What Do You Seek :2. Seeking Jesus Only - Part 1of4 by Zac Poonen(Malayalam)
What Do You Seek :2. Seeking Jesus Only - Part 1of4 by Zac Poonen(Malayalam)
Summary
The central message is that the Christian faith requires a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, which is more vital than adherence to doctrines or rituals. The speaker emphasizes that all Christian experience, including victory over sin or the power of the Holy Spirit, must relate back to this personal connection with Christ. He highlights Mary Magdalene as an example of God choosing someone who had suffered greatly to be the first witness to the resurrection.
Outline
The message in plain words, in the order it unfolds. Select a time to jump the video to that moment.
What do you seek?Apostle John highlights Jesus asking disciples and Mary Magdalene what and whom they are seeking.
A personal relationship with JesusUnlike other religions, Christianity offers a personal relationship with a person, and true Christian experience requires this connection with Jesus.
Doctrines versus ChristBelievers often divide into groups based on doctrines, water baptism, or spiritual gifts, yet still experience spiritual death without Christ.
The first witness of the resurrectionGod chose Mary Magdalene, a woman delivered from many demons and despised by society, to be the first person to see the resurrected Christ.
The old creation and the new creationWhile no human was present for the old creation in Genesis, the new creation begins with the resurrection of Jesus, witnessed first by Mary.
Witnesses of the resurrectionThe apostles testified primarily as witnesses of the resurrection, and Jesus instructed Mary to go and tell the brothers what she had seen.
Mary at the empty tombMary was the first to see the empty tomb early Sunday morning and ran to share the news.
