Aim: To know and love the ''certain Jesus'' who means everything to His church.
Doctrine: ''A certain Jesus'' is the focal point of all creation, history, and redemption. This ''certain Jesus'' is no ordinary man; rather, He is Lord and King of everyone and everything.
Exegesis: Why ''a certain Jesus'' is at the heart of all that is: because He wrecks all fallen human religion (vv. 13-16); because He lives and reigns over all (vv. 17-19); because His gospel takes precedence in everyone's mind (vv. 20-22).
Further application: How ''a certain Jesus'' is enjoyed by His enormously-blessed church: through the conviction that He is the sum of all life, and that He is known by faith and loved by all who have been touched by Him.
Key verse: v. 19 ''Rather [the Jews] had certain points of dispute with [Paul] about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger is a retired, ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div). He is married to his wife, Lesley, and together they have one daughter and...
