Crossroads Bible Church Podcast

How did Jesus function when He walked the earth — and what does that mean for us today? In this message, Chad Everett walks us through Luke 4, Luke 9, Philippians 2, and 2 Corinthians 4 to answer a crucial question: How did Jesus operate — and how are we meant to live now? Jesus was fully God. Yet He chose to empty Himself of divine privilege and function as a man anointed by the Holy Spirit. He moved in dunamis (power) and exusia (authority), not independently, but in submission to the Father through the Spirit. He did not operate from self. He operated from relationship. Then He gave that authority to His disciples. This message centers on one powerful truth from 2 Corinthians 4: 7: “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” The authority of Christ is not distant. It is not something we are waiting to fall from heaven. It is the reality of Christ dwelling within us. The question is not whether the treasure is present. The question is whet