First Timothy 3 16. This is the word of the Lord. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh. Justified. In the spirit. seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory. Thus far, the reading of God's holy word. God is righteous. God is just. His righteousness is part of his unchanging goodness. God is never righteous only for today, but unrighteous tomorrow. There's there's this alwaysness. There's an unchangingness to the righteousness of God. Righteousness is part of the very intrinsic being of God. So what can you compare the righteousness of God to? Who's a God like our God? Always doing what is right and just and never making judgments that are unfair or judgments of inequity. God measures out justice on perfect balances. He proportions his righteousness on flawless scales. He always acquits the innocent. He never fails to deal justly with the guilty. His actions are perpetually righteous. So when you try to picture this, what can we compare the righteousness of God? The Bible says, well, you have to go to something very gigantic. You compare the righteousness of God to like the highest mountains that you can think of. The righteousness of God is like the mighty mountains, Psalm 36. So if we were to climb up the maroon bell peaks near Aspen, which are actually not very safe to climb, if we were to go slowly and very carefully up the snow fields and maybe use safety ropes in the goalies where people die when they're climbing the peaks, if we were to make it to the height, the summit of the maroon bells and look down, and see the vast Rocky Mountain valleys beneath and feel that the air is kind of thin and it's hard to breathe because we're so high. If we were to do that, we would only have a hint at how high the righteousness of God is. Or God's word in the same psalm says God's righteousness is deep. It's as if you go out on a sailboat into the middle of the dark blue ocean and you peer out into the deep waters. You look over the edge of the boat and look down into the deep, deep waters. When you look down, you only get a glimpse of God's, the depths of God's righteousness, how deep it is. If you're rocking on the waves on the boat and smelling the salty air of the sea. And then if you were to take a large somehow be able to lift up a large boulder and drop it off of the side of the sailboat and watch the boulder sink down, down into the depths of the abyss. You'd only have a hint at the depths of the righteousness of God. So that's the biblical language for it. Deuteronomy 32, 4 says God is righteous. He is the rock, Deuteronomy 32, 4. His work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of truth and without injustice, righteous and upright is he. Zephaniah 3, 5 says, The Lord is righteous. in her midst, in the midst of Jerusalem. He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He never fails. But the unjust knows no shame. So God is righteous, but the world, here's the problem, the world is constantly impugning the righteousness of God. The world is constantly accusing God of not being righteous. of being wrong or bad or evil in what he says or commands or proclaims. And this is because the world is constantly accusing Christ, the Christ of Scripture, of being unrighteous. Christ was falsely accused and falsely condemned by the world. Jesus has to defend himself. Of course, I mean, he's not scared, but... For the sake of truth, he pronounces the defense in John 5.30. He says, I can of myself do nothing, as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous. Because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the father who sent me. And if you look at that very carefully, what Jesus is doing is he's linking his own righteousness to the righteousness of the father. In other words, if you condemn Jesus and call him unrighteous, then you're condemning the father and you're calling the father unrighteous. But the world does not believe those words of Christ. The world hears the words of Christ preached, the gospel preached and calls it unrighteous. According to the world, the fiery judgments of Christ, all the pronouncements of Christ, even just the Christ of the Gospels are bigoted, hateful, intolerant, uneducated and dangerous. The world condemns Christ as unrighteous, and so the world crucified Christ. There are two things, I think, going on there. When the world calls the righteousness of Christ into question, there are two things that are going on. One is that the world fails to see that whenever the righteousness of Christ is scorned, the righteousness of God is scorned. The world fails to see that. The world says, well, I can worship God and scorn Christ and I can do both. The world has failed to see the connection. And then the second thing that's going on, I think, is that the church The church has failed to see that the Bible is not centered on the justification of man, but rather on the justification of God. That's the center. The Bible speaks to the justification of man, but the center of the Bible is the justification of God. In other words, if God cannot be justified, If it cannot be truthfully declared that God is righteous, God's righteousness is vindicated, God's goodness is vindicated, if that cannot happen, then man cannot be justified. There's no salvation for man if God is not righteous. The justification of God in the Bible must precede the justification of man, or you could say the righteousness of God must precede the righteousness of man, or just to put it in simple terms that a child can understand. If we can't establish the fact that God is good. Then there's no hope for salvation for man. 1 Timothy 3.16 then says, an undeniable confession, literally, great is the mystery of godliness. It's an undeniable confession. