“For I am not ashamed of the gospel,
because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes:
first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of
God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it
is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith’”
(Romans 1:16-17 NIV).
The Gospel is “Good News.” The Gospel is not about an upcoming judgment and
even though it includes deliverance from judgment. The Gospel is the gift
lavished upon all who would believe in God’s favor through His Son our Lord. This
favor explodes in an amazing grace taking us as are, unholy and unworthy and making us
holy and worthy.
Thus the Gospel is not just a thought,
an intention or even simply an action of salvation.
The Gospel is the “Good News” alive through Jesus Christ. Faith in Jesus Christ alive through the Holy
Spirit becomes the all encompassing, all securing and all delivering power conquering
all bondage and separation coming from all sin in the past while overflowing
with enabling strength in the present eventually taking us as believers into eternity. The power of the Gospel is the living by
faith in relationship with Jesus Christ who was and is and is to come … “The
Gospel.”
It is not something to be ashamed of.
Instead it is something to proclaim to a world desperately longing for good
news. Becoming an empowered follower of
Jesus Christ requires living beyond just the knowledge of the Gospel unto the daily
living by faith in "The Gospel.” The good news that empowers our daily living must be a faith lived out in an abiding and trusting faith in the “Good News.”
Suggested Bible Reading … Romans 1
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