“Who is He? If He was just another prophet, His resurrection is little more than a historic curiosity.” –Kevin DeYoung
The opening words of Kevin DeYoung’s main session sermon were these, “You don’t know me. You don’t need to know me.” Before the conference, many people such as myself has no idea who this man was. Yet, after he spoke, all of his books sold out quickly and it was not because of his eloquence. DeYoung had a passion for Christ and took the subject of Christ’s life, which some might ironically see as the most boring of the topics, as opportunity to explore Christ’s person.
DeYoung preached on a passage of Scripture where Jesus says very little, Luke 8:22-56, but says quite a bit about Himself. This text contains the familiar stories of calming the storm, driving out demons from a possessed man, healing a sick woman and raising a child from the dead. While the miracles are obviously miraculous in themselves, they testify to the power of Jesus Christ. His wonders echo the words of Psalm 67 and Psalm 107, the latter of which reads, “He stilled the storm to a murmur, and the waves of the sea were hushed.” Luke 8:24 says that Jesus rebuked the winds and they instantly stopped. No tricks. No magic spell. Jesus simply commanded the winds to stop because, “That was Jesus’ storm.”
“This is not an ordinary man,” DeYoung said. “This is not a long shirt, soft-spoken, sheepish Jesus.” Read the rest of this entry »
