How you become strong and secure is to put on Christ. Put on His death, put on His resurrection.

Jesus is the example of how to get safely through this fallen, wicked world. That is, it’s all humility now, glory comes later.

There’s a simple answer that we will look at today: it’s not possible to have a nice quiet life in this world. The better question is, Where do we want to be in 10,000 years?

In the beginning God made marriage to reveal Himself in this world. You have three people all submitting to one another and loving one another. That is, a husband, a wife, and God. Three in one. That is who God is.

Life is not about pleasing me but God. If God is happy then I am happy.

Peter commands us to silence the ignorance of foolish men. Not by clever arguments. Not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of God.

But you don’t fight in a fleshly way, you fight in a spiritual way.

So today we look at the supreme value of Christ, and at those who have got Christ totally wrong.

We began our lives in Christ by receiving the word of God. And we will grow and be perfected only by continuing to receive the word of God.

I had a neighbour that had just this problem with Jesus. We would have good conversations about what was happening in the world, particularly with the lockdown. Then it would always come around to Jesus. He would say, "Why Jesus? Why can't people love one another without Jesus.?" can't there be some other way? Can't there be some other philosophy, some other political way, some other religion? Why does it have to be Jesus?