What is the Gospel?
The following is a summary of the gospel from God’s Word…
◦ Everyone born into the human race is born with a sin nature, so that all are sinners.1
◦ The consequence of sin is not only physical death, but spiritual death—separation from God now and in eternity.2
◦ But God so loved the entire world of humanity that He sent His own Son, Jesus, into the world to die as an atoning sacrifice for our sin, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish separated from God, but will have eternal life.3
◦ When we confess that we are sinners, ask God to apply the death of Jesus to our sin and forgive us, He will.4
◦ Following the crucifixion of Jesus, God raised Him from the dead to give us new life here and life in Heaven when we die.5
◦ When we respond and receive Jesus by faith into our hearts, He comes into us in the person of His Holy Spirit, so that we are born again as children of God, forgiven of our sins, and receive eternal life.6
◦ When we claim Jesus Christ by faith as our Savior and Lord, we pass from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, from death to life.7
And the Gospel is this…
◦ Jesus said, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’8
◦ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. Just the name of Jesus.9
◦ If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.10
◦ There is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all…11
1 Romans 3:23
2 Romans 6:23
3 John 3:16
4 1 John 1:9; Ephesians 1:7; John 14:6
5 Romans 8:11
6 John 1:12; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 John 5:11-13
7 Acts 26:18; 1 John 3:14; Romans 8:10
8 John 14:6
9 Acts 4:12
10 Romans 10:9-10
11 Romans 10:12-13
