The gospel is the good news about what Jesus Christ has done to reconcile sinners to God. Here’s the whole story:
- The one and only God, who is holy, made us in his image to know him (Gen. 1:26-28).
- But we sinned and cut ourselves off from him (Gen. 3; Rom. 3:23).
- In his great love, God sent his Son Jesus to come as king and rescue his people from their enemies—most significantly their own sin (Ps. 2; Luke 1:67-79).
- Jesus established his kingdom by acting as both a mediating priest and a priestly sacrifice—he lived a perfect life and died on the cross, thus fulfilling the law himself and taking on himself the punishment for the sins of many (Mark 10:45; John 1:14; Heb. 7:26; Rom. 3:21-26, 5:12-21); then he rose again from the dead, showing that God accepted his sacrifice and that God’s wrath against us had been exhausted (Acts 2:24, Rom. 4:25).
- He now calls us to repent of our sins and trust in Christ alone for our forgiveness (Acts 17:30, John 1:12). If we repent of our sins and trust in Christ, we are born again into a new life, an eternal life with God (John 3:16).
Now that’s good news.
A good way to summarize this good news is to biblically unpack the words God, Man, Christ,
Response.
- God. God is the creator of all things (Gen. 1:1). He is perfectly holy, worthy of all worship, and will punish sin (1 John 1:5, Rev. 4:11, Rom. 2:5-8).
- Man. All people, though created good, have become sinful by nature (Gen. 1:26-28, Ps. 51:5, Rom. 3:23). From birth, all people are alienated from God, hostile to God, and subject to the wrath of God (Eph. 2:1-3).
- Christ. Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man, lived a sinless life, died on the cross to bear God’s wrath in the place of all who would believe in him, and rose from the grave in order to give his people eternal life (John 1:1, 1 Tim. 2:5, Heb. 7:26, Rom. 3:21-26, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Cor. 15:20-22).
- Response. God calls everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and trust in Christ in order to be saved (Mark 1:15, Acts 20:21, Rom. 10:9-10).
(Some of this material has been adapted from The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever, p. 43)
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You can only do this however if God chose you to do it. Only the elect can repent.
John, I can only assume from your comment that you have not REALLY understood the message on this page due to a religious belief called Calvinism???? If so, you need to repent from your dead works and choose LIfe through the Blood of Jesus Christ!! May God Bless you richly as you come to terms with THE TRUTH.
This is a false works based Gospel. Nowhere in the Bible does the phrase “repent of sin” appear not even ONCE. Repent means to simply to turn or change of mind about what you believe in regards to salvation. God himself repents may times in the Bible.The true Gospel is Acts 16:30-31 What must i do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus CHrist. Heaven is not a reward its a GIFT. Once you put all your trust on Jesus to saved, your saved forever. Once saved always saved. Jesus said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
The question is really if they were really saved in the first place. Saved people who receive the Holy Spirit are changed, their desires are changed to please Him and do His will. Jesus said a tree is know by its fruit. If a tree produces bad fruit, its a bad tree, and good tree, good fruit. A bad tree does not bear good fruit nor a good tree bad fruit. True, our works are not for salvation, but they are the evidence of true faith -see James. Also Jesus talked about people who will come to Him and say didn’t we do this or that in you name (I am paraphrasing all these examples but you should know full well my references if read God’s Word) and Jesus will say “Depart from me, I never knew you, you who PRACTICE lawlessness.” The Holy Spirit works to shape and change us over time. If they are still pigs rolling in mire, have they really returned to their father? We practice righteousness and fall once in a while, but blatant/planned sin and no will to change from your contrary and rebellious state to God is not repentance. To confess, means you agree with God, what He says is right and wrong. To repent is to turn to Him, having knowledge (hearing the word, receiving by faith), believe on Jesus works on the cross for salvation but also to practice to live as a child of God, by the Holy Spirits leading through a pure, holy life. We are imitators and ambassadors of Christ, not to the letter of the law but to the leading of the Holy Spirit under grace. This may help: http://www.calvaryofwilmington.org/a-new-sabbath-luke-61-11/ I hope this does not come off as pontifical but edifying. Bless you.