1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,080 Welcome to common ground one book. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,720 We are so glad you've joined us for today's message. 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,760 Whether you're tuning in from home or catching up on another 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,320 goal, we pray that this word encourages you, strengthens your 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,640 faith and draws you closer to God If you'd like to learn more 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,040 about our church, connect with us or get involved. 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,800 You will find all the details in the description. 8 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:22,000 Now let's dive into today's message. 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,640 So if you have your. Bible 10. 10 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:32,159 With me to 1st Corinthians 15. 1st Corinthians 15 now I would 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:37,160 remind you. Brothers of the Gospel, I 12 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:41,400 preached to you, which you. Received in which you stand and 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,720 by which. You are being saved if you hold 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,680 fast to the Word. I preach to you. 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,840 Unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of 16 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,680 first. Importance what I also. 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,840 Received that Christ died for our. 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,080 Sins in accordance. With the scriptures that he was. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,360 Buried and he was raised on the third day in accordance. 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,160 With the Scriptures, our gracious. 21 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:14,960 Lord in heaven, give. Power to your word. 22 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,200 This morning for our. Good. 23 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:25,440 And for our sanctification. I pray that, O God, that I would 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,080 decrease. This morning and that. 25 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,440 Lord you. With increase. 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,400 We ask Lordy that you would please. 27 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,360 Instruct our hearts this morning. 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,800 Through the. Preaching and the Proclamation. 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:47,600 Of the Gospel, Amen. I know that in the past. 30 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,040 Weeks you've looked at the solars of the. 31 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Reformation and the Solars of the Reformation. 32 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,680 Really a summary? Of the biblical gospels where? 33 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,480 The Protestants were really protesting against unbiblical. 34 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,039 Practices of the Catholic Church. 35 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,440 Some of them, of course, including indulgences. 36 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,800 In fact, there was a famous man during the 15th century by the 37 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,040 name of. Ted Zell. 38 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,160 He used to say when he was asking for money from the. 39 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,520 People who were. In front of him during those. 40 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,600 Days, he would say. Give your money because when the 41 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,520 coin in the coffer rings is sold from purgatory springs, in other 42 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:33,320 words. If you were to. 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,640 Give your money, your family member or your relative that is 44 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,560 in the purgatory state would then be set. 45 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,800 Free. You're also reminded that. 46 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,520 We ought. To then return to the sound 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,640 doctrine with the Protestants stood for and fought for, in 48 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:54,120 fact, Martin Luther. Himself said that I taught you 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,240 the gospel, I preach the gospel. I also drank. 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,520 Beer with my friend. The wonderful part of that quote 51 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:02,720 is. Not the beer part. 52 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,720 But is the last part of the quote for he says I did. 53 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:12,680 Nothing and the word. Did everything, Luther. 54 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,880 Reminds the audience that it is not Luther nor Calvin that 55 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,160 reformed the church. It is the word of the Lord that 56 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,680 did all the work they were. Simply jars of clay in the 57 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,080 hands. Of the. 58 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,000 Porter They were simply instrument that God used to 59 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,520 reform his. Church, you were also. 60 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,880 Reminded of what it means to preach. 61 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,160 The gospel to proclaim the gospel, but also to. 62 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,760 Witness in our culture and for you to use different strategies. 63 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,240 That I'm sure was shared. By many of the preachers and 64 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Dave last week on how to effectively. 65 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,480 Share the gospel in our world, because that which was. 66 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,440 Entrusted to the Apostles has now been entrusted. 67 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:02,360 To us to go. And make disciples of all 68 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,960 nations. And so you may ask the question 69 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,960 this morning, why is that important? 70 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,200 All of that it's. Important because of. 71 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,079 The Gospel. The Gospel. 72 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,880 Grounds all of this for. Without the gospel. 73 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,560 There is no reason for the Great Commission without the. 74 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,360 Gospel. The work in the 14th and 15th 75 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,200 century of the Reformation simply means nothing. 