| “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” – 1 Corinthians 9:16 |
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| A PASSIONATE PASSION TO PREACH THE GOSPEL As the Apostle Paul defends his apostleship to the Corinthians he tells them that he does not look at preaching the gospel as something to brag or boast about to them. Rather he felt an overwhelming compulsion to preach the precious message that would rescue a lost sinner from a burning hell. Before he himself was saved the last thing he would have ever done was preach the gospel but now that he has been saved it is the first thing and the most important thing he believes he must do. One might say he had a PASSIONATE PASSION TO PREACH the GOSPEL. Talk about a changed life! What about you? Since Jesus came into your wicked heart and changed you do you have a passion to preach the gospel? I do not speak about being a “preacher” but being one who makes known through daily witnessing the gospel to those who are in your sphere of influence. Is there a feeling, a burden, a passion, yes, a compulsion where you MUST TELL OTHERS ABOUT JESUS? In our verse to consider Paul added that for him it was painful not to share. He said, “WOE IS ME” or tremendous grief comes to me, a pain comes to me, if I do not preach and proclaim to others the gospel. I wonder if we feel any pain for not sharing the gospel when opportunities cross our paths. May we ponder and consider from 1 Corinthians 9:16 how important it is now that we have heard and believed the gospel to make sure others hear so that they might believe! May you be passionate this day to proclaim, yes, preach the gospel. Verse to DATE the Word on September 16 (9/16) is 1 Corinthians 9:16. It says, “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” While sharing the gospel may have been the last thing you ever thought of doing may it now be the first thing you think of doing! Continue Strong preaching the gospel, And remember to DATE the Word |