Have you considered your riches lately?

“Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, worldaltering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.” ~ C. J. Mahaney

What is your motivation to proclaim the Gospel?

"... the more I understand why I preach. While there are many good and important motivations for preaching Christ which I keenly feel -- the salvation of the lost, the edification of God's people, the building-up of the Church -- none of them are really why I preach. I preach because there was a man who lived about 2000 years ago, who lived and taught, gathered a small band of disciples, died on a cross and rose again from the dead. He is uniquely exalted among all men who have ever lived in that He is God's true and unique Son. All that He did was as the One true Redeemer for a lost world. He is exalted in the heavens and reigns as Lord over all. I preach because He is my own Savior and Lord, because I want His name to be known among men and women, and because His glory is the greatest and highest of all causes in this world." ~ Rick Phillips

Are you sure Jesus loves you?

"When we think of Christ's dying on the cross we are shown the lengths to which God's love goes in order to win us to Himself. We would almost think that God loved us more than He loves His Son. We cannot measure His love by any other standard. He is saying to us, "I love you this much."

The cross is the heart of the gospel; it makes the gospel good news. Christ died for us; He has stood in our place before God's judgement seat; He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross which we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us." ~ Sinclair Ferguson

"But God commendeth (demonstrated) his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." ~ Romans 5:8

God loves the world - do you love people enough to tell them?

"We will not be disposed to invite wayward transgressors to Christ, or reason with them, or bring to them the overtures of the gospel, unless we are convinced that God is favorably disposed to them. Only if we are genuinely persuaded that He will have them to be saved are we likely to make the effort. If God does not love them it is hardly likely that we will make it our business to love them. Especially is this the case when there is so much that is repulsive in the ungodliness and sinfulness of Christ-rejecters." ~ Erroll Hulse

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." ~ 2 Peter 3:9

Can you know the Real God?

The Lie

"One of the best-known names in filmmaking for children is that of the late Walt Disney. By bringing to life such great children’s stories as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Pinocchio, Disney promoted the idea that all of your hopes and dreams would come true if you simply wished hard enough, worked hard enough, or received a little help from an outside source – like a fairy godmother.

It was not altogether a bad message, providing we understand that Disney dealt with fairy tales. But it implied that some kind of benevolent force or power exists out there to make our wishes come true. This is an extermely childlike approach to the reality of life; but unconsciously, it has become modern America’s standard understanding of God; that He exists only to make our dreams come true.

That, of course, is a lie. God does not exist to make our dreams come true. Nor does He exist so that we may be fulfilled or happy.

But, you may ask, “Doesn’t God love me so much that Jesus His Son died for me?” Yes, absolutely. God’s love is not the issue. It is our self-image that is the problem: we think we deserve God’s love, believing we are special.

The apostle Paul wrote, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). The point of this verse is not merely God’s love, but our sin. God loves us despite our sin and the fact that we are sinners. To skip over this aspect of the gospel is to embrace a lie about ourselves that contends we are basically good, merely a little off track; but with God’s help, we can make our dreams come true. This idea is truly a fairy tale."

~ Herb Hirt

How do you know you are saved?

Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." ~ John 10:27-28

Sincerity is not sufficient

Is it enough to “believe in Jesus” in some amorphous sense that divorces “faith” from any particular doctrine about Him, or is doctrine—and the content of our faith—really important after all?

Scripture plainly teaches that we must be sound in the faith—which is to say that doctrine does matter (1 Tim. 4:6; 2 Tim. 4:2-3; Tit. 1:9; 2:1). It matters a lot.

“If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing” (1 Tim. 6:3-4, emphasis added).

Sound, biblical doctrine is a necessary aspect of true wisdom and authentic faith. The attitude that scorns doctrine while elevating feelings or blind trust cannot legitimately be called faith at all, even if it masquerades as Christianity. It is actually an irrational form of unbelief.

God holds us accountable for what we believe as well as how we think about the truth He has revealed. All Scripture testifies to the fact that God wants us to know and understand the truth. He wants us to be wise. His will is that we use our minds. We are supposed to think, meditate, and above all, to be discerning.

The content of our faith is crucial. Sincerity is not sufficient.

~ John MacArthur

The difference between religion and the Gospel

Religion says, if I obey, God will love me.
Gospel says, because God loves me, I can obey.
Religion has good people & bad people.
Gospel has only repentant and unrepentant people.
Religion values a birth family.
Gospel values a new birth.
Religion depends on what I do.
Gospel depends on what Jesus has done.
Religion claims that sanctification justifies me.
Gospel claims that justification enables sanctification.
Religion has the goal to get from God.
Gospel has the goal to get God.
Religion sees hardships as punishment for sin.
Gospel sees hardship as sanctified affliction.
Religion is about me.
Gospel is about Jesus.
Religion believes appearing as a good person is the key.
Gospel believes that being honest is the key.
Religion has an uncertainty of standing before God.
Gospel has certainty based upon Jesus' work.
Religion sees Jesus as the means.
Gospel sees Jesus as the end.
Religion ends in pride or despair.
Gospel ends in humble joy.

~ Mark Driscoll



Are you trusting in your religion or the Gospel?


"...What must I do to be saved? ...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved..." ~ Acts 16:3o-31

Justification (how does man become right with God) by Faith

"But to him that worketh not (does not trust in their works to be right with God), but believeth on him (God, and specifically His Son who died on the cross and rose again for sinners) that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." ~ Rom 4:5

"For he (God the Father) hath made him (The Lord Jesus Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (the righteousness of Christ is put to our account)." ~ 2 Cor 5:21

"That if thou shalt confess (agree) with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (that Jesus is Lord), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (freed from the penalty of your sin, and clean from the filth of sin). For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (declared righteous and at peace with God)." ~ Rom 10:9-10

Decisional Regeneration?

What is Justification by Faith?

Are you trusting in your morality?

"Morality may keep you out of jail,

but it takes the blood of Jesus to keep you out of hell."

~ Charles Spurgeon

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,

to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,

through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:

that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded.

By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith

without the deeds of the law. ~ Rom 3:23-28

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