Sublime

the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that

His message focused on the urgency of a radical change in the inner attitude of the people. He recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them. “To revile because one has been re

Jesus was unmistakable: “Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve and to give my life.”

Fundamental Reduction of Application-Consistent Outline Introduction: Develop the need to proclaim Christ to everyone. Proposition: We must proclaim Christ to the world. Analytical Question: Why? I. Jesus alone purchased salvation. II. Jesus alone possesses salvation. III. Jesus alone bestows salvation.