Good News

‘Good News’- Let us ‘shout for joy’. ‘Good News’- Let us sing ‘songs of joy’.

There is the Good News of God’s reign - ‘Your God reigns’.

There is the Good News of our redemption - ‘The Lord has redeemed’ us.

We are not to keep the Good News to ourselves. This ‘news of happiness’ is to be shared with everyone. We must let ‘all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God’.

‘Christ died for our sins’- This is Good News.

Christ was ‘raised on the third day’- This is Good News.

‘Jesus is Lord’- This is Good News.

This is the Good News we must ‘pass on’ to others. In our world, there is so much bad news. We must not let the Good News be drowned out by the bad news. We must make sure that the people hear the Good News - loud and clear (Isaiah 52:7-10; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Mission Praise, 249).

To God Be The Glory! Great Things He Has Done.

Concerning ourselves, there is bad news - We cannot save ourselves.

From Christ, our Saviour, there is Good News - “He is able to save to the uttermost all who come to God through Him” (Hebrews 7:25).

Sin takes us far from God. Grace brings us near to God.

Sin holds us captive. Grace sets us free.

* The way of salvation does not begin with “I”: This is what I have done - my religion, my morality.

* Salvation comes from God:- “God so loved the world …” This is the the Gospel: What we could never do for ourselves, God has done for us - “He gave His only Son”, Jesus Christ, “the atoning sacrifice … for the sins of the whole world”, “the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin” (John 3:16; 1 John 2:2; 1:7).