As a preacher of the word of God, it is my regular and joyful task to preach Christ to all who ‎will listen to me. I am not called to preach much about myself. Rather, I am called to direct ‎my hearers to the only One who can give them spiritual life, and save them from their sins – ‎the Lord Jesus Christ. These verses are describing for us how a person is saved; which is, ‎through the preaching of Christ. “Him we preach”, Paul says. To preach is to declare in a ‎straightforward, direct, and bold manner, the truth of the word of the God, in order to ‎persuade the hearers to faith in Christ, and to obedience to God’s word. The written word of ‎God is the Bible. This is what a man who is called to the Christian ministry is to preach; the ‎whole counsel of God. And yet his special focus is to be upon Christ Himself, for it is in Christ ‎alone that any person finds salvation from their sins and a new life of living unto God, in ‎Him. Here in these verses we find the apostle Paul telling us what his great object was, in ‎preaching Christ. It was, 1st of all – That every man would be warned. It was 2nd – That every ‎man would be taught in all wisdom. And it was 3rd – It was Paul’s highest aim in regard to his ‎ministry that he might present every man perfect in Christ. In all of his preaching, Paul ‎labored, striving according to Christ’s working, which was working mightily in him. Let us ‎examine these truths more carefully. I pray that I will be able to open them up for you in a ‎way that you will be persuaded of the importance of faith in Christ and obedience to His word. ‎ |
