The 7 Pledges:

1. I will pray more than ever before.

2. I will study God’s Word more than ever before.

3. I will serve more than ever before.

4. I will fellowship with God’s People more than ever before.

5. I will give more than ever before.

6. I will encourage more than ever before.

7. I will trust God more than ever before.

God RevealsGood News!

______________ is all about the news.

Isaiah 52:7 (NIV) 7  How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those

who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

What constitutes Good News?

Ephesians 2:1 (NIV) 1  As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and

sins,

All of us in our beginnings ______________God’s law.

James 2:10 (NIV) 10  For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at

just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Romans 6:23a (NIV) 23  For the wages of sin is death…

The Word of God, the Law of God reflects God’s _______________.

God is not our __________ creator but rather a _________ Lover.

We cannot claim to be Word of God believing people and repeatedly and intentionally ________ His Law.

God can’t just ____________ you.

We don’t do the gospel, we ____________ it.

If God is proclaimed then we are called to ___________.

The gospel of Jesus Christ calls for a ___________

Christianity is not an ____________ you put in life’s tank.

Acts 20:21 (NIV) 21  I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they

Mark 1:15 (NIV) 15  "The time has come,"

The Greek word for repentance is metanoia which means

We change the way we act only by changing what we

The Good News is not just an encouraging statement.It is a transformational fact that God has _____________.

Romans 3:20 (NASB) 20  because by the works of the Law no flesh will be

justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

Theologians call it ___________, or spiritual death.

Hebrews 12:14 (NASB) 14  Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification

without which no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 12:14 (NIV) 14  Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be

holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

God wants us to come to Him but how does He do that without sacrificing His ____________?

Mark 10:45 (NASB) 45  "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served,

but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

Jesus taught that His choice to glorify the Father by His death on the cross was _________ to His ministry.

Ephesians 2:13 (NIV) 13  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away

have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

The ministry of Christ is both ______________ and ___________________.