1. Solus Christus
(Christ Alone)
Pastor Nathan Weller
October 15, 2017

3. 5. The pope neither desires nor is able to remit any
penalties except those imposed by his own authority or that of the canons.
6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring and showing that it has been remitted by God; or, to be sure, by remitting guilt in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right
to grant remission in these cases were disregarded, the guilt would certainly remain unforgiven.
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

5. Sola Scriptura—by Scripture Alone

6. Sola Scriptura—by Scripture Alone
Sola Fide—by Faith Alone

7. Sola Scriptura—by Scripture Alone
Sola Fide—by Faith Alone
Sola Gratia—by Grace Alone

8. Sola Scriptura—by Scripture Alone
Sola Fide—by Faith Alone
Sola Gratia—by Grace Alone
Solus Christus—Through Christ Alone

9. Sola Scriptura—by Scripture Alone
Sola Fide—by Faith Alone
Sola Gratia—by Grace Alone
Solus Christus—Through Christ Alone
Soli Deo Gloria—Glory to God Alone

11. CenterPoint Church
is about Christ,
and Christ alone

13. and circumference of the Bible”—meaning that who
The centrality of Christ is the foundation of the Protestant faith. Martin Luther said that Jesus Christ is the “center
and circumference of the Bible”—meaning that who
He is and what He did in His death and resurrection is
the fundamental content of Scripture. Ulrich Zwingli said,
“Christ is the Head of all believers who are His body
and without Him the body is dead.”
-Dr. Joel Beeke-

15. 1 ...but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling
block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles...And so
it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came
to you, I did not come with eloquence or human
wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about
God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was
with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
--1st Corinthians 1.23, (NIV)

17. Christ alone is
our message

19. --1st Corinthians 2.2 (NIV)
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified
--1st Corinthians 2.2 (NIV)

21. --1st Corinthians 1.23 (NIV)
...we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling
block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
--1st Corinthians 1.23 (NIV)

23. My entire theology can be condensed to four words: Jesus died for me.
-Charles Spurgeon-

25. Christ alone is
our salvation

27. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach
the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest
the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 18 For the
word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but
to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
--1st Corinthians (ESV)

29. For our sake he made him to be sin
who knew no sin, so that in him we might
become the righteousness of God
--2nd Corinthians 5.21 (ESV)

33. -Donald Smarto, Pursued-
Now I knew, I really knew, that Christ had died for me.
It was coupled with the more important revelation that
I was a sinner, that I was not the good person I had
thought I was a moment before. All at once I embraced
the telephone pole and began to cry. I must have hugged
that piece of wood for nearly an hour. I could imagine
Jesus nailed to this pole, blood dripping from his wounds.
I felt as if the blood were dripping over me, cleansing
me of my sin and unworthiness.
-Donald Smarto, Pursued-

35. Christ alone is
our strength

37. --1st Corinthians 1.26-31, 2.3-5 (ESV)
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you
were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God
chose what is low and despised in the world, even things
that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so
that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who
became to us wisdom from God... (cont’d)
--1st Corinthians , (ESV)

38. --1st Corinthians 1.26-31, 2.3-5 (ESV)
... righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast
in the Lord.”
3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not
in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the
Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in
the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
--1st Corinthians , (ESV)

40. And my message and my preaching
were very plain.
--2 Corinthians 2.4 (NLT)

42. Christ alone is
our life

44. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also
will appear with him in glory…11 Here there is not Greek
and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
--Colossians 3.4, 11 (ESV)

46. These three words are the essence and substance of Christianity.
-J. C. Ryle-

48. --1st Corinthians 2.2 (ESV)
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
--1st Corinthians 2.2 (ESV)

50. “In the light of the cross, how well do the raucous appeals
of competing public philosophies stand up? What place
does the cross have in communism? What place does the cross have in capitalism? Does systematic hedonism lead anyone to the cross? How about dogmatic pluralism?
Will secular humanism lead anyone to the most astonishing
act of divine self-disclosure that has ever occurred—the cross
of Christ? Does the elevation of the virtues of democracy
lead men and women to the cross? Is it not... (cont’d)

51. the cross. Whatever the merits or the demerits of these
...always wrong to equate “the American way,” or, more broadly, any democratic system, with the gospel? Paul’s
point is that no public philosophy, no commonly accepted “wisdom,” can have enduring significance if its center is not
the cross. Whatever the merits or the demerits of these
various systems, they exhaust their resources on merely superficial levels. They do not reconcile men and women to
the living God, and nothing is more important than that.”
-D.A. Carson-

53. Solus Christus
(Christ Alone)
Pastor Nathan Weller
October 15, 2017