What Are We Here For?
Memory
Verse: Matthew 24:14 (NKJV) “And this gospel
of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the
nations, and then the end will come.”
1.
We Must Show the Love
of God to Everyone.
1 John 4:7–10; John
3:16; Romans 5:6–8; 2 Timothy 2:13; Lamentations 3:22–23;1 John 4:8; 1 John 3:18;1 John
4:10; 1 John 4:11–13; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 4:19
Litmus Test
“an event, decision etc that provides a clear sign of what someone is really like or what their intentions are.”—Macmillan Dictionary
Illustration: “A Stolen Radioactive material” story
told by Warren Wiersebe
Illustration: Create Him! —J. A. Clarks
2.
We must Proclaim the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to Everyone
Mark 16:15; Matthew
4:23; John 10:10; Luke 19:10; Matthew 24:14
“Tell the good News” by Gene Bartlett
Christ was born in a
distant land,
Tell the good news
Tell the good news
Lived on earth for
the good of man
Tell the good news
Tell the good news
Refrain:
Tell the good news
Tell the good news
Tell the good news
that Christ has come.
Tell the good news
Tell the good news
Tell the good news to
everyone.
Illustration: Adolphe Monod, the famous French evangelical preacher, who died in
1856, said before dying: “I have strength for nothing more than to think about
the love of God; He has loved us—that is the whole of dogmatic; let us love
Him—that is the sum total of the ethics of the Gospel.”
3.
This will result in
people becoming transformed and restored into
a people of God
2 Corinthians 5:16–17;
John 1:12–13; 1 John 3:1; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 1:27; Hebrews 13:5; Colossians 1:13–14 ; Colossians 2:13–14;
Hebrews 10:15–18; John 10:10;2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:4–5; John 5:24;
John 10:27–30
Illustration: Old Pete’s Assurance
Illustration: God Would Be Greater
Loser—Donald Grey Barnhouse
Conclusion:
“The
future ain't what it used to be.” Yogi
Berra.
