How does God bring people to a knowledge of the truth through the Gospel?
God brings people to a knowledge of the truth through the power of the Gospel—the message of Christ crucified, buried, and risen from the dead. Even though this cannot be fully understood, God in His own inimitable way brings people to the truth, as He did with the pagan Thessalonians.
Les explains that Paul did not use a Madison Avenue approach to attract the masses. He preached in simplicity Christ crucified, buried, and risen from the dead, and people were convicted. That Gospel is the power of God, and though we cannot understand it, God in His own inimitable way brings people to a knowledge of the truth. In I Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 9, and verse 8, the converted Thessalonians—formerly just as pagan as the rest—shared their faith wherever they went, and their mouths could not be shut.