Latest / The One Gospel Podcast / 64 - What Did Jesus Actually Preach?
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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Clearly explained.
- 0:07SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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- 0:16SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
- 0:20SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
- 0:28SPEAKER_01: I've started this series called Effective Evangelism, and I've been sharing on the need for soul winning in the previous episodes, especially on you know why Jesus came, what the whole reason was that he came to this planet, that what that is that no one should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 0:51SPEAKER_01: You see, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever, that means that nobody is excluded, believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life, and that God didn't send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
- 1:07SPEAKER_01: This includes each and every person, each and every individual on this planet.
- 1:13SPEAKER_01: And I've been sharing on you know that uh the whole world is not yet reached with the true gospel of the kingdom.
- 1:22SPEAKER_01: And um basically I've been sharing on how the Lord spoke to me to win large uh groups of people uh at one time in one time, and so um I shared on my own process, you know, how I went for the very first time into the slums empty-handed and just had a little bit of success, and then I went with something that they needed, and then I drew crowds, and so the Lord gave me this concept that uh I am applying in our ministry uh called Festival de Vida.
- 1:56SPEAKER_01: And what we are doing is, you know, basically organizing cultural festivals all over the world where we do not use any Christian terminology to draw the people to this festival, and once they are there, you know, once I trap them, I get on stage and preach the gospel to them.
- 2:17SPEAKER_01: And man, people are so receptive to receive the word of God, it's like unbelievable.
- 2:22SPEAKER_01: And I shared in my in the previous episode about how the Lord asked me to do a crusade in the middle of COVID, in the middle of a lockdown, and uh how uh supernaturally he opened all the doors for me to be able to do that even legally, you know, so I wouldn't be arrested.
- 2:41SPEAKER_01: And um, how we were drowned, you know, it was we have drawn over 7,000 people in that slum.
- 2:47SPEAKER_01: The Lord spoke to me to give away 5,000 food parcels, and so you know, especially in that time there was a lot of need because of COVID, you know, people weren't like there was no movement, and in the communities, the favelas, you know, people were really struggling to survive.
- 3:04SPEAKER_01: And so when I came to bring them 5,000 food parcels, man, almost like a gift from heaven, and so it did it just drew the whole community empty to that field, and it was a rainy day.
- 3:16SPEAKER_01: But I felt to share with you that that gang leader that gave me uh you know permission to do this in his community, in his favela, and you know, he and his gang said, Alright, you can use that spot.
- 3:31SPEAKER_01: That he and his whole gang came to the Lord.
- 3:34SPEAKER_01: Man, that was so powerful.
- 3:36SPEAKER_01: And then when he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior and was baptized with the Holy Spirit, I immediately baptized him in water together with his wife, and then his family followed, and then his gang, his department, his fraction also all came to the Lord, and I baptized all of them.
- 3:56SPEAKER_01: And then that place where I met him for the very first time that was like a kind of a shady bar where they were really like torturing people and beating people up, and maybe even worse that I don't want to mention, but that same place where they had all that darkness going on, we turned it around into a little bakery shop, and on the second floor, on the first floor, we build a small church, and so he now is leading the church there together with his wife and you know, some other people out of the community, and they do a lot of social work, you see, because the world is so hungry for truth, the world is so hungry to receive, you know, um, the gospel of the kingdom, the good news of the gospel, and they're so ready to receive it's just the way how we reach them.
- 4:44SPEAKER_01: How do you reach those people?
- 4:46SPEAKER_01: How do you get them, uh how do you get their attention?
- 4:50SPEAKER_01: And so I've shared on you know, you get their attention by bringing something that they need.
- 4:55SPEAKER_01: Now, it doesn't always have to be something physical, in like for example, you know, um, if I go uh to draw a crowd, it would be nice if I do something to draw their attention.
- 5:08SPEAKER_01: Now, um I shared on how you don't draw their attention with a worship band because people don't even know what that is and they're not interested in anything of the church, you know.
- 5:17SPEAKER_01: And so we need to draw them with something that can uh and that can um, you know, um make them curious or uh makes them feel that they're gonna get something uh for free, which is always good, amen.
- 5:31SPEAKER_01: And so I've shared that on how I do that with large crowds and other kinds of stuff, but also one-on-one, you know, when you you can always bless people.
- 5:39SPEAKER_01: And I understand that not everybody is able to, you know, bring a bag of food to their neighbors every day to reach them with the gospel of the kingdom, you know, and so but there are other things how you can draw people's attention.
