Do You Share God's Word With Everyone You Know?

Sharing the Gospel

If you learn anything from this study, let it be this. You belong to God. You must do His will. You stand accountable to God for your deeds. No one will take your place in the great day of judgement. No one should have to do your job.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NKJV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, {9} not of works, lest anyone should boast. {10} For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (NKJV)
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, {2} by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you; unless you believed in vain. {3} For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, {4} and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

It is necessary that we teach others, because they are in the same condition that we used to be in. We were once lost in sin.

Isaiah 53:6 (NKJV)
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 59:2 (NKJV)
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

Romans 3:10-26 (NKJV)
As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; {11} There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. {12} They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." {13} "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; {14} "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." {15} "Their feet are swift to shed blood; {16} Destruction and misery are in their ways; {17} And the way of peace they have not known." {18} "There is no fear of God before their eyes." {19} Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. {20} Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. {21} But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, {22} even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; {23} for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, {24} being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, {25} whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, {26} to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Revelation 20:15 (NKJV)
And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Isaiah 64:6 (NKJV)
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

We were lost because of our own sins. We were not lost because of our parent's sins. We were not lost because of the sin of Adam. We were not lost because of the Jews who crucified Him. We were lost and God knew it. Therefore God did something about it. When we realized that we were lost, we had to do something about it. We had to make some changes in our life. When we obeyed the Gospel, we were cleansed from our sins. We were restored to a relationship with God. We became children of God. We accepted our responsibilities. We need to know that we must be like Jesus. We need to know that we must have the same love for souls that He had.

1 Timothy 1:15 (NKJV)
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Matthew 1:21 (NKJV)
"And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."

Luke 1:77 (NKJV)
To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,

Now that we are children of God and have a love for other peoples souls, we must do something about it. We must remain in this relationship with God. This is done by learning and doing His will.

Isaiah 52:11 (NKJV)
Depart! Depart! Go out from there, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the LORD.

Psalms 51:13 (NKJV)
Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.

Acts 8:35 (NKJV)
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.

Acts 17:2 (NKJV)
Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 18:28 (NKJV)
for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

We have a responsibility to ourselves to remain pure. We also have a responsibility to God to maintain purity. Purity in our lives and purity in the Church. We also must teach the Gospel. Like Paul, we must learn the scriptures that we can reason from them. We have to learn book, chapter, and verse.

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