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EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY! GODS SOVEREIGNTY AND MANS RESPONSIBILITY IN SALVATION Q: If God is sovereign, then why is sharing the Gospel necessary? A: Because God is THE GOD of both the ends and the EVANGELISM

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BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

EVANGELISM

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

GOD‘S SOVEREIGNTY AND MAN’S RESPONSIBILITY IN SALVATION

▸ Q: “If God is sovereign, then why is sharing the Gospel necessary?” ▸ A: Because God is THE GOD of both the ends and the means.

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

GENESIS 1:28

▸ “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

LUKE 17:26-27

▸ Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

NOAH WAS A HERALD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!

▸ At the time of the flood we see both God‘s love and justice being put on display.

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

GENESIS 22:17-18

▸ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your

ffspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is
n the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the

gate of his enemies, and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have

beyed my voice.”

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EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

GALATIANS 3:7-8

▸ Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of

Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God

would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

ABRAHAM HAD FOUR TYPES OF OFFSPRING

1. Physical offspring NOT according to the promise:

Ishmael and Esau among others.

2. Physical offspring according to the promise: Isaac,

Jacob and the nation of Israel.

3. The promised Offspring [singular]: Christ
4. Spiritual offspring: All those who are in Christ

WHAT WAS THE GOSPEL THAT WAS PREACHED TO ABRAHAM?

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GALATIANS 3:8 EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

THE GOSPEL PAUL PREACHED IS THE SAME GOSPEL ABRAHAM BELIEVED

▸Justification by faith alone ▸Abraham’s hope was in the promised Son, in the Offspring or Seed (singular) through whom all the nations would be blessed. ▸He trusted in the God who would provide the lamb for the sacrifice (Gen. 22:8) ▸He trusted the God who was able even to raise the dead (Heb. 11:19) ▸He was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God (Heb. 11:10)

“GOD’S LOVE HAS BEEN POURED INTO OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT”

Romans 5:5

CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART

“THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONTROLS US”

2 Corinthians 5:14

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

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MATTHEW 28:18–19

THE GREAT COMMISSION ▸ “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

“YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!”

JESUS

EVANGELISM:BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!

WHY WOULD WE BE ASHAMED OF HIM?

“I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL!“

Paul the Apostle

ROMANS 1:16

“DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE, THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE, IS REALLY REAL?”

Del Tackett

EVANGELISM: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY!