ONE MESSAGE: TWO PARTS!

THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS OWN PEOPLE

Matthew 9:13 - Jesus said, "But go ye and learn what (this means), I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:  for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS

John 1:11-13 - "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.  But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to (those who) believe on His name:  (who) were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Acts 2:22-24 - "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, (The Man) approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:  Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:  Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death:  because it was not possible that He should be (held by) it."

THE LORD'S MESSAGE OFFERS SALVATION TO BOTH JEWS AND GENTILES

Luke 24:45-48 - "Then (Jesus opened) their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:  and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations (to both Jews and Gentiles), beginning at Jerusalem.  And ye are witnesses of these things."

PETER'S MESSAGE WAS TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES

Acts 11:14-18 -   The angel told me to send for Peter, "Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.  And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.  Then remembered I the Word of the Lord, how that He said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.  Forasmuch then as God gave them the like Gift as He did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, that I could withstand God?  When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then (God has also granted to the Gentiles), repentance unto life."

PAUL'S MESSAGE WAS TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES

Acts 26:16-20 - Jesus, speaking to Saul of Tarsus (the Apostle Paul), said, "But rise, and stand upon thy feet:  for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear (show) unto thee; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.  Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:  but showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for (which give evidence of genuine) repentance."

THERE IS BUT ONE MESSAGE FOR ALL TO HEAR AND BELIEVE:

(THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS BY JESUS CHRIST)

JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS, HE WAS BURIED, AND HE WAS 

RAISED FROM THE DEAD ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES!

(AND REPENTANCE)

TURNING FROM FOLLOWING SATAN, TO OBEYING GOD!