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Thursday, May 3, 2012

“Resurrecting the Great Commission”

(Part 2)

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

                                                                                                                                1 Corinthians 1:18

We learned, last week, that God’s chosen method for spreading the Gospel is through preaching. However, before we can take the Good News of Jesus Christ to the four corners of the earth, we have to know what the message is! What is the Gospel message?

On one occasion, after His resurrection, Jesus told His disciples:

This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

The core of the gospel message is centered on Christ! The gospel message includes proclaiming that Jesus suffered and died on Calvary’s cross, explaining that He died a sinner’s death in our place so that we might be forgiven. The Apostle Paul believed in this message so strongly that he wrote in                      1 Corinthians 1:23-24:

But we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews and a stumbling block to Gentiles, but to those who God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

 The gospel message includes proclaiming that after three days He conquered death, hell and the grave when He victoriously came out of the tomb to give us eternal life. The gospel message includes proclaiming the need for repentance as we were all born into sin, and because of our sinfulness we deserve death. We must repent and turn from our sins. The gospel message, also, includes forgiveness. We must turn to the Lord Jesus Christ confessing our sinfulness and ask Him to forgive us of our sins.

Jesus left His disciples with a very concise message! It is a message that is still desperately needed today. A message that you and I have been called to carry to a world that desperately needs salvation. A message, we have not only heard, but witnessed in our own lives.  I challenge you and leave you with this departing passage of Scripture from Romans 10:14-15:

How, then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Jesus concludes His ministry on this earth with this statement in Matthew 28:18-20:

“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

YOU HAVE BEEN SENT!

Pastor Scott Burr

http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com/

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