BZZ Words

Week #2 – The Gospel

Big Idea of the Message: The gospel is good news when you understand the bad news.

Application Point: Has the power of the gospel changed how you see yourself and others—that is, as people who are not condemned?

Scripture Lesson: John 3:16

BZZ Words

The Gospel

Week #2

1. We are all slaves to sin.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.   – Romans 7:14-16

Teach the Law – mirror, curb, guide

2. There is no escape from the law and sin.

So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. – Romans 7:17-20

3. The gospel frees us from the Law.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.  For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? – Romans 7:21-24

4. The gospel is so good!

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. – Romans 7:25

Points To Ponder

1. How would you explain the gospel to someone who had never heard it?

2. Why is the gospel good news?

3. How would you explain the bad news that makes the gospel such good news?

4. How much of an influence does the gospel have on your daily life?

Homework: Romans 3