The Message we Preach

The Really Good News

So are we ever going to get to the good stuff, the cross and everything? Yes we are, but we hope that we can now see how the preaching of the Law does not detract from the cross, but instead makes it much more glorious.

God's love is shown to us through the cross.

For when we understand the exceeding sinfulness of our sin, and Christ who is God incarnate, the giver of the Holy law himself. The cross is no longer a mere symbol of Christian faith, it's the glorious reality of God saving sinners from the judgment of sin.

The good news is not the myth that God just forgives everyone; the good news is about the fact that God sacrificed His only Son, who was innocent of breaking God's laws, and punished Christ as if He was the Law breaker, in the place of you and I. God's love is shown in our deepest need. If we are not such rebellious offender's of God's Law, God could just shower His blessing upon our lives as a sign of His love. The problem is that in order for God to rescue us from His righteous judgment, the penalty of our crime must be paid for. Christ died on our behalf so that we might be made righteous before the Father.

"For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." -2 Corinthians 5:21

This is why grace is so amazing. The sacrifice of God's only son for our sin is NOT what we deserve. If we agree with the Bible then we must come to the conclusion that we deserve not God's mercy but His wrath. God is within His right to destroy every single last one of us for our outright hatred and indifference to Him, the giver of our every breathe. We should have perished in our rebellion, yet God is willing to lay down His Son's perfect and sinless life as a substitute for our worthless damnable sinful life. Every man and woman presented with the Gospel has only two choices, to either reject God's kind and gracious offer, continuing to live a life of sin that would lead to eternal damnation, or repent from their sins and be born again into the likeness of Christ and receive the ultimate perfection in heaven.

And either way, God will be glorified for being the Righteous Judge when He calls all sinners into account, and punishes them according to their offences, or He will be glorified as the God who saves and justifies sinners, through Christ's sacrifice. This is the glorious message Christians are called to preach, whether in Churches behind a pulpit or "one on one" with a neighbour or stranger, to preach and exalt God's Holy law and call every sinner to repentance and run to our loving Savior.

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