Tuesday, April 28, 2009

1. God is the ruler of the world. He made the world. He made us rulers of the world under Him.

You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.
Revelation chapter 4, verse 11



2. We all reject the ruler - God - by trying to run life our own way without Him. But we fail to rule ourselves or society or the world.

There is no-one righteous, not even one; there is no-one who understands, no-one who seeks God. All have turned away.
Romans chapter 3, verses 10-12




3. God won't let us rebel forever. God's punishment for rebellion is death and judgement.



Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement. Hebrews chapter 9, verse 27



4. Because of His love, God sent His Son into the world: the man Jesus Christ. Jesus always lived under God's rule. Yet by dying in our place he took our punishment and brought forgiveness.


Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 18



5. God raised Jesus to life again as the ruler of the world. Jesus has conquered death, now gives new life and will return to judge.


In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 3



6. The 2 ways to live: a. our way (reject the ruler, try to run life our own way); results (condemn by God, facing death and judgement) OR b. God's new way (submit to Jesus as our ruler, rely on Jesus' death and resurrection); result (forgiveness by God)

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains in him. John chapter 3, verse 36

The first question you must ask yourselves is: Which way do i want to live?

in a sense, this is presenting the gospel in a pictoral form with someone speaking the words and relaying the verses i have typed out. rather interesting way of presentation, i feel. different in a sense that God being the ruler is brought up right from the start (for me, i havent heard it being brought up in a gospel sharing before, that is). but more importantly, the resurrection is emphasized as well. i agree that many a times, we share a lot about Christ's death, how He died for our sins, past, present and future, but we fail to say that He rose again in the gospel sharing to be our ruler. something else pretty new is the use of john 3:36 instead of john 3:16. the former verse brings up the point about sin and its punishment. pertinent, i guess, since salvation is not only about forgiveness but about repentence.