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It is so easy to mock people who simply share the truth of Scripture instead of trying to make it look impressive by embellishments. Yet there is such beauty in the face of Christ that God enables dead souls to see, in a work that resembles the act of creation. Satan is doing everything in his power to prevent you from seeing the glory of God in the face of Christ. But for God, this opposition is a small thing. He grants beautiful life at the moment of his choosing. Do you see the beautiful face of Christ?

It is often hard to know what to say when meeting a new person or when you are confronted with people in crushing circumstances. What do you say? Where do you go after saying hi? What are you aiming at achieving in your relationship or conversation? In this sermon the focus is on how church members can start and progress in caring relationships with other people, It is shamefully compressed but is a one-sermon summary of Ed Welch's principles, found in his book Caring for One Another. My aim, as a biblical counsellor, is to help you know where to start and where to move next in your relationships.

Are you lost when you wonder what you can believe is true. African Psychology, for example, bases its procedures upon fourteen different sources of truth. However, these very uncertain sources of truth only support one of four different views of African Psychology. This is a tiny field of study when looking at the larger field of psychology, let alone all other fields of academic study worldwide. Yet the church has one source. One book. One perfect source that is described in Psalm 19 by six titles, with six characteristics and it performs six different functions. Come back to truth. Come back to God. Come back to revival. Come back to joy. Come back to wisdom.

Our perspective of Christ from both before and after creation is breathtaking. Yet what we see in his incarnation takes our appreciation for him to greater heights. He completely embraces and owns his identity as fully God. Yet he who is fully God becomes fully a human slave. The mystery is that he remains fully God while remaining fully man. In order to become man, the Son had to both empty and humble himself. His self-humbling drove him to the depths of experiencing the cruel death a criminal would normally experience. Yet as he dies in shame, he also bursts into glory that will remain eternally undimmed. This beautiful presentation of Christ in Philippians 2 is attached both to a direct command and an implicit warning. The command is to adopt the same attitude that drove Jesus through his saving mission. The implicit warning is that while Jesus is not worshiped now in the way he ought to be, the day will come when he will. In that day, his enemies will not be received into his glory but will be crushed beneath his feet.

We shift our focus from Christ before creation to Christ in the Old testament. Creation is the dividing line between the two eras, and it is creation where we first see the Son of God in this study. Unfortunately this audio does not include all of the images used in the original preaching of the sermon, but hopefully enough comes through so you can again appreciate something of the wonder of what the Son made. From creation it becomes clear that someone has to sustain everything brought into existence. The Son does that too. Then personally, we see the Son of God appearing in physical form throughout the Old Testament, driving history at pivotal points to God's intended purpose. After such a consideration of Christ, we have no other recourse but to stop and worship.

Before his miraculous conception, before Mary and Joseph, in fact, before the whole of Old Testament history or even the creation, the Son of God existed as the second member of the Trinity. He lives in heaven endlessly. His existence is not a monotonous drone but an existence of unique quality and fullness. In a word, it is glorious. Not only does the Son exist eternally in heaven in glory, but he exists as an active participant in relationship. A relationship from which he is also chosen and sent. Such a glorious Son rightly deserves the remarkable titles given to him in Scripture. Take this moment to look again at the Son of God in his preincarnate glory. Be motivated by his grandeur to daily love and devotion.

What would it take to destroy your life fast? What would it take to destroy the life of a powerful king fast? Uzziah was such a king; very powerful and destroyed very fast. What was the force that was able to take him down so quickly? Actually, it was something that lives inside each one of us. Uzziah failed to hear the warnings and his destruction should be a warning for us too.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details:

Title: Longing for Jesus

Speaker: Alan Lester

Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited

Event: Special Meeting

Date: 12/25/2019

Bible: Luke 2:25-35

Length: 49 min.