- 5:52SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, you can draw them like if you know that you have a neighbor that is struggling, you can say, Can I cut your can I moan your lawn, you know, or you know, in the gym and you are very good at something, you can say, Can I show it to you?
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: you know, and just connect with them on their level, connect with them on where they need to be connected.
- 6:10SPEAKER_01: And that can be in any kind of way.
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: I mean, I frequently visit the sauna, and when I go to the sauna, you know, um, I always end up talking with people about the gospel because I connect with them concerning things that are connecting us together.
- 6:25SPEAKER_01: You're in the sauna, I'm in the sauna, the sauna is hot.
- 6:28SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna say it's pretty hot in here, right?
- 6:31SPEAKER_01: And then I'm gonna say, yeah, it's amazing.
- 6:33SPEAKER_01: And then I always make a joke, you know, where it's really hot, you know, and then I tell them, you know, flaming, burning fire.
- 6:43SPEAKER_01: I said, there it's really, really hot.
- 6:45SPEAKER_01: And then they smile and say, Oh, yeah, I don't know about that, you know, and just ask people, are you a believer, blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever, you know, or they or I just make conversation about anything daily, you know, about people's lives, where you're from, etc.
- 6:58SPEAKER_01: etc.
- 6:58SPEAKER_01: And they ask you also, where you're from, what are you doing, you know, and then I share.
- 7:02SPEAKER_01: I share with them what I'm doing.
- 7:04SPEAKER_01: And before I know, you know, I'm preaching the gospel to them.
- 7:07SPEAKER_01: And so it's very easy, but you need to go to their level, you need to go to where they at.
- 7:12SPEAKER_01: Don't just go straight into their face and say, you know about Jesus, did you heard about Jesus?
- 7:16SPEAKER_01: You know, do you know that Jesus loves you?
- 7:17SPEAKER_01: And you know, just you know, level with them wherever they are, you know, make it human, make it normal, make it natural, organic.
- 7:29SPEAKER_01: You know, when you are in the city and you go out, you know, and you just talk with people, just hey man, it's a lovely day today.
- 7:36SPEAKER_01: Did you buy something amazing?
- 7:37SPEAKER_01: Maybe they can say, you know, mind your own business.
- 7:39SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, didn't want to offend you.
- 7:41SPEAKER_01: You just was interested, you know, and whatever, you know, just make it make it normal.
- 7:46SPEAKER_01: I will share more on that later, but you know, I've just been sharing on you know what kind of tools you could use to um draw the attention of people.
- 7:55SPEAKER_01: And Father God, thank you for this teaching of today.
- 7:57SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your word.
- 7:59SPEAKER_01: I pray that people will receive it, and I give you all the honor in Jesus' mighty name.
- 8:04SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 8:05SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 8:06SPEAKER_01: So let us pray for a moment.
- 8:10SPEAKER_01: Father God, thank you so much for your word, thank you for your truth, and thank you for this teaching.
- 8:15SPEAKER_01: I pray that people will receive it.
- 8:17SPEAKER_01: I give you all the honor in Jesus' mighty name.
- 8:20SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 8:21SPEAKER_01: And so, um, today, continuing in this series through um evangelism, effective evangelism.
- 8:28SPEAKER_01: You know, I've been battling with the title.
- 8:29SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna call it power evangelism, and I'm gonna call it true evangelism, and I'm gonna call it effective evangelism.
- 8:35SPEAKER_01: And effective is the bet is the best way with uh title, which I believe, because we want to be effective, we want to bear fruit for the kingdom.
- 8:44SPEAKER_01: If we do not bear fruit for the kingdom, then we have an issue, amen.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: And so it's important uh, you know, that we do when we do something that we are uh effective in it, otherwise, you know, it's just a waste of time.
- 8:56SPEAKER_01: And so, um, you know, there is a lot of uh effective ways to evangelize, there's a lot of effective ways to win people for Jesus and then disciple them, etc.
- 9:09SPEAKER_01: And we need to encourage people to do that, but there are also many ways that do not align with the word of God, they are just not in line with the truth, it's not the gospel that they have been sharing, and therefore, you know, uh I think it's important to understand what it's not and to understand what it is, so we can be effective in what we are doing.
- 9:30SPEAKER_01: And so the good news that Jesus brought us, you know, um, I want to share on today, I want to share on the gospel of the kingdom, but you know, there's a lot of people that are preaching a gospel that damages God, it damages the image of God, it is not in line with the word of God, it's not in line with the truth, and it makes people believe that it's all okay when it's not, and that's a very, very different thing.
