What Is It To Preach The Gospel?
\nPsalm 130:5-6
\nThe Apostle Paul said, \u201cThough I preach the gospel, I have nothing to
\nglory of\u201d (I Cor. 9:16). What is it to preach the gospel? Is everybody
\npreaching the gospel? Regrettably no! It would be great if all the
\nchurches everywhere did preach the gospel, but this certainly is not the
\ncase. Preaching the gospel involves telling the truth as it is revealed
\nin the Holy Scriptures. Telling the truth about God, man, Jesus Christ,
\nand salvation; lets take a closer look at those four things.
\nTELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD!
\nGod is not who we think He is, He is who He is as revealed in the
\nscriptures. All men by nature have an incorrect and false notion about
\nthe true and living God. The God that is revealed in scripture is
\nabsolutely HOLY. \u201cWho shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name?
\nFor thou only art holy\u201d (Rev. 15.4). God is also sovereign in all things
\n(Psalm 135.6). Divine sovereignty simply means that God is God, beside
\nHim there is none else. God is also immutable in all His attributes and
\nactions (Mal. 3: 6). All that He is today, He has been, and ever will be
\n(Heb. 13: 8). He is the etemal I AM (John 8: 24).
\nTELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT MAN!
\nMen don\u2019t like to hear the truth about God nor about themselves. But we
\nmust be faithful to God and His word. Man is the exact opposite of
\neverything that God is. He is holy, we are unholy. He is omnipotent, we
\nare impotent and frail. He is unchanging, we change all the time. The
\ntruth is, man is fallen, totally depraved, sinful in all thoughts,
\nactions, and dead in sin (Rom. 3:9-19).
\nTELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS CHRIST!
\nWho is Jesus Christ? Fully and totally almighty God, and fully and
\ntotally a real man (I Tim 3:16). What did He accomplish? He is the
\nGod-Man Mediator sent of God to effectually and eternally redeem His
\npeople from all their sin (Heb. 9.12, Matt. 1:2 1). He did not fail to
\nsecure the eternal salvation of His blood-bought people (Isa. 42:4; John
\n19:30).
\nTELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT SALVATION!
\nEvery aspect of salvation from the beginning in election (I Thes. 2:13);
\nto the end in glorification (Rom. 8.30), is of the Lord.
\nSalvation is all of grace not of works (Eph. 2:8-9)!
\nTom Harding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What Is It To Preach The Gospel? Psalm 130:5-6 The Apostle Paul said, \u201cThough I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of\u201d (I Cor. 9:16). What is it to preach the gospel? Is everybody preaching the gospel? Regrettably no! It would be great if all the churches everywhere did preach the gospel, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding","category-gospel-preaching","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}