THE GOSPEL WARNING

By A. W. Tozer

    As he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment

to come, Felix trembled.                                  - Acts 24:25

     We who rejoice in the blessings that have come to us

through the Savior, need to bear in mind that the gospel

is not good news only!

     The message of the Cross is good news indeed for the

penitent, but to those who obey not the gospel it carries

an overtone of warning.

     The Spirit's ministry to the impenitent world is to tell of

sin and righteousness and judgment.  For sinners who

want to cease being willful sinners and become obedient

children of God, the gospel message is one of unqualified

peace, but it is by its very nature also an arbiter of the

future destinies of man.

     Actually, the message of the gospel may be received in

either of two ways: in word only without power, or in word

with power.

The truth received in power shifts the bases of life from

Adam to Christ - a new and different Spirit enters the

personality and makes the believing man new in every

department of his being!

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.