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was revealed in the flesh. And then the apostle says, justified in the spirit. That's not the justification of man. That's the justification of God. God was justified in the Spirit. So, the main issue is God's righteousness. Is God good? Is God righteous or not? Is God good or is God evil? And the Bible, of course, is unambiguous about that question. There's no gray area here. Psalm 19, 9, the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. There's no, absolutely no question. Psalm 51, 4 says against you, God, you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight that you may be found. Righteous, just when you speak and blameless when you judge. So it's all to affirm the righteousness of God. Here's the problem, though, that the Jewish scribes and the Jewish leaders thought that they could worship the God of Israel and call him righteous and at the same time deny the righteousness of Jesus. We worship the God of the temple, but we condemn Christ. They thought they could simultaneously affirm that God is righteous and at the same time say that Christ is unrighteous. They wrongly believe that it was OK to call God good while they simultaneously called Jesus evil. And they did. Matthew 11, 19, this is what they call them. They call him, look, they say, look, a glutton and a wine giver, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. They condemned him, John 8, 48. This is what the Jewish leaders and scribes said about Jesus. They said they ask him, do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan and have a demon? That's how they looked at Jesus. Mark 14, 63 through 64, then the high priest tore his clothes and said, what further need do we have of any witnesses? You've heard the blasphemy. What do you think? Here's the judgment. And they all condemned him to be deserving of death. That's the problem. The problem is the world wants to say God is good, but Christ is evil. But in the glory of the gospel, when Christ is crucified, God is justified. The cross proves the righteousness of God to the world. In other words, if the question at hand is, is God righteous? The answer that God gives to that question is the cross of his son. Let me show you the logic, Romans 3, 25 to 26, the apostle Paul speaks of Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith to in order to demonstrate his righteousness. That's why he sent Jesus to the cross. Because in his forbearance, God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. And then secondly, to demonstrate at the present time his righteousness. That he might be just. That he is righteous. And the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. So let's try to follow the logic there. It's a little bit complicated. Here's the apostle, the blessed apostles logic. The logic is God cannot be righteous. and acquit sinners on a whim. It's not possible. He cannot say a holy God cannot say you sinned against me, but I'll just overlook it. This is how the apostles thinking in Romans three sin is so evil and horrible. In the presence of a righteous God. That he cannot dismiss it by slapping us on the wrist. Instead, Romans 3, the wages of sin is death. There must be death, because God is righteous. So, God must punish sin. And God must not just punish sin. He must, as a holy God, He must punish sin to the death. lest he be found unrighteous. And which raises the problem, well then, how can God justify sinners? And the answer to that problem is the cross. It's at the cross where God punishes sin to the death so that God can be shown to be righteous. But also, the logic also includes this, that Christ himself must be righteous. Christ on the cross must be righteous so that his death is valuable enough to pay for our sins. In other words, if Christ is a sinner and goes to the cross, there's no hope for us. There's no atonement. Christ himself must be righteous, which means that before we can be made righteous because we were sinners, Christ must first be shown to be righteous. The justification of the sinless Christ. Must precede the justification of sinful man. So Christ has to be vindicated before man can ever be saved. And this is exactly what happens in the gospel. Listen to the prophet Isaiah. Spill it out a little more clearly. Isaiah, chapter 50, verses six through eight. First, the suffering of the Christ. I gave my back, Jesus says, to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who plucked out the beard. