PREACHED ON MARCH 11th  2021:
PASTOR ANTONIO RUSSO

BRING SALVATION TO THE LOST

The condition of humanity is a lost condition, in sin far from God.
Therefore one day God the father from heaven sent his son.

John 3:16-17
¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

He loved us so much that he gave us his son.

John 1:14

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus came with the aim of saving humanity.

In what condition does humanity live?

Proverbs 24:11
"Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter."

Every day people die on earth and go to hell. Our burden, our compassion should be for those who go to hell.
Jesus tells us: Hear the voice of the Lord and do not harden your heart. What does God want to do?
He wants everyone to free themselves from selfishness.

There is an abyss between a believer who dies and a believer who does not die. There is a difference between those who have Christ and those who don't.
There is a precious text revealed for everyone's life. God doesn't have to be our problem.

When we live centered on ourselves we are experiencing the things of the earth that will pass away.
We have to live for the things above, which are alive and will never pass away.

2 Corinzi 5:14-17

¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. ¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!

God asks, who are you living for? And what do you answer?

Christ's love prompts you to do his will to preach the word and announce the Kingdom.
We are loved by God to love the lost. We have been made ambassadors to reconcile.

Three power generators:

1 The Cross

2 The empy tomb

Atti 4:33
With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all

3 The pentecost

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea, in Samaria and to the extremity of the earth. "

There is a supernatural power within each of us, "THE CROSS" which is madness for the world, but power for the children of God.