Biblical truth is the substance of gospel work, so the early believers “went everywhere preaching the word”(Acts 8:4). Divine love is the motivation of it and joy is the strength of it, and thus we “preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Eph 3:8; see also 2 Cor 5:14). “Justification and sanctification are the spiritual objectives of it, so we seek to make known “the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus” (Col 1:27-28; see also 1 Cor 6:11). Grace and peace are the blessed effect of it because “Grace and peace [is] multiplied…through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord” (2 Pet 1:2). Universal need is the reason for it, so “preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk 16:15). And of course the Lord Jesus is the blessed subject of it so “we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord” (2 Cor 4:5).
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