The good news of Jesus Christ has been passed down from generation to generation.  It is not a flowery or eloquent petition, it is not forced with coercion or manipulation, rather the gospel is simply true – the evidence of God’s love is demonstrated in this, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 

Observations:

1. The gospel is a timeless truth  
2. The gospel must be received unchanged
3. The gospel is of first importance
4. The gospel is: “Christ died for our sins”
   – “Christ” = God’s anointed one
   – “died” = the penalty of sin
   – “for” = marker of substitutionary atonement
   – “our” = representational identification as vicarious
   – “sins” = lawlessness
5. The gospel is an objective truth

Conclusions: 

1. Biblical Evangelism means consistency in the message of the gospel 
2. Biblical Evangelism means the gospel message is primary
3. Biblical Evangelism means avoiding “easy believeism”
4. Biblical Evangelism means knowing the gospel

Application: 

1. Practice internalizing that which the witnesses of the resurrection preached:
   (1) – Jesus is Lord
   (2) – Jesus is alive
   (3) – Jesus died for our sins

Galatians 3:13

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

1 Timothy 2:5-6

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.”

2 Corinthians 5:21

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Isaiah 53:4-6

“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Hebrews 2:14-17

“Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.”

1 John 3:4

“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.”