{"id":2807,"date":"2014-03-22T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2014-03-22T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T10:02:22","slug":"preaching-about-christ-or-preaching-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Preaching about Christ or Preaching Christ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Preaching about Christ or Preaching Christ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Holy Spirit does not reach after something novel, new, or  spectacular in order to glorify Christ or to preach Christ to men. He  does not need tongues, fleshly emotion, bodily healings, and creature  fame and importance in order to bring glory to Christ and call out His  sheep. He finds Christ\u2019s glory IN CHRIST HIMSELF!<\/p>\n<p>If we want to honor Christ, glorify Christ, and preach Christ, we  must not look for something outside of Christ; but we must honor Him by  preaching that which is His already\u2013His deity, His person, His man-hood,  His life, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, His intercession,  His return! Strange as it may seem, there is today very little  preaching OF CHRIST HIMSELF.<\/p>\n<p>Men preach about those who knew Him, who served Him, and who wrote of  Him. They preach about His church, His doctrines, and His commandments.  They preach series of messages on those who used to preach Christ, on  the conduct and conversation of those who profess to know Christ, and on  the duties and responsibilities of believers in Christ, but very few  messages ON THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST HIMSELF. They read papers and  conduct discussions on ways and means to serve Christ, to discipline and  organize the kingdom of Christ, and how to honor Christ; and they  seldom get around to doing that which God has ordained and commissioned  us to do AND THAT IS TO PREACH CHRIST!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Christ is most glorified, His sheep most edified, His will and  purpose accomplished, and His church perfected in faith, hope, and love  WHEN WE PREACH CHRIST HIMSELF. The work of the Spirit of God is to  reveal to us the beauties of Jesus Christ, AND THEY ARE ALL FOUND IN  CHRIST HIMSELF.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  Henry Mahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preaching about Christ or Preaching Christ? The Holy Spirit does not reach after something novel, new, or spectacular in order to glorify Christ or to preach Christ to men. He does not need tongues, fleshly emotion, bodily healings, and creature fame and importance in order to bring glory to Christ and call out His sheep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}