World Gospel Missions

  • Your Understanding of the Gospel

    Your Understanding of the Gospel

    (Pastor CHRIS OYAKHILOME)

    For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth… (Romans 1:16).

    Your main purpose on earth is to establish the Kingdom of God. We just read that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. In other words, God’s power to save, help, deliver, and bless is in the Gospel. All a man needs is to hear and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he’ll be changed forever.

    This was the understanding and the conviction that Christians in the early Church had that made them preach the Gospel fearlessly; they were bold and confident with the Gospel. They were arrested, beaten, and even killed for the Gospel’s sake, all because of their understanding that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Despite the fierce opposition and persecution they faced, they were undeterred, fearlessly preaching the Name of Jesus (Acts 5:41).

    It’s not enough to preach the Gospel, you must also understand the Gospel that you preach, and be convinced it’s the only hope there is for all men. Your personal understanding of the Gospel is very important, because your life would be a reflection of “your gospel.” Your gospel is your perception of what Christ came to do, and the import, impact, and relevance of that in your personal life; that’s what will form your message. So, if you don’t fully understand the true Gospel of Christ, you’ll preach the wrong message.

    The same message the apostles preached, which Jesus Himself began both to do and teach (Acts 1:1) is what we have the privilege to take to our world today. Be sure that that true message is what you preach. Study it. Understand it, and be convinced that it’s the only hope and power there is for the salvation of mankind.

    There’re no options to the Gospel. There’s no other way to the Father, except Jesus Christ. He said, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). This is absolute reality, and it must form the basis of your convictions: your speech, your thinking. Your outlook on life must be from this understanding and persuasion about Christ and His Gospel.

     

    PRAYER

    I have the perfect understanding of the Gospel of Christ—a revelation granted me by the Holy Ghost, to know and live by the greater truths of the Gospel, proclaiming the same with signs following, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

     

    FURTHER STUDY

    || Hebrews 5:13-14 For every one that uses milk [is] unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. ||

    || Romans 1:15-17 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. ||

  • Devotional June 2, 2018

    We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first!

    Oswald J. Smith

  • Devotional Jun 1, 2018

    Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism. Rick Warren

  • Devotional May 26, 2018

    God has a purpose for different nations. He desires for Nations to be an appropriate place for Men to be able to seek after him Acts 17.26-27. So our prayers are necessary to see God’s will done in the NATION’S. Neutralize the plane of darkness and release the Will of God. We must pray for the nation’s, we are Commissioned to go to all the world and make disciples of all nations Matt 28.19

  • Time is Short

    Time is Short


    How many will depart this life to a Christless eternity before you finish reading this article?

    55.3 million people die each year.
    151,600 people die each day.
    6,316 people die each hour.
    105 people die each minute.
    Ultimately, the death rate is 1:1.

    But those raw numbers don’t tell the whole story. Those aggregate numbers hide an alarming spiritual disproportion. More than 2.9 billion people live in “unreached” people groups in some of the hardest-to-reach areas of the world. This means each minute, each hour, each day tens of thousands die without any real access to the message that would save them from hell and save them for God’s love.

    As you’ve pondered those numbers, another 105 persons have left time and entered eternity. How many do you suppose went to be with the Lord, and how many were consigned to the pit?

    Friends, time is short.

    Jesus Says ‘Go’

    If you’re reading this article, chances are the gospel has already reached you. You are, after all, reading this on a Christian website.

    But the gospel was never intended to stop with you and me. The gospel reached us on the way to others. We’re part of a relay team, made up of Christians spanning time and space all the way back to those 12 who first followed the Lord. We have a part in God’s missionary purpose to make for himself a people out of all the peoples of the earth.(TGC)