Preaching the God of the Gospel.
As we have heard over the
last couple of Wednesdays, Paul proclaimed and preached the unique Gospel, or
Good News, of God that we now find in the Bible and that teaches that we come to
saving grace through obedient faith! Paul
says all of this happens by “the command of the eternal God”. Rom 16:
26.
To spread God’s Good News
and to receive salvation through its revelation, is all God’s work. He commands his servants and the message they
share. God therefore gives authority to
the preached Word as it all happens under his dominion. It is accompanied by
his power and blessed with his personal interventions in the lives of everyone
that hears – and listens.
The God of the Gospel is
the Father of the Saviour and the Sender of the Spirit. He who in his great power
created us, and everything that exists, and who is the Judge that required
punishment for our sins, is our God who also gave his beloved Son to carry the sentence
in our place and who plants and germinates the Word he commands to grow in our
lives to bring us into his community.
The preaching of the
Gospel is therefore all about the God of the Gospel.
Listening to God’s Word,
is about getting to know God better and better.
He who commands his Word, commands his servants who preach and commands
the outcome of the Gospel proclamation in our lives: salvation and new life!
We should recognize that
it all begins and ends with God. We should praise him and worship him always. At
every opportunity he gives. He should be
the one to whom we ascribe glory forever.
In the end, and at the
end, we will worship the God of our redemption with his Church and all who are
in heaven, yes, we will forever praise his wisdom and goodness.
We need the Gospel.
But most of all, we need
to get to know the God of the Gospel who now commands the bringing of the Good
News to you and me, and as such commands our eternal future.
Praise the God of the
Gospel! Praise him always!
Worship him at every
opportunity he provides.
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