76 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:36,600 But because of the gospel all. Of that is significant and so 77 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,480 this morning I want to. Look at the subject, the Gospel 78 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,640 that saves. And we will look at that under 79 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,080 few headings. As an introduction I want to 80 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,920 look at creation and fall. What the means? 81 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,800 Of God uses to. Save sinners, Christ died, and 82 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,480 then. Christ died for what? 83 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,320 Reason. For us to truly. 84 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,160 And firstly understand the. Gospel what it is. 85 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,080 We must go back to understand creation. 86 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:14,720 The Bible begins by saying God created the heavens and the 87 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,200 earth. In other words, the Bible begins 88 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,720 by announcing that. God is the Creator. 89 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,240 We see in Genesis 1 he creates the mountains, He creates the 90 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,240 fish, the birds, the valleys, everything he creates. 91 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,000 Secondly, we see that. God creates the universe, the 92 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,200 stars. The moon, the planets and the 93 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,840 galaxies. The Bible says he. 94 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:41,600 Spoke and everything was we must notice that God. 95 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,480 Creates without. Any pre-existing material, he 96 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,560 simply says. Let there be light. 97 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,400 And there's. Light. 98 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,440 Psalm 19, verse one. Says the heavens declared the 99 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,800 glory of God the sky. Above proclaims his handiwork. 100 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,520 When Job is complaining, God says to him in. 101 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,880 Response. Were you there? 102 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,400 When I. Laid the earth. 103 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,120 Foundation Creation serves as a reminder that. 104 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,560 God is the Creator. Why should we believe that God 105 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,600 is the creator? It's because the Bible tells us 106 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,920 so. The Bible is. 107 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,520 The infallible, The inspired. Word of God. 108 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:27,640 Written by human authors and yet inspired by the divine author. 109 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,360 We believe because the Bible tells us, though, that God. 110 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,040 Creates. But the climax of creation is 111 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,360 not simply the mountains. It is not simply the valleys. 112 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,440 It is not simply anything else that God. 113 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,000 Makes but the. Climax of creation is when God 114 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,880 creates human beings for the Bible. 115 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,640 Says so. God created. 116 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,080 Man in his own image, in the image of God. 117 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:57,040 He created him male and female, and so as a reminder that man is 118 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,360 not simply by random chance, man is. 119 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,240 Created. By God, and therefore man is 120 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,840 accountable to the Creator, Every single human being in 121 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,080 this. World today is a result of 122 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,680 God's. Idea and God's plan from the 123 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,800 very beginning. Then why does God even create? 124 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,800 Isaiah 43. Verse 7 tells us for everyone 125 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,040 who is called by my name, whom I create for my glory, of whom I 126 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,120 formed and made. Created and so. 127 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,920 Isaiah reminds that the reason for creation is. 128 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,640 God's glory, that. Humanity is created to magnify 129 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,000 and to display the. Glory. 130 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:46,280 Of God and to live in a way that makes God looks glorious and. 131 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,200 God look beautiful. In other words, humanity has no 132 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,680 meaning, no. Purpose outside of God, because 133 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,480 God. Created humanity for his own. 134 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:04,680 Glory. #2HE not only creates humanity for his own glory, he 135 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,240 creates humanity in to work that man had ought to. 136 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,320 Display the glory of God by. Working in Genesis. 2:15 He. 137 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,200 Says Adam was to work and take care of the garden. 138 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,120 Work is not the result of the fall. 139 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,320 Because men worked pre. The Fall. 140 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,920 The way in which Adam was to work. 141 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,440 To take care of the. Garden and the zoo. 142 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,280 Was a way of. Also glorifying God #2. 143 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,520 The. Fall of man, God. 144 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,679 Creates. And makes Adam and Eve. 145 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,160 Now Adam and Eve, God puts them in the garden and he gives them 146 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,800 few instructions in this garden that you may eat from any tree 147 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,440 in this garden, but please do not eat from the tree of the 148 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,280 knowledge of good. If you eat from this tree, you 149 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,200 will die. Notice. 