A Weekly Devotional – The Gospel – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – The Gospel – Personal Meditation

Comment: Today people around the world, including the United States of America hear an unclear message of the Gospel of the Grace of God. Acts 20:24 – when someone is called to preach the Gospel, he is called as God’s ambassador. They are to reveal to those listening the Will and Character of God. Someone once said this; “We are called to preach the Gospel, and sometimes we are to use WORDS!” Notice what the apostle Paul states again in Acts 20, this time in verse 27, “For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God”. We must be willing live out the counsel that God teaches us, before we open our mouth. The apostle amplifies this concern for the gospel in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. That is; if you do not see the love that God has for our soul in the ambassador before and after presenting the Gospel, then the Holy Spirit and the love of God has not ministered to the soul.

Devotional: Romans 1:16 – “I am not ashamed to the gospel, for it is the power of God (to all men and women – see John 3:16) to salvation (this salvation is the redeeming work of God’s Son applied to every soul) for everyone who believes. For the Jew first also for the Greek (Gentile).

Romans 1:17 – For in it (the Good News of God), the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. (Now do not miss this). Just as it is written, the just shall live by faith. I am not ashamed of the gospel and I am not ashamed of my faith in the gospel, therefore I ‘justly’ live by faith in the Good News of God at all times to project faith and share faith whenever possible.

In summing this up, lets look at Acts 3:1-10, Peter and John were going into the temple to pray, it was 3pm. A certain lame man from birth who was not looking to be healed, but for money, stopped the apostles and asked them for a few coins. Peters reply – “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give to you: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” So, leaping up, the man stood, and he walked, he entered the temple and he praised God. The lame man’s faith agreed with the apostle’s faith, he entered the temple on his own. It was his first step of faith, and for the first time, he entered the temple by his own freewill.

We all need to take that first step. It may be that you are not yet believing in the Gospel, that first step is believing that Jesus Christ died for YOUR sins. That His sacrificial death please God. Thus the Father God raised up His Son Jesus (alive again) on the third day of being in the tomb and in believing this Truth you may have your sins and iniquities forgiven and that you may have life (eternal life) in His Name. Notice Acts 4:10-12.