Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning.

Welcome to CCC.

It is great to see each of you here with us this morning.

It is also wonderful to welcome those watching and worshipping with us via the live stream.

Over the past 9 weeks I pray you have dug into God’s Word.

That your Christian foundation is founded upon the Chief cornerstone…Jesus and that your foundation has been sured up with scriptural tenants or beliefs.

We began this series back on August 7th and we have discussed and looked to God’s Word to build or strengthen our foundation in Christ in the following areas....Repentance…Salvation....Baptism…The Bible…God the Father…God the Son....God the Holy Spirit and the Trinity....Faith.....and last week Worship.

I hope to have the entire series on our Youtube channel at some point this week…watch for a social media announcement so you can easily go back and watch and listen to God’s Word at anytime.

Let’s Pray

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Another way to sum up our We Believe sermon series and especially today....sharing the gospel is with the Great Commission

Matthew 28:18-20

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“Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.

And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””

I want to use this scripture as the game plan if you will to jump into and drill down sharing the gospel because I believe our modern version of sharing the gospel and Jesus’ original version of sharing the gospel are very different from each other!

First

What Is The Gospel?

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The Gospel is the Good News.

What good news?

The good news of Jesus and his saving blood and sacrifice that made a way where the was no way.

The Gospel is very simple.

There is a problem that affects all of us.

That problem cannot be corrected by humans.

The end result of that problem sends humans to hell for eternity.

What is the problem?

The Problem: Sin and disobedience and separation from God

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Isaiah 59:2

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“But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.”

Your sin....my sin…separate us from God.

That is a huge problem

Romans 3:23

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“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;”

Romans 5:12

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“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.”

Romans 6:23

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“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 3:10

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“as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.”

Clearly there is a sin problem…we are the sin problem and as Romans 3:10 says not one of us sitting here today or via live stream or that will see this later on youtube....none of us are righteous....not even one.

That is the problem because of sin we are separated from God and will go to hell when we die

The Solution: You and I are saved through faith in Jesus’ payment: Jesus’ Death, Burial and Resurrection

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John 14:6

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“Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 3:16-17

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“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

Jesus is the only solution to our sin problem.

Period end of story

Ephesians 2:8

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“For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—”

There is nothing you can do to earn salvation.

There is nothing you can do to fix the problem.

Only Jesus is the answer and you are saved by grace through faith which is not from you.....it is God’s gift.....God is the solution

We have quickly looked at the problem and the solution and now lets look at the goal of the gospel

The Goal of the gospel is reconciliation with God and living His mission in your life

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John 8:31-32

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“Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.””

Jesus sets you free.

Jesus reconciles you to God.

Jesus is the solution to your sin problem and that sets you free to live from Jesus and from God and live only to do their work and build their kingdom

Acts 20:24

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“But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.”

You are no longer your own after accepting Jesus Christ.

The only thing that should matter to a Christian is building God’s kingdom…the ministry of reconciliation

Sharing the gospel.

This is what most modern Christians think of when the pastor says you need to share the gospel

Tommie play the invite video

Now I want you inviting people to church....absolutely I do…but that is not sharing the gospel.

What we do here matters.

Being around other Christians matters.

Hearing the Word of God proclaimed and taught matters so yes invite invite invite but inviting is much different than sharing the gospel.

Very different than the great commission.

Sharing the gospel is a mindset.

A lifestyle.

An intentional decision to believe, apply and follow God’s Word.

When you accepted Jesus or if you have yet to accept Him when you accept Jesus you were or will be transformed into a new creation.

A New person.

You are transformed from a worldly, sinful, self-serving wretch into an ambassador.

II Corinthians 5:16-21

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“From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective.

Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us.

We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

I read all of that for verse 20.

Ambassadors.

But to understand and apply 20 you must understand 16-19.

If you have accepted Christ you are new.

Your life now belongs to Christ and you have a new mission....a singular mission....allowing God to make His appeal through you.

That is it.

That is your life’s mission....the ministry of reconciliation

I believe that this also fits with our game plan of the great commission.

Jesus said to His disciples and us.

Go.