The Gospel

Before we can tell people of the glorious good news which is the Gospel, we must first know what it is ourselves. I see and hear so many people talking about the spreading the gospel is telling others what God is doing in their lives and how their lives have changed. Yes, we must tell people this but this my friends is not the gospel. So what is the gospel? Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4

3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures..

This is the gospel. Christ died for our sins taking them upon himself so that we might be reconciled with a just and Holy God and He rose in three days thus defeating death and the grave. Without Christ, our sins are not forgiven and we are destined to be in the bondage of our sin in which we will suffer the wrath of God. You can't tell someone the gospel without bringing up sin. That's why Christ died. Not to give us a better life in this world, not go make us feel better about ourselves, but to save us from our sin that seperates us from God.

Matthew 1:21 "21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

How can you tell them that they must repent if you don't tell them about sin? So if you don't tell them about their sin and how that's what's keeping them away from God there's no repentance and without repentance there's no salvation and without salvation through the blood of Christ your destined to spend all eternity seperated from God.

Christians need to get back to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ instead of what you can "get" out of God. After all the question isn't what you can get out of God, but what God can get out of you.

Do you see yourself?

I had a conversation the other night with a guy who had had a little too much to drink. Okay, actually alot too much to drink and he just wanted to fight and something happened. As we stood on the side of the street, face to face, were looking into each others eyes, as he was doing his best to get me upset and provoke me it hit me. It was my old self I was looking at. You see I use to be that same way. The more he tried to provoke, the more my heart broke for him. As this man full of hatred from something in his life was trying to take it out on me I thanked God for my salvation, for Him sending His Son to die for me, for freeing me from the bondage of sin, for taking away my heart of stone and giving me a heart of flesh, and most of all for reconciling me to Him through the blood of Christ. Then I prayed for that man's soul, and I will every night from here on out. You see we all were once like him, lost in our sin. I now make it a point to retell the gospel to myself everyday. Won't you join me...

Open Minded

I had the opportunity to preach at the mission last night. Paul says in 1st Corinthians 1:18 "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are parishing...." I saw that first hand last night and as I think about people in general, they're okay as long as you preach about the "love" of God but the minute you get to the "judgement" of God they get a little riled up.:) The minute you preach the gospel they get offended because you don't preach that "all roads lead to heaven". I got accused of not being "open minded" about other religions last night by a muslim. I told him, you're right, I'm not open minded about other religions because those other religions lead you on a path straight to hell. I got asked point blank last night during the service what would happen to all those who believed in other religions. At that point I could have watered everything down and smoothed everything over by giving them some wishy washy version of the gospel. But God's word tells us that unless we repent and believe in Jesus Christ alone for our salvation we will be sent into the lake of fire. Unless our names are in the Lambs Book of Life, we will suffer eternal damnation.

Romans 5:1 says "Therefore being justified by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ". This verse says alot. The only way to be reconciled with a just, righteous and holy God is through Jesus Christ. Jesus said in the 13th chapter of Luke, "repent or you too shall perish". There is only one way to be forgiven of your sins and only one way to Heaven and that's through Jesus Christ. There is no other way. Everytime we get up and preach or teach the word of God we will be held accountable for what we teach and preach. I praise God for the opportunity last night!

Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes..."

Hellfire invades Daytona

Well the guys have hit Daytona for Bike Week and what an awesome start. I get us this morning with this pic and a message from my brother John.



“Wish u were here bro. Just had a man on the street rededicate his life. Confessed all his sins right there on the street. Porn, drugs, masturbation and all.”



I praise God for providing the resources for this to happen. For Hellfire Ministries to have a presence at Bike Week and most of all for my brothers John, Richard and Robbie who have taken time off from work to go and do the work that really matters, and that’s doing the Lord’s work. Please keep them in prayer as they spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the streets of Daytona.