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One of the wealthiest, highest educated, and hardest working cities in America; work is at the core of our culture. So, DC friends, what does the gospel of Jesus Christ have to do with your work? Our passage shows something beautiful: the gospel frees us to work for the glory of God and the good of our brother.
Jesus has become a polarizing figure. People either love or hate him. In the face of that, Jesus is not making his message more digestible for a broader audience. He himself is drawing sharper lines. Teaching in parables is the next development in that separation.
The almighty King, Jesus Christ, took on all the guilt of sin we incurred and all the weight of its brokenness we suffered under. No longer driven by self-preservation, Christians forfeit their pursuit of oppressing others to follow a new paradigm.
Jesus teaches us that he brings a new kind of religion—one that is rooted in mercy and celebration.
Christ established the foundation of his church through the definitive work of the apostles, who then set up a structure of overseers who would steward the apostolic foundation. Apostolicity, then, is defined by our faithfulness to the apostolic doctrine, structure, and mission.
Just as Jesus comes to the disciples in the storm and reaches out to save Peter, Jesus has come to us. Jesus, the Son of God, met us in our storm. He came from heaven to earth to reach us in the form of a man. He plunged the depths of death by dying on a cross to rescue us from spiritual death, and then he rose from the dead to bring us with him into everlasting life.
There are no lengths he has not gone to find you. Not just sweeping the house, not just searching the hills for a sheep; God came from heaven to earth. The Son of God Jesus Christ took on flesh to find his lost. He came from glory and bliss to homeless rags. And even that wasn’t far enough.
If you are waiting for your own kingdom to fix all the problems we face, don’t hold your breath. Any kingdom under the sun is ultimately a part of the problem. What we need is a new kingdom to break in and free us from Satan. That’s the reason Jesus Christ came.
The glory of the cross is not that people get to escape hell and enjoy eternal comfort. The glory of the cross is that God saves. Salvation is about God before it is about us.
The genealogy of Jesus is the story of God with us, and every name is a chapter.
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