150 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,120 There is a tree that gives life. And there is a. 151 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,160 Tree that. Strengthens death, that if you 152 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:07,400 ought to eat from this tree. You will die because this tree. 153 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,080 Represents God's blessing, but if you eat from this tree. 154 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,080 It you will be. Cursed and God establishes his 155 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:23,120 covenant with Adam to remind him not to eat from this tree. 156 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,960 This is a good point where I think I want to pause the reason 157 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,080 they should not are not supposed to eat from this. 158 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,040 Tree is because God. Tells them not to eat. 159 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:35,760 Why? Because if. 160 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,640 God. Is the one who? 161 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,160 Decides what is. Right. 162 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,080 And what is wrong? God. 163 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,520 Is the one who desired what is wicked and what is. 164 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,040 Righteous. Why? 165 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:50,440 Because He is the Creator. He has the right to do so. 166 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:57,320 Then what happened? We read part of Genesis 2 that 167 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,360 when God created them, they were both naked and they were not 168 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:06,160 ashamed and they felt no shame. And we read that a serpent came 169 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,360 into the picture in Genesis chapter 3. 170 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,160 Now we must notice. Here as we read. 171 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,520 About the serpent. That God had told. 172 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,920 Adam and Eve that if you eat, you will die. 173 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,320 And the serpent says to them. Because Eve clearly listens to 174 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:21,920 the. Serpent and the serpent says you 175 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,360 will not. Die. 176 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:26,960 Eat. And you will not die because. 177 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,880 God is strict and. Overbearing. 178 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,640 Don't listen to God. Simply eat and she eats and she 179 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:34,440 gives. To her. 180 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,640 Husband and the Bible. Says the fruit was delightful. 181 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,560 And they ate, and their eyes were opened for the first time. 182 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:44,040 They. Realized that they were. 183 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Naked, And they were ashamed, and sin entered. 184 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,520 The world. The eating of the fruit in the 185 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:59,080 book of Genesis chapter 3 was an assault against God's law, an 186 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,680 act of defiance, and an act of rebellion against a holy. 187 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:07,480 God. Eve and even Adam, we're 188 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,880 rejecting God's law and declaring their independence. 189 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,120 Because. God had told them, do not eat 190 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,080 from this tree. The Apostle Paul takes it 191 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,440 further. To say because of this now. 192 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:24,080 All have. Sinned and fallen short. 193 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,640 Of the glory of God. And then he continues to say in 194 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,520 Romans. Three because of that. 195 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,800 None of us is. Righteous this is. 196 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,480 The bad news that because of sin. 197 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,120 We are totally deprived. In need. 198 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,240 Of a Saviour that. Sin has become the very fabric 199 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,680 of humanity. The Apostle Paul says for we 200 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,800 are. Dead in our sins and our 201 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,520 transgressions, and so because of. 202 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,560 That we have a. Problem. 203 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:58,920 Therefore, what is the? Problem. 204 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,640 Humanity's problem is simple. It is sin because of man's 205 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,640 disobedience. Romans 5 reminds us that 206 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,480 therefore, just as sin entered the world, through what man 207 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,440 death, through sin, and in all this way came. 208 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,760 To all people, because. All have sinned when when Eve 209 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,600 and Adam was eating. Guess who else was? 210 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,200 There, in the Garden of Eden, Ericim Chamkulu was. 211 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,200 There Stefan was. There, Greg was there. 212 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,160 Colin was there, every single one of us. 213 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:38,400 We're partaking in the Garden of Eden. 214 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,520 Because the author is clear that all have. 215 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:43,600 Sin. Why? 216 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,600 Because Adam Ripped is our. Federal head. 217 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,960 The head. Of humanity, and through his sin 218 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,760 we are all sinners. That his sin has been imputed to 219 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,760 humanity. Therefore we have a. 220 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,480 Problem of sin. Doctor Arista's process The 221 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,320 gospel is good. News when we understand the bad 222 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,000 news. So there is no way of 223 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,920 understanding First Corinthians 15 without understanding the 224 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:18,600 bad. News. 225 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:24,720 What I've described from Genesis chapter 3 is bad news, but Paul 226 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,560 this morning wants to give us some good news. 227 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,800 The centrality of. The gospel is. 228 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,720 Grounded in the Old Testament and provides the information we 229 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,280 need for us to understand the good news. 230 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,320 And the apostle Paul. Says Now here there is something 231 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,320 that I want you all to know, and in fact this is of first 232 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,280 importance. I want you to know the church 233 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,520 that when Paul writes to the. Colonist church he has. 234 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,400 Written on a number of things. He wrote about immorality, about 235 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,840 singleness, about. The Lord's Supper about the food 236 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,000 laws. There's many other things. 