I’ve now preached five messages on Ephesians 1:3-14) is important to me. These ideas of Election, our destiny to become ‘holy and blameless, in love’, our identity as sons and daughters of God, the comprehensive work of the cross (the overcoming of the guilt of sin, the breaking of the power of sin and the lifting of the curse of sin) are bedrock truths of Christianity. Christian truth doesn’t get richer than this.
Add to that the trajectory of verses 4-8: God’s plan to fix this broken world by summing up everything in to Christ. This world is going somewhere, and its not to hell in a handbag. History has a conclusion… all its disparate parts summed up into Jesus Christ. I believe that once this truth grips the hearts of God’s people, and I mean really grips them everything will change.
My hope is Christ. My hope is the faithfulness of God to fulfill all that he promised his Son. My hope is the working of the Holy Spirit in the people of God. Peace, Scott