- 9:58SPEAKER_01: Because if I share something with somebody and they believe that they are okay with God, while they're not, you know, then they are being deceived and then they will perish.
- 10:10SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, and that's not what God wants.
- 10:13SPEAKER_01: He doesn't want anyone to perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 10:17SPEAKER_01: Now, before you fall in the same snare, believing that it's all about people repeating a little prayer, you know, or whatever, you know, that will save them.
- 10:25SPEAKER_01: I want to teach you the way of true evangelism and then that in the most effective way.
- 10:31SPEAKER_01: So, you know, um as I shared on my personal testimony, you know, and I also how you can use instruments, you know, to draw people's attention in this fallen world so that you can reach them with the good news of the gospel.
- 10:44SPEAKER_01: You know, I've shared on all that stuff, you know, um, but I also want to look now on how we can win them in our personal lives one at a time.
- 10:53SPEAKER_01: And then I don't want to talk about what I've been sharing on, you know, uh a lot is like what kind of tools you can use, you know, like food parcels, you know, or sandwiches or blankets or whatever you need, you know, whatever kinds of tools that you can imagine, you know, to draw their attention.
- 11:09SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna share on that because I already shared um enough on that, but I want to share that when we have their attention, once that we have you know um used any kind of concept that draw their drew their attention, so now I've got their attention.
- 11:29SPEAKER_01: Whether it's beef whether it's a group of people in front of me or whether it's just one person in front of me, now I got their attention.
- 11:36SPEAKER_01: How do I win them?
- 11:38SPEAKER_01: What do I preach to them?
- 11:41SPEAKER_01: Is that you are a sinner, turn or burn?
- 11:45SPEAKER_01: You know, is that you know are if you're gonna if you're gonna die today, do you know where you are going?
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: Are you going to hell or you're going to heaven because there is a heaven and there is a hell?
- 11:56SPEAKER_01: And you know, if you don't want to go to hell, which is a horrible place where you will where you will suffer for eternity, you know, and you know you don't want to go there, then you know, just say that little prayer.
- 12:09SPEAKER_01: Just just repeat this after me, and then you know you are saved.
- 12:13SPEAKER_01: You know, that is not the gospel.
- 12:16SPEAKER_01: That is not from God.
- 12:17SPEAKER_01: You know, if people just let if you let them just pray that kind of prayers and just let them think that that's okay, just say this after me and then you're saved.
- 12:28SPEAKER_01: That's not the gospel.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna preach that to them?
- 12:31SPEAKER_01: Or are you gonna preach the truth?
- 12:34SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna really share the good news of the gospel of the kingdom and you're gonna teach them on what they need to do for them to become children of the living God?
- 12:45SPEAKER_01: Because first of all, you need to share the gospel with them so they understand that there is a need for salvation, and once they see that there is a need for salvation, then you teach them the way how they can be saved, and then you lead them to the Lord.
- 13:00SPEAKER_01: And so there are a few steps that we need to take in order for us, you know, to get that person on that in that place where we want them, and that is you know, spiritually on their knees for Jesus, acknowledging that they need a Lord and a savior and believe and they believe that it is Jesus.
- 13:20SPEAKER_01: And so we can only win, truly win people for Jesus if we preach the gospel of the kingdom to them.
- 13:26SPEAKER_01: And now the gospel of the kingdom means good news.
- 13:29SPEAKER_01: That's what evangelio means.
- 13:31SPEAKER_01: Evangelio means um, you know, good news.
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it is the good news that there is hope, and it's the good news that there is a future, that there is a God that truly, truly cares for us, that loves us unconditionally.
- 13:47SPEAKER_01: You know, the good news of the gospel of the kingdom is that God loves us so much that he gave his only begotten son for us, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
- 13:57SPEAKER_01: You know, that he died for us so that we don't need to die, but that we can live in his name.
- 14:04SPEAKER_01: It's the good news of the gospel of the kingdom uh that you know it's a it's a gospel of unconditional love, it's a gospel of complete restoration, it's a it's a gospel of healing and well-being, it's a gospel of joy, it's a gospel of freedom, it's a gospel of coming back into your original state, how you were supposed to be, you know, as a child of the living God.
- 14:29SPEAKER_01: And so it tells us how precious we are for God and how Jesus paid the ransom, you know, how he paid with his precious blood, and then he went to buy us out of each tribe, tongue, and nation before God with his own precious blood.
- 14:43SPEAKER_01: You know, how he needed to do that in order for us to be saved, or in order for us to be set free.
- 14:50SPEAKER_01: You know, and so it's a it's a gospel of true repentance, and that is not for you confessing all your sins.
