Sublime

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.

If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].

It is the converted, baptized, ordained Augustine who confesses, “Onus mihi, oneri mihi sum”: “I am a burden to myself.”

Paul honored the Christ-centrality of the entire Word. Paul preached about marital relationships, child rearing, qualifications for church officers, stewardship, handling anger, on-the-job conduct, regard for government authorities, and many other practical concerns, and at the same time he wrote, “But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block

God used the Apostle Paul mightily, and he is a lesson of God’s grace. Paul himself reminds us, “I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy” (1 Tim. 1:13). This was the Paul whom God had set apart. Just like Paul, we have been delivered from our former sins in Christ, and God calls us into His service for t