Podcast: 2025-12-07: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Advent 2 – Peace: God’s Salvation in Christ is Cosmic and It Looks Like Peace

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2025-12-07: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Advent 2 – Peace: God’s Salvation in Christ is Cosmic and It Looks Like Peace

Sunday is Advent week two, a focus on Peace.  In Isaiah 52, the prophet Isaiah speaks of a coming Savior, who will bring salvation, and this salvation will go out to the ends of the earth.  What does this mean?  In John 3:16, we read, “God loved the world so much, he sent his Son…” A Savior, bringing salvation!  What does this mean?

I used to think of God’s salvation mostly as a personal thing… God comes to my heart, saves me from my sin and gives me a new life.  Salvation certainly includes this, my personal salvation.  Yet, I’ve come to understand from God’s Word that his salvation is much, much bigger – it’s COSMIC!  That’s right, God’s salvation in Jesus is a big announcement, big happening, with big affect – it’s COSMIC!   A salvation that proclaims, “Our God reigns!”  How big is God’s reign?  It’s COSMIC!

So there it is, a wild claim about Jesus and his rule over all things.  Take a look at Colossians 1:15-20.  Can you see it?  Question for Sunday and into the next week to ponder: If God’s salvation announced and fulfilled in Jesus birth, life, death, and resurrection has brought the Kingdom of God near to us, actually brought it to us and is here now, what does this mean for our living, obedience, faithfulness to God’s rule in all things?  Is it just some of my life or all of my life?  Some aspects of the world we live in or aspects?

See you Sunday,
Pastor Mark