The term “Gospel” is translated from the Greek word “euangelion” which is literally translated to mean “almost too good to be true news”. The term was coined in the first century to describe the extreme goodness of the God depicted in the Gospel. To the philosophical Greek minds of the first century, the goodness of God explained in the Gospel was an exaggeration that would exhaust the human intellect to grasp.
The true gospel is 100% good news. There’s no bad news in the good news. If the gospel you’ve bought into makes you feel insecure, anxious, guilty, and condemned, then it’s no good. Discard it before it kills you!
The original gospel signaled a great joy for all people. It was, and remains, an announcement about a Man. This Man has done not one, but two deeds of supreme and eternal significance. If you have not heard of this Man and His deeds, then this will be good news for you:
Jesus died for you
In the greatest demonstration of love the world has ever seen, Jesus gave His life for us. God loved us so much that He sent His Son to ransom us from the power of sin and death. The Son of God became a son of man and took the punishment that brought us peace. He was rejected that we might be accepted; wounded that we might be healed; cursed that we might be blessed. On the cross He carried our sin and gave us His righteousness. Through Him we have been reconciled to God and our sins are no longer held against us.
God relied on the faithfulness of His Son for His plan and not on the sinner or what he can do. Jesus Christ has fulfilled all for you to live the life of blessing beyond measure. He has qualified you to be who God ordained you to be. His unconditional love demonstrated in His death for you at the cross proclaims that you are of inestimable worth.
Jesus lives for you
The ransom paid in full, Jesus rose triumphant from the dead. He now sits at the Father’s right hand, a perfect High Priest who ever lives to speak for us. If you believe that Jesus has saved you, then believe that He will keep you for He will never change His mind. He is the Author and Perfecter of our faith and His blood has obtained your eternal redemption.
Jesus is not alone in all this. Your heavenly Father loves you with an everlasting love and saving you was His plan all along. In order that we might have a firm and secure hope to cling to, God the Father has sworn a covenant of peace with the Son of Man and neither will ever break it.
He has also given us His mighty Spirit – the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead – as a deposit guaranteeing all that He has promised. Through our representative Jesus, and as an expression of His enduring love, our heavenly Father has joined Himself to us, promising never to leave nor forsake us. We stand secure, not on our feeble promises to Him, but on His unconditional and unbreakable promises to us.
The gospel is Jesus and He’s the greatest news in the world! This is the reason for which God wants us to receive abundance of grace; because having abundance of grace is having abundance of Jesus.
Grace is a Person who loves you, died for you and now lives for you!
