Knowing That You Know The Gospel
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1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
1. Your Ministry is to Proclaim the Gospel
1. Your Ministry is to Proclaim the Gospel
EXP.
20 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, 21 but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”
16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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2. The Gospel has purpose
2. The Gospel has purpose
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
- Paul wants his preaching to have purpose (not in vain)
EXP:
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
God’s Righteousness revealed in the finished work of Christ
Right standing before God by God
Boast in Christ alone!
12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
without the Gospel there is no hope for the wrath of God to be spared against your rebellion and hatred toward Him
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
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APP:
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You share the Gospel because you have been given life through it. God gave you life, you boast in Him and Him alone