God’s Word never changes, and that’s why the Gospel is never emptied of its power.
To this day, it is setting the most hopeless drug addicts free and delivering the most hate-filled terrorists. That’s the power of the Gospel!
To this day, it is convicting the self-righteous of their sin and revealing the mercy of God to the worst sinner.
To this day, it is declaring that Jesus alone is Lord—not the gods of the nations and not the prophets and leaders of the false religions—and it is promising forgiveness and new life to everyone who will turn to Him.
And the moment they truly turn, they are changed, from death to life in a moment of time, and from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God, from lost to saved and from unclean to holy.
That’s the power of the Gospel!
I want to encourage you to share the good news with confidence, knowing that God’s Word will not return void, knowing that the message of salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus will be relevant and fresh until the last moment of human history, knowing that heaven and earth will pass away but Jesus’ words will never pass away (Matthew 24:35), and knowing that God’s mercy never wanes.
Until Jesus returns, the message of the cross will be transforming lives as we proclaim it boldly and without shame.
And while the tune to the hymn “There Is Power in the Blood” may be old, the message is as fresh today as it was 2,000 years ago: There is power, power, wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb.
Preach the cross, preach the resurrection, preach the message of new life in Jesus, and you will witness firsthand the unchanging power of the Gospel.
(MICHAEL BROWN)