The Genius of God
Bethel Redding Sermon of the Week
Bethel Redding
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The world needs both the power and wisdom of God. Eric Johnson challenges us to hunger for the mind of Christ as we navigate this season. When we submit our minds to God, we increase our ability to love, imagine, and dream.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. |
| 0:05.6 | We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Eric Johnson. |
| 0:09.7 | For more information about this podcast and other resources, visit bethel.com. |
| 0:17.1 | Well, this morning, the title of this message this morning, it's called The Genius of God. |
| 0:23.1 | The Genius of God. |
| 0:25.7 | Believe it or not, there is a Christmas theme in it. |
| 0:28.4 | It may not feel like it, but just know that it is in my heart that there is actually a Christmas theme in it. |
| 0:34.8 | It'll be sparse on the sparse side, but it is in there. Just trust me. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, being fully alive in Christ, it should be the desire of all of us who follow Jesus. |
| 0:46.4 | A light that it diminished or minimized is not for Jesus followers. I'm not referring to the no-hold |
| 0:52.2 | barred, westernized self-help thinking, but rather one that is |
| 0:56.4 | submitted to the creator of all knowledge, revelation, and mysteries to God himself. |
| 1:02.2 | As a human, the standard for living fully alive, we need to look no further than Jesus. |
| 1:08.7 | In Colossians 1 15 through 18, it says this. He is the image of the |
| 1:13.6 | invisible God that first born over all creation, for by him all things were created that are in heaven |
| 1:20.9 | and that are on earth, visible and invisible. Whether throned or dominioned or principalities or powers, all things were created |
| 1:30.1 | through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things consist. And he is |
| 1:37.9 | the head of the body of the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all |
| 1:42.7 | things he may have the pre-eminence. |
| 1:45.9 | It's a powerful passage. |
| 1:47.0 | I often read it often because the way I interpret that passage is no matter how you slice |
| 1:52.9 | anything in the universe, Jesus is at the center of it all. |
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