237 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,360 He wrote about. In none of those things he. 238 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,080 Ever said is of. First importance? 239 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,640 None. That's not to say they are not 240 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,600 important, but he didn't say they are. 241 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,720 They are of first importance, but in First Corinthians 15 he. 242 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,000 Tells us that. There is something that is of. 243 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,320 First importance. That is more important than 244 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,240 anything. Else that you should. 245 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,520 Know I was watching the other day. 246 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,200 A short clip of a wife. Asking her husband. 247 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,360 She asked her husband a very tricky question. 248 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,600 She said if, if, if. I was drowning. 249 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,960 So that's what they said. If I was drowning and our 250 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,160 daughter was drowning and your mother was drowning, who? 251 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,960 Would you say first? And the husband thought for a 252 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:44,960 moment. What do I say is? 253 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,920 Quite a difficult. Question and the husband 254 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,920 confidently answers the wife and says I would save my. 255 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:56,240 Daughter, the wife was so upset. Why would you save your 256 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,520 daughter? He says. 257 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,080 But in what way do you answer such a question? 258 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,720 She said, well, you should have said you'll try to save. 259 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,400 Me and the daughter, not the daughter alone. 260 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,040 And I wonder she didn't even mention the mother-in-law. 261 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,480 I thought maybe she doesn't like the mother-in-law. 262 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,720 Just her and the daughter. And the question she was really 263 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,760 asking to the husband is this who is more important? 264 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,600 Is it me? Your daughter or your? 265 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,800 Mother, your husbands don't answer that question. 266 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,520 Never answer. Either way. 267 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,040 You're not going to win. And so the apostle Paul says. 268 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,360 That there is something here of first importance that everyone 269 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,120 ought to know, and then he's going to tell us what it. 270 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,200 Is. Notice this one. 271 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,080 Now I want to remind you brothers of the. 272 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,320 Gospel I preach to you. Which you receive in which you 273 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,000 stand the term brothers doesn't meet male in this country it's a 274 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,800 term of endearment for Christian brothers and sisters, females 275 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,480 and males who. Love Jesus Christ. 276 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,080 And so he wants to remind them of this. 277 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:58,760 Gospel. What is the gospel? 278 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,120 The good news? That's the gospel. 279 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:03,920 So let me offer. A. 280 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,680 A. Definition of the Gospel. 281 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,480 As well. Not the best, there are many 282 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,120 other good definitions out there, but this is how I think 283 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,040 about the gospel that the. Gospel is the good. 284 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,000 News of. Christ. 285 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,120 Jesus Christ. In his. 286 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,240 Life, death, Burial, resurrection. 287 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,640 God doing for us what we're incapable of doing. 288 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,440 That Jesus lived a. Perfect life and willing. 289 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,720 Obedience to the Father. Died and taking on the fullness 290 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,520 of God's. Wrath was buried. 291 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,000 And was. Raised for our justification. 292 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,280 Maybe you have your own definition in mind. 293 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,400 In essence, we are saying, I'm saying. 294 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,520 The gospel is about Jesus, that Jesus. 295 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,120 Is the main. Character of the gospel that 296 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,720 without Christ. We have no gospel. 297 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,200 That the gospel is not good works. 298 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,120 The gospel is not ethics, the. Gospel is not noble. 299 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,840 Deeds the Those are fruits of the gospel, those. 300 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,720 Are implications of the Gospel, but they are not. 301 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,960 The Gospel. The gospel is that Christ. 