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  ‘What I have I give you’     [Acts 3:1-10]   The article titled ‘True Gospel Evangelism [Sitting at the Lord's Feet Every Day]’ (Christigreen) questions what the best method of gospel evangelism is, one that can be consistently effective across all eras.   It raises queries such as ‘Is it through reform movements?   Short-term or long-term missions?   Turning the globe into a mission field?   Is it through life as a form of evangelism?   Is it through radio or television?’   It acknowledges that God has used all of these methods, sometimes employing quite dramatic means, to proclaim the gospel to the world.   However, the Bible does not particularly emphasize any of these methods as crucial in spreading the message that Jesus is the Son of God.   It goes on to suggest that the most powerful method of evangelism, one that can be consistently effective across all eras, is when the church comes together with one heart...

“If God is for us” (3)       [Romans 8:31-34]     Look at Romans 8:32 – “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”  Here, “He who did not spare” refers to God who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all.  That God is a God who is for us (v. 31).  And the God who is for us is the eternal God (Deut. 33:27; Isa. 40:28; Rom. 16:26), the omnipresent God (Isa. 57:15; Jere. 23:24), the Almighty God (Gen. 28:3; Josh. 22:22; Job 8:3, 5; Ps. 50:1; Isa. 9:6; Ezek. 10:5; Rev. 11:17; 15:3; 16:7, 14; 19: 6, 15; 21:22), a God of love (1 Jn. 4:8, 16).  The God of love who is for us, but did not spare His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, for our salvation, and gave Him up to die on the cross for us.   In Romans 8:32, “the Son” spoken of by the Apostle Paul refers to Jesus Christ, who is equal to God, the only begotten Son.   God, who l...

“If God is for us” (2)       [Romans 8:31-34]     Look at Romans 8:32 – “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”  Here, “His own son” refers to God the Son, the only begotten Son of God.  The Father God sent His only begotten Son to this earth, and Jesus, the only begotten Son, came to this earth in obedience to the will of the Father God.  Among the eight visions that the prophet Zechariah saw, the first was the coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to the human world (Zech. 1:8).  The vision he saw was of the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, standing [the word that the only begotten was standing three times (vv. 8, 10, 11)].  The Bible mainly depicts Jesus Christ sitting at the right hand of God (Mk. 16:19; Lk. 22:69; Col. 3:1; Heb.  1:3; 10:12; 12:2).  But Stephen saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God before he...