This is kind of an overview of what a friend spoke on at First Baptist in the Heights, here in Houston, last night. His twitter acct is @afshinziafat and he is a definite good person to follow. With that here goes the main points and small summary of what he said:
1) Jesus brings the personal of God to us in His very form. Thus it is not legalism or Gnosticism or any other ism that will bring you closer to God, it's all about Jesus and what He does to bring us to God.
2) Jesus is Firstborn in rank or Sovereignty. All that is has come through Christ. Thus it is a slap in the face to worship creation and take our eyes and worship of the Creator. Interestingly Afshin pointed out something I hadn't noticed, but is completely true. The 1st and the 10th commandment are essentially dealing with or are the same topic. That is that 1st: You shall have no gods before me and 10th: don't covet... Hmmm. That being said, "All that we run after are poor gods in comparison with the One True God"
3)"For Him" this small section seems to get skipped over or ignored. Yet it is a key point to understanding how to deal with life's struggle against materialism or any other ism that we put before God. Everything was created for God. The end, period. Nothing more needs to be said.
4) Everything that is, is held together by Him:Jesus. So without Christ in my life, it goes into chaos. So great as anything else is, without Christ it ultimately comes up meaningless.
5) Jesus brings an ultimate level of reconciliation to us from God!!! By this I mean Jesu restores us in spiritually with God our Father and Creator.
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