302 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Came to save sinners it's not what we. 303 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,599 Do. But rather, what has been done? 304 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,839 For us that the gospel of Jesus Christ is God. 305 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,720 Sending his son into. This world to be born of a. 306 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,680 Virgin to live a perfect life in active and in passive obedience 307 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,480 to die in our. Place for our sin. 308 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:34,040 And to be buried and to be. Raised for our justification. 309 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,840 That one day He will come to judge the living and the dead 310 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,560 and 'cause people today to come and repent and believe in Him 311 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,360 and enjoy eternity with Him. That's the gospel. 312 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,680 That's the character of the gospel, that it is Christ, not 313 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:58,360 just about Christ that it is. Christ, John Calvin says. 314 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:03,080 That the whole gospel. Is contained in Christ Jesus. 315 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,680 The gospel is Christ. It is his life. 316 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,240 And it is what he has done for us and the apostle. 317 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:19,640 Paul says this is of first. Importance Know the person and 318 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,400 the. Work of Christ. 319 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:27,040 Before you know anything else, because this is the foundation 320 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:32,640 that grounds every single doctrine of Scripture to. 321 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,160 Get the gospel wrong is to get Christ. 322 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,400 Wrong to get Christ wrong. Is to get the. 323 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,880 Doctrine wrong. We must get Christ right. 324 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,520 Notice what it says next that this. 325 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,320 Is the gospel that I preach to you? 326 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,120 And we know what. Paul preached. 327 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,520 From Second Corinthians verse. Chapter 4, Verse 5. 328 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,440 For what I preach is not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as 329 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:02,560 Lord. And and. 330 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,760 Ourselves as your servants for Jesus Christ, so. 331 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,360 Paul says to the Corinth church, the. 332 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,800 Gospel I preach to you so we. Do know what? 333 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,120 He preach, he tells. Us that the only thing I preach 334 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,080 was. Jesus Christ to you. 335 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:22,240 And I am only a servant. God has ordained preaching as 336 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:23,960 means. To save. 337 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:26,840 That's what God has. Ordained. 338 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,960 Because this is the good news, we must announce it. 339 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:36,280 We must herald the good news. Because the good news is about 340 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,160 Jesus. Also, it is Jesus. 341 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,760 And often Christians will say, no, my, you know, I want my life 342 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,440 to, to, to really be a, my message. 343 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,440 To the world. Bearing witness. 344 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,880 To the Gospel. Is not the gospel. 345 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,600 We ought to bear witness to the gospel by the way we live. 346 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,320 But the gospel. Must be announced. 347 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,320 We must say something. It is news you. 348 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,760 Don't keep news you. Share the news And so the 349 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,480 Apostle. Says announce it. 350 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:14,440 He says I preach it to you, share the gospel, this world. 351 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,880 Does not need my political views and opinions. 352 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,680 The church does not. Simply need my motivational 353 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,280 talk, my personal wisdom. Behind the pulpit. 354 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,840 Behind the pulpit. The only thing you must hear. 355 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,680 Is Christ that the Church? Needs more of. 356 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,800 Christ who? Is the very revelation of God 357 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,840 who reigns forever. We don't need Christ. 358 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:41,080 Less messages we need more of. Christ, Christ, Christ all. 359 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,000 The time, that's what. Paul, preach. 360 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,840 That's what he's saying We. Ought to preach Christ. 361 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,160 Our very. Message of the Gospel. 362 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,200 He says we don't command ourselves, but we command. 363 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:01,440 Christ as our Saviour, he says. This is what I preach to you, 364 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,320 Charles. Spurgeon says the following when 365 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,160 we preach. Christ crucified. 366 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,280 We have no reason to stutter to. Hesitate or to apologize. 367 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,680 How many messages behind the pulpit begin with an apology? 368 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,600 I'm. Sorry, but what I'm. 369 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,600 Going to. Say it's quite difficult before 370 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:28,920 the preacher speaks is already. Apologized, apologizing for what 371 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,440 is clearly communicated in the word. 372 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,920 Of God. Church, we don't apologize for 373 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:39,560 the truth. We stand on the truth, just like 374 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:40,880 the. Early Church Fathers. 375 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,400 Just like the reformers. Just like the. 376 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,640 Puritans, we stand on the. Gospel of Jesus Christ. 377 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,800 Why is this important? The reason we only preach. 