{"id":23855,"date":"2025-05-19T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:18:23","slug":"thoughts-on-the-gospel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23855","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Gospel <\/em>occurs 97 times in the New Testament. The Gospel (and the salvation it provides, Rom. 1:16) is the New Testament\u2019s theme. What does it tell us about the Gospel?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Gospel is good news. <\/strong>The Greek word behind <em>gospel <\/em>literally means \u201cglad tidings,\u201d \u201cgood news.\u201d Herein is a paradox. The Gospel message revolves around the death of God\u2019s only begotten Son. However, His death provides the only means of our redemption from sin (1 Pet. 1:18\u201319). Thus, a death message becomes the most wonderful news imaginable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gospel is singular. <\/strong>While some were preaching a \u201cdifferent\u201d Gospel in Galatia, Paul made it clear that there was not \u201canother\u201d Gospel (Gal. 1:6\u20139). <em>Gospels <\/em>does not appear in Holy Writ. When referring to the Gospel of Christ, the term always appears with the definite article. The Gospel is not one message among many acceptable alternatives. Jesus is \u201cthe way\u201d to the Father exclusively (John 14: 6); the Gospel is \u201cthe way\u201d to Jesus exclusively (Eph. 3:6).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gospel is Truth. <\/strong>God\u2019s Word is Truth (John 17:17), and His Word for all men since the cross is the Gospel (Mark 16:15\u201316). Many human philosophies, all of which are based on speculation, theory, tradition, and opinion, compete for the minds of men. The Gospel is the only message that constitutes all of the Truth relative to human-human and human-Divine relationships and to human destiny beyond his physical existence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gospel is all-inclusive. <\/strong>God so loved <strong>all <\/strong>mankind that He sent and sacrificed His Son (John 3:16). He revealed the Gospel message through which all men might take advantage of that ultimate sacrifice (Rom. 1:16). The God and His Son are unaware of Calvinism\u2019s \u201climited atonement\u201d; Jesus gave Himself as a \u201cransom for all\u201d (1 Tim. 2:4\u20136). Most men will be lost (Mat. 7:13\u201314), but not because of an atonement foreordained for only a few men or a weak Gospel (Mark 16:16).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gospel is God\u2019s message of grace. <\/strong>Paul called it \u201cthe gospel of the grace of God\u201d (Acts 20:24). The Gospel is the wonderful story of what God, through Jesus, has done for us through His amazing grace (Eph. 2:8\u20139; Tit. 2:11\u201312). The Gospel of grace is almost too good to be true, but it <strong>is <\/strong>true!<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gospel must be obeyed. <\/strong>Jesus said men must believe <strong>and <\/strong>obey the Gospel (which includes baptism, along with other requirements such as repentance and confession of one\u2019s faith in Christ as the Son of God) to be saved (Acts 2:37\u201338). Paul warned that the Lord will bring vengeance upon those who \u201cobey not the gospel\u201d (2 The. 1:8). Peter wrote of the fearful end of those who \u201cobey not the gospel\u201d (1 Pet. 4:17).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This article was written for and published in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, March 13, 2009.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong>\u00a0 From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 2Gospel occurs 97 times in the New Testament. The Gospel (and the salvation it provides, Rom. 1:16) is the New Testament\u2019s theme. What does it tell us about the Gospel? The Gospel is good news. The Greek word behind gospel literally means \u201cglad tidings,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23855\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  Thoughts on the Gospel<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,72,337,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-obedience","category-salvation","category-teachings-of","category-truth","wpcat-44-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-72-id","wpcat-337-id","wpcat-112-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23858,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}