1. We are chosen in love and for love. We abide in Jesus’ love and Jesus’ love abides in us for the neighbor.
  2. The hallmark of the Spirit of truth is that Jesus Christ, true Son of God, and true Son of Mary, “for us men and for our salvation,” came in the flesh.
  3. Christians are driven by different motives and an altogether different spirit than the unregenerate world.
  4. We are promised we will also be before Him as true persons, both soul and body, a resurrected and fully redeemed human being.
  5. Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
  6. The combination of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection mean the present is transformed forever.
  7. There is absence in that all we have is an empty tomb, but presence because, while the tomb is empty, Christ is alive with a gloriously transformed body and with us!
  8. Jesus is coronated on the Cross. It would be from Golgotha where Jesus will reign over the kingdoms of the earth.
  9. The fact of Jesus being the greatest of all priests in the greatest of all orders of priesthood, means He is the consummate pastor for those in need of a powerful and availing shepherd.
  10. Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.
  11. The Gospel is so clear, so simple, so pure in these verses that it is well worth heralding as is, without comment.
  12. Christianity is not principally about ethics. It was the Cross on the Hill rather than the Sermon on the Mount which produced the impact of Christianity on the world.
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