- 14:57SPEAKER_01: I've shed on that.
- 14:58SPEAKER_01: That's not the gospel that you need to confess all your sins before God can accept you as his son.
- 15:04SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, tell me everything that you did wrong in your life, and when you tell me everything, you don't leave one sin out, then my I might consider whether I'm gonna accept you, yes or no.
- 15:14SPEAKER_01: That's not what God wants.
- 15:15SPEAKER_01: God doesn't want you to feel bad when you come to him, he wants you to feel happy when you come to him.
- 15:20SPEAKER_01: Man, I need a savior, and Jesus is it.
- 15:22SPEAKER_01: Bam, man, I'm joyful, I'm gonna get saved.
- 15:26SPEAKER_01: He is gonna save me.
- 15:27SPEAKER_01: The moment I ran to him and I repent, he's gonna save me.
- 15:31SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like, you know, when sometimes, you know, I I'm talking my wife, Brenda, she she has a lot of, you know, she is she has a lot of wisdom.
- 15:43SPEAKER_01: She's very plain, but I don't say that in a bad way or in a negative way because she is very special for me.
- 15:49SPEAKER_01: But I mean she's very plain in her statements, you know, or if she just I can talk like in half an hour and then she can use 30 seconds and say what I said in a half an hour, you know.
- 16:00SPEAKER_01: So she's very simple, very direct.
- 16:02SPEAKER_01: And so she really helps me a lot.
- 16:04SPEAKER_01: And and then, especially when I'm struggling with things, or just I can't, you know, uh I need to like focus, and then she says, Well, you know, you just are saying this, this, this.
- 16:15SPEAKER_01: So what about if you look at like this, and I'm like, oh yeah, you're right, and then bam, you know, she helps me.
- 16:19SPEAKER_01: So amazing.
- 16:21SPEAKER_01: But um let's say that um, for example, you know, I have this idea in my head, you know, about something that I need to do like this, uh, otherwise I am not gonna make it.
- 16:38SPEAKER_01: And then Brenda, she comes and then she tells me, listen, you know, um, you're wrong.
- 16:45SPEAKER_01: Because if you're gonna do it like that, you're not gonna make it, you know, uh, but you but you have to do it like this.
- 16:52SPEAKER_01: If you're gonna do it like this, then then it will be what you want to achieve, you will achieve when you do it like this.
- 16:57SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh yeah, you're right.
- 17:01SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a much better idea.
- 17:03SPEAKER_01: That's great, thank you so much.
- 17:05SPEAKER_01: And I changed my mind.
- 17:07SPEAKER_01: You know, I had a focus that I needed to do it like this, but then I changed my mind.
- 17:11SPEAKER_01: And so when you share the gospel to somebody that thinks that, you know, he can save himself, that he can justify himself before God, that he is okay, that he is living his life, you know, the best he can, he's not doing anything wrong, and so he believes that he's really okay, even if there is a God, you know, he is okay when he dies because you know he didn't do anything wrong, and you just show him that he is wrong, not judgmental, but just say, Listen, you know, but you say that you have never done anything wrong in your life, and so you're okay.
- 17:44SPEAKER_01: Did you ever lie to somebody?
- 17:46SPEAKER_01: Did you ever take something that is not yours?
- 17:48SPEAKER_01: Did you ever think on somebody, you know, and wanted bad or evil for them?
- 17:52SPEAKER_01: You know, and everybody should say, uh yeah, I did.
- 17:55SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, if it comes to God's standard, then you failed.
- 17:58SPEAKER_01: So you cannot, you know, be good with God based on your own performance.
- 18:03SPEAKER_01: For example, and so they change, you can help them to change their mind and understand that, man, if that is true, then I need a savior.
- 18:10SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, it's like you help people to change their mind because that is what repenting means.
- 18:17SPEAKER_01: Repenting means that they turn away from their old life, that they change their mind, they start to think differently, they start to understand that they they are in a desperate need of a savior without you judging them or rejecting them.
- 18:32SPEAKER_01: You just show them that there is a way that they need to take to be okay in life and in the future, uh, the life to come.
- 18:39SPEAKER_01: And so I believe that you know you need to you need to share people, you know, on um you know, that God loves them so much and he is not angry with them, and that God has a hopeful future for them, and that God made everything ready, he prepared everything for them, for them to come on home.
- 18:59SPEAKER_01: And for and then you need to show them the way home, and they need to recognize and understand that this is what they need in life.