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help me. Therefore, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I've set my face like a flint to the cross. And I know that I will not be ashamed. Why? Here's the answer. He, meaning his father, is near who justifies me. God, the father, justifies God, the son. The father proves the sinless righteousness of his son. He shows the world that his son is good and not evil. The father proves it and then proclaims it to the nations. But of course, the world doesn't acknowledge this. This is the problem. The world doesn't agree with us that Christ is righteous. The world condemns Christ as an evil man. But the true offspring of God, the children of Christ, those who who are born of the spirit do proclaim it. It's the children of God who recognize it. They justify him. They say they look at the cross and they say he is righteous. And so the children of God are the ones who herald the sinless perfection of Christ to the world, as Jesus said in Matthew 11, 19, but wisdom is justified by her children. So, let's try to bring that down a little bit. When the world condemns Christ, the world condemns God. When Christ is justified by the Father, the Father is justified through His Son. If Christ is righteous, then the Father is righteous. In other words, it's inseparable. The goodness of Christ is inseparable from the goodness of the Father. You cannot condemn Christ and say you somehow worship the Father. And so this now brings the antithesis to the world, because the world condemns the biblical Christ today. Of course, the world likes to create false Christs, anti-Christs that are different than the biblical Christ, and the world will set those false Christs up as idols and then justify their idols But the biblical Christ, the Christ of Scripture, is the one the world condemns. The biblical Christ speaks. That's why the world condemns him. He speaks on the issue of marriage, that it's between one man and one woman. And so the world condemns the biblical Christ. The biblical Christ speaks to the issue of cohabitation. two church-going people who think it's okay to live together before marriage. And the biblical Christ has a lot to say about that, and so the world condemns him. He speaks to the issue of idolatry. He has some very specific things to say about religion, such as Buddhism. And so the world condemns him because his words are strong. The biblical Christ speaks to Darwinian thought and all the kinds of philosophies that dominate the universities, and so the world hates him and condemns him. But here's the thing, when the world condemns the biblical Christ and says that he's unrighteous, our job is to warn the world that if you condemn Christ, the Christ of Scripture, that is the true blasphemy. In condemning Christ, you're also condemning God. In saying that Christ is unrighteous or his words or his commandments are unrighteous, you're also saying that God is unrighteous. So God the Father justifies His Son before the world. He says at the baptism of Jesus, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. The Father declares Christ, His only begotten Son, to be righteous, and before those who tremble at His word, Christ is justified. I think that's somewhat of what the Apostle means, at least my best shot at what he means when he says, He was justified in the Spirit. But again, the world refuses to acknowledge it. The world gnashes its teeth at the teachings of Christ. The world says the teachings of Christ in Scripture are backwards and evil and ignorant. And so the world tries to condemn Him. And therefore, the Bible says that there's a coming justification of Christ. Since the world continues to try to condemn the Christ of Scripture, the Bible says Jesus will come in the future. And finally, at last, for all to see, he will be vindicated. The world will see the righteousness of Christ, but it will come with wrath. The wrath of the Lamb will come. The wrath of God will be expended upon those who condemned the Father's Son. And in this future outpouring of God's wrath upon the world, Christ will be justified. And when Christ is justified by pouring out his wrath upon the world, the Father will be justified. And all the world will know, either those who humbly repent and cry out before it happens, or those who try to condemn Christ to the bitter end. All the world will know that Christ is righteous. So how much do you care about God's name? How much do I care about the reputation of God in the world? Are we just trying to make a name for ourselves? Are we really concerned with God's righteousness and God's reputation in the world? Are we apathetic or are we passionate about the fact that many people try to condemn the righteousness of our Lord in the world? Do we go to the point of tears in trying to declare that our God is righteous and defend His righteousness before a hostile world? So that just gives us a little bit, I think, of understanding about what the Apostle means when he says, God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the Spirit. Christ must be righteous or else there's no hope for sinful man. But then the question is, what about sinful man? If Christ is righteous and the Bible says so, We still have sinful man who's born sinful. He's born unrighteous. He grows up in unrighteousness. And so is there any hope for sinful man before a righteous God? That's the next question. And I think first Timothy 316 does indeed apply to sinful man and undeniable confession. