Message Notes 05 05 24
May 2, 2024

Title: It Is All About Jesus!
Text: Acts 5:42
Date: May 5, 2024

Introduction: The message of the church must always be the good news about Jesus Christ. He, and He alone, is our proper subject. It must be said about today’s church what was said about the first church in our text, “Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah [“The Christ”] (Acts 5:42).

This is the key note of the New Testament. We see it repeatedly in the Book of Acts:
— “Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.” (Acts 8:35)
— “At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.” (Acts 9:20)
— “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.” (Acts 11:20)
— “A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, ‘What is this babbler trying to say?’ Others remarked, ‘He seems to be advocating foreign gods.’ They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.” (Acts 17:18)
— “When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.” (Acts 18:5)
— “For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ—with all boldness and without hindrance!” (Acts 28:30-31)

The power of yesterday’s church and the hope of today’s church is that we never stop teaching and preaching Jesus Christ. But what are we to teach about Jesus? What did the first century church proclaim about Him?

I. The Historical Meaning I. We must proclaim Jesus as the

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II. We must proclaim Jesus as the

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III. We must proclaim Jesus as the

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Larry Gipson
First Baptist Church Oneonta