Sabi ni James Boice, “We need no other prophets to reveal God’s word or will. We need no other priests to mediate God’s salvation and blessing. We need no other kings to control the thinking and lives of believers. Jesus is everything to us and for us in the gospel.” Christ is, indeed, our all.
Exaltation through Humiliation (John Hofileña)
The final eschatological exaltation of Christ is also the hope of final vindication for Christians who must endure brokenness and suffering in this life. There is a goal, there is an endpoint. Pain and suffering must not render us hopeless, because our hope never was in the “now”—it is in the “not yet.”
“That which He has not Assumed He has not Healed” (James Bryner Chu)
The incarnation teaches us that Christ values our humanity so much that he assumed it fully in order that he might heal it fully. This means that we must also preach the truth that every man, woman, and child—from womb to tomb—bears the image of God, and therefore redeemable, and therefore must be called to repentance and faith in Christ.
Church and Culture: The High View of Scripture as the Church’s Moral Compass
Do we, the people of God, trust the word of God to accomplish the purposes of God in the world created, sustained, and governed by God? Do we take God at his word when he says, “My word…that goes out from my mouth...shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa. 55:11)?