“WE EXIST TO PROCLAIM THE REIGN OF JESUS CHRIST OVER ALL THINGS; GLORIFYING AND ENJOYING GOD, NOW AND FOREVER!”

GO, and TELL!

What now? Having paid the penalty for sin on the cross and rising from the dead, Jesus appeared to the disciples and gave them their “marching orders:” “Go and make disciples of all nations!” (Matthew 28:19). He said, “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20:21). And the last thing Jesus said to the disciples was “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

“Going” and “telling”is the task of every person who believes in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. “Evangelism,”sharing the “good news”of salvation through repentance and faith in Christ Jesus, is the calling of all of us who are filled with His Spirit. With the Apostle Paul we proclaim, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

Yet it seems that many in the church, while claiming to believe in Jesus Christ, are not equipped to share the Gospel with others, to TELL the good news to those who have not yet confessed Jesus Christ as Savior. In Romans 10:13, Paul quotes the prophet, Joel, and declares, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved,”but then he goes on to say,

“How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent?”(Romans 10:14-15). We who believe have HOPE through faith in Jesus Christ that every person needs in order to live in this world! So Peter writes, “ … in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense (to testify) to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (I Peter 3:15).

This series of seven messages will remind you of things you already know or teach you the Gospel for the first time. It will give you an outline to remember when sharing the Gospel with others, preparing and equipping you for those moments when God wants to use you to tell someone else about Him and the one way of salvation through faith in Jesus. “GO, and TELL!”is God’s command to all who know Him and who trust in Jesus Christ for forgiveness and life. May God use His Word to speak to all who hear in order that we will live as ambassadors of His kingdom, sent from the Father in the power of the Spirit to “GO, and TELL!”

7 – Repent and Believe

Go, and Tell! Nowhere in the Bible are we told to “Invite Jesus into your heart …”  We ARE told to “repent” and we ARE told to “believe!”  The Gospel comes with a “call” to repent AND believe, but it is more of a command than it is an invitation, and it is disobedience to that command that causes judgment to fall…

6 – The CROSS …

Go, and Tell! “Salvation” is a word hardly ever used in our everyday vocabulary. Some may use it rarely to talk about some kind of escape or deliverance from some unwanted consequence to their actions or the actions of others, but the word lies at the heart of the Bible, God’s Word, and the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Inspired…

5 – JESUS, the Only Son of God!

Go, and Tell! “Believing in Jesus” is necessary for receiving eternal life, rather than facing God’s just judgment against sin. Jesus said, “For God so (thus) loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). It is vitally important, then, to know what it means to“believe in Jesus.”…

4 – BUT GOD … !!

Go, and Tell! Can it be true that the entire human race is deserving of God’s wrath and judgment and that apart from God’s intervention we would ALL, each and every one, perish in our sin?? YES!! “ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). “The wages of sin is death, BUT the gift of GOD is…

3 – Humanity … the View From Heaven!

Go, and Tell! For nearly 6,000 years the human race has been attempting to overcome the effects of Adam’s sin through our own efforts. The history of mankind and of the nations is the record of brief, temporary, partial “successes” and centuries of utter failures to improve the human condition. Only the most foolish imagine that we will ultimately solve the human…

2 – The Unknown God Has Revealed Himself!

Go, and Tell! Jesus said, “This is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3). To “know God” means more than simply having some vague knowledge of “a god.” To “know God” means to have an intimate knowledge of the one and only true God … knowledge that leads to an…

1 – As the Father Has Sent Me …

Go, and Tell! Many today view the early church as a group of people who were loved by everybody and who were blessed by God with growth and excitement at every turn! Apparently, they have never read the book of Acts or the letters to the churches in the New Testament. It was only by the grace of God through the work…