This past Sunday night, March 25th, God gave me the opportunity to preach at Boone’s Creek Baptist Church for their Sunday night service. This is a church that sees their role in training young men for ministry, and it’s very encouraging to see. I spoke out of Romans 3 and I closed with 10 different response that we should have to the Gospel as believers. This is only applicable for those who are followers of Christ because there’s only one response possible for an unbeliever and that’s the response of faith in Christ. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s just a few that came to mind as I prepared.
1. Seeing both yourself and God rightly: throught the Gospel, we see our sinfulness in light of God’s holiness. This gives us a proper view of ourselves and a correct view of our God.
2. Living in light of God’s grace: Our legalistic minds are nullified by the grace of God. Instead of trying to live in such a way that we earn God’s favor, we live knowing that Christ has earned His favor for us. We partake in the spiritual disciplines not so we can earn this favor, but because the grace that saves us and initially earns God’s favor for us in Christ is the same grace that disciplines us.
3. Humility: The Gospel shows us that the ground is level at the foot of the Cross. Everyone is in need of God’s salvation, but everyone is also undeserving. Yet God chooses to save His Elect by His grace and apart from anything that we do. The Gospel humbles us by our sinfulness and by Christ’s saving work on our behalf.
4. Evangelism: This seem like an obvious one, but the more we preach the Gospel to ourselves daily, the more we grow in our passion for its truth, and the more we desire to share its message.
5. Freedom from Guilt: We look to the promise of Romans 8, “There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Through the imputed righteousness of Christ we are justified and declared not guilty before God. It’s crazy to think that the same God that condemns us is the same God that pardons us from His condemnation.
Posted by Cameron Potts 