Paul Washer: The Gospel of Jesus Christ[1]
PW: Is a scandal[2]
PW: The Gospel of Jesus Christ[3]
PW: “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel” (Rom. 1:16)[4]
Chris Barnes: The Gospel of Christ[5]
Chad Davis: “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel” (Rom. 1:16)[6]
David Platt: “I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew then for the Gentile. For in the Gospel, a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written, ‘The righteous will live by faith.’” (Rom. 1:16-17)[7]
PW: The Gospel of Jesus Christ[8]
Chris Barnes: The Gospel of Christ[9]
PW: And our Gospel has power not because it is acceptable to carnal man, our Gospel has power because it is a scandal to man.[10]
D.A. Carson: In the beginning...God.[11]
Jon Cardwell: Creation is fundamental to the Gospel.[12]
DAC: For all of human accountability, all of human responsibility before God is grounded in the first instance of creation. God made everything. He made us, and we owe him.[13]
William McCrea: And the Lord God formed man, and the Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul, and then the Lord God planted the garden.[14]
Thomas Martin: And when Adam fell in the garden, he plunged all mankind into sin. all of us are tainted with Adam’s first sin in the garden. He stood there as our first parent, as our federal head, as our representative. In the loins of Adam was the seed of all mankind. You were represented in the garden.[15]
Ian Paisley: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).[16]
CB: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).[17]
PW: Don’t tell me Scripture’s not right when it talks about all men having sinned because all men are sinners...You say, “Well, I don’t agree.” That’s because you’ve grabbed enough Christianity to stand but you don’t believe the Bible. The Scripture’s testimony against you and all men...[18]
PW: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23)[19]
PW: ...is that we are born with evil, and we are evil. Do you have to teach a child to lie? Do you have to teach a child to be self-centered? Do you have to teach a child to be selfish? Do you have to teach a child to be brutal to other children? They learn that on their own. Set them free, discipline them not and see what you have in ten years: a monster. Why? Because what Scripture says is true. And you hold your ears and you say, “I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it!” in the same way that a person dying of cancer is in denial and says to the doctor, “I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it!” But by cupping the hands over your ears you close yourself off from any remedy.[20]
PW: Because you need to realize that the Bible says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” and you have no idea what that means. That we were born radically depraved and God-hating. That we would have never sought God, never come to God. We have rebelled against God; broken every law. It’s not just an issue that you have sinned. It’s not just an issue that you have sinned; the issue is you’ve never done anything but sin. The Bible says in the Prophets that even our greatest works are like filthy rag before God, and because of that you know what we deserve: the wrath of God. [21]
Alan Cairns: How can a just God accept and justify guilty sinners?[22]
George Whyte: There’s always a payday for sin.[23]
PW: Someone had to pay that price. Someone had to die![24]
DP: At just the right time, when we still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die, but God demonstrates his love for us in this – while we were still sinners Christ died for us. [25]
PW: Do you know why you’re saved, if you are saved? Because when Jesus Christ was hanging on that cross he bore your sin. The sin of God’s people. And all the fierce wrath of God that should fall upon you fell upon His only begotten son.[26]
Alistair Begg: ‘God made him’ – that is Jesus – ‘who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.’...Because Jesus was sinless, He could take our sins. And the Gospel is the story of this great exchange. An exchange that takes place at the cross. Jesus taking our place and bearing the wrath that our sins deserve, so that in exchange we might receive the righteousness that none of us deserves. [27]
AC: God hath set him forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. Christ is a sacrifice... to put away the wrath of God. [28]
PW: It was God the Father who crushed His only begotten son, according to Isaiah 53.[29]
IP: “With His Stripes, we are healed” (Is. 53:5)[30]
PW: The only way any human being on this earth will ever be saved is through Jesus Christ - and that is all![31]
Albert Martin: Now, you see it has often been said in days past and is said right down to the present our that people have no complaints with Jesus as a good man, a good teacher, but it is the narrowness of His followers, the fanatical claims his followers make that unless you believe as they believe, you are lost and damned and will roast in Hell. People say that's the offense of Christianity, it's not Christ - the meek, the gentle, the loving, tender Jesus. [He] went about doing good, taught us the Golden rule, gave us the Sermon on the Mount; we've got no complains with Jesus. Oh no, my friend, if you've bought into that nonsense, you listen to Jesus. Listen to the meek, lowly Jesus. This is not something I'm saying bout Him. This is something He is saying about Himself... “No one comes to the Father but by or through me!” (John 14:6)[32]
Leonard Ravenhill: That tender Christ who went about doing good and kissed little babies and blessed people – now, ah! There’s nothing more beautiful than a little Lamb. There’s nothing more terrible than the wrath of the Lamb![33]
WM: And as the sinner goes, summoned to the throne, where are you? And what have you done when the record’s read? Every last sin will arise in condemnation and cry out, “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”[34]
AC: How can a just God accept and justify guilty sinners? [35]
GW: There’s always a payday for sin...So then everyone must give an account of himself unto God.[36]
AC: How far God will go to save unworthy sinners from their sin![37]
AB: For Christ died for sins, once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous to bring you to God.[38]
AM: Saving faith is the desperate thrust of a helpless soul upon the arms of an almighty Savior.[39]
LR: “Can God forgive every sin I’ve ever committed?” I said, “He sure can. That is if you repent of your sin and you plead for the blood of Christ and you ask for mercy.”[40]
IP: Repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in Christ! This is the work of God that you believe in Him Who He has sent![41]
PW: In Mark he tells us, “Repent and believe the Gospel!” (Mark 1:15)[42]
PW: The Kingdom of God has come, the time is fulfilled. Now, spend the rest of your life repenting of your sins and believing in Me.[43]
[1] Paul Washer, “I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel” (sermon preached on October 19, 2007), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1019071819161 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[2] Washer, “Regeneration vs. the Idolatry of Decisional Evangelism” (sermon), http://adidab.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/paul-washer-transcript-01-regeneration-v-the-idolatry-of-decisional-evangelism/ (accessed June 13, 2011).
