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One of the two focuses of a Christ-centered message is the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The other focus is who He is. But, today, let’s mainly talk about the finished work of the Lord. The scripture states to us over, and over, and over again the fact that without God we can do absolutely nothing, but that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. As humans, we have this tendency to, when we notice a problem in ourselves, try to fix that problem. But we can’t change ourselves and any attempt to do so is going to result in failure because there is only one solution to our solution, and that is Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross.
The Christ-centered message makes it clear to the listener and the believer that everything that we need to change to obey God and to please Him has already been given to us through the Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. And we don’t need to stress out and try to muster up in ourselves some kind of religious response to give to God. Instead, we can just rest and believe what God has already done for us. Boom! Short, sweet, and to the point. Next week, we’re going to talk about the details of this subject.