What did Jesus do? Tell them how much he loves them? By the Law He convicted them of sin and then granted them repentance which is confession and absolution
He said your sins are forgiven yet did not say what their sin was. It was obvious. It was meeting Jesus that made the difference :
- the woman at the well met Jesus before Jesus said to her how many husbands she had
- the blind man heard Jesus was Near and cried out to him
- the lame man's friends brought him to Jesus
- the woman to be stoned because her sin was said by people, not Jesus
It was Nicodemus that Jesus said, "You must be born again".
I have led many to the Lord, and I have seen many healed and continued on with their lifestyle as if They did not remember what Jesus did for them, as many did to Jesus like the 10 lepers.
It is the Gospel message that is the Power of God. That is what Paul said he was not ashamed of. What is the gospel message?
The word gospel means “good news,”
In the apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he lays out the content of the gospel message, “Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance:
1. that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
2. that he was buried,
3. that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1–4).
Most know they have sinned yet do not know how to get rid of it or met the one who can remove it.
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