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🗓️ 10 June 2020
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0:00.0 | Why must our bodies get resurrected? |
0:07.4 | That was one theme Pastor John touched on in a message in the spring of 2014 delivered |
0:11.9 | at the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity International |
0:17.0 | University near Chicago. |
0:19.6 | In that message, Pastor John was recounting some lessons he's taken from the works of |
0:23.7 | Jonathan Edwards' lessons he's learned about the work of Christ. |
0:27.8 | This is a clip I wanted to share from that message. |
0:31.0 | The work of Christ in redemption does not only restore, it advances God's aim in creation. |
0:39.7 | Christ was not merely a remedy or an afterthought to recover what was lost. |
0:48.8 | The history of redemption climaxes with the cross not only as a means of restoration |
0:54.8 | but a means of advance. |
0:57.0 | Christ was the goal of creation, not a means to the goal, didn't just recover a goal. |
1:07.3 | He was the goal. |
1:09.6 | And by his incarnation and death and resurrection, the glory of God was put on new display in |
1:18.0 | its most vivid and lavish excellency. |
1:23.0 | Christ did not come and die and rise only to restore our joy in God but to become our |
1:30.4 | joy in God. |
1:32.8 | The incarnate God did not appear simply to enable us to rejoice in God, to become the |
1:39.4 | focus of our rejoicing in God. |
1:44.8 | He's put his incomparable lens to the gospel of the glory of Christ, to describe the glory |
1:53.9 | of Christ most compellingly in maybe the third most famous sermon, namely the excellency |
2:01.8 | of Christ which I love. |
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