1 Corinthians 9:19-23 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 – 19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law…

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 – 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

1 Peter 2:9 – 9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession…

1 Peter 1:23-25 – 23…since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass…”

1 Peter 1:23-25 – 24“The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

1 Peter 2:9 – 9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession…

1 Peter 2:9 – 9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

We must see the gospel as good news

1 Corinthians 9:23 – 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

euaggellion (Greek) “Good news” 1 Corinthians 9:23 – 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. euaggellion (Greek) “Good news”

2 Corinthians 4:4 – 4In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6 – 6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:5 – 5For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Romans 6:16-23 – 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?...

Romans 6:16-23 – 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness…

Romans 6:16-23 – 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death…

Romans 6:16-23 – 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 26:15-17 – 15“And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord Acts 26:15-17 – 15“And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you…’”

Acts 26:15-17 – 17“‘…delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you 18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’”

We must see the gospel as good news

We must see lost people as lost

1 Corinthians 9:19 – 19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.

1 Corinthians 9:22 – 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Ephesians 2:1-3 – 1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Ephesians 2:1-3 – 3…among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

John 4:8 – 8(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food

John 4:28-29,39 – 28So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”…

John 4:28-29,39 – 39Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

We must see lost people as lost

We must see ourselves as servants of the lost

1 Corinthians 9:19 – 19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.

2 Corinthians 4:5 – 5For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Acts 16:3 – 3Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

We must see ourselves as servants of the lost

We must get out of our comfort zones

1 Corinthians 9:21 – 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.

We must get out of our comfort zones

We must by all means strive to save others

1 Corinthians 9:22 – 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

1 Peter 2:1-2 – 1So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Matthew 4:4 – 4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

1 Peter 2:1-3 – 1So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

1 Peter 2:1-3 – 1So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

James 1:18 – 18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Romans 6:3-4 – 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?...

Romans 6:3-4 – 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.