Is It What, How, When, Where, Or Who?
Tommy Robbins

“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.” John 5:39

The substance of all Biblical doctrine is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. The message of the gospel of God is the Lord Jesus Christ. The object of God given faith is the Lord Jesus Christ. The essence of eternal life is the Lord Jesus Christ.

What, how, when, where, or any thing else means nothing when severed or omitted from the glorious, wonderful, beautiful person of my Redeemer. To be doctrinally correct is essential. However, it is an impossibility to be doctrinally correct when He Who is Truth is set aside to prove a point. The center, the heart and soul of all true doctrine, of all gospel preaching and teaching is Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Dear friends we may know, intellectually, all that can be known of doctrinal truth and yet perish. However, not one single person to whom the Lord Jesus Christ has been revealed will believe a lie or come into condemnation. Church, let men argue, fuss, fight and debate over what they will. We, by God’s grace, have one two-fold objective, one purpose, to declare the glorious person of Christ Jesus and to know Him and be found in Him.

Much knowledge without Christ only leads to pride, arrogance and self-righteousness. Much Christ with knowledge leads to repentance, humility and peace. The wonder and beauty of gospel preaching is not how well doctrine is expounded, it is when Christ and all truth in Him is preached. I want someone to tell me of a successful Redeemer. The only way I will learn what redemption really means is to know the Redeemer. What I am saying is this, all truth is revealed in Christ, and only revealed in Christ. If we do not preach Christ we have not preached the gospel. Salvation is by God given faith in Christ, not in what we know. Because we preach some truth and believe some truth does not necessarily mean that we know Christ. Do we know Christ?

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.