KCP

One of my professors at Dallas Theological Seminary used to tell us KCP....KCP....KCP. It is far more than a clever acronym (which most pastors tend to overdose on while trying to convey their sermon points). For a Christ-follower, KCP must be a way of life.

I was recently reading a very familiar, yet deeply troubling passage in Genesis 22. God commanded Abraham to physically sacrifice his son, Isaac, whom he loved. In an incredible act of obedience to God, Abraham did just as God had told him to do. As the knife was raised, ready to plunge into his boy laying bound on the alter, an angel of the Lord called out to Abraham and intervened to save Isaac's life. While there are many lessons we can draw from this amazing passage, we as the reader have been given a special preview of God's redemptive plan for creation (the main theme of the Bible). God didn't ask Abraham to do something that He Himself hadn't already planned on doing before the creation of the world....to sacrifice His one and only Son, Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:20 tells us that Jesus "was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake." God the Father, in the most amazing act of love, sacrificed His Son, that those who believe in Him might be "redeemed from the empty way of life." Once we realize what God has done to redeem us from the penalty of our sin, we should be driven to KCP in all that we do; for without Him, we are lost.

Keep Christ Preeminent!

Remember, you can't live the way you used to live because you aren't who you used to be! (Colossians 3:5-17)