378 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,880 Christ is because. He is the only. 379 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,240 Way to? Salvation there is no. 380 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Salvation without the Gospel. It is through the Gospel that we 381 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:08,880 are. Saved. 382 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,360 There are many religions in this. 383 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:17,160 World. But there's only one gospel, and 384 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,880 that is why. The Apostle Paul to the 385 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,640 Galatians. Verse Chapter One verse. 8 it 386 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,360 says but. Even if we or an Angel from 387 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:28,120 heaven should preach another gospel other than the one we 388 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:29,840 preach to you, let them be under. 389 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,840 God's curse. And the Greek word there is 390 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,280 anathema that if another man comes and preaches a different. 391 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Gospel. It says that. 392 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,920 Man is under. God's curse. 393 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,880 Reminding the Church of. Galatia that this is about 394 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,800 justification. By faith alone. 395 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,040 It is not rules. And regulations. 396 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,160 It is not the law, rather. It is about the gospel, he says. 397 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,240 Rest. On that, and if you preach 398 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,920 anything different, he says, then you are under God's. 399 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,840 Curse. He's bringing them back to 400 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:04,360 justification by faith alone. Why is this important? 401 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,200 The gospel message does not start by telling. 402 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,680 People how to leave. The Gospel message begins by 403 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,600 announcing. What Christ has. 404 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,600 Done to save us. There's a distinction. 405 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,760 It does not begin again by telling people. 406 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,320 How to live the Gospel. Begins by announcing what Christ 407 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,200 has done. To save us. 408 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,480 And that is where. All of us. 409 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,720 Must begin notice that this is the. 410 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,080 Gospel that I preached to you. And then he says this that on 411 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,680 which? You. 412 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,440 Have taken a stand. I love that. 413 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,480 And I often used to. Pass that part of this verse. 414 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,000 And I just reading it over again, I just realized something 415 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,720 here that on which you stand because he's he's reminding the 416 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,840 Corinthians that now you've come to the. 417 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,000 Truth of Christ. You know the person of Christ. 418 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,160 You know the work of. Christ, but. 419 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,400 Then make. Sure that your whole life is. 420 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,400 Built on the foundation of that truth, our. 421 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,120 Lives ought to be. Built on the Gospel of Christ 422 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,480 Church. Let me remind you this morning, 423 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,600 we never move beyond. The Gospel we. 424 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,400 Never outgrow the gospel. We never become too 425 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,880 sophisticated. For the gospel. 426 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,200 We never graduate from. The Gospel. 427 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,760 There is no next best thing, the gospel. 428 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:38,280 Is the best thing, therefore Paul says. 429 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,720 Stand on it. Because the gospel is. 430 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,320 Central. To the, to the. 431 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,720 Christian life. Not only that, the gospel. 432 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:56,480 Itself is the way of life. Therefore he says stand so that. 433 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,240 You are not like those believers in the book of. 434 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,120 Hebrews. Who did not stand? 435 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,880 Who Drifted says. But you stand. 436 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,680 Notice then, he says, and by which you are being saved. 437 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,560 If you hold fast to the Word, I preach to you. 438 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,520 Unless you believed in vain the first. 439 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,800 Part of that. Verse is striking for he says by 440 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,200 which you are being saved and the question. 441 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,400 I ask myself is. Being saved from what? 442 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,400 The Bible is clear what we are saved from. 443 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,880 If we think of Genesis. Chapter 3. 444 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,400 And if we think of the book of Romans church this morning, I 445 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,280 want to remind you that we are saved from the dangers. 446 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,840 Of hell we are. Saved from sin, we are saved 447 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:43,600 from. Death. 448 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,160 We are saved. From the wrath of God and 449 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,800 eternal separation from the love of God. 450 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,960 Romans 5 verse 9 says, Since therefore we have now been. 451 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,400 Justified by his blood. How much more? 452 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,120 Shall we be saved? From the Wrath. 453 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,560 Of God. Romans 6, verse 23. 