The Gospel
The gospel means “good news”. The gospel is the proclamation
of who Jesus is and what He did for His elect only. The entire Bible (Old testament and New
Testament) foreshadows and proclaims who Jesus is and what He did for His elect
only (John 5:39, Luke 24:44).
Jesus is the Son of God (John 3:16), fully God and fully man
(John 1:1 & 1:14) and second person in the Trinity (Matthew 3:16-17).
The gospel is God’s testimony concerning Jesus as revealed
in the Holy Scriptures by the Holy Spirit which proclaims how Jesus the Christ
(John 1:41, Matthew 16:16) was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:23) and born under
the law to redeem His elect who were under the law and save His elect from
their sins (Matthew 1:21, Galatians 4:4).
God’s elect /sheep are the people past, present and future
from every tribe, tongue and nation God actively chose to redeem/ justify/save
based on Christ. God chose in Christ before the foundation of the world was laid according
to the good pleasure of His will for His glory (Revelations 5:9, Ephesians
1:4-5). God actively created and chose a people from every tribe, tongue and
nation before they were born for salvation whom God has always loved because of
Christ and only Christ (Romans 8). God’s elect are vessels of mercy prepared beforehand
for glory to make known the riches of His glory (Romans 9). God’s elect/sheep
are God’s chosen vessels of mercy that are Jews and Gentiles because of Christ.
(John 10, Romans 9:23-26, Hosea 2:23)
God is Holy (Isaiah 6:3). God’s law is holy and good (Romans
7:12). The law of God demands perfection in word, thought, and deed at all
times (James 2:10). The law was given through Moses (John 1:17). The law condemned all mankind and brought
knowledge of sin (Romans 3:19-20). All people are under sin and none are
righteous (Romans 3:9-18). Sin entered the world through Adam and death through
sin and death spread to all mankind because all sinned. (Romans 5:12-13).
Jesus Christ is the Passover lamb without blemish (1 Peter
1:19) for His elect by God’s sovereign grace (1 Corinthians 5:7). Just as the Israelites
were released from Egypt after the death of the firstborn (Exodus 11-13) -
Jesus Christ the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15) justified all His
elect at the cross from the wrath of God(Romans 5:9-11). Jesus willingly went to the cross (Philippians
2:8) and offered one sacrifice for all time for His elect He sanctified (Hebrews 10:11-14) as
their representative and High priest. Jesus was crucified for the elect’s sin
and raised for their justification (Romans 4:25). It pleased God the Father to
crush His only begotten Son( Isaiah 53:10) and God the Father accepted Jesus’
perfect sacrifice on behalf of His sheep(
Acts 2:23) . Jesus paid His elect’s sin debt and there is now no condemnation
for those who are married to Christ (Romans 7-8).
By Christ’s knowledge He justified all His elect (Isaiah
53:11) and finished His mission (John 19:30). All of God’s sheep will believe
God’s testimony concerning Christ because Jesus justified them by His perfect
sacrifice on the cross. Not one sheep Jesus died for will perish. Jesus is the
good shepherd. Faith(believing God’s testimony concerning Jesus) is the fruit
of what Jesus accomplished for His sheep. God’s sheep are righteous before God
by the imputed righteousness of Christ provided at the cross as prophesied in
Psalm 32 and fulfilled in John 19. All Jesus died for are regenerated at God’s
appointed time to believe God’s testimony concerning Christ on who Christ is
and what He did at the cross( Acts 13:48).
Read the whole book of John or any of the gospels for more on the person and work of Christ for His elect. God causes His elect to believe the gospel by His grace conditioned on Christ.
John 20:30-31 -
"Therefore many other [g]signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is [h]the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name."
If you believe the gospel (which is above) , it is important you find a good church THAT TEACHES THE GOSPEL.
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Glory to Christ.
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