Share the Gospel Confidently: Christ Died, Buried, Raised

Friends, if we're not confident of that fact, we are not going to share the gospel. If we listen to our flesh, if we listen to the enemy who accuses us, we're not gonna think we're good enough, we're not gonna think we're smart enough, we're not gonna think we know enough in order to open our mouths and tell someone the gospel of Jesus Christ. We're just gonna remain silent and people all around us are gonna die one day and they're gonna go to hell and and and all the while the gospel was right there. [00:09:15] (34 seconds)  #ShareWithConfidence

People treat their salvation a lot of times like like used luggage. I've got it up there in the attic and maybe one day I'll need it again but so it's up there, it's up there. So when I need it, it's there, but I I don't really think about it because it's up there in the attic until I need it. And a lot of people treat their their salvation that way. I've got it back back when I was a child, when I was seven years old, I walked an aisle, I got dunked under some water in the church and everybody was really happy and mom made me fried chicken for lunch. I mean, was really cool. [00:18:07] (34 seconds)  #SalvationNotLuggage

Let me give you another another piece of advice. As you're talking about Jesus dying for our sin, that's a great place for you to insert your personal interaction with Jesus. Let me tell you what that looked like in my life. Now don't give them a thirty minute dissertation on all the sin that you ever committed. And now, I'm gonna can I be honest with y'all? Can I can I be can I be honest? That means we know when somebody says you cannot be honest, that means you're supposed not to be offended by what they say next. Okay? You know what I don't like about testimony services? [00:53:16] (47 seconds)  #KeepTestimonyConcise

You know when we actually pass the mic around to get people to tell their testimony? You know what I don't like about it? Because people will spend twenty minutes telling you about what they used to be and about a minute telling you what they are now. You need to reverse that. You need to say, you know what? I was a sinner. I don't need all your backstory. Okay? But I do need to know what difference Jesus made in your life and now how you're different today. See, that's where you make a lot of hay with unbelievers because see what you just did was you demonstrated clearly to them that Jesus, the gospel, does make a difference in your life. [00:54:04] (42 seconds)  #FocusOnTransformation

But friends, we have to understand that if you are able and see this is not one of those things that that you have to be a Christian for twenty years before you can open your mouth. You know, the thing about being being a believer, the minute that you said, yes Jesus, you were equipped to share the gospel right then. And you might be thinking, well pastor, when I first got I didn't know anything. Trust me, you still don't know everything. And you won't know everything until you stand face to face with Jesus and you're completely transformed to be like him. So if you're letting that stop you, you're never gonna get started. [00:10:03] (43 seconds)  #ShareFromDayOne

Christ died for our sin. He paid a debt that we couldn't pay. You know sin creates a debt. You know that, right? The penalty of sin is what? Death. So when we sin it creates a penalty that has to be paid. The holiness of God has to be satisfied. God says over and over, I just finished Leviticus in my bible reading plan, I've now shifted into numbers but over and over and over and over and over and over some more. I underlined it every time he said it in the book of Leviticus. He says over and over and over. Did I tell you he said it over and over? I am holy. [00:30:51] (55 seconds)  #ChristPaidOurDebt

Because you see, death did not win. Three days later Jesus was raised from the dead by the power of God. He's alive, he lives because death couldn't hold the author of life. You know this claim of Christianity separates us from all other major world religions. Go to the tomb of Mohammed, guess what you'll find? Bones. You go to the tomb of any of the Buddhas, guess what you'll find? Bones. You name a central figure in most world religions and you go to their grave, you know what you'll find? Bones. Because death claimed them, thereby signifying that while on earth they were liars. [00:36:09] (81 seconds)  #ResurrectionSetsUsApart

To trust that finished work to say like we have. You know, if you've trusted the gospel, then you've got a story to tell. I was once dead in my sin. I was once living my life for myself, to please myself, to do what I thought was best for myself. But you know I was empty, Not really understanding why I didn't have peace. Somebody in my position with the things that I should be happy but I'm not. Something was missing. And one day somebody loved me enough to tell me that Christ had died for my sins, was buried, and on the third day rose again. And I placed my faith and my trust in that truth. [00:38:59] (74 seconds)  #MyRescueStory