454 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,560 For the. Wages of sin is. 455 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,560 Death, but the gift of God is. Eternal life. 456 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:15,600 In Christ Jesus our Lord. What are you saved from? 457 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,520 I repeat. You are saved from hell. 458 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,680 You are saved from sin. You are saved from. 459 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,240 Death, you are saved. From the wrath of God and 460 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:33,560 eternal separation from God. And then he says in verse. 461 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,960 Three Christ died if I delivered to you as of. 462 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,280 First importance. What I also received that Christ 463 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,880 died for our. Sins in accordance. 464 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,720 With the scriptures. This is. 465 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,600 Significant that Christ died. And there's evidence in the 466 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,840 biblical text that indeed Christ. 467 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,360 Died. Christ went through a. 468 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,000 Brutal beating he was. Flogged by the mob. 469 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,920 He was bleeding profusely. He was hungry, he was 470 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,800 dehydrated. In fact, they called one of the 471 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,160 professional executioners who was there. 472 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,640 Took a spear. And it went through. 473 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,200 His side. Punctured his heart, and the 474 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,040 Bible tells us that water and blood was coming out from 475 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,000 Christ's side, guaranteeing that indeed, Christ died. 476 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,760 Christ's deed died. And then he says. 477 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,840 He died according to the Scriptures. 478 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,000 That's significant because Isaiah had already prophesied 479 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:45,720 this, Isaiah 53 verse 5 says. But he was pierced. 480 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,720 For our transgressions. He was. 481 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,240 Crossed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us 482 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,280 peace was on him and by his wounds. 483 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,760 We are healed. Isaiah prophecies the. 7700 484 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:06,800 years before Christ comes, that indeed Christ would die Matthew 485 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,080 27 verse 50 says and when? Jesus cried out with a loud 486 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,200 voice. He yielded up his. 487 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:20,000 Spirit as a signal that he died. John 19 verse 30 says when Jesus 488 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,560 had. Received the sour. 489 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,480 Wine, he said. It is finished. 490 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,960 He. Bowed his head. 491 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,720 And gave up his spirit, in other words. 492 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:34,720 Jesus did die. But for what reason? 493 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:39,400 Why did he die? Paul tells us. 494 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,560 Because of your. Sins. 495 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,600 Christ died for our. Sins. 496 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,360 That's the reason he died lots of. 497 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,080 People die. We may. 498 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,400 Even say lots of innocent people die and some people die 499 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,080 unpleasant death, but Jesus death is different he. 500 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:07,120 Dies for our sin. This is the Incarnate Son of 501 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:13,840 God, the second person of the Trinity, who would come and die. 502 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,640 Our sin is weighty. Our sin. 503 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:25,760 Is costly. God is just God. 504 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,720 Is holy and. Because of those attributes. 505 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,800 God must punish sin. For the Bible says the. 506 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Wages of sin. Is death. 507 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:42,640 And God would send his own Son to take upon himself that 508 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,760 punishment, that fullness. Of Wrath by. 509 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:51,760 Becoming our substitution in order to atone for our sin. 510 00:29:55,160 --> 00:30:00,680 Because our sin is waiting, grace is free. 511 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,320 But. Grace is not cheap. 512 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:19,960 Jesus died because of our sin. Few words of. 513 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,840 Application. We must therefore, Church, 514 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:31,560 continue to proclaim. The gospel to ourselves. 515 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,120 This is the hardest. Thing to do is to proclaim. 516 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:41,160 The gospel to yourself. Charles Spurgeon once saw a man 517 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,800 complaining the other day. He says people have accused me 518 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,040 of. This and Spurgeon says to this 519 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,400 man, you're in fact worse than what they. 520 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:59,560 Say to you. Reminding him of his sin, and 521 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,320 the reformers would say in that context the term Luther used to 522 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,480 use. Is that we are. 523 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:10,080 Both sinners, and also. Righteous just as espicardo. 524 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,360 We are both just just as well righteous, therefore. 525 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,440 The presence of sin is still among us, and therefore each. 526 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,160 Day we have to constantly preach the gospel to ourselves. 527 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,760 Reminding ourselves of. Who? 528 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,880 Jesus is, and what he has done to save us, we must never allow. 