Selected Passages
October 22, 2017
preached by Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth.”

~ A.W. Pink (1886-1952), English pastor, author and teacher

“We need intimate knowledge of the past…to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods, and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.  A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: The scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”

~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer, theologian and Christian apologist

“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.”

~ John Wesley (1703-1791), English Anglican cleric, theologian and author

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories, but our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

~ Eugene Peterson (1932-present), pastor, scholar and author

“Christ is the center of the circle, and all stories in Holy Scripture, viewed aright, have to do with Christ.”

“If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.”

“The whole Scripture from beginning to end has this goal, that one may know Christ.”

~ Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian, composer, author and seminal figure in the European Protestant Reformation

Sermon Passage

Luke 24:27, 44-49 (NASB), Ephesians 2:19-20 (NASB), Hebrews 1:1-3 (NIV)

Luke 24 

²⁷ Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures….

⁴⁴ Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” ⁴⁵ Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Ephesians 2 (NASB)

¹⁹ So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, ²⁰ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone…

Hebrews 1 (NIV)

¹ In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.