What is Good News?
First off, we need to realize what news is. News is usually an historical event. GOOD news is a declaration that something good that actually happened that you can’t wait to tell others about. What is important to realize is that this good news HAS happened to you! If you want to experience lots of good news to share with others, YOU need to get the promises of God off the pages of the Bible and into your EXPERIENCE. It’s even good to share the Good News that has happened to others to demonstrate to the world just how good our God is! People want to hear Good News and quite frankly, God’s people are the only ones that really have it…or should!
God wants INCREASE! His way of increase is through YOU! He planted a seed in you and THAT seed, God’s Word, is meant to increase in you. The only thing you need to do is to make sure you have a good heart, and that is up to you. A good heart is a receiving heart, a heart that is broken and can easily receive the Word of God, possess it, and LET it do its work…the work of INCREASE!
Let’s take a look at increase in the Bible:
God spoke a blessing over Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply (increase) to fill the earth with THEIR kind and take dominion over ALL things on earth (Gen. 1:28)
After the flood, God blessed Noah to be fruitful and multiply and take dominion over ALL things. (Gen. 9:2-1)
God blessed Abraham with INCREASE. He blessed him with land and a seed that would multiply as the stars of Heaven and the sand of the sea. He promised that His seed would be blessed and become a blessing to all the nations of the earth. (Gen. 12:1-3; 13:14-17; 15:1-5; 17;1-8)
Jesus, the promised seed of Abraham, through whom all the nations would be blessed, blessed His disciples as He ascended to Heaven, to GO to all the nations and make disciples of them beginning from Jerusalem. Jesus was in essence saying, “Be fruitful and multiply to spread my Kingdom with its blessings over all the earth. Plant the seed of the Good News and it will spread over all the earth.” This spread of Good New brings glory to God!
Jesus, in John 15 gave a mandate that we MUST bear fruit (John 15:5-6).
As a matter of fact, most of Jesus’ ministry and the parables that He spoke had to do with INCREASE!
The Gospel is our witness. We are witnesses to the exploits of God! We should be eyewitnesses of His glorious, Heavenly deeds ON EARTH. A witness is one who had to be at the scene of an event to be able to give credible testimony as to what happened. Does your life exhibit such evidence?
God is glorified when we INCREASE, multiply and bear fruit (John 15:8) and our fruit if PROOF that we are His disciples.
God ALWAYS has INCREASE on His mind. He is the God of Increase and abundance. He is always looking for increase and profit for it is though increase and abundance that He is glorified. He longs for His goodness to be testified to and His Kingdom to expand and take over all the earth. It is our responsibility to cooperate with Him to make this happen. Thus the need to preach the Gospel…The GOOD NEWS!
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