I've Got Something To Tell You

Intro:

Our Theme for 2026 is “The Good News”.

How many of you know that Gospel is the Good News? But there have been those that try to put a spin on it.

We live in a time where advice is everywhere. You don't even have to be looking for it. It will just come to you. (Ads on your phone after having a conversation about something).

You can ask google or siri anything. You can go on FB, TikTok, or any other platform and someone will eventually tell you how to live better, how to feel better, how to heal. They will tell you how to succeed and how to get rich. There is even advice on how to have church better.

I believe because of that, a lot of people think the Gospel is just religious advice. But in our scripture, Paul does not call it advice, he calls it Good News.

Its not suggestions, its an announcement.

The Gospel is not something you do, Its something that happened.

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 15:1–2 NLT

1 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.

Title, Prayer:

I've Got Something To Tell You

Application:

Paul says, “Let me now remind you...”

The gospel is not something that we can pick and choose from parts of it that we believe or don't believe. It is a fact. It’s not just someone's opinion of what happened.

We live in a time where anyone can say anything and can go viral in an instant. I cant tell you how much dumb stuff I see people latching onto. In my mind I keep saying, but that's actually not what Jesus said?!

But just because something resonates, just because something seems to go viral, does not mean it is truth. Satan can make anything sound right as long as the person or people he is talking to doesnt really know what right is.

Adam and Eve were deceived because they were not sure of what was right. Even after God told them. They ended up in a spot where they had to make a decision, but they forgot the goodness of the Lord.

We have people today making decisions based on how things make them feel.

But I have something to tell you, we can feel at peace with sin if our only frame of reference is sin.

Proverbs 14:12 “12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.”

Judas betrayed Jesus because he felt like it w as the right thing to do. It’s like this, you ever take matters into your own hands, only to make things worse. But I’ve got something to tell you.

The Good News:

You don't have to take matters into your own hands! That's what the Good News is! The Good News is that God took this into HIS hands and He as already fixed it.

He gave us Christ who died for our sins, who was buried and then was raised from the dead so that whoever believes Him will have everlasting life.

But we keep looking for someone or something to come and make things better. You know that’s why the Disciples struggled with Christ being crucified. They thought He was going to take over the world and be an earthly King.

But He never said that! That’s were the confusion is. People keep looking for that someone or that some thing. But I’ve got something to tell you, God aint gonna send a Pastor, or a speaker, or Governor, or President to make everything better.

In fact, what he did say, is written in Luke 21:8 “8 He replied, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and saying, ‘The time has come!’ But don’t believe them.”

Benediction:

The crisis of our moment is not hostility toward the Gospel. It’s confusion about what the Gospel actually is. God sent Christ to die for us, to be raised for us, and to give us everlasting life!

God is asking us to move away how things make us feel and move toward what He did when he sent his Son. Christianity is not built on how you feel during worship, whether church was inspiring that day, or whether the sermon was uplifting.

You see, feelings change. History does not. You can be emotionally cold but the Gospel is still true. How many of you know that you can feel inspired and still be lost.

We live in a generation that has to be entertained at church. That pays more attention to how it makes them feel vs. what the Gospel has done.

The question today is not do you like how the Gospel makes you feel?

The question is, have you aligned your life to what the Gospel is!?

We don’t need a Gospel that agrees with us. We need one that saves us.