Good News! Of Great Joy!
Read all about it! Good news for all people!
Good news for all people? – Even for those who worship ‘other gods’? even those who do not believe that God exists?, even for those who do not believe in the God of the Holy Bible? Yes! For all people!
(NASB) Luke 2:8-10 “In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.
10 But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;”
Unconditional~
Good news for all people – none are excluded! No one is excluded for any reason – the Good News is for all.
What is the “catch”, what is the condition? Everyone is included in the message of Good News! Of Great Joy! God has left out no one.
Conditional~
Each person has a choice to make: what to do with this Good News! Of Great Joy!
Accept God’s Good News! Or reject His great Good News! Of Great Joy! for all people.
What choices have you made? Acceptance or rejection? How have you responded to God’s gift of salvation…Good News! Of Great Joy!?
‘Listen’ to what Jesus said during His ministry:
(NIV) John 3:14-21 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
Good News! Of Great Joy!
Have you chosen to live by the truth of God? Have you come “into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what He has done has been done through God” for you?