Deciding To Know Nothing But Christ Crucified

January 29, 2012,

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I was in church today and met a very nice chap whom I'd never spoken to before. He seemed very interested in the specifics about what I was studying at college.

"I'm on my honours year of a BA in Theology." I told him. "My dissertation is on the resurrection of the dead." I added, just to flesh out the conversation.

"Oh really?" He replied. "My wife and I are infants in Christ, we only became Christians a year and a half ago. But Jesus Christ is King, that's all that matters!"

I love studying theology, and I've found it really helpful in a lot of ways; but that guy hit the nail on the head with something I easily miss among all the academia: Jesus is King, no matter how much or how little I think I understand or how good a person I think I am.

The righteous shall live by faith. Knowing Christ crucified for your sins and risen again is more valuable than all the theology, all the good works, all the money, all the skills and all the human praise in the world. Everything else is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

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12 I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

15 What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

18 For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

1 Corinthians 2:1-2

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2:1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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