The Most Important Message from God?

What is the most important message you were ever given by your parents?

• Always remember from where you came
• Do 'em a good job
• Never step on a man's gate and climb over the top

As important as some of the messages from our parents are, let's think about messages of importance from our Heavenly Father.

I was recently asked a question which was sent to several other preachers to answer: "What is the most important message all the evangelists of the NT deliver?"

Racking my brain, I begin thinking about the goodness of God, His creation, His mercy, His love, His divine nature and I see that there are many things one could address as important messages from God's Word. When it ultimately comes down to it, however, there is one message that I believe comes from the very heart of God that is of the utmost importance: The death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4: "Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you believed, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,..." This is what I like to call the bare bones of the Gospel Message!

If this message is so important, what are we doing to make sure others hear it?
Those who aren't Christians, the choice has been given you to accept Christ as your Savior or decline His offer. What will your answer be?
For those of us who are Christians, we need to make sure others know the importance of this message. If it is really that important, we will make sure no one can ever use the title of the song, "You never mentioned Him to me."