Are You Misunderstanding What Christ-Centered Preaching is?

Jon and Justin speak with Ken Jones about Christ-Centered Preaching and explore the question: What does it look like to properly preach Christ from all of scripture?
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I just left a tserts because they didn't preach Christ! Happy finding you Theocast!

[@forresterj]

The saint-sinner paradox becomes such an empty slogan, leading to a cold empty gospel, when Christ is not the beginning middle and end of our faith, when the law reflects not a beautiful revelation of the coming of Jesus, but instead an instruction manual, not that instruction cannot be taken from it. To Christ only is the law a sweet honey. It should be a sweet honey to all, but instead it is a bitter reminder of my fleshly passions, and my persistent need of a savior.

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It's true that the Law and the Prophets and Psalms talk about the death and resurrection of Jesus. But it talks about a new law, a coming kingdom, how Jesus would be a prophet whom we must LISTEN TO OR ELSE BE CUT OFF. It talks about a new heart on which God's commands will be written.
After Jesus rose he explained to the disciples that the OT talked about his death and resurrection because he'd just died and risen! But that doesn't mean we become hyper focused on that as though all there is to the gospel is the death and resurrection. The gospel centers on the kingdom of God and the authority of Jesus. The death and resurrection is the proof of Jesus' authority and the means by which God turns us back to him.
The apostles DID preach the ethics of Jesus. Acts 26:19-20:
“So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. 20 "Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance."
They DID preach the kingdom of God (see last few verses of Acts 28).
The DID preach the coming judgment (see Peter's sermon in Acts 10 and Paul's sermon in Acts 17).
They preached these things along with the death and resurrection, and were not hyper focused on the death of Jesus as reformed folks often are.
When Paul says in Romans 1:5 that he and the apostles have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles (nations), what's he talking about? Does he mean he's gone out to teach people to trust only in the finished work of the cross and to believe that what they do plays no role in salvation? No he's talking about THE GREAT COMMISSION.
Jesus said in Matthew 28 to go to all the nations (gentiles) and baptized them and teach them to obey all he commanded. And that's what Paul did. He went and brought the Gentiles into the obedience of faith - teaching people to obey all Jesus commanded.
When he preached Christ, he preached all of this stuff. And when he preached Christ crucified, he was not teaching penal substitution.
We just need to get back to the simple words of Jesus and follow him with all our hearts. That's what his death and resurrection are meant to produce in us.