Reading Ephesians 3:7-8 from the Amplified Bible gives us a clearer picture of what the Gospel REALLY looks like! Read this, then ask yourself if THIS is what YOU are presenting when you share the Gospel with people!
7 Of this [Gospel] I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s free grace (undeserved favor) which was bestowed on me by the exercise (the working in all its effectiveness) of His power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints (God’s consecrated people), this grace (favor, privilege) was granted and graciously entrusted: to proclaim to the Gentiles the unending (boundless, fathomless, incalculable, and exhaustless) riches of Christ [wealth which no human being could have searched out],
When we receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, we do NOT simply receive a "stay out of hell" card! We are made a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), we join a new family (1 John 3:1), we become heirs of God and EQUAL heirs with JESUS (Roman 8:17), we are given authority over all the power of the enemy (Matthew 28:18; Luke 10:19), we are given the use of HIS Name, that is above every other name (Philippians 3:9-11; Acts 3:6), we have the Spirit of God living IN us (1 Corinthians 3:16), we CAN be FILLED with the Spirit of God and be endued with HIS power (Ephesians 5:18; Luke 24:49), we can speak the Word and He will confirm it (Mark 16:20), we can lay hands on the sick and they will recover (Mark 16:17), we can have AND enjoy HIS Life (zoe) in abundance (John 10:10 AMP), we can speak to mountains (or mountains of problems!) and see them removed (Mark 11:23) we can store up rewards in Heaven (Matthew 16:20), AND have Heaven as our home country both now (Philippians 3:20) and in the life to come (2 Corinthians 5:1)! And THAT is just the beginning of all that HE has prepared for us (1 Corinthians 2:9)! Now, ask yourself again: Is THIS the Gospel that I have been presenting! If it is, then WELL DONE! If it is not, then make the adjustments! Who would ever reject such a wonderful and blessed gift! Remember, Jesus NEVER went around telling the lost about their sin, but about HIS Life! THAT is the Gospel that His Love provides! John 3:16-17:
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. AMP
AMEN! Now, to motivate you further in sharing the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ, here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Wake":
Shalom in Him!
