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All right. We are going to begin a sermon series in the book of Joshua two weeks from today,

Lord Willie. For this morning, we're going to be looking at a multitude of biblical text

as we seek to better understand the incredible

majestic depths of the gospel of free grace of the life, death, and resurrection and

ascension of Jesus Christ as a substitute for sinners to be received by grace alone through faith alone in

him alone learning to better understand the gospel learning to believe and even preach the gospel

to ourselves next week lord willing Easter Sunday will focus primarily on the resurrection of Jesus.

And then as I've already said, two weeks from today, Lord willing, will begin our bread and butter,

the primary preaching diet for Covenant Bible Church, which is expositional preaching through

whole books of the Bible. Okay. Let's begin. First, learning to preach the gospel to yourself.

If you have your notes, I've written the following. The word gospel

literally means good news. The good news of the gospel is that God himself has come to rescue

and renew all of creation in and through the work of Jesus Christ for the good of his people

and to the praise of his glorious grace per

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