Why should I go to
church?
I should go to church to HEAR the GOSPEL.
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL
which I PREACHED UNTO YOU, which also YE HAVE RECEIVED, and WHEREIN YE STAND;
By which also YE ARE SAVED, IF ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, UNLESS
YE HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I
also received, how that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the scriptures;
And that HE WAS BURIED, and that HE ROSE AGAIN the third day according to the
scriptures:" - 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV
We hear the gospel at church through PREACHING of the DEATH,
BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS. We are SAVED BY THE GOSPEL, UNLESS we
believed in VAIN. In other words, if we RECEIVE the GOSPEL, but we don’t OBEY
THE GOSPEL, we will have BELIEVED IN
VAIN.
"For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD
shall be SAVED. How then shall they CALL on him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they BELIEVE in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall
they HEAR without a PREACHER? And how shall they PREACH, except they be SENT?
as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that PREACH the GOSPEL of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! BUT they have not all OBEYED THE
GOSPEL. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?" - Romans
10:13-16 KJV
I should go to church to OBEY the GOSPEL.
How do we OBEY the GOSPEL? How do we OBEY Jesus’ DEATH,
BURIAL, and RESURRECTION?
REPENTANCE is DEATH to sin; WATER BAPTISM IN JESUS NAME is BURIAL
of old nature; HOLY GHOST INFILLING is RESURRECTION to new life!
Peter PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS on the Day of Pentecost. He
preached of Jesus’ DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION.
When asked, “What shall we DO?” Peter replied how to OBEY
THE GOSPEL.
"Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, and BE BAPTIZED
every one of you in the NAME of JESUS Christ for the REMISSION OF SINS, and ye
shall RECEIVE the gift of the HOLY GHOST.
“For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to
all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many
other words did he testify and exhort, saying, SAVE yourselves from this
untoward generation.
“Then they that gladly RECEIVED HIS WORD were BAPTIZED: and
the same day there were ADDED UNTO THEM about three thousand souls." -
Acts 2:38-41 KJV [caps my emphasis]
Those three thousand souls HEARD the PREACHING of the GOSPEL,
they RECEIVED THE GOSPEL and they were SAVED BY THE GOSPEL, because they did
not believe in vain! They OBEYED THE GOSPEL by REPENTING, being BAPTIZED IN
JESUS NAME, and RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST!
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