The Good News is the Good News

I heard a preacher say a few months ago that we are treating the “The Good News like it is the Bad News.” It has inspired me to write about things that would encourage individuals to remove the obstacles that separates all of us from God. I will give the reader a look at just scripture. Hopefully the readers will study and apply the things they read in God’s Word. When we make the proper corrections it is only then that we have a relationship with God. It is not what I think or what you think; it is what God says that counts. The social gospel is no gospel at all and is leading good people not toward God, but separating them totally from God. By painting grey areas in God’s Word, where it is plainly black and white, sin is able to rein in the lives of people seeking God. In the following weeks I hope to bring back to light truths in God’s Word that have been darkened by the “I’m OK you’re OK doctrine”. The devil wants mankind to fail. Why does man think we need to bring God down to our level? To justify sin and feel good about themselves.  We need to be Holy as God is Holy. God is not a man. Very simply: 1Peter 1:14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16  for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. NIV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. NIV

The Good News is that if through obedience to the Word of God you can be forgiven of the sins through the blood of Christ in baptism. Turn from sin, obey God, and spend eternity with him when this life is over and eternal life begins. He who has an ear listen to what the word of God teaches.

By Tim Anderson