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit. I think that applies to sinful man. So we've said already, Our justification depends upon God's justification. Christ must be righteous or we have no hope, but we've already said that Christ is righteous. So here I think we need to pause and acknowledge that prior to being born again and made new, we were very much unrighteous and unholy. I think it's good to remind ourselves that previously we were not good, but evil. Psalm 143, 2, Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight, God, no one living is righteous. And then we remind ourselves that there are unbelievers who worship other gods. Even if they're atheists, I think, they worship other gods. Call them different names. And those gods are false. They cannot create the heavens and the earth. They cannot justify sinful man. They can't predict the future with perfect foreknowledge. And so the gods of the nations, the false gods that we used to worship, cannot be justified. Isaiah 43, 9. Let all the nations be gathered together, let all the peoples be assembled, who among them can declare this and show us the former things? Who can predict the future? Who can tell us of the past with perfect accuracy? Let them bring out their witnesses that they may be justified. And of course, the prophets saying they cannot, they cannot be justified. Their false gods cannot be justified. Unbelievers try to justify themselves. They declare themselves to be righteous, but it's a false justification. This is justification by self. And Jesus condemns it. He says, Luke 16, 15, he said to them, you are those, speaking to unbelievers, you are those who justify yourselves. before men, but God knows your hearts for what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. So you've got this false salvation in the world in terms of self-justification. I'll just declare myself by the authority of my false gods to be righteous. That's false. And then and then there's a second type of false salvation for sinful man. There are those who justify themselves in the name of Christianity. But they do so falsely. They claim Christ for themselves, but they make a false claim. They think that if they have the mantra of salvation, I've just, you know, I've got the I'm in the club, I've got the card, I know the mantra, grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone. If I can say the mantra. Then I'm saved, I'm justified. But for them, the ones who do not have the spirit of God, Their profession is a false profession. Their trust in the mantra is a false trust. They have not been born again. They are not justified. And the evidence of this is their lack of obedience to the commandments of Christ. Romans 2.13 For not the hearers of the law are just, are justified in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified. Or James 2.24, you see then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. So now, of course, I need to clarify that we are not saved by works. It cannot be saved by works. To try to obtain salvation by works is futile and foolish and proud. But our works justify our claim to saving faith. So if we claim to have saving faith, that claim will only be justified on Judgment Day based upon the works of the Holy Spirit that Christ wrought in our lives. That is, if you have the Holy Spirit and have been born again through the Spirit, you will be justified and vindicated with your claim by the evidence of your works. So people either have this false self-justification or they even try to justify themselves in the name of Christianity, but many of them are not true Christians. So what's the real way? How then can sinful man ever be justified before a holy God, before such a righteous God? Can he be justified at all, or is he just always condemned? And of course, the biblical answer is there's only one way for sinful man. There's absolutely no other. There can only be one way for sinful man to be justified, and it is by faith in him. Acts 13, 38 to 39. Therefore, let it be known to you, brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins and by him. Everyone who believes is justified. From all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses and when the reformers Martin Luther and those kinds of guys read that kind of a verse, they called this justification by faith." That was a good term. They got it from places like Romans 5.1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ or Galatians 3.11. But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident for, now he quotes the prophet Habakkuk, the just shall live by faith. So here's how this works. The justification of man depends upon the justification of God. If Christ is not righteous, man cannot be saved, but since Christ is righteous, we can be justified through faith in him. And that last part, in Him, is not expendable. It's not just faith in faith. It's not an objectless faith. It's faith in His righteousness, in the righteousness of Christ. He was righteous, and yet bearing the weight of our sins upon the cross. Our sins became His sins upon the cross. His righteousness became our righteousness through the cross. He who knew no sin became sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. Therefore, since Christ is righteous, we too can be justified in Him. Or that's complicated again, so let's bring it down. Since Christ is righteous, Former sinners can be made righteous. You receive this gift of a foreign righteousness. Christ gives us his own righteousness. And it's credited to our account through faith in him. So, in other words, our faith depends upon His righteousness. It's not an empty faith. It's not