529 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,360 Ourselves. To find our identity in anything 530 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,640 else. We are never called to find our 531 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,120 identity in our marriage. We are never called to find our 532 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,760 identity in our work, in our career. 533 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,680 We are called to find our identity in the gospel, in 534 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,440 Christ. We are not even called to find 535 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:54,040 our identity in ministry. Our identity is in Christ. 536 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:59,040 So every morning, every day, remind yourself and preach to 537 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,840 yourself this amazing and wonderful. 538 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,560 Gospel. With your eyes looking up. 539 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,920 Just like the apostles look to Christ daily. 540 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,400 Be satisfied. In him alone remind. 541 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,240 Yourself of his. Saving and sovereign. 542 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:27,080 Grace over your life. #2 Learn to rejoice in the Gospel daily. 543 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,560 There are many difficult circumstances and challenges. 544 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,760 That we. Face and perhaps even this 545 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,840 morning. There are people who came here 546 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,160 this morning and yet are going through some of the most 547 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,840 difficult things this morning. Very tough, whatever it may. 548 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,920 Be this morning you may be going through something very 549 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,560 different. May I remind you this morning to 550 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,440 rejoice. In the gospel of Christ. 551 00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:01,520 Circumstances may not change, but we serve the one the. 552 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:11,080 Scriptures say yesterday, today. Life may not be. 553 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:16,240 Easy, but. Rest in Him, trust in Him, 554 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:28,920 ground your joy in Him, and meditate on His truth #3 Study 555 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:34,880 the person and the work of and, and and often. 556 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,920 As. Students of the Bible, we love 557 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,080 sometimes to study the most difficult things about the 558 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,200 Bible. I mean when you when, especially 559 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,560 when you meet a group of pastors. 560 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,640 They say what's your? Thoughts on a meal, post meal, 561 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,240 pre meal and all this sort of and sometimes we want to talk 562 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,560 about. All those other difficult. 563 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,360 Things. And yet we miss the very basics. 564 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,840 We must go back to studying Christ. 565 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,360 We must go back. To study the work of Christ. 566 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,679 If we miss that, I say again, if we miss that, we miss everything 567 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:13,800 else. You may want to even study the 568 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,600 Trinity, but if you don't know Christ, if you know. 569 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,679 Christ, then you. Don't know the gospel? 570 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,560 And so church. Let's continue to study the 571 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,000 person of Christ. Read the book of. 572 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,840 Hebrews read the Synoptic Gospels and John read in order 573 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:39,560 to understand the person. I'm also perhaps here 574 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:44,719 recommending a book by Doctor Michael Reeves titled Rejoicing 575 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:50,880 in Christ. That is my prayer this morning 576 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,960 as we close precious Saints. It is in creation that we ought 577 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,960 to understand who God is and what He has made. 578 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,760 It is in the fall of man. Where we realize. 579 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,840 How men to use DA cousin term? De Gorded God. 580 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,880 It is in the Gospel where we understand what Christ has done 581 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,360 to redeem sin. And let's never forget. 582 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,320 That let's not forget. That in our prayers. 583 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,800 Let us not. Forget that in our singing. 584 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,680 Let us not forget that in our conversations. 585 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:32,360 Of who Christ is the lover of our soul, our Lord. 586 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,120 We thank you this morning for reminding us. 587 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:40,600 Of this basic truth, the truth is that the gospel saves, that 588 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,880 the gospel is a person, that the gospel is Christ. 589 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:50,480 It is the work of Christ. Lord help us not to want to 590 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,080 graduate from this truth. But Lord help us. 591 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,520 To continue to remind ourselves of this truth, and not only 592 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,960 that, Lord, to rejoice in this truth. 593 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,360 But also. To share this wonderful truth 594 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,120 with the world around us. And we ask all. 595 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:11,240 Of this in Jesus name, Amen. Thank you for listening to 596 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:13,880 today's message. We hope you are encouraged and 597 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,000 challenged in your faith. If you're in the southern 598 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,360 suburbs, we'd love to welcome you in person at one of our 599 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,480 serves. Don't forget to subscribe, share 600 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,640 this message with a friend, and stay connected with us on social 601 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,800 media for more inspiration throughout the week. 602 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,240 Until next time statement and keep shining your light.