[3] Washer, “I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.”
[4] Ibid
[5] Chris Barnes, “A Short, Simple Presentation of the Gospel” (sermon preached on January 21, 2001), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1220102145 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[6] Chad Davis, “True Love, the Gospel, and Faith” (sermon preached at Cornerstone Community Church, Jackson, TN, September 9, 2007), http://cccnow.org/sermon.php?ID=432 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[7] David Platt, “Faith in Practice Chapel” (sermon preached at Union University, Jackson, TN, October 26, 2007), http://www.uu.edu/audio/detail.cfm?ID=335 (accessed 13 June 2011).
[8] Washer, “I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.”
[9] Barnes, “A Short, Simple Presentation of the Gospel.”
[10] Washer, “I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.”
[11] D.A. Carson, “The God Who Made Everything” (sermon preached on February 20, 2009), http://thegospelcoalition.org/resources/a/part_1._the_god_who_made_everything (accessed June 13, 2011).
[12] Jon Cardwell, “The Fall of Man in the Garden” (sermon preached on December 19, 2010), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=12201026514 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[13] Carson, “The God Who Made Everything.”
[14] William McCrea, “How Did We Get Into This Situation?” (sermon preached on June 25, 2006), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=62806163255 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[15] Thomas Martin, “The Fall of Man” (sermon preached December 12, 2004), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=12190411238 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[16] Ian Paisley, “The Blood of Jesus Christ” (sermon preached February 24, 2002), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=3602161550 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[17] Barnes, “A Short, Simple Presentation of the Gospel.”
[18] Washer, “Way of the Master Radio Contrasts Joel Osteen's Message with Paul Washer's Part 2” (sermon excerpts), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1124071042560 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[19] Washer, “The Greatest Text in the Bible” (sermon preached on May 22, 2006), http://www.gccsatx.com/resources.php?sa_action=&sa_search=the--SPC--greatest--SPC--text (accessed June 13, 2011).
[20] Washer, “Way of the Master Radio Contrasts Joel Osteen's Message with Paul Washer's Part 2.”
[21] Ibid.
[22] Alan Cairns, “The Gospel: What It Is and Whom It Reaches,” (sermon preached on November 9, 2010), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1190318423 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[23] George Whyte, “God’s Creation Marred” (sermon preached on March 25, 2007), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=32507162548 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[24] Washer, “Shocking Youth Message Stuns Hearers, So Shocking the Preacher Was Never Invited Back” (sermon preached on May 29, 2006), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=52906154239 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[25] Platt, “Faith in Practice Chapel.”
[26] Washer, “Shocking Youth Message Stuns Hearers, So Shocking the Preacher Was Never Invited Back.”
[27] Alistair Begg, “Becoming a Christian” (sermon preached on August 25, 2010), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=82510110025274 (accessed June 13, 2011).
[28] Cairns, “The Gospel: What It Is and Whom It Reaches.”
[29] Washer, “Shocking Youth Message Stuns Hearers, So Shocking the Preacher Was Never Invited Back.”
[30] Paisley, “With His Stripes, We Are Healed” (sermon preached on December 12, 2010), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1227101641461 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[31] Washer, “Shocking Youth Message Stuns Hearers, So Shocking the Preacher Was Never Invited Back.”
[32] Albert Martin, “Jesus – The Only Way to God?” (sermon preached on October 10, 1993), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9140313751 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[33] Leonard Ravenhill, “The Judgment Seat of Christ” (sermon preached on January 1, 1996), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=922020713 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[34] McCrae, “The Great Judgment” (sermon preached on August 19, 2007), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9290779579 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[35] Cairns, “The Gospel: What It Is and Whom It Reaches.”
[36] Whyte, “God’s Creation Marred.”
[37] Cairns, “God's Righteousness Revealed in the Justification of Believers and in the Judgment of Unbelievers” (sermon preached on June 10, 2001), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=61001132319 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[38] Begg, “Becoming a Christian.”
[39] Albert Martin, “Warning to Professing Christians” (sermon preached on January 23, 1994), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=101803153426 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[40] Ravenhill, “The Judgment Seat of Christ.”
[41] Paisley, “Sixty Minutes to Go” (sermon preached on March 1, 1968), http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=6860 (accessed on June 13, 2011).
[42] Washer, “Shocking Youth Message Stuns Hearers, So Shocking the Preacher Was Never Invited Back.”
[43] Ibid.
[44] John Piper, “The Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation” (sermon preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, MN, June 21, 1998), http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/the-gospel-is-the-power-of-god-unto-salvation (accessed on June 13, 2011).
