(Colossians 2:3) In Jesus Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge of God.

Throughout history, humans have attempted to describe and explain God through the abstract speculations of our minds and the self-projections of our emotions and experiences, which have only resulted in thousands of idols created in our human image.

The problem with these “I will find God experiments” is that the God of the Bible is holy transcendent, and is what one theologian calls “Totally Other.”

This simply means that God Almighty is unknowable through our human efforts.

He is not a toy for fallen humans to play around with, or a block of clay for humans to mold into our image.

The unique Christian knowledge of God is not the product of human effort, it is based totally and completely on the truth that God in his love has revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ.

The unknowable God has made himself know to us. It is only through Jesus Christ that we can truly know God, all other roads lead to idolatry.

As Colossians 2:3 tells us, “In Jesus Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge of God.” In his incarnation, Jesus—fully God and fully man—did not simply descend to earth to give us knowledge about God, but he came to give us knowledge from within God as the eternal Word (Logos), for only God can know God within his own being.

God’s self-knowledge and self-revelation in Jesus Christ is described in John 1-2, 14 reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Sometimes it is hard to convince Christians that the inner knowledge of God (the entire Gospel) is found in and through Jesus Christ alone, period.

It is true that the outworking of theological topics are more complex, but the central truth of the Christian faith is really not that complicated to understand—it is Jesus Christ.

It is who Jesus is (the self-revelation of God), and it is what Jesus has done for us (his salvation for us). The problem is some Christians often think there needs to be more to knowing God than Jesus.

Let me emphasize again, the centrality of Jesus Christ is the solid rock on which we believe and live, nothing else.

Yes, we must grow up and mature in Jesus, but we must never replace him as our only way to relationally know God. As Jesus proclaimed in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Let’s keep the main thing, the main thing.

I will close with this: We must honor our Christian leaders and pastors; we must be dedicated and participate in the fellowship of our churches; but we must never forget that it is Jesus alone—no pastor or church—who is the mediator between us and God.

Jesus can’t be replaced by anyone or anything.

I encourage us to take some time and evaluate your Christian life and answer the following questions:

Has the central focus of your faith become too complicated?

Have you added a bunch of religious stuff on top of Jesus?

Is Jesus still the functioning center of your faith?

Have you taken your eye off the main thing?