{"id":587,"date":"2022-10-15T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/good-news-from-a-far-country-proverbs-2525-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:46:09","slug":"good-news-from-a-far-country-proverbs-2525-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/good-news-from-a-far-country-proverbs-2525-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News From A Far Country &#8211; Proverbs 25:25 &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: CENTER\"><strong>Proverbs 25:25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: CENTER\"><strong>GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro<\/strong>: Ill. Hard work and cold water!  They go sooooo good together!  Ill. Good news is like a drink of refreshing, cool water.  Listen, God&#8217;s people need some good news!  The saints are too burdened this evening!  Too many of God&#8217;s children have lost their shout and developed a pout!  Far too many have been sold a bill of goods by the devil and have lost all their joy in the Lord.  Well, I&#8217;ve got some good news for you this evening!<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking, there just isn&#8217;t much good news coming out of the world tonight!  If you listen to all the major news stories fo the day, you are bound to get defeated and discouraged.  I mean, you can&#8217;t watch the news or read the paper without getting defeated.  But wait a minute!  What if heaven published a newspaper?  If they did, it would contain nothing but good news.<\/p>\n<p>If they did, what would the headlines say?  Well, since Jesus Christ is the centerpiece of Heaven, <strong>Col. 1:18<\/strong>, I am sure that every headline would be about Him in some way.  He, Who should be the object of earth&#8217;s attention, is the object of Heaven&#8217;s attention.  As I thought about what kind of headlines they would publish in Heaven, I realized that I have an anthology of Heaven&#8217;s headlines in my hand!  In this blessed old book, there is a record of the big news stories of glory.  Let me share a few of them with you this evening!<\/p>\n<p>  I. <strong>John 3:16<\/strong> <strong>FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Ill. The fall and hopelessness of man &#8211; <strong>Eph. 2:1-3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>B.  God&#8217;s awesome love made a way for you and me,<strong> Eph. 2:4; Rom.5:8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>C.  God&#8217;s love for the sinner is good news from a far country!  There will always be somebody who loves you and me &#8211; <strong>Jer. 31:3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> II. <strong>John 19:30<\/strong> <strong>IT IS FINISHED<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Ill. The crucifixion and why He died &#8211; <strong>Isa. 53:4-6<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>B.  He paid the price and now nothing else needs to be done, <strong>Eph. 2:8-9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>III. <strong>Luke 24:34 THE LORD IS RISEN INDEED<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  He arose from the dead, <strong>Matt. 28:1-6<\/strong>!  Death could not hold Him for just as He was the Master of sin on the cross, He conquered death at the tomb.<\/p>\n<p>B.  He is the Firstfruits from the dead, <strong>1 Cor. 15:23.<\/strong>  Because He lives, we will live also!  (Ill. Death has lost its sting, <strong>1 Cor. 15:55<\/strong>) (Ill. To be absent from the bod is to be present with the Lord, <strong>2 Cor. 5:8<\/strong>) (Ill.  That is why the Lord says the death of His people is precious in His sight, <strong>Psa. 116:15<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> IV. <strong>John 14:2 I GOT TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Ill. Heaven &#8211; <strong>Rev. 21:4<\/strong> &#8211; That&#8217;s my home!<\/p>\n<p>B.  It&#8217;s gonna be better than we could ever imagine!  (Ill. <strong>1 Cor. 2:9<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>V. <strong>Rev. 22:20  SURELY I COME QUICKLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Ill. Jesus is returning again for His bride in the Rapture &#8211; <strong>1 Cor. 15:51-52; 1 Thes. 4:16-17<\/strong>.  Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p>B.  Ill. It will only be a short time then Jesus will come for you and me &#8211; <strong>Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:17<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VI. <strong>1 Thes. 4:17<\/strong> <strong>SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  The greatest glory of heaven will be to see the glory of heaven! <strong>Rev. 22:3-4<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>B.  Ill. Eternity is a long time!  Heaven is forever, so is Hell!  Where will you be?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VII. <strong>Rev. 22:17WHOSOEVER WILL LET HIM COME<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Salvation is available to all &#8211; <strong>Matt. 11:28<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>B.  None will ever be turned away &#8211; <strong>John 6:37<\/strong>!   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VIII. <strong>Acts 16:31 BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUSCHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A.  Salvation is a simple matter!  The greatest news from the headlines of Heaven is the news that any sinner who wants to be saved can be by simply coming to Jesus by faith! <strong>Rom. 10:13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B.  No one need ever die lost!  Jesus died for all &#8211; <strong>2 Cor. 5:14!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Conc<\/strong>: Thank God for a few precious promises from the Word of God!  What do <strong><em>Heaven&#8217;s Headlines<\/em><\/strong> mean to you?  Before we finish this evening, let&#8217;s turn briefly to the want ads section of the paper.  Here is a listing you might find interesting: &#8220;<strong><em>And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, <strong>Eze. 22:30<\/strong>.  The Lord is looking for some men and women who will put Him first, take Him at His Word and go everywhere telling this lost and dying world about God&#8217;s good news from that far country.  Let&#8217;s cancel our pity parties, stop receiving &#8220;<strong><em>Woe Is Me Magazine<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; and get busy praising the Lord for what He has given us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 25:25 GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY Intro: Ill. Hard work and cold water! They go sooooo good together! Ill. Good news is like a drink of refreshing, cool water. Listen, God&#8217;s people need some good news! The saints are too burdened this evening! Too many of God&#8217;s children have lost their shout and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/good-news-from-a-far-country-proverbs-2525-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good News From A Far Country &#8211; Proverbs 25:25 &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}