The Centrality of Christ in the Life of a Believer: “The Ephesians”

Opposites can appear identical. So it is with our righteousness and Christ's righteousness, as Paul, the fundamental Pharisee came to find out when he met the Lord.

"Our flesh is very creative. It knows how to refine itself. It knows how to polish itself. It knows how to perfect itself. But it is still flesh! And it is rotten to the core." As Jerry Benjamin artfully explains, this is exactly why the Christian life begins when Christ reigns at the core.

In the second chapter of Revelation, Jesus Christ lovingly exhorts the hard-working Christians of Ephesus to return to their first Love. In Matthew 22, He took the Pharisees and Sadducees of Israel back to the heart of the Law and the prophets: God’s love. Dr.

Even as Christians, if our eyes are on the circumstances and people around us we are sure to find something to complain about. Our tendency to murmur, grumble, and gossip only shows how selfish human beings really are. Murmuring, however, can be overcome simply by Who Christ really is . . .