Proclaim the Message of Salvation

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“Sing to the Lord a new song;​

Sing to the Lord, all the earth.​

Sing to the Lord, bless His name;​

Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.​

Tell of His glory among the nations,​

His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.​

For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;​

He is to be feared above all gods.​

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,​

But the Lord made the heavens.​

Splendor and majesty are before Him,​

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.” (Psalm 96:1-6 NASB1995)​

As those who are followers of Jesus Christ, we are also to be those who are giving praise to God day to day, but not just with our lips, but with our hearts and with our life practices. And we are also to be those who are proclaiming to the people of the world the good tidings of His salvation, from day to day. But it needs to be the biblical gospel message as taught by Jesus Christ and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, and not the lies so many are spreading via teachings out of context.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

The grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. They have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

This is the good tidings of His Salvation which we are to be proclaiming from day to day. This is what we are to be telling to the nations, how Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross, and how he put our sins to death with him, and how he was resurrected from the dead and ascended back to heaven so that by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him we will now die to sin and walk in fellowship with our Lord in obedience to his commands and in holy living, for the glory and praise of God, in the power of God.

For our God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is to be feared above all gods. And to fear him is to believe his words, to believe not only his promises, but also his conditions he has for us, to be met by us for us to be of genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And it is to believe what he describes as the punishment for all who continue living in sin and who do not bow the knee to him in submission to his will for our lives. For to fear him is to give him honor, respect, worship, reverence, and our lives surrendered to his will.

We are not to follow after the gods of the peoples and of the nations. And these can be people, possessions, prestige, popularity, money, pride, entertainment, self-pleasure, adulterous eyes, sinful habits, addiction to sexual immorality, the worldly “church” being marketed to the people of the world, our own nations, or other nations, or anything or anyone who takes us away from love and devotion and obedience to our Lord. But we are to worship and obey and live for God, and for him alone, and not for self.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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