Gave Him as Head over All Things

In this part of the sermon: Through an illustration, Martin clarifies that Christ is given to the church not in His past humiliation and weakness, but in His present, highly exalted state of power and…

An analogy of a 97-pound weakling transforming into a strong, skilled bodyguard. It illustrates that Christ is given to the church in His present exalted state of power and capacity, not in His former humiliation, ensuring His ability to protect and care for His people.

So that whatever the Father does in giving his Son to the church, he must give him in the position already assigned to him, unless he would take that position away from him. Let me illustrate. Let's take the classic 97-pound weakling. You'd no more want him for a bodyguard than you'd want to flee for your bodyguard.

22:34 - 22:58 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The word church is a prostituted, tortured and abused word. But it is a Bible word. And whenever you face a Bible word, and you're going to be true to the word, no matter how much it's been abused or tortured, you don't …

An analogy of counterfeit $10 bills and how banks teach people to identify the real thing. It illustrates that when biblical terminology like 'church' is abused, teachers should not abandon the word but rather help people understand its true, biblical meaning to detect false uses.

Because our view of Scripture forbids that. Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, we teach the things of the Spirit in words which the Holy Ghost teaches. Now let me illustrate. Suppose this area began to abound in counterfeit $10 bills.

27:55 - 28:16 Read in full sermon