It Really is Good News!!!!!
Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Wait – do you mean to tell me I don’t have to get my life right before I can get to God? Do you mean to tell me that He is offering me something for FREE that I do not have to earn? The understanding of God’s grace puts an entire new light on the Gospel. The understanding of God’s grace makes it very easy and exciting to share the Good News. Gospel defined is Good News; this good news is available to all. This erases all the works based faith systems out there. All other religions point to the duties of one’s self to get you right before any of their Gods. The understanding of the Gospel points to the Free Gift through humble, repentant hearts that is available to all. It does not require, nor does it accept, any works based faith system to God.
This gives us incredible news to share with all those who God puts around us. It should be a burning desire to share the good news of Jesus Christ to whom we can. There is nothing required but answering that tug that God places on your heart when you hear this good news. Being a disciple gives you the ability to share and experience the work Christ did for you, and he can do the same for them. This alone allows us easily to step into discipleship.
We have been ingrained all our lives, the importance of our last words as we leave this earth as we know it. Hollywood has made millions on movies that close with those famous last lines. There is weight in one’s last words. I ask you today, what where Christ’s last words before he ascended into heaven to sit at his fathers right hand after accomplishing his work at the Cross? Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Wow! His last words to us were to go and make disciples. Not to sign a card, pray a prayer, but to make disciples. We must be a disciple first, before we can make one. You cannot be a teacher until you are taught. We are to live our lives with the evidence of the power of Christ in our lives every single day. The evidence of our love for Him and the redeemed and eternally secure life we live, allows him to use us to witness for Him and draw others to him. How you live you life seven days a week is the measure of your discipleship. If integrity is what you do when nobody is looking, discipleship is how you live when everybody is looking. Do they see Christ in you?
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