faith in faith. It's faith in His righteousness. We don't put our faith in faith, our faith trusts in His righteousness. All of our faith must rest upon Christ's righteousness, so much so that if it can be proved that Christ is not righteous, then we're hopeless. If Christ is not righteous upon the cross and righteous before the empty tomb, as he stands victoriously, then we're dead in our sins. Only Christ, the righteous one, is able to save sinners from their sins. So then here's the gospel that we give to people, but Christ is righteous. He is risen from the dead in perfect righteousness. Therefore. Even the worst of sinners has hope. You say, I'm condemned. I feel justly condemned, my sins are so bad, I've hurt so many people. And I stand before God and I know that I am unworthy to ever look upon his lovely face. If you say that. There's much hope for you. Because Christ is righteous. Not because you're righteous, but because he is. He, the righteous one, became sin for you upon the cross so that by faith in him, you can be declared righteous before God. He wore your sinful rags. So that by faith in him, you can wear his righteous robes. In Christ, you can be justified before God by faith in Christ. You can be declared righteous, declared on the basis of his righteousness, not your own on judgment day. So in other words, when you stand before the judgment seat of God. By the by the basis of Christ's righteousness. The father looks down upon you and instead of seeing your wretchedness, he declares you to be righteous. That's the only hope for wicked sinners like me. And it's an astounding hope. But how does it actually happen? I mean, this has been very hard to grasp. How does it actually happen? How does the Father, God the Father, actually justify God the Son? How does he actually, in real human history, declare and prove Christ to be righteous? How does it actually happen? And the answer to that is found in the Creed. 1 Timothy 3.16 says, An undeniable confession. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was revealed in the flesh. And then the apostle says, Justified in the Spirit, that's how it actually happens in real human history. The Spirit of God is he who justifies. The Holy Spirit justifies Christ. Justification comes only by the Spirit of the Lord, which is why the prophet Micah, when he's standing before all the false prophets and everybody's wondering, well, who's telling the truth? Is it Micah or is it the false prophets? Micah stands up and says in Micah 3, 8, But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord. And of justice and might to declare to Jacob his transgression and Israel his sin. It's the spirit who vindicates him as the prophet of God. The spirit of God justifies the words of the prophet and the spirit also justifies the words of Jesus. That's why Jesus says in Matthew 12, 28, But if I cast out demons by The Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. If the mark of the Spirit is upon it, it's justified. But how so? How does the Holy Spirit justify Christ in real tangible history, something I can smell and see and touch? How does the Spirit of God demonstrate the righteousness of Christ? And the answer to that question is through resurrection. Christ is justified by the Holy Spirit through resurrection in real human history. Romans 1, 1-4, Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, which he promised before through his prophets and the Holy Scriptures, concerning his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who is born of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God, so he's vindicated or justified with power according to the spirit of holiness. So see the spirit justifies by. The resurrection from the dead. That's how it happens in real, tangible human history. It's by the resurrection. Romans 8.11 calls the Holy Spirit the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead. That's the justification of Christ. 1 Peter 3.18 says it's the work of the Spirit. For Christ also suffered once for sin, the just for the unjust. Again, the righteousness of Christ for the unrighteous that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh. Here's how it happens in real, tangible human history, made alive as resurrection by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit justified Christ, declared the perfect righteousness of Christ by raising him from the dead. That's historical. That's real history. And it's by the Spirit. And therefore, God's Spirit is He who justifies. So an unbeliever takes exception with you. You're having a conversation about ethics or religion or whatever, and an unbeliever gets upset with you. You're talking about one of the issues of the day, and you say that Jesus says this and the unbeliever says that. And the unbeliever gets really mad and says, How do you justify that? How dare you say that? How do you justify yourself? And you respond, thinking about First Timothy 3.16, by saying, I myself do not justify what I say. I dare not. The Holy Spirit justifies what I say. He raised Christ from the dead in real human history. And therefore, he's justified. He literally the Holy Spirit literally breathed the Bible into existence. So the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through the Bible is what justifies what I have to say. And then, of course, the unbeliever