2 Things to Study to show yourself approved... Pt 2

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John 3:17

2nd Corinthians 5:18-19.


Year ago, i was doing some street preaching/witnessing, and i was in a park in downtown Pensacola, Fl. This was nighttime, and there was a man sitting alone on a bench and i struck up a conversation about the bible with him and he asked me.....

""Do you know what John 3:17 says..???? As everyone knows what John 3:16 says...""

So, lets look at that verse and 2 others... that are the best explanation of the Finished work of Christ, as the Gospel...what it means.

John 3:17 : "" For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.'"


Notice that Jesus didnt come to condemn, .. he came to forgive, save, redeem. = "the world (not just the elect) so that they might be saved..

Why "might be"? Its because you have to choose it.. You have to choose for yourself what God has finished on the Cross, 2000 yrs ago,= this offer of Eternal Salvation.
It is available to the "world" (not just the elect)....BUT, to have it applied to you, .. you have to Believe in Jesus. (Justification by faith).. "Faith is counted as Righteousness".
You give God your faith in Christ and God will Give you "the Gift of Salvation", and "the Gift of Righteousness".

Now, we, the born again, (not just the water baptized), have a mission, a calling, a ministry.
Even if you are not called into the Ministry, you are still chosen by spiritual adoption (born again) to tell the world about Jesus.
Thats a fact.

Here is the ministry that you have, Saint.....if you are born again, Spiritually, and not just water baptized playing a religious game with yourself and others.
You are to tell the world : this GOSPEL..

2nd Corinthians 5:18-19

18: ""And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to US (the born again) > the = ministry of reconciliation.""

19: ""To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses (sin) unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.""

Saint.....Notice that this Gospel Minstiry, is to tell people that God has come as Christ to reconcile them to Himself, based on the CROSS. And God is not charging their sins to them, if they will believe in Jesus ...if they will give God their FAITH IN CHRIST..

See that?
And you are to be that Minister of this Gospel message.....you are "committed with this word of reconciliation"...this Gospel of Grace..... which is "the preaching of the Cross".

You are this Minister if you are born again, and God has committed to you this ministry of sharing this OFFER of Reconciliation to the WORLD..

That's your ministry, that started the instant you are born again.

God bless you and help you to do it.
 
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