Good News - Oasis NT Church Planting Movement

Everybody in the Kingdom needs to be able to share the “Good News” of Jesus in a 2-3 minute opportunity.

We need to be skilled, disciplined and prepared at all times to deliver this.

We also need to be flexible and patient, working with the Holy Spirit to deliver the “right message in the right moment to the right person”.

Are you ready ? Is the listener ready and receptive ? Have you practiced something useful you can use ?

You may reach a point in a conversation or a relationship where this “Special Moment” of sharing has come.

You might start with a request that sounds something like this “May I share something really special with you ?”

Then be ready for the person to say “Yes”… and let’s begin.

(Here’s my version… copy it, use it, refine it… but make it yours that you can repeat at any time… tjhis takes me 4 mins or less to share)

CREATION

Way back in the beginning God created the Heaven, the Earth and put man into that space and everything was perfect. God’s creation was so perfect that there was no killing, no police, no crime, no money, no banks, just peace, kindness, generosity, supernatural health and incredible abundance and eternal (forever) living. God also had wide open fellowship with humans every day. It was like heaven on earth.

THE FALL (THE BAD NEWS)

Unfortunately this “sin” crept into this situation and humans broke the relationship and a simple agreement they had with God. This sin ruined this beautiful place. Humans were now separated from God. This is what sin is. Separation for God. In this new chaos, new things entered the human experience like murder (when Cain killed his brother Abel), then came sickness, disease, money, poverty, lack, famines, wars and more chaos, people actually died. So death now entered the human experience.

THE REMEDY FOR SIN

This made God very sad. He saw the most precious thing he created (us humans), in a world of pain and hurt. So he planned a way for make peace and have an agreement or covenant with humans. This was a simple process of making an animal sacrifice (shedding of blood) to cover the sin.

HUMANS FAILED AGAIN

In the journey of humanity, from Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses and to Jacob, humans kept breaking each new covenant that God made. Humans just could not keep up with the rules, laws and the agreements that they made with God.

THE FINAL SOLUTION

So, God’s final plan was to send his only son, Jesus Christ from Nazareth, to be the final sacrifice for us all. Jesus proved he was God’s son with mighty miracles like being born from a virgin (his mother Mary), healing the blind, the deaf, the lame and the sick. He walked on water and raise several dead people like Lazarus and Dorcas. He gave himself up to be tortured and murdered on a cross in Jerusalem to be that final sacrifice. even death could not hold him down, and God raised him up, and we walked right out of the tomb and walked the earth for 40 days, talking to people, about 500 eye witnesses.

What’s different about Jesus and other sacrifices, is the man made sacrifices to God, but when he Jesus this was God coming to Earth and making a sacrifice (a new spiritual contract) with humanity. No god has has ever done that before or since. That’s it. It’s finished. There is no more sacrificing to do on earth. Jesus made a way for us to have fellowship with God once again, and to bring Heaven back to a broken earth and restore all the good stuff God intended.

WHAT JESUS AND THE SCROLLS SAY

Jesus said “I am the door. No one comes the Father but through me.” Another writing says, “There is no name under heaven by which man can be saved.” Another writing says “If you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, then you can be saved”.

The Apostle Peter said in ACTS 2:38.. “Repent (say sorry to God), and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

Do you want to depart from the evil behaviour and chaos of humanity ? What do you think now about God, Heaven, Earth and Jesus ? Would you like to make Jesus your friend and your Lord, and have access to all the Good that God has prepared for you ? Would you like to follow Jesus, be water baptised and receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit ?

IN CONCLUSION

If you are sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ just remember that there is no good news without bad news. The 2 elements go together in the Gospel story.

You need to somehow include sharing the bad news of humanity separated from God, which we see every day in crime, murder, hate, violence and anger. God never meant humans to live in an environment with those evil things. Jesus came to restore all that is good back to humanity.

That’s it. That’s really good news.

God wants to be your friend.

HOW DO I CONNECT WITH GOD ?

Did you know that the God who created the universe and who created you, wants to be your friend ?

Did you know he wants to speak to you ?

Did you know that God is Love ?

That means love, in its purest and sacrificial form is God.

GOD = LOVE = GOD.

That also means when you feel love (not lust) for someone, that is the voice of God gently speaking to you. Also when you feel hurt, or heartache, like when a crime has been committed against you or your family or you friends. God’s heart breaks also, and again you can hear his pain whispering into your heart, just the same.

That’s why God sent his son Jesus to make peace with humanity, so God can have intimacy and friendship with you everyday. Jesus said nobody can gain access to the Father, except through Him alone. He was not lying. This is true. Jesus was honest and truthful.

WHY IS JESUS SO IMPORTANT ?

Jesus is the ancient door into the spirit world, and He is the King and Master of the spirit world. This is because of his amazing miracles and life on earth, his arrest, his torture, his murder, his burial and his resurrection… makes him the King of the Universe. He has no equal. In fact, the old scrolls describe him as having ALL power over ALL things.

In the fullness of time every knee will bow before him, and every tongue will surrender to His supremacy. All humans, All angels, All demons and you will all kneel before him one day to give an account of our words and actions toward him and our fellow humans. Will you surrender innocently to Jesus today or will Jesus treat you as an evil doer and and evil criminal when you meet him ?

You need to make a decision. Surrender to Jesus and make peace with God, or continue to fight God, agree with evil, and slander his son Jesus.

HOW CAN I MAKE THIS RIGHT ? REMEDY THIS ? SOLVE THIS ?

Let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart and fix your relationship with God. Pray and ask God to reveal himself to you. Pray and ask Jesus to forgive you for participating in the story of evil human chaos. Step away from that chaos permanently. Believe in your heart that Jesus is the Messiah, The Redeemer or Humanity, the Rescuer of Humanity, and say it out aloud with your mouth.

Surrender your life to Jesus, and make peace with the God of the universe.

WHAT CAN I DO TO BE SAVED ?

Pray this simple prayer, sincerely when you are ready. This is between you and the Lord.

“Lord Jesus forgive me for my bad behaviour and sinful nature. I want to know you. I want to follow you. I will do my best to listen to your teachings and follow you.”

WHAT DO I DO NEXT ?

Tell a friend you have done this. Go quickly and find someone who will Water Baptise you into Jesus, and you will receive the promise of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to give you power to destroy evil human chaos, and criminal behaviour in your own life, and wherever you set your feet. Get a Bible and read the whole book. It will change your life, and you will be a “Friend of God”.

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