THE GOOD NEWS

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■ The gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News:  The greatest and preeminent news that any human being will ever discover.

■ This gospel declares that there is Only One Way To God in peace, love, and joy through the reconciling death and blood of Jesus Christ the risen Lord of Lords.

■ This gospel is the great message of the Holy Scriptures and is the power and key to understanding them.

■ This gospel recognizes Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel, the lion of Juda, and as the Son of God and God the Son, the Second Person of the God Head, whose incarnation, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension fulfilled our Father’s saving will. His death for sins and his resurrection from the dead were promised beforehand by the prophets and attested by eyewitnesses. In God’s own time and in God’s own way, Jesus Christ shall return as glorious Lord and Judge of all (1 Thess. 4:13–18; Matt. 25:31–32). He is now giving the comforter the Holy Spirit from the Father to all those who are truly his. The three Persons of the Godhead thus combine in the work of saving sinners from hell.

■ This gospel sets forth Jesus Christ as the only living Saviour, Master, Life, and Hope of all who put their faith and trust in him. It tells us that the eternal destiny of all people depends on whether they are savingly related to Jesus Christ. 

■ This gospel is the only gospel: there is no other gospel, and to change its substance is to pervert and indeed destroy it. This gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches. Any other gospel such as the prosperity gospel taught, the word of God says let him be accursed according to Galatians 1:8-9 KJV 

■ All true Christians, disciples of Christ Jesus are called to unity in love and unity in truth. the bible states that love rejoices in the truth. We celebrate the good news of God’s saving work in Jesus Christ as the true bond of Christian unity.

■ The infallible word of God Almighty declares that all who truly trust in Christ Jesus and his gospels are true sons and daughters of God through his grace, and hence are our brothers and sisters in Christ.

■  All who are justified, experience reconciliation with the Father, full remission of sins, the transition from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light, the reality of being a new creature in Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. They enjoy access to the Father with all the peace and joy that this brings.

■  The gospel requires of all believers worship, prayer, and fasting which means constant praise and giving of thanks to God, submission to all that he has revealed in his written word, prayerful dependence on him, and vigilance lest his truth be even inadvertently compromised or obscured.

■  To share the gospel, joy