“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.””
Romans 1:16-17 (NIV)
There is power in the good news about Jesus Christ our Lord.
How do you ‘plug into’ that power?
Faith- that is you believe the message.
You see it in Jonah 3 - they believed the message of Jonah and look what happened - real power!
It was ‘real’ belief, in the sense that out of the belief came action - as opposed to ‘false’ belief that changes nothing. When a person truly believes that destruction is coming from God’s hand - they do something - they seek God’s face and turn from their ways to God’s ways.
The power comes from God and not from us. We are to live by faith, and our faith - that is our belief in the good news about Christ - attaches us to God through His Spirit and His power brings us salvation.
It is His message.
It is His power.
It is His work.
We believe, we seek God’s face and we turn from our ways to His ways.
There is no other way to be saved – then by believing the good news of Christ Jesus.
Do we believe this?
Then why do we not share the good news of Christ Jesus to all we meet?
Why are we ashamed of the message that saved us?
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