Oakwood Church

We must share the Gospel:

• Urgently because Christ is coming back soon

“All Scripture is breathed out (inspired) by God and is therefore profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
2 Timothy 3:16

“…Every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father..”
Philippians 2:10-11

1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
“But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.”

“I have never since dared to give an audience a week to think over their salvation. If they were lost they might rise up in judgment against me! I have never seen that congregation since. I will never meet those people until I meet them in another world. But I want to tell you of one lesson that I learned that night which I have never forgotten, and that is, when I preach, I press Christ upon the people then and there and try to bring them to a decision on the spot. I would rather have my right hand cut off than to give an audience a week to decide what to do with Jesus."
~ D. L. Moody

We must share the Gospel:

• Continually because Christ is always working

“Be ready in season and out of season.”
2 Timothy 4:2

“Tell us by what authority you say and do these things?”
Luke 20:2

Even as Satan is working, Jesus is also always working! And Jesus’ good work can always usurp the work of the evil one!

“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”
1 John 3:8

You can also know that wherever you bring the Word of God, you are
welcoming the work of God.

“God’s Word always accomplishes that which He purposes and it always succeeds in the thing for which it was sent.”
Isaiah 55:11

We must share the Gospel:

• Completely because other are inclined to compromise

“reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”
2 Timothy 4:2

“Time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from the truth and wander off into myths.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4

“If anyone is preaching to you a Gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.”
Galatians 1:8

“An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule according to their own direction; and my people love to have it so!”
Jeremiah 5:30

“Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.”
1 Timothy 4:16

“As for you, always be sober-minded.”
1 Timothy 4:5

We must share the Gospel:

• Joyfully because a reward awaits us in Heaven

“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.”
James 1:12

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”
1 Corinthians 9:24

“All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”
2 Timothy 3:12

Why is it that we can receive a crown of righteousness?

Because Jesus first needed to receive the crown of thorns.

“That for the joy set before Him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2