The Gospel of Christ Jesus
My September 2025 Website Update dealt with the question of what is the Gospel of Christ Jesus? We hear pastors often refer to the importance of the Gospel, but they usually don’t then go on to explain what exactly the Gospel is. Several months ago, I sought to try to briefly define the Gospel. I am not at all sure I got close to a really accurate statement of the Gospel, but I am happy with the result and more than willing to have others correct me. The first paragraph of what follows is my attempt to define the Gospel and the next two paragraphs seemed to be important enhancements:
This is the Gospel of Christ Jesus!!
Father God sent his only Son to earth to be fully God and fully man. Then, that Son, a totally innocent and perfect Jesus, was convicted, mistreated, crucified and died for our sins. He died in our place and made us righteous in God’s eyes. When God now sees us, he sees Jesus. To be saved we must choose to believe in Jesus and in choosing to believe, we must repent of our sins. None of this is our doing, it is all a gift to us from God. After his crucified death on the cross Jesus rose from the dead on the 3rd day. After forty days with his disciples, he then ascended into heaven, and he now sits on God’s right hand on his throne in heaven.
If we believe in Jesus, we will be indwelt by the Holy Spirit. According to Colossians 3:12-14: there are seven virtues that Christians are to follow: compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and most important of all is love, which binds things together in perfect harmony. I firmly believe that those virtues are what the Holy Spirit is focusing on in his lifelong effort to sanctify us.
Once saved we need to focus on developing a relationship between ourselves and Jesus. Then, while on this earth our role is to help bring heaven to earth as taught in the Lord’s prayer. That is often done by sharing a kindness with a neighbor.
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One question I anticipate some might have, is when I say, “None of this is our doing, it is all a gift to us from God.” You might think, wait a minute, if I have to choose to believe in Jesus, isn’t that my doing? Well, that choosing we do is influenced greatly by the Holy Spirit which is part of God’s gift to us. How much of our choosing is the Holy Spirit and how much is us, is a mystery, but I think it is predominately the Holy Spirit.
My new book update: We are just beginning the publishing phase for: Bringing Heaven to Earth & The Intermediate Heaven. I am currently thinking publishing will occur in October or November. I will update you more accurately in the October Website Update as to when publishing will occur.