Go Share the Gospel Boldly: Christ Is With Us

You know, the gospel is good news, but it's only good news if it gets there in time. Our life is but a vapor. It's here today. It's gone tomorrow. God has given us this day. The bible says today is the day of salvation. We have one more week till Easter Sunday, the celebration where our savior conquered death, hell and the grave. The celebration where he gave us new life, where we truly have no fear in death and no guilt in life. So let's make sure that we share the gospel with one more week person this week. Let's pray. [01:09:54] (51 seconds)  #GospelInTime

Jesus says it so beautifully in verse eighteen, one of the mic drop moments of the bible, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. So we don't go in our own power, we go in Christ. We can share boldly because we don't go in our own authority, we go in his. When you put these two truths together, here is what we see. We're called to share with all and we can share boldly because Christ is with us. [01:04:51] (27 seconds)  #ShareBoldlyInChrist

Can I just encourage you guys to say one sentence to that person this week? It's just simple. It's not crazy. Hey, would you like to come with me to church for Easter? That's it. You don't know need to go into a fifty minute lecture on why Christianity is true. You don't need to you make it awkward, just invite them. You know, our responsibility in the great commission is not the results. Our responsibility is just a faithfulness, obedience and trust in what God has commanded us to do. [01:07:29] (28 seconds)  #JustInviteThem

You know scripture makes it clear there is none righteous, no not one. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we look at somebody else and think that they are too foregone to reach the gospel with, we have simply forgotten who we were before Christ reached us. The gospel is not a reward for the righteous, it's simply rescue for the guilty. We were not the judge in the courtroom, we were simply the ones who were guilty and got pardoned. [00:58:41] (26 seconds)  #GospelIsRescue

So who are we to look at another sinner and act like we are above them? Who are we to withhold the very message that saved our souls? If anything, our salvation guys should make us so much more eager to share with everybody around us because we should know that once was me. [00:59:08] (17 seconds)  #OnceWasMe

David understands understood something that we often forget. Victory did not depend on his weapons, who was fighting with him, his battle strategy. It depended on one simple thing, God's presence with him in the battle. Psalm one twenty seven one says, except the Lord builds the house, in vain the builders strive. And I love what Zechariah says in his book, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts. You know, throughout all of scripture, God has always worked for people who were humble enough to depend on him. [01:03:22] (31 seconds)  #DependOnGod

He chose average people like you and me for some people in this auditorium, below average people to share the greatest message the world has ever heard with everybody around us. So I think guys when we stop, you know, seeing the barriers and we just step into those moments of obedience, that's when we get to see God work in ways we never would have expected. You know, I can only imagine what an insult it is to God when in the quiet depths of our heart we say, God, I'm comfortable staying on the bench. [00:55:28] (29 seconds)  #GetOffTheBench

You know, one of my favorite quotes of all time, it goes like this, it says, we are all equal at the foot of the cross. Just think about that for a second. We are all equal at the foot of the cross. So at the foot of the cross when we're standing before Christ, our resumes don't matter, our degrees don't matter, our rankings don't matter, our bank accounts don't matter. All these societal metrics that we base ourselves on, they mean nothing. There are no better people. There are no worse people. [00:56:56] (30 seconds)  #EqualAtTheCross