is going to come back and say, you've lost your mind. You're out of your mind. You're going to say that you're going to go up against all the latest psychological research and the scholarly consensus that dominates the universities and even the popular vote of the American citizenship. And you're going to say that you're going to justify your hateful view based upon an appeal to the Holy Spirit's inspiration of the Bible. And he's going to say that's shameful. Let your Bible be anathema and let true human rationality and civility win the day. That's what the unbeliever says. But what he doesn't realize is that in saying that, he's actually blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is He who justifies Christ. The Holy Spirit is He who justifies the children of God. He alone justifies because He is the Spirit of the living God. So, in the church, We need to tremble. We've done a poor job in the church of trembling at the words of God. The spirit of the living God breathed the words of God in the Bible, and it's he who justifies the words of God, the commandments of God in the gospel. And so I think we need to repent in the church of all the ways that we've failed to tremble before his holy word. In other words, what do you do in your soul when you come up into this conflict between God's word and the words of man? When you're reading the scriptures and you know that what the scriptures say are in complete conflict with everything the world is saying and you're tempted to doubt or twist or tweak because you don't want it to say that because you know the conflict that's involved. When the world tries to make God's word sound backwards and ignorant and unjust. What do you do in your soul? Are you concerned about yourself being justified before the world? Or are you concerned about the justification of Christ? Through the word inspired by the spirit. And if you find yourself if you ever find yourself doubting. Is it true? Is it really true? Can I trust every word on every page? Do you really say it? Is it really true? It just it's so hard to believe right now. The way out of that doubt. Is the real tangible historical proof. Of the justification of Christ by the spirit. He was raised. He is risen. The tomb was empty. They could not find the body because the body was raised and Christ Jesus appeared victorious. And was vindicated, and therefore his word is true and you can trust it. Who justifies our Lord Jesus Christ? Who declares his righteousness to the nations? The answer through the apostle Paul is the spirit does. He was justified in the spirit. The spirit of God raised him from the dead and thus justified him before the nations. So think, then, upon what this means that Christ was justified in the spirit. Is Jesus good? Or evil. Are his commandments righteous or unrighteous? Is he just or unjust? The Spirit of the Living God justified him, and he did so with power. He rolled away the gigantic stone in front of his tomb. He broke the cords of death that bound him. The Holy Spirit inflicted a mortal wound upon the head of Satan when he raised Christ from the dead, and he raised up the Son of God with this earth-shaking power. And when he did it, the reason why he did it was to declare to the world that Christ is righteous. And yet the world continues to mock and to scorn the righteousness of Christ. So, therefore, think lastly upon the coming justification of God. If the world mocks it and scorns it now, then just reach into the future by faith. Think of the sky receding and being rolled up like a scroll. Think of the heavens opening up and Christ Jesus descending upon the clouds with radiant and fearful glory. Think of this heavenly army full of angels and saints coming to execute judgment upon the earth. See in your hearts the coming vengeance of Christ, taking vengeance upon the nations for the blood of all the prophets and all the apostles and all of the saints that has been shed. Here in your hearts, the blaring trumpet blast. Announcing the great day of the wrath of the land. And then. Here's the joy of the Christian. Think upon with joyful musings the gathering of the saints around the victorious throne of Christ. Think upon the joyful shout of the seemingly countless multitudes of saints in heaven, crying out with one voice, He is righteous! Christ is righteous! Just and true are His judgments. Consider with joyful trembling how there in heaven we shall see with our own eyes the righteousness of God. It gives us much to pray about as we approach the table this morning. Before we do so, here's the doxology. Praise be to God, our Father. Who is righteous in all that he does. And just in all of his ways. Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ, who has Himself been justified, and who justifies the ungodly through repentance and faith in His name. And praise be to the Holy Spirit, who has justified our Lord with power by raising Him from the dead. Thank you for joining us for the preaching of the Holy Scriptures. You can find more resources at our website, www.GodCenteredUniverse.org. You may also send correspondence to us at the following address, PO Box 461978, Aurora, Colorado, 80046. God Centered Universe is a faith-driven ministry that exists to encourage the Church in family-based discipleship. and to call the church to continue trembling joyfully at God's word.