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Spiritual Disciplines: Proclaim Christ Always
We finishing our series on Spiritual Disciples and I have the distinct privilege to finish out this series with this topic: Proclaiming Christ Always
If you want to know where we are going today there will be 2 main points:
Why We Preach Christ
How we Preach Christ
1.
Why We Proclaim Christ
Now I am going to warn you ahead of time this will be a lot of scripture that we are about to cover
The reason for that is I need to show you and leave you convinced of why we are to proclaim Christ Always!
A) Because it is our commission (; )
Notice Jesus begins with His authority in all things as a reminder of who they follow
That they follow the one who has ALL authority in ALL places
From this He commissions them saying GO THEREFORE MAKE DISCIPLES
You cannot make disciples of Christ if you are not proclaiming Christ
And you may think, well maybe that wasn’t for everyone
Maybe I’m not called to make disciples
The thing is, you are ALWAYS making disciples, its only a matter of what kind of disciples and who is their Lord
Here again we see Jesus speaking with the disciples about the coming of the Holy Spirit and what the coming of the Spirit is to accomplish
And notice the people ask if Jesus is going to build the “kingdom of Israel”
The point of the coming of the Holy Spirit is not to build up man’s kingdom!!
The coming of the Holy Spirit upon a believer is to empower and embolden (and we will see this in the next passage) them to preach the Gospel to all peoples and build the kingdom of God
B) Because He is the cornerstone
The cornerstone is to say that He is the only one, the only way!
We now see an emboldened Peter just 3 chapters later preaching before the very people who crucified Christ saying:
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to the people by which we must be saved
Again we see this from Paul saying that the Galatians were hearing another gospel but Paul says any other gospel is damnable and not only that there isn’t even another ACTUAL gospel!
“not that there is another gospel”
C) Because we are convinced
Notice that Paul here says that because we know the LORD, because we have a fear of the LORD we persuade people!
And then he says:
For the love of Christ compels us
D) Because we are captivated & changed
Notice that first we are made a new creation in Christ thereby becoming ambassadors FOR Him
Not only are we ambassadors for Him but we PLEAD on Christ’s behalf for people to be reconciled (i.e.
brought back to God)
I hope what this has done is shown you a BRIEF look into the New Testament as to WHY we proclaim Christ as His disciples always
And you may be thinking that you already knew and understood that
If that is the case then let me ask a rather convicting question
And let me say before this, this question includes myself
If we are convinced of everything above, then when is the last time you shared the Gospel with someone who doesn’t know Christ
For many of us, that question may seem like a guilt trip but let me say, conviction and guilt trips are two VERY different things
So let me argue a reason why I think we don’t proclaim Christ always:
Its a matter of not really feeling comfortable as to the HOW
Many of us in the room would be probably really uncomfortable if you were called up here to take my place and tell everyone the Gospel
And you may say “that’s because I don’t like public speaking”
In which case then I would assume you would be comfortable sharing the Gospel with myself or James or Pastor Colby 1 on 1 right?
But if we are honest....if I am honest sometimes our hesitancy is because of competency
So let’s talk about a really practical way to go about this
2. How We Proclaim Christ
How many of you have heard the phrase:
Preach the Gospel and if necessary use words
This saying on the surface is really catchy and conveys the important point about our actions having to reflect the Gospel
However what this statement also imply is that our actions alone are sufficient ....but they are not
No one
I repeat NO ONE will ever be saved, will move from death to life SIMPLY because you’re actions
If done right they will ask WHY you live the way you do
But your actions alone will not save someone else
You have to actually tell them the Gospel
You have to actually point them to the one who can save them
This doesn’t mean that salvation depends you on (we know salvation is God’s and His alone) but you CAN be 100% sure that if they never hear the Gospel they cannot come to faith in Him
So, if someone were to ask:
“What is the Gospel?” - What do you say?
Here is the shortest answer I could possibly give (and this makes it INITIALLY easy to remember
Here is the shortest answer I could possibly give (and this makes it INITIALLY easy to remember)
Person & Work of Jesus Christ
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ
Like I said, initially this is really easy to remember BUT you better be ready for the follow up question of “What do you mean?”
So let’s walk through this statement piece by piece to show how it is simple and yet encompasses the “bare bones” Gospel
The Person of Jesus Christ
Fully (Truly) God
Fully (Truly) Man
Fully (Truly) God
Jesus being fully (truly) God means that He is able to keep the law because He is perfect
Because He is perfect & righteous (being in right standing with the law) He is able to impute (able to ascribe to us) His righteousness (right standing)
Because for us being sinners, in order to be saved me must be made right according to the law and therefore are in need of someone to give us their own righteousness
Fully (Truly) Man
Not only are we in need of someone else’s righteousness, we are also in need of someone to bear our punishment
Because if we are given right standing but not able to pay our previous debt....what good is that
And Jesus being fully (truly) God and giving us His righteousness is amazing but that doesn’t make Him able to relate to us; or make Him any bit approachable
Jesus hear becomes also our perfect mediator (that is able to stand between us and God relating and relaying to both)
So this statement the person of Jesus Christ breaks down into 2 parts:
Fully (truly) God
Which if you’re wondering where this idea is biblically think about the times Jesus is referred to as the Son of God
Meaning that He is God descended and able to relay the message of the Father to Us
Fully (truly) Man
Think: Son of Man
This means that Jesus is able to intercede FOR us and on BEHALF of us BACK to the Father
The Work of Jesus Christ
Now that we’ve explained the PERSON of Jesus Christ, now we need to talk about His work
We understand Jesus is fully God and Man and therefore the perfect mediator between both
BUT without the work, we are still dead in our sins
The Work of the Gospel (Death, Burial, Resurrection)
Death
Jesus being both fully God and man in His Death is imperative because He can:
Pay for our sins in that He can take our punishment as a man
But He can pay for them with His perfection as God
Dying our death on our behalf with His perfection intact as God but bearing our sin as a man
Burial
This is saying that Christ is able to take our sins to the grave
Fulfilling the Old Testament image of the day of atonement
One lamb is slaughtered, the other is sprinkled with its blood and SENT AWAY to CARRY THE SINS AWAY
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