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The Gospel for Every Day
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The Gospel for Every Day

June 28, 2021

Do Christians need the gospel for every day of their lives or is it a one-time story to hear and believe? That’s what we’re talking about today on Naptime Theology. Listen to this post as a podcast by clicking this button:

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Is the Gospel for Every Day?

Today we are talking about the gospel. We talked specifically about what the gospel is on the very first episode of Naptime Theology. So if you don’t know what I’m talking about when I say the gospel, go and listen to that episode first. (Here’s the link).

But for today, let’s talk about this: do we need the gospel as people who are already Christians?

When we first get saved, we hear and believe the gospel, right? We believe that even though we are all sinners headed for eternity in hell separated from God, God loves us and sent His only Son to die for us so that we could believe in Him as our Savior and be forgiven our debt of sin and given eternal life with the Father in heaven. 

We talk about that a lot at the point of salvation, either when we got saved and cried out to the Lord or if we are sharing the gospel with another person. 

But as Christians, we can stop there. Sure, we’ll always say we know the gospel and we believe it and we’ll share it with a random stranger we meet on the street. But do we live in light of the gospel each and every day?

Gospel Truth in Scripture

Colossians 1:23 says that we are to “continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel.” The gospel is not meant to be a one-and-done process. It’s not a one-time thought at your conversion. Every day that we live as Christians must be gospel-filled. 

Now I don’t mean that we need to get saved each and every day. When we are first saved by Christ, we are saved forever. But I do mean that we need the gospel truths every day so that we can live in light of them. 

Though we are saved from sin and the recompense we deserve for our sins through believing in Jesus’ death and sacrifice for us, we still sin as believers. That is part of the daily life of Christians, fighting against sin with the Holy Spirit’s power. And in our fight against sin, we need the gospel’s help.

That is why Jerry Bridges said that we should “preach the gospel to ourselves every day.” We have to rehearse the truths of the gospel over and over again so that we can indeed fight sin. 

Jerry Bridges was not the first person to have this idea of preaching the gospel to ourselves every day. Martin Luther, the great reformer, was also known for encouraging believers to meditate on the truths of the gospel in their everyday lives. 

Here’s what Luther said about rehearsing the gospel, ”The highest of all God’s commands is this, that we ever hold up before our eyes the image of his dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. He must daily be to our hearts the perfect mirror, in which we behold how much God loves us and how well, in his infinite goodness, as a faithful God, he has grandly cared for us in that he gave his dear Son for us. Do not let this mirror and throne of grace be torn away from before your eyes.”

We should ever hold up before our eyes the image of God’s dear son, Jesus, and what He’s done for us. That meansWe should have the gospel before us each and every day.

My Own Experience

I have seen this worked out in my own life. I grew up in a Christian home and believed in Jesus, the gospel, as a young girl. But as I grew into adulthood and attempted to live a Christian life, I didn’t have the gospel in the forefront of my mind at all. 

In fact, my life was filled with lots of other things… I was newly married so I was thinking of being a wife, working full-time, driving long hours to work and back home, preparing meals, cleaning the house, taking care of my car, et cetera. I didn’t have Jesus’ work on the cross in my mind each and every day. 

And that showed in how I lived my life. I was not happy, I was seeking my own gain, and I sinned a lot. It wasn’t until I started thinking about the gospel’s effect on my life that the Lord started to change my heart.

I started thinking about the gospel as a believer and not just in terms of my salvation. I learned that the truths of the gospel are true for every single day of the Christian life. And that is actually how your life is changed each and every day! The gospel changes our lives at conversion, but it is the repeated study and meditation on the gospel that changes our lives to reflect Christ each and every day after salvation.

When I started reflecting on the gospel as a daily habit, I saw my own life change to honor God more. He drew me out of sin and encouraged my heart each and every day that I thought about the gospel’s effect on my life. God made me a much happier person and I was able to make better choices in my attitudes because I was continually putting Christ and his work on the cross before me each day.

We have to know the gospel and remind ourselves of it so that we can live in the joy that our salvation brings us each day.

How Do We Meditate on the Gospel Daily?

So, how do we “preach the gospel to ourselves” so that we can live in light of it each day?

I think the best way to preach the gospel to yourself is to memorize scripture passages that are explicitly about the gospel. 

You can find many verses in the Bible that have the gospel truths in them. Here are three that I recommend.

Colossians 2:12-14. Which says,”having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And when you were dead in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings, having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”

Another passage that contains the gospel is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Which says, “Now I make known to you, brothers and sisters, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which you also stand, by which you also are saved, if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed down to you as of first important what I also received, the Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”

And Ephesians 2:4-10 which says,” But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”

Now, if you commit one of those sections of Scripture to memory, then you will always have the gospel in your back pocket. And, in this case, you will always be ready to preach it to yourself. And you will have it in your memory for the Lord to bring to your heart when you need it most.

