07.27.07
The Gospel and its Implications
The Gospel:
I would like to take some time to discuss the most essential, most foundational, component of the entire Christian faith, the Gospel. The Gospel is the foundation of all Christianity; it is the focus of all history, both religious and secular. The Gospel is God’s purpose in creation. Every person and event in human history works around God’s supreme sovereign establishment of the Gospel. Every year Christians give over a billion dollars for the purpose of sharing the Gospel. Over the past four years approximately 350,000 have died for the sake of the Gospel (that’s forty people an hour) Most importantly for you who read this, the Gospel is the power by which we are saved by sin and re-united to God for all eternity.
Unfortunately, the numbers of people who either know of or truly understand the Gospel are far fewer then those who do. My purpose then is to define the Christian Gospel, break it down and then discuss its most essential elements in more detail. We will find our definition of the Gospel from the Bible. There are two places specifically in the Scriptures that give a clear definition of what the Gospel is, who it is about, and what it does. Let us first turn our attention to what is probably the most famous verse of the Bible, John 3:16.