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The gospel is good news because it brings a person into the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of Jesus Christ. He is not merely the rope that pulls us from the threatening waves; he is the solid beach under our feet, and the air in our lungs, and the beat of our heart, and the warm sun on our skin, and the song in our ears, and the arms of ...
Aug 13, 2024 · The gospel takes skinny little Steve Rogers and turns him — you — into Captain America. The gospel takes sinners like you and me and turns us into saints. If you’ve been joined to God’s family, if you’ve believed the gospel, then you’ve received the Spirit Jesus sent when he ascended to heaven. And because you have the Spirit, you ...
Jun 5, 2002 · The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ. May God give you "strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and ...
Sep 12, 2007 · Lay it down. And simply embrace the gospel that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Righteous One, died for your sins. He was raised on the third day, triumphant over all his enemies. He reigns until he puts all of his enemies under his feet. Forgiveness of sins and a right standing with God come freely through him alone, by faith alone.
Jul 17, 2013 · When you memorize a “gospel verse,” and keep it warm, you have hidden in your heart a divinely inspired and inerrant expression, in human language, of the very point of the whole Bible and all of history. You carry with you the sword of the Spirit in its strongest alloy. One-sentence encapsulations of the Bible’s central message strengthen our spiritual backbone and solidify our core ...
Jun 21, 1998 · The gospel is the good news that God gave us his Son, so as to obtain for us everything that would be good for us. Therefore, the gospel is the power that gives us victory over temptation to despair and to pride and to greed and to lust. The gospel alone can triumph over every obstacle and bring us to eternal joy. Whatever it costs, stand in it ...
Mar 19, 2012 · Here’s a summary of the gospel to help you understand it and enjoy it and share it! 1) God created us for his glory. “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory” (Isaiah 43:6–7). God made all of us in his own image so that we would image forth, or ...
Jan 18, 2015 · The ongoing preaching of the gospel is vital to the ongoing life of faith. 3. To Grow in Grace. When we sit attentively under the faithful preaching of the gospel, not only do we forget ourselves and refill our faith, but we are genuinely changed. The gospel we preach is the fragrance from life to life, or death to death (2 Corinthians 2:15 ...
Jun 11, 2016 · 4. Prove the Power of the Gospel Together. If we do not believe the sufficiency of the gospel, we will never share it boldly and simply. Yet, if we truly believe that God’s word does the work of conversion through the power of his Holy Spirit, we will unabashedly share the simple and unadorned truth of the gospel.
Mar 24, 2021 · The gospel is a divine achievement. The gospel is a divine achievement through that event of suffering and resurrection. And by achievement, I mean things like “he died for our sins.”. Verse 3, again, at the end: “Christ died for our sins.”. There’s a design in it. There’s an accomplishment in it.
