God's Message is for You

The Gospel of Christ is God’s message to you.

You should respond to it for the same reason you should respond to all important messages you receive in your life: Important messages come from important sources.

How important is being right with God to you?

What will you do with God’s message to you?

• God has warned repeatedly that we are in sin, and that it has separated us from Him. (Isa. 59.1-2)
• The good news of the Gospel is that He has paid the price for our forgiveness with the blood of Jesus Christ.
• He calls us to accept that gift on His terms
  • Hear the good news and believe that Jesus is the Christ (Romans 10.17; Mark 16.16)
  • Turn our minds and hearts towards Him in repentance, and submit to baptism for the forgiveness of our sins. “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you for the forgiveness of sins” (Acts 2.38)
  • Live the rest of our lives in keeping with His gospel message.

I hope and pray that you will do with this message what the Thessalonian believers did with it: “you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God”.

This issue started with a question I was asked once in a Bible study: “What are we going to do about those who have not yet obeyed the Gospel?”

When that question was asked, before I could respond, another brother of mine responded first:

“I know you’re not going to like this answer, but they are responsible as individuals. We can’t do it for them.”

Indeed, as much as we would love to, we can’t respond for you. The message of the Gospel is for all, but it is individually addressed.

If you believe that this Gospel came from God, and because of that you are willing to heed its message, we encourage you to respond as Jesus and His apostles taught their listeners to respond.