The Gospel Primer

Another way to preach the gospel to yourself daily is with a little book called, The Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent. The book gives many reasons why you should immerse yourself in the gospel every single day of your life. And, really, this book is just full of Scriptural truth, which is the reason you should read it.

The book goes through many ways the gospel changes our lives. Everything from battling against sin to loving our neighbors, all of it is changed by the gospel. Here’s a quote that has really helped me.

“As long as I am stricken with the guilt of my sins, I will be captive to them, and will often find myself re-committing the very sins about which I feel most guilty. The Devil is well aware of this fact; he knows that if he can keep me tormented by sin’s guilt, he can dominate me with sin’s power. The gospel, however, slays sin at this root point and thereby nullifies sin’s power over me. The forgiveness of God, made known to me through the gospel, liberates me from sin’s power because it liberates me first from its guilt; and preaching such forgiveness to myself is a practical way of putting the gospel into operation as a nullifier of sin’s power in my life.”

Do you see how the gospel, God’s forgiveness through Christ, frees us from sin’s power and guilt? It makes us free to honor the Lord with our lives instead of being weighed down by guilt over sin and regret over our sinful choices. God dealt with all of that in the cross, in the gospel. And we can live in light of that forgiveness each day when we remind ourselves of what God has done for us in the gospel.

And The Gospel Primer keeps giving succinct lessons about the gospel that will stick with you through the day. I also have to say that this book is perfect for our busy mom lives because it is REALLY easy to read just one paragraph and be encouraged. The sections are pretty short and the author has included the actual verses in the book itself, so when you are reading a short paragraph, you can simply glance down to the footnote to see the actual verse he’s referring to, which is very helpful! I highly recommend this book and will leave a link to it in the show notes.

And I keep going back to this book and to those passages of Scripture all the time because we need the gospel every day of our lives! It gives us freedom from sin’s power, rest in Christ’s righteousness, love for our brothers and sisters in Christ, an eternal inheritance, humility, a heart for the lost, and many other things. Knowing these truths from the gospel and having it before our eyes, like Luther said, will change our hearts and mold us to be more like Christ.

Conclusion

The gospel is a never-ending supply of encouragement. We must seek it out the next time we are in need. And have it always in our hearts and minds as we go throughout our days. 

Commit those verses to memory and remind yourself of what Christ has done for you in the gospel today.


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    When away from home, I often read Spurgeon's devot When away from home, I often read Spurgeon's devotionals. This one really stuck out to me and made me think about how I often give myself glory when it really belongs only to God. Read it for yourself:

"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.”
—Psalm 29:2

God’s glory is the result of his nature and acts. He is glorious in his character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy, and good, and lovely in God, that he must be glorious. The actions which flow from his character are also glorious; but while he intends that they should manifest to his creatures his goodness, and mercy, and justice, he is equally concerned that the glory associated with them should be given only to himself. Nor is there aught in ourselves in which we may glory; for who maketh us to differ from another? And what have we that we did not receive from the God of all grace? Then how careful ought we to be to walk humbly before the Lord! The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. Shall the insect of an hour glorify itself against the sun which warmed it into life? Shall the potsherd exalt itself above the man who fashioned it upon the wheel? Shall the dust of the desert strive with the whirlwind? Or the drops of the ocean struggle with the tempest? Give unto the Lord, all ye righteous, give unto the Lord glory and strength; give unto him the honour that is due unto his name. Yet it is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence—“Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory.” It is a lesson which God is ever teaching us, and teaching us sometimes by most painful discipline. Let a Christian begin to boast, “I can do all things,” without adding “through Christ which strengtheneth me,” and before long he will have to groan, “I can do nothing,” and bemoan himself in the dust. When we do anything for the Lord, and he is pleased to accept of our doings, let us lay our crown at his feet, and exclaim, “Not I, but the grace of God which was with me!”

--Charles Spurgeon
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5 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.  6 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.  7 On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. (Psalm 62:5-7, ESV)
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God, out of His kindness and love, treats us better than we deserve. That’s grace. He is constantly showing us His grace each and every day. 

We see grace in all good things that God gives to us. We don’t deserve anything good, only death and destruction because, again, we are sinners. But God gives us grace in our lives by treating us better than we deserve. We get to enjoy creations, food, marriage, children, and many other beautiful things in our lifetime. That’s all because of God’s grace. Because He hasn’t given us what we deserve. This is sometimes called common grace because it is available for all people in the world despite their sin, not just for Christians. Unbelievers also enjoy the planet and human relationships which are instances of God’s common grace in the world.

