What is Your Focus?
“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
1 Corinthians 2:2
In my alone time with God today, a question came to mind — and I believe it was placed there by God for me to bring to the attention of His people — and that question is this…
“What is your focus?”
There are many churches, groups, fellowships and schools out there — each and every one of them waving the banner of Christ, and each heralding Truth — yet they are not unified. In fact, there is so much diversity and division among them that one might well wonder at times if they are even all of the same Faith!
In our text, the apostle did not write, “I determined not to know anything among you, save proper soteriology.” He also did not write, “I determined not to know anything among you, save the Law of God.” He did not even say, “I determined not to know anything among you, save where the lost tribes of Israel went.”
All of the above may be of great interest, and of great importance, but Paul did not write any of the above here in our text. He wrote simply, “I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
There are many wonderful truths found in the Holy Scriptures. His Word is an inexhaustible source of knowledge, inspiration, and Truth, and all that is found therein should heralded to the glory of God…
But at the end of the day, the most important thing that we can preach will always be — Jesus Christ and Him crucified. For it is only the Gospel of Christ that is the power of God unto salvation.
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first [the Judahites of the southern House of Judah], and also to the Greek [the Israelites of the northern House of Israel]. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17
The Gospel of Christ is God’s people have lost their way, and are fallen. But the Saviour put on flesh and blood to become the pascal Lamb of God who would sacrifice Himself in order to redeem His people from their fallen state, and bring them back into the fold, that we might have eternal life through Him!
“O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity” and “O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself . . . but in me is thine help.” Hosea 14:1 and 13:9
Amen! “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.” Luke 1:68
