UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 5

THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION

The gospel means the good news. That is the literal meaning of the word “gospel”. We use it for salvation because salvation is the good news humanity has been waiting for. Since the world have been waiting for the messiah, to redeem them back to God and to save them from the kingdom of Satan. There must necessarily be an awareness to inform the world about what has happened. Hence the proclamation of the gospel.

So if the gospel is the good news that humanity has been waiting for, then it would be a good news that concerns all humanity. That is why the preaching of any other gospel is not the gospel of salvation.

The preaching of hell and every other preaching cannot save the sinner.

So what is the good news all about…and why is it common to humanity?

We are trying to say is that, the good news that is for the whole world must be general good news about a general problem. Definitely it is the good news about FORGIVENESS OF SINS. The need that was met is that mankind has been bought back, and reconciled back to the family of God. This is what everyone longed to hear at that time. The Jews would love this, since they've been stumbling as a result of the laws given, to them and the gentiles would also love this because they were sinners by nature and regarded as the enemies of God. So the good news of redemption is the news that the world needed.

So the gospel is simply about the FORGIVENESS OF SINS

That Jesus Christ was made our sin,  that we might become the righteousness of God

It is not a BAD NEWS, so it shouldn't scare anyone

The gospel message is a good news of peace, not of fear.

So HELL is not involved at all. Those who teach or preach Hell as good news need to know this.

Checking through the scriptures, we see how that the apostles never preach anything except the finished works of Christ. To the Jews, Peter and the other apostles always remind the Israelite of how the promise of the messiah had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ and that he was crucified according to the scriptures for the acceptance into the kingdom of God. For the gentiles, Paul expounded much more on the righteousness which is by faith in Christ Jesus. His preaching have always been about the resurrection of Christ and its implications on us.

That the death and resurrection of Christ is the gospel

And that whosoever BELIEVES these, is saved

Not just saved alone, but has received ETERNAL LIFE and the IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

Salvation is RECEIVED not ACHIEVED

You receive it by FAITH in what Jesus Christ has done for you

Everyone who BELIEVES the gospel of Salvation becomes born again into the family of God.

The gospel is not a threat

The gospel is not about hell

The gospel is not about rapture

The gospel is not about prosperity

The gospel is not about converting your religion

The gospel is about the REDEMPTION OF HUMANITY and the RECEPTION OF ETERNAL LIFE.

Believe!!!