The Bible also uses the word grace in another way. First Corinthians 15:10 says, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.” This is God’s grace described in another way, as power for living out the Christian life. We see this also in 2 Corinthians 2:9 where Jesus says to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” This is God’s grace working to help us in our lives. We don’t deserve His help or encouragement, but He gives it to us because He treats us better than we deserve. This is grace. 

But the ultimate, saving grace of God is found in Jesus. As I said before, we know from Romans that the wages of sin is death. We also know from Romans 3:23 that all have sinned. So we all deserve death because we are all sinners. But God doesn’t treat us that way. Instead, He made a way for us to be forgiven for our sins through Jesus’ death and resurrection. That’s grace. Continue reading in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I personally love bonding with other women about practical things in our lives and our homes. But I don’t always make the connection to having those things glorify God each day. Maybe it’s the stark juxtaposition between scrubbing muck off the floor and reading a 16th century commentary on a book of the Bible. The mundane to the majestic. That is sometimes a big jump for me to make. But I’m really trying to focus on God’s glory in every moment of my life, even the mundane ones. Because the reality is that He deserves the glory for each moment, whether it’s mundane or majestic. And His grace and regeneration in my life makes any mundane moment majestic. 

So I want to encourage you today, friend... The small things in our lives are not things we have to do before we can bring glory to God. If they’re in service of others, in service of your home, and quite simply the things that God has given you to do, then doing them brings glory to God. And that makes them important. 
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Do you struggle with this connection too, though?
    A truth I've been mulling over and over again: "T A truth I've been mulling over and over again:

"There's not an hour that He is not near us; no not one, no not one."

I will wither and fade like these beautiful flowers. "What is man that You are mindful of him? And the son of man that You care for him?" (Psalm 8). And yet, Jesus promises, "Lo, I will be with you always." What grace!

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"Boldness is critical. Without boldness, my life story will be one of great deeds left undone, victories left unwon, petitions left unprayed, and timely words unsaid. If I wish to live only a pathetically small portion of the life God has prepared for me, then I need no boldness. But if I want my life to bloom full and loom large for the glory of God, then I must have boldness - and nothing so nourishes boldness in me like the gospel! The gospel gives me boldness first by banishing my greatest fear, the fear of God's eternal wrath. Indeed, Christ bore God's wrath upon Himself, not simply so I could escape that wrath on some future day, but also that I might be released from the daily fear of such wrath as I think ahead to judgment day. Because this fear hinders the ongoing work of God in me, the love of God continually expels this fear (whenever it appears) and nurtures within me a confident eagerness to face God on judgment day. Living in the daily relief of this fear frees me up to continue being perfected in confidence by the love of God, and it also serves to put all other fears, especially the fear of man, into perspective.

Additionally, the more I experience the life-transforming power of the gospel, the more confident I am in speaking it to others, both saved and lost. I know what the gospel can do in people's lives if they would believe the fullness of it, because I see what it is doing in me and in others. Therefore, I have increasing boldness to speak the whole gospel to others, even amid opposition...

Preaching the gospel to myself each day nourishes within me a holy brazenness to believe what God says, enjoy what He offers, and do what He commands. Admittedly, I don't deserve to be a child of God and I don't deserve to be free of sin's guilt and power. I don't deserve the staggering privilege of intimacy with God, nor any other blessing that Christ has purchased for me with His blood. I don't even deserve to be useful to God. But by the grace of God I am what I am and I have what I have."
    Mighty God, I humble myself for faculties misused, Mighty God,
I humble myself for faculties misused,
opportunities neglected,
words ill-advised,
I repent of my folly and inconsiderate ways, 
my broken resolutions, untrue service,
my backsliding steps, 
my vain thoughts.
O bury my sins in the ocean of Jesus' blood
and let no evil result from my fretful temper,
unseemly behaviour, provoking pettiness.
If by unkindness I have wounded or hurt another,
do thou pour in the balm of heavenly consolation;
If I have turned coldly from need, misery, grief,
do not in just anger forsake me;
If I have withheld relief from penury and pain,
do not withhold thy gracious bounty from me,
If I have shunned those who have offended me,
keep open the door of thy heart to my need.

Fill me with an over-flowing ocean of compassion,
the reign of love my motive,
the law of love my rule.

O thou God of all grace, make me more thankful, more humble;
Inspire me with a deep sense of my unworthiness arising from
the depravity of my nature, my omitted duties, 
my unimproved advantages, thy commands violated by me.
With all my calls to gratitude and joy may I remember
that I have reason for sorrow and humiliation;
O give me repentance unto life;
Cement my oneness with my blessed Lord,
that faith may adhere to him more immovably,
that love my entwine itself round him more tightly,
that his spirit may pervade every fibre of my being.
Then send me out to make him known to my fellow-men.
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-- from The Valley of Vision
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    Satan first just gave Eve a hint by planting that Satan first just gave Eve a hint by planting that seed of doubt: “Did God really say you shall not eat from any tree of the garden?” That’s exactly what the serpent does with us today. “Did God really say you have to put others before yourself or is a little more ‘me time’ exactly what you need?” “Did God really say you have to submit yourself to your husband even when you don’t feel like it?” “Did God really say you need to discipline your children with humility and kindness or is your raised voice understandable because you’re upset?” 

All it took was that one little question for Eve’s heart to decline from faith, as Calvin puts it. He is describing the fall and how that small seed of doubt planted by the serpent grew into sin. He says, “Eve could previously behold the tree with such sincerity, that no desire to eat of it affected her mind; for the faith she had in the word of God was the best guardian of her heart, and of all her senses. But now, after the heart had declined from faith, and from obedience to the word, she corrupted both herself and all her senses, and depravity was diffused through all parts of her soul as well as her body. It is, therefore, a sign of impious defection, that the woman now judges the tree to be good for food, eagerly delights herself in beholding it, and persuades herself that it is desirable for the sake of acquiring wisdom; whereas before she had passed by it a hundred times with an unmoved and tranquil look.”

Eve went quickly from looking at the tree without a second thought, to desiring it for herself. We see that in her first response where she has already changed what God originally told them not to do in chapter 2. She added that they were not to touch the tree, God never said anything about touching the tree. Do you see how quickly we can be deceived into thinking that God’s ways are not best? 

Read/listen to the full post on Genesis 3 and Eve's deception at the link in my stories.
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The Christian must ask, “does God feel the same way?” “Does God care about what you wear?”

We don’t have to look far to find modesty in the Bible. In the opening chapters of Genesis, we find God as the very first clothing designer. Adam and Eve have just sinned, and they are now ashamed of their nakedness in the garden. They attempt to cover up their shame by stringing leaves together into loincloths (Genesis 3:7). When God later came to the garden and found Adam and Eve, He first addressed their sin, but then addressed their shame.

Genesis 3:21 says, “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.” Their little loincloths were not sufficient to cover the shame of their sin, so God made them garments, or tunics, to cover up their bodies. This was not because their bodies were imperfect, rather they were exposed. The point of clothing in this passage is to cover up Adam and Eve’s shame, the shame of the first sin. They were naked, utterly exposed, and God gave them dignity by providing proper clothing for their bodies so that they were no longer ashamed.

We are exactly like Adam and Eve, stuck in the shame of sin. It’s not until Jesus stepped into the world and took our place on the cross that it all changed. 
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    Yes, God uses snakes. ☺️ The first character m Yes, God uses snakes. ☺️
The first character mentioned in Genesis 3  is none other than the serpent. The text says, “Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

Maybe this seems like a small question, but I had never thought about this before. Why did Satan use the serpent instead of any other animal that God had created? The Bible clearly states that the snake or serpent was already cunning and crafty on its own, that’s how God made it.

In John Calvin’s commentary on this verse, he points out that Jesus actually tells the disciples to be “prudent as serpents” in Matthew 10:16. So, we shouldn’t read this first verse of chapter 3 with a negative tone. Rather, Moses is highlighting an aspect of God’s creation in describing the serpent as crafty. And even though it’s Satan who is using the snake in this passage, remember that Moses is actually pretty familiar with God using snakes for His own purposes. We have the first reference to this later in this chapter to God sending someone to “crush the head” of the serpent in Genesis 3:15.

Then in Moses’ personal life God used snakes as well. In Exodus 4 Moses’ staff is turned into a snake to show God’s power to Pharaoh. Then, in Numbers 21, snakes attack the Israelites in judgment from God and Moses is told to make the bronze snake that’s lifted up and when the people look to the bronze snake, they are healed. So, Moses knew from personal experience what snakes were like and it makes sense for him to include this note at the beginning of Genesis 3 about snakes being crafty. 

That bronze serpent that Moses made is actually in the Bible two more times, once during the time of the kings and it’s referred to in the New Testament by John. In 2 Kings 18, Hezekiah has just come onto the throne as king of Judah and it says in verse 4 that “he removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.” ... Continued in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️
    This is 27! 🎉 Pictured: 1) stopping to smell t This is 27! 🎉 
Pictured: 1) stopping to smell the roses at the oldest botanic garden in England, 2) finally learning how to do sourdough bread this weekend, 3) learning the laws of cricket as we watch Dada play, 4) drinking lots of water and meat stock (not at the same time 😆), 5) starting a garden with my friends!
Not pictured: the ups and downs of living in a foreign country, the frustrations and joys of training a 4-year-old, seeing God's faithfulness in little and big ways. ❤️
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