In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The person and work of Jesus. Have you ever heard

that phrase? Trusting in the person and work of Jesus. This is what that phrase means in its simplicity.

Because there's a lot of things that get thrown around, platitudes, and sometimes, you know,

we'll go 50 years without something being defined. And everybody's doing the what, but they've

forgotten the why, and then all of a sudden the church begins to slide and compromise.

Because we stop teaching the why. And we get mad about the laser lights and the smoke machines, you know, in Sunday worship.

But pastors a long time ago, long before the smoke machines made their way into the Sunday service,

pastors were going through the liturgy, but not explaining to the congregants why they did so.

And their children forgot.

And their children began to reject. They began to kick

against the goats. And they thought they were doing it even in a passion and zeal for Christ.

Because it just seemed like the traditions of men, because the traditions had no longer been

explained. So what's the person and work of Jesus Christ? In simplicity, the person speaks to the

fact that he is the God man. So when we say trusting in the person and work of Jesus, we're saying

we trust that Jesus is fully God, fully man. We're speaking of the incarnation. We're speaking of his deity

and his humanity. We're speaking that he is eternal, that he's eternally begotten, not made.

Jesus is not the first among creatures, but he is the creator who is to be forever

praised amen, that for him and by him and through him, all things that have been made were made.

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