CMF 54th Annual Conference 2017

1. Working
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3. • Worker of salvation – a new way
• Working in of salvation – a new identity
• Working out of salvation – a new purpose

4. WORKER (AUTHOR) OF SALVATION
A New Way

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6. • Conceptual Jesus Vs Biblical Jesus
• Gal 3:1
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7. Many pictures of God/Jesus

8. Bride Building Body

9. Centrality of Christ
• Building – foundation – 1 Cori 3:11
- corner stone/cap stone – Ephe 2:20
• Bride – bridegroom – 2 Cori 11:2
• Body – head – Ephe 4:15; 1:22,23; 5:23; Col 1:18
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10. Jesus, the Foundation
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11. Foundation
• Wexner Center
for the arts –
Ohio State
University
• Foolish and wise
builders
Luke 6:46-49
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12. Foundation
• Foundation that will stand
the test
• Looking forward to the city
with foundations Heb11:10
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13. Corner stone
• Could also be the foundation stone
• Reference standard – as opposed to modern relativism
• ‘Post-truth’ – International word of the year 2016 - a
city without foundations
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14. Man-made Jesus
• Culturally, politically correct Jesus
• Medieval paintings of Jesus with thyroid
enlargement
• “God made man in His image on the sixth
day; man made god in his image on the
seventh day.”
• Glory of God exchanged Rom 1:23
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15. Man-made Jesus
Populism
Jeremiah vs Hananiah – Jer 28
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16. Biblical Jesus
• Not just a teacher,
philosopher, miracle worker,
model, prophet…
• Saviour – ‘He saves’
• No other way
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17. Biblical Jesus
Col 2:9; Col 1:15-19
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18. • Pilate – John 18:38
• I am – John 14:6
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https://riverhillscc.com/sermons/i-am/way-truth-life/
What is truth?

19. We have much
more to learn; but
God has no more
to reveal than he
has revealed in
Jesus Christ.
John Stott
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20. Do I believe in the Biblical
Jesus?

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22. Man-made Jesus
• Authoritarianism/Legalism
• Influence of authority figures – parents, teachers,
wardens etc.
• You are a hard man Matt 25:24
• Bishop’s dream
• No need for any more rules and laws
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23. What is my ultimate need?
• Acceptance; unconditional acceptance
• Where can we find this sort of love and
acceptance?

24. What is my
ultimate need?
• What a man desires is unfailing love (Bible Prov
19:22a)
• Love of God

25. When our need for love and acceptance is not met;
we turn to false comforters
They further take us away and make us more
unsatisfied. John 4:13,14

26. • Insecurity
• Inferiority
• Loneliness

27. Sin
Unmet need for love
Alienation from God
Human Problems
False comforters

28. God’s justice
demands
punishment for
the sinner.

29. God’s love pleads for saving the
sinner.

32. • When Jesus was made sin for us, God had
to forsake His own son
• Sin alienates us from God and the cross
brings us back to God

33. A New and Living way
Heb 10:20

34. Jesus Christ fulfilled God’s justice and
God’s love

35. • Hosea 3:1,2
• Heart-rending story of
the second chance
35

36. Jer 3:22
36

37. “Whatever you have done, whatever you have become,
it doesn’t matter.
Please come home.”
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39. • Exclusive
• Intimate
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40. • 1 John 1:1 – Witnessed,
personal
• Growing in intimacy
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41. Am I growing in my love for
the groom?

42. Jesus, the Head
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43. Man-made Jesus
• Selfishness
You can safely assume you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
• Disciples – not one of us
Mark 9:38

44. Body that is befitting the Head
Ephe 4:15 – grow up to
the Head in all things
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45. Beholding is becoming
• 2 Cori 3:18

46. Destination
• The ultimate purpose - our transformation
Rom 8:29
• To see Him formed in us
Gal 4:19
46

47. Am I becoming more like
Jesus?
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48. Worker(Author) & Perfecter of Salvation
Jesus Reference Focus of salvation
Cornerstone Ephe 2:20 Foundation
Bride Groom Isa 62:5 Relation
Head Ephe 4:15 Destination

49. I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with
Him because there is no other way I wish to turn.
I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him
because I have something I will not trade.
I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of
friendships.
I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about
my destiny.
I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities.
I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.
Ravi Zacharias
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