I wanna stir us up today to think about the certain issue afresh. That is about preaching the gospel of Jesus the Christ. You can also call it the gospel of the Kingdom.
Something that I have found out is that these days it doesn`t seem to be too popular among christians to preach the gospel. Sometimes it seems like in different fellowships all sorts of other things and activities have taken the place of the main purpose of the church of Jesus Christ which is making diciples of all nations and that certainly starts with preaching the gospel. I can see all sorts of circus activities taking place. I can hear all sorts of different messages being declared. I can go and visit congregations and I can get really good entertainment. Very professional. I can take part of the outreach that can cost easily 20 000 dollars/euros or even more to do and endless voluntary working hours but what do I end up seeing? Many times just wonderful entertainment and in the end somebody might say that its good to believe in Jesus or something like that. That is not preaching the gospel!
Should we stop preaching the gospel because it doesn`t make us popular? Certainly not. Should we stop preaching the gospel for the sake of getting more people to attend our activities? Certainly not. Jesus never told us to try to build big buildings and congregations. He told us to preach the gospel and to make diciples of all the nations. While we are doing our part He is doing His part by building His church!
Mark.16:
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Luke.24:46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise[h] from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
This is the simple commandment. I encourage us all to take it very seriously and to study from the word of God what is the message that we are to preach? I also wanna challenge the message that many have learned and even preached for years including me and I also had to repent. We been hearing and preaching that we need to receive Jesus that we can have our sins forgiven so that when we die we can go to heaven. sounds really good and there is parts of truth there. Interesting thing is though that you never find such a message from the bible. Jesus didn`t preach it neither did the first apostles. So why do we? Why do we rather preach some man made message instead of preaching the message that God gave to us in His word?
So what Did Jesus and the apostles preach?
Matt.4:
Something that I have found out is that these days it doesn`t seem to be too popular among christians to preach the gospel. Sometimes it seems like in different fellowships all sorts of other things and activities have taken the place of the main purpose of the church of Jesus Christ which is making diciples of all nations and that certainly starts with preaching the gospel. I can see all sorts of circus activities taking place. I can hear all sorts of different messages being declared. I can go and visit congregations and I can get really good entertainment. Very professional. I can take part of the outreach that can cost easily 20 000 dollars/euros or even more to do and endless voluntary working hours but what do I end up seeing? Many times just wonderful entertainment and in the end somebody might say that its good to believe in Jesus or something like that. That is not preaching the gospel!
Should we stop preaching the gospel because it doesn`t make us popular? Certainly not. Should we stop preaching the gospel for the sake of getting more people to attend our activities? Certainly not. Jesus never told us to try to build big buildings and congregations. He told us to preach the gospel and to make diciples of all the nations. While we are doing our part He is doing His part by building His church!
Mark.16:
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Luke.24:46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise[h] from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
This is the simple commandment. I encourage us all to take it very seriously and to study from the word of God what is the message that we are to preach? I also wanna challenge the message that many have learned and even preached for years including me and I also had to repent. We been hearing and preaching that we need to receive Jesus that we can have our sins forgiven so that when we die we can go to heaven. sounds really good and there is parts of truth there. Interesting thing is though that you never find such a message from the bible. Jesus didn`t preach it neither did the first apostles. So why do we? Why do we rather preach some man made message instead of preaching the message that God gave to us in His word?
So what Did Jesus and the apostles preach?
Matt.4:
17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Acts.17:
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
There`s plenty of other scriptures that would show us the same thing and even expand it quite abit but that gives us an idea. We are to preach repentance for the kingdom of God is now here and is gonna take over all the other kingdoms. We need to be in the right kingdom! We are to preach repentance for God is going to judge all unrighteousness. God don`t want no one to be condemned so he is giving us time to repent. But it needs to be preached.
It is about the life in the kingdom of God. Not about dying and going to heaven. Dying and going to heaven never was a part of the message of Jesus and first apostles but the life in the kingdom of God! Jesus is ruling and reigning in this kingdom and this kingdom is going to be fully established here on earth as it is in heaven. While that is taking place we do the work of the ministry so that Christ the King can return to His body.
Now I just shortly mention that beginning at 2014 will be time that I will start moving all around Europe teaching and preaching the apostolic message. I know that many people from different European nations are reading this blog so feel happy to contact me through email and we can make adjustments that I can come and visit and minister in your area too. simo.kahri@gmail.com
Many beautiful blessings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus the Christ!
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