Why we must preach Flashcards
..declaring the good news is necessary, woe is me if I did not declare the good news!
1 Corinthians 9:16
If, now, I am declaring the good news, it is no reason for me to boast, for necessity is laid upon me. Really, woe is me if I did not declare the good news!
..faith, if it does not have works, is dead
James 2:17,18,26
Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself. 18 Nevertheless, a certain one will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.”
26 Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Consequently he began to reason in the synagogue…
Acts 17:17
Consequently he began to reason in the synagogue with the Jews and the other people who worshiped [God] and every day in the marketplace with those who happened to be on hand.
Do not hold back from telling and teaching people, from house to house…
Acts 20:20,21
while I did not hold back from telling YOU any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching YOU publicly and from house to house. 21 But I thoroughly bore witness both to Jews and to Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
I am clean from the blood of all men, for I have not held back from telling YOU..
Acts 20:26
Hence I call YOU to witness this very day that I am clean from the blood of all men, 27 for I have not held back from telling YOU all the counsel of God.
Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations..
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit,
What must occur regarding the good news of Gods Kingdom before the end comes?
Matthew 24:14
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
…he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving by references…
Acts 17:2
So according to Paul’s custom he went inside to them, and for three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and proving by references that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying: “This is the Christ, this Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”
Who will be resurrected?
2 scriptures
John 5:28
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
Acts 24:15
And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
