Stewards of the Good News

Corinthians 2 5:14-21, John 3:16, and Peter 1 4:10
Bad news becomes a burden and good news makes one to rejoice.

I: The Greatest News of All Times: “Adam where art thou?”
1. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3.
2. “Greater love hath no man…” John 15:13.
3. “Love of Christ passeth knowledge.” Ephesians 3:19.
4. “Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth…” Romans 8:38-39.
5. “For God so loved.”

II: News that can never make us blush for shame.
1. Paul before Ephesus, Athens, Phillipia, and Rome.
2. It is the greatest of all gifts.
3. It is a gift to those that loved him not.
4. News with no apology.

III: News of the greatest pardon.
1. A pardon to a sinsick world.
2. News of a cure for the deadliest thing.
3. News of light to a darkened world.

IV: “If our gospel be hid.”
1. If we become like the Church of Ephesus: “Left her 1st love.”
or the Church at Leodicean: “Neither cold nor hot.”
2. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?”