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What is the Gospel?


Mark 1:14-15— Now after John had been delivered up into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

The Gospel is the core message of Christianity. Our Lord Jesus Christ used the term in His earthly ministry. 

The word gospel comes from the Greek word euaggelion which literally means good news. The gospel is the good news from God through Jesus Christ, who called people to repent and believe in these good news. 

This is the good news that the Son of God came to earth, lived a perfect and sinless life, died on the cross bearing the weight of man's sin, and resurrected so that, through His sacrifice, all who believe in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.

Why is it good news?

This is good news because without Christ, no man could ever be in communion with God, and we would all be headed towards eternal condemnation. Let's take a quick look at this...

As a result of the fall of Adam (Genesis 3), all of mankind was made sinful, inheriting Adam's sin and corrupted nature. Through Adam, sin entered the world, and death through sin; thus death spread to all (Romans 5:12).

Therefore, all have fallen short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23) and man is now enslaved by sin TO sin (John 8:34). We are completely corrupted; mind, soul, and will.

Even our seemingly righteous/good acts are dirty rags before God (Isaiah 64:6).

In fact, not only are our deeds dirty rags, but Scripture indicates that humans actually do not care to seek for God. Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there is anyone who has insight, Anyone who seeks after God. 3 They have all turned aside, altogether they have become worthless; There is no one who does good, not even one (Psalm 14:2-3; Romans 3:10-12).

So we are dead in our trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1-5; Colossians 2:13) and all of our ways lead to death (Proverbs 14:12).

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Quite a gloomy picture isn't it? 

But thanks be to God, that as we dangled over the pit of hell, lost in our sins, where we were condemned eternally, He gave us His son Jesus Christ who could make us alive!

We who were in sin and bound to sin were previously dead. But through faith in Christ, we are made new. We are a new creation and are born into the kingdom by the Spirit of God. Christ said, “I have come that they may have LIFE, and that they may have it abundantly”.

If you have not believed in Christ, rejoice! For if you repent and place your trust in Him to save you from eternal condemnation, you will be saved!


Romans 10:8-11— ...that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes upon Him will not be put to shame.

1 John 4:9-10— 9  By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10  In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

2 Corinthians 5:21— He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.


This is the good news that Christianity teaches. That, while we were headed for eternal condemnation as a result of sin towards a Holy God, He became flesh and paid the penalty of our sins so that through faith in Jesus Christ, we might be reconciled to and made righteous before God.

If you have not yet done so, believe in Him today and be saved!

God bless 🙏

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