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[Minister Monardo]

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[honey badger]

the gospel preached in the world is the gospel of the wilderness ... its a gospel of division ...

 

[Bruce Leiter]

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Many have preached the Gospel in this age of Grace
since the Lord ascended into heaven.
It follows that many have heard. But who receives?
Can the person who receives the Gospel be described?

For example, from the first of the beatitudes;
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

This describes the spirit of someone bending forward with both hands
extended and empty, seeking to receive the Grace of God In Truth.

John 3:27. John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
except it be given him from heaven.

I preached the gospel for 27 years in 7 churches. We returned to one of them for their 75th anniversary celebration. After the ceremony, a woman in her 30s came up to me. She said that when she was in middle school and I was her pastor, one Sunday I began my sermon on Ephesians 2:1-10 by saying, "We're all born dead; we're stillborn by being dead to God." She perked up and began listening to see what I meant. She had never listened to my messages up to that point, but she had been eager to listen to and read God's Word ever since that time. We often will never know who will listen to our message, but God has promised that his Word will accomplish its purposes with unbelievers and believers.