What is the Gospel?
You’ve probably heard the expression: “and that’s the gospel truth”, which carries the meaning of something that is certainly true. The word “gospel” can also be expressed as “good news”. The good news I want to affirm with this blog is the Good News communicated in the Bible. Specifically, it is the Good News of the person of Jesus Christ, God’s Son. The Bible says in John 3.16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (ESV). The Good News of Jesus is that He died on the cross on behalf of the sin of the whole world because of His love for everyone. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15.3b-5: “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.” (ESV)
And as it is recorded in Luke 24.46-47, Jesus spoke the following words to His disciples after His resurrection: “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” (ESV)
If any person will repent of his or her sins, and place his or her faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior, then that person will receive the gift of salvation and the promise of eternal life. Truly good news.
