Hi, everyone!
May I insert for a while?
Well, then. The Bible says: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2 Timothy 4:2-6”
So Christians, such as myself, preach the Word because we are told to. But first and foremost, we preach because we have heard about that Word (Jesus).
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17
And by hearing about the Word (Jesus) and what He did for us, Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried and on the third day He rose again. And that we came to believe.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Jesus did not suffer for nothing. He did not take all those beating for nothing. He did not walk, carrying that heavy cross for nothing. He did them all for us, sinners.
You see, whenever man tries to do good, going to church, helping the sick; our works can’t hide, can’t erase, can’t vanish the sins we know we commit. Even we think we are saints, because we think we seldomly commit sin. Sin is always sin in God’s eyes even it’s that small. Imagine we are in jail, how can we, imperfect human beings, get out of the jail? We need someone from the outside of the jail to pay for our fine. It’s the same with us in this world. We are slaves of sin (because we do sin), we need the One who can free us from sin. The One who can take us out of slavery is Someone who is not a slave of sin.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1 Peter 1:19
Jesus Christ, the perfect true God and true man, came to earth and was made flesh so that we can be free from the slavery of sin, from eternal suffering on the lake of fire.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
Jesus Christ willingly took our punishment, taking our sins upon Himself because He loves us and that He doesn't want people to end on the lake of fire. Though He died on that cruel cross, He was buried, Yet He rose again the third day according to the scriptures, fulfilling the words He said that He would and He did.
No, this is not blind faith. There are many evidences outside of the Bible that Jesus Christ happened. Most importantly, the Bible was written because of events. How much more about that 4 gospels? They all written after an event that Jesus Christ happened.
Though many lives were taken and is continually taken, we know that our citizenship, our home is not this fallen world, but it is in heaven and be with God forever.
And we preach because we do not want people to end up in that cruel lake of fire. We preach (in loving manner, must showing Christ-like character in our lives) because we love you and we are not selfish to take you for granted of the Good News that we received, we believed (which changes lives into something wonderful).
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.
God bless! May you have peace that comes from God that is received from Him.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.
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Took this opportunity to preach the gospel. May you preach the gospel that you have received and believed.
–outofwordtheater
