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Good News
“This is a day of good tidings” (2 Kings 7:9).
There is very little good news in the world today! All you have to do is read the headlines of the newspaper and you will soon get the point — Don’t read it all, as it won’t profit you. Wars, crime, violence, injustice, economic, political, and social breakdown … on and on it goes. We shake our heads and ask, “Where is it going to end?”
It is all going to end — but not until the Lord Jesus comes back to set up His kingdom and reign in righteousness. No matter how hard the armies, governments, and police forces of this world try, things are not going to get better. In fact, they are going to get worse. “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse” (2 Timothy 3:13).
But there is good news! In a world of bad news, the gospel, or “glad tidings,” is still being preached. It is the wonderful story of salvation through the work of Calvary. And yet it amazes me that people will buy newspapers, and listen to newscasts in disbelief and bewilderment, and yet refuse to listen to the only good news that there is … God’s good news concerning His Son, and the eternal blessings that result from accepting it and being saved from sin and hell.
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