It's all about You, Jesus...

It was great to have Adam Bradley with us at Kings today – and not just Adam, but his wife Lorna and their delightful girls including latest addition Zoe, born just a few weeks ago! Adam has led Christ’s Community Church in Attleborough for about 4 years, and under his leadership the church has flourished and God has given significant growth.
And it wasn’t just because he’s a nice guy that I enjoyed his visit, but because of what he had to say. He preached on the question: ‘Who is this man?’, meaning Jesus Christ, and based it on that rich passage from Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

As the song says, it really is all about You, Jesus! You can download Adam’s preaching from this website, I just want to say here how vital it is that we always preach Jesus. He is the only Saviour. He is the only way to know the Father. John Piper puts it like this:

there is no spiritual life – no eternal life – apart from connection with Jesus and belief in Jesus…. In the new birth, the Holy Spirit supernaturally gives us new spiritual life by connecting us with Jesus Christ. For Jesus is life. (quoted from Finally Alive)

Let me take it further; it’s not just that Jesus makes us alive, in fact, everything we need, every blessing received comes to us ‘in Christ’. In an earlier generation, Thomas Watson wrote it like this:

Jesus Christ is the sum & quintessence of the gospel; the wonder of the angels; the joy & triumph of the saints. The name of Christ is sweet, it is as music in the ear, honey in the mouth, and a cordial at the heart… Jesus Christ, our Mediator, has perfection in every grace. Col 1v19 He is a panopy, magazine and storehouse of all heavenly treasure, all fullness… There is a never-failing fullness of grace in Christ. (Quoted from A Body of Divinity)

As I say, it really is all about Jesus, about knowing him, about being In Him, living our lives in a dynamic relationship with him – being ‘in Christ’.

Think on Him!

Goff