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The Gospel Made Clear in Any Culture
The Gospel Made Clear in Any Culture
The Gospel Made Clear in Any Culture
In Any Culture
A common method of sharing
the gospel is to start with:
“Where are you going when you die?”
“Jesus loves you. Repent of your sin, and
you can go to heaven.”
“You can know for sure where you are
going when you die if you admit you are a
sinner and believe that Jesus died on the
cross for your sins.”
Why can this method be a problem
with some people?
Some people are sure they know where a
person goes after death: maybe a spirit-being
floating around the earth or coming back as
something/someone else.
Sin? (What’s that?)
Jesus? Who is He? (A good person, prophet,
teacher?)
Jesus died? (So what? Maybe someone put a
curse on Him.)
The Problem Around the World
Ignorance – Little or no Bible knowledge
Confusion – Bits and pieces of biblical
knowledge from many sources.
Syncretism – Two or more religious beliefs
mixed, possibly with culture.
- Parents may have different beliefs.
Spiritism or animism is part of their belief
system.
False religions – cults.
Under these circumstances, we can’ t
start with the cross and expect the
children to have a clear understanding
of the gospel.
“ Creation to Christ”
as taught in the
TruthSeekers lessons:
“I am the LORD, and there is none
else, there is no God beside me …”
“This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom You have sent.” John 17:3
The Bible is God’ s Word
What happened?
Let’ s look back and see.
God’ s Creation Disobeys
TO DISOBEY
Means
to think or act against the
one in authority
TO REBELL
In the beginning…
God created all the spirits, called angels, to
love and serve Him.
The greatest angel was called Lucifer. He
was given authority and power over the
other angels.
Lucifer became proud of his position and
rebelled against God’ s authority over him.
He wanted to take over God’ s position as
the ruler of all things. (Isaiah 14:13-14)
God is the only true God!
Many of God’ s angels followed Lucifer – also
called the Devil or Satan – rebelling (sinning)
against God.
No one can take God’ s place!
God will not allow those with sin to live with
Him.
Satan and his followers, called demons, could
no longer live in heaven.
God Hates Sin!
God prepared a terrible place, the lake
of fire, for Satan and his demons.
One day in the future, God is going to
send Lucifer and all his demons to the
lake of fire to be punished forever
(Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10)
God will not tolerate disobedience to Him;
God always demands punishment for
rebellion against Him.
Satan and his angels
hate God
From the time God removed Satan
and his demons from heaven until
today, they have been roaming the
earth fighting against God and
everything He loves and does.
Satan and his angels weren’ t
the only ones who disobeyed
God.
The tree of
The the
tree of knowledge
Life of
good and evil
God told Adam that of all the trees He planted for Adam for
food, there was only one tree that was a “no, no” for Adam and
Eve to eat from, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
(Genesis 2:16-17).
God made Adam and Eve.
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And,
behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name
JESUS.” Luke 1:30-31
“Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel
answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.” Luke 1:34-35
Jesus began to teach the people and command them:
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.” John 1:29
God raised Jesus from the dead. God would not have raised Jesus if God had not been fully
satisfied with the payment which Jesus made (Romans 4:24-25).
There was no longer any need to offer the blood of animals (Hebrews 10:10). Jesus was
God’s Lamb, sacrificed for the sins of everyone in the whole world. The work Jesus did
for us by dying on the cross is the only work that God will ever accept as payment for our
sins (John 14:6).
Agree with God that we are sinners.
Agree with what God has written in His Word –
that Jesus gave His blood as the full payment for
our sins and rose again from the dead to give us
eternal life with Him (John 3:16).
Trust only in Jesus and His payment for our sins,
then God forgives, forever, all of our sin and
brings us into friendship with Himself
(John 5:24, 7:3).
We are forever accepted into God’ s family — we
are children of God, no longer under Satan’ s
control.
God gives us the gift of everlasting life — a future
home forever with Him in heaven, rather than
everlasting life in hell (John 10:28-29).
And much more found in His Word, the Bible.
After Jesus Some day, Jesus, as
commanded His Almighty Judge,
disciples to take this will send all those
Good News to every who do not trust in
person, He left them Him and His
and returned to His payment for their
Father in heaven sin, along with Satan
(Acts 1:9). and all
his angels, into the
everlasting fire
( Acts 17:30-31).
Once a child clearly understands
the gospel message, then he or she
must accept it or reject it.