THis week, Michael writes: God
often uses the least expected thing to do His best work. He used
undistinguished fishermen and a ragtag team of Galileans to change the world.
Isaiah
52:6-7 Therefore My people
shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He
who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.’” How beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, ho says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, ho says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
These
verses lead to the great gospel message in Isaiah 53:4-6 about the supreme
sacrifice Jesus paid on our behalf. “Surely
He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for
our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like
sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has
laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
For
he who knew no sin was made the perfect sin sacrifice on our behalf that we may
be made the righteousness of God in him.
Nahum
1:15
“Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings
good tidings, Who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed
feasts, perform your vows. For the wicked one shall no more pass
through you; He is utterly cut off.!”
Who
delivers the Good News?
Romans
10:14-17 How then shall they
call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him
of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And
how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful
are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of
good things!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord,
who has believed our report?” So then faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
How
do they receive the word of God? Faith comes by hearing the Word. They
won't hear the word unless someone preaches it. As men and women of God,
and Ambassadors for Christ, we have been called and commissioned with the
mission of speaking and preaching or "heralding" the Word of Truth. What
are the credentials required to preach the Word? Do you need to go to
seminary and earn a Doctorate of Theology before you can preach?
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 “Not that we are
sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but
our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as
ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for
the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
Let continue Michael's message on "The Good News" of Jesus Christ on the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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