THE GOSPEL—GOOD NEWS

 

IT WAS BAD NEWS WHEN I HEARD I WAS LOST, GOING TO HELL.

 

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

 

 I..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS LOVED ME

  1 John 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us.

  John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

II..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS WOULD SAVE ME.

  Rom 10:9  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Rom 10:10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

 

Rom 10:13  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

 

John 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

 

III..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS WOULD KEEP ME.

  1 Pet 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

 

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

 

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

 

IV..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS WOULD FORGIVE ALL SINS.

  Acts 13:38  Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Acts 13:39  And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

 

1 John 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

 

V..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS WAS PREPARING A NEW HOME FOR ME..

  John 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 

2 Cor 5:1  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

 

VI..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD JESUS WAS COMING AGAIN.

 

1 Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1 Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1 Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

Heb 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

 

VII..  IT WAS GOOD NEWS WHEN I HEARD I COULD SHARE THIS GOOD NEWS WITH OTHERS.

 

Luke 8:39  Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

John 4:28  The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

John 4:29  Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

John 4:39  And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.