- 19:07SPEAKER_01: You know, if if if I talk with a person concerning the gospel of the kingdom, and they say, I don't need salvation, I am okay, I don't need a savior, you know, I didn't do anything wrong.
- 19:17SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe that if I if there is a God, you know, he knows that I never did anything wrong in my life.
- 19:23SPEAKER_01: If I get if I get to heaven, he's not gonna refuse me because I did not believe on Jesus.
- 19:28SPEAKER_01: You know, there's a lot of people that say that kind of stuff if you have conversations with them.
- 19:33SPEAKER_01: You know, what I always say is that, you know, the Bible, which we believe believe is the unfatherable word of the word of God, you know, says that, you know, he who has the Son has life, and he who does not have the Son does not have life.
- 19:45SPEAKER_01: That no one comes to the Father but through him.
- 19:47SPEAKER_01: He is the way, the truth, and the life.
- 19:49SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, that's what I believe that you need Jesus.
- 19:53SPEAKER_01: But if you believe that you do not need Jesus, you know, I just shared with you that you do need Jesus.
- 19:59SPEAKER_01: And if you do not want to accept that, if you reject that, then I have preached the gospel to you, and then it's on you.
- 20:05SPEAKER_01: I mean, what can I do more than just share the gospel with them and showing them that they do need Jesus, they do need the Son, they can't get home based on their own performance, they can't get be they cannot be in peace with God based on what they did or how good they are or what they did not do, and so on and so forth.
- 20:23SPEAKER_01: And so you really need to show them the need for salvation.
- 20:28SPEAKER_01: You need to show them that they on their own cannot make it with God, but also on their own, they will never live the life that God has intended for them.
- 20:41SPEAKER_01: A life of peace, a life of joy, a life of well-being, prosperity, you know, freedom, you know, a life where you are completely at peace, you know, with your soul, at peace with your spirit, at peace in your life, you know, where you can be a better husband or a better wife, where you can be a better father or a better mother, a better child, you know, a better friend, you know, where you can truly have all those things that we all know that is an ideal picture.
- 21:14SPEAKER_01: But we can have that in Christ Jesus.
- 21:16SPEAKER_01: And so you show them all those things.
- 21:19SPEAKER_01: You share them the good news of the gospel that God is a God of restoration, that God is a God of peace, that God is a God of joy, that God is a God of love, and that He has all that for them in store.
- 21:31SPEAKER_01: All they have to do is believe it in order to receive it.
- 21:36SPEAKER_01: They can have peace in their heart.
- 21:37SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, there are just a few people in the world that have truly peace in their heart, and I believe those people are called Christians.
- 21:44SPEAKER_01: Amen.
- 21:45SPEAKER_01: There are so many hundreds of millions of people that do not have true peace in their heart.
- 21:50SPEAKER_01: They look in everywhere they can look and they search in everything they can search, but they can't find their true peace.
- 21:56SPEAKER_01: Because if just something slightly changes in their life, their peace is gone.
- 22:00SPEAKER_01: It's a pseudo-peace made in Taiwan.
- 22:02SPEAKER_01: It's not, you know, it's not real.
- 22:04SPEAKER_01: And so they try to create something for themselves where they feel like this false sense of peace, but just disturb their world a little bit, and you will see how many peace they got left.
- 22:14SPEAKER_01: There's no more peace there because it's not real peace.
- 22:17SPEAKER_01: It's this false sense of peace that this world is offering, but Jesus gives us peace.
- 22:22SPEAKER_01: He says, I will leave you my peace.
- 22:25SPEAKER_01: My peace I give to you, not as the world give, I give unto you.
- 22:28SPEAKER_01: Don't let your heart be troubled.
- 22:30SPEAKER_01: I have overcome the world.
- 22:32SPEAKER_01: You see, so you share that kind of stuff with them and really show them who they are in Christ Jesus.
- 22:39SPEAKER_01: That will really change their hearts and change their way of thinking.
- 22:42SPEAKER_01: And so it's a gospel that makes them understand that they cannot save themselves, but they're in desperate need of a savior.
- 22:48SPEAKER_01: And this gospel that we share with them is all based on one foundation only, and that is the word of truth that Jesus taught us and Jesus preached to us.
- 23:01SPEAKER_01: Now, in the next episode, I'm gonna look at the at the foundation that Jesus is teaching and the the gospel of the kingdom that we need to preach.
- 23:12SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you so much.
- 23:14SPEAKER_01: I pray that you really enjoyed this episode and you know I'm gonna see you in the next one.
- 23:20SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
- 23:21SPEAKER_01: Until then, bye-bye.
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