Sermon 11---Bad News for Good People



       GOOD NEWS FOR BAD PEOPLE
Read: Luke 2:10,11  Prov.14:12 Isa 55:8.
Intro: The "gospel" means good news.
BUT it is good news for bad people and bad news for good people

We say "good news for good people...

Rom 1:16 good news Rom 2:16 bad news

  BAD NEWS FOR GOOD PEOPLE

1. Pharisee    Luke 18:9...Bad news v.14

2. Nicodemus   John 3:1..  Bad news v.3, 5,7  Tit 3:5

3. Many people  Matt 7:21..Bad news v.23
 
 GOOD NEWS FOR BAD PEOPLE

1. Thief: Luke 23:42.... good news      v.44
 
2. Zacchaeus  Luke l9:  good  news      v.9,10

3. Saul-Paul 1 Tim.1:13.blasphemer,    persecutor and injurious
BUT I   obtained mercy.

4. ALL MEN  Rom 6:23
  Bad news -- Death
 Good news-- Eternal Life

APPLY: Nothing wrong with being good
You obey your parents, teachers, the law of the land.
Do good to people--
Be kind
Be honest--have good morals--
Don't use drugs--liquor--tobacco

BUT  Don't trust in those things

APPLY:
Eph. 2:8,9 --Tit 3:5--Acts 16:31
 


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Updated  Dec. 29th 2005 by Harold Smith