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There Is No Better Gospel

”And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.” | Mark 15: 2-5

Charles Spurgeon’s grandfather, who was also a pastor, said of his grandson, “He may preach the gospel better than I can, but he cannot preach a better gospel.”

Spurgeon denied that he could preach the gospel better than his grandfather, but he agreed that there is no better gospel to preach.

I whole heartedly agree.

There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s electing love that declares God chose to save sinners who could not and would not ever do anything to deserve it.

There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s love for sinners that declares God set His love on sinners who never would have loved Him unless God first loved them.

There is no better gospel than the gospel of substitution where the Son of God took the place of sinners and suffered and died in their place.

There is no better gospel than the gospel of redemption in the blood of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shed His blood to fully pay the sin debt of a sinful people, who were the enemies of God.

There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace to sinners that declares God saved a people with no help from them or their works, and God gives His salvation to them freely (without any condition they must meet).

There is no better gospel than the gospel of Christ the successful Savior of sinners that declares the Lord Jesus Christ didn’t “try” to save anyone. Christ the Savior came to save the elect people the Father gave Him to save and that is exactly what He did.

Different men may be more or less gifted to preach the gospel than others, but I intend to hear them as support them as long as they preach THE gospel because the blessing is not in the man preaching.

The blessing is in the glorious Savior who he preaches.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “The Sinner’s Substitute” (29:05 minutes)

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I Must Preach The Gospel

”For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” | 1 Corinthians 9: 16

The most humbling and challenging thing I face, the great concern of my heart is that my generation experience a return to the preaching of the gospel of God’s glory.

“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.” (Romans 10: 2)

We are plagued today with a gospel of works, a religion of form and ceremony, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge.

I pray for a return to the message God was pleased to use in other days to awaken sinners to their need for mercy; that message that reveals the redemptive glory of God in Christ; that message that humbles the proud Pharisee and gives hope to the chief of sinners.

If God is pleased to restore that message men will once again sense the awesome Holy presence of the Living God.

Gone will be the voice of the proud sinner who inwardly debates whether he will accept Jesus or reject Him.

Gone will be the haughty spirit that refuses to bow to the Lordship of Christ.

Gone will be the bragging of the religionist who boasts of his righteousness and what he has done for God.

Once again we may hear men cry, “Depth of mercy, can there be mercy still reserved for me, can my God His wrath forbear and me the chief of sinners spare?”

It may be that we will hear someone ask, “And can it be that I should gain and interest in the Savior’s blood?”

“For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9: 16)

I know not what course others may take, but I am determined to put forth every effort to preach that gospel every time I step into the pulpit.

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Preaching for a Verdict”

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Visit our primary website at www.ksgctn.org for more information about Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church, watch our livestream (when available) and access our previously recorded messages.

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