Philippians 2:3 “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”
Continuing Pastor Obie states that the third step to be all for all for the sake of the Gospel is to sacrifice your wants, interests and desires to put others first, so Gospel doors can be opened. How does this look practically in our lives today? How can we be all things to all people and sacrifice our wants, needs, interests and desires in order to put other people first for the sake of the Gospel? Change your talk and appearance to match your audience with compromising the Christian doctrine [teachings]. Missionaries around the world are sacrificing continually for the Gospel to reach those who have never heard of Jesus. Our church has adopted our local zip codes through a nation-wide evangelism program called “Saturate USA” [https://www.saturateusa.org] to sacrifice time to place door-hangers filled with evangelistic Christian material and church contact information to reach community residents who do not know the Lord or the plan of Salvation by grace through faith. Light must make sacrifices to run into the darkness of sin and unbelief with Gospel truth and be a connection point to the lost.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 “For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.”
The fourth step to be all for all for the sake of the Gospel is to be salvation-centered in all your actions. “I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.” Everything that the Apostle Paul did was for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the saving of people; salvation of precious souls. The Good News of Jesus Christ sent by Father God to die for our sins, then raised again so that we could be forgiven and have eternal life. 2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Romans 3:21-25 “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it - the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.”
God created this world sinless and perfect, but man sinned against God and we now live in a sinful fallen world. The Bible tells us that the wages or penalty of for is eternal death in Hell. People tend to have a high-esteem and excuse their sin, but say you sin against God or God’s creation only once a day; over 30 years that would be 11,000 sins. Look at the shape of the world today. We are guilty and sin must be paid; that is justice. Heaven cannot be earned or paid for by our good works; Heaven is not deserved by any sinner. But,1 Peter 2:24 says, “[Jesus Christ] who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.” Redemption is through the Great Redeemer alone. The gospel of Salvation is the goal. Reach the lost in sin and lead them to the foot of the Cross, where an atoning sacrifice was made by God, through His love, mercy and grace, if only we repent of sin, believe in the Savior of the World and accept the gift of God in Jesus Christ. Our job is to tell the world about the Gospel. In Mark 16:15 Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Christ died for you. Will you be all for all for the sake of the Gospel?
In Christ, Brian
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