James 1:2-4 teaches that believers should find joy in facing various trials because these challenges test, or prove, our faith. Through this testing, the Christian will develop endurance, ultimately leading to spiritual maturity and completeness, lacking nothing essential for faith.

In Jonah chapter 3, God reissues His command for Jonah to preach to Nineveh, and this time Jonah obeys, proclaiming that the city will be overthrown in forty days. The people of Nineveh from the common folk to the king, respond with immediate and profound repentance, fasting and wearing sackcloth in hopes of averting disaster. Moved by their repentance, God "relents of the disaster that He said He would do to them, and He did not do it," demonstrating His mercy and willingness to relent from judgment when met with sincere change of heart.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, -The righteous shall live by faith.-

Bennet Bedaiko teaches on Psalm 42 & 43.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

Bennet Bedaiko teaches on Psalm 34-1-14.

Bennet Bedaiko teaches on Psalm 34:1-14.

In the second part of this miniseries about the Gospel, we focus on its urgency. But to understand why the Gospel is so urgent, we need to ask four questions: What does it mean to be saved? Who needs to be saved? Who is the one who saves? Whom will be saved? When we understand these aspects of the gospel, we must as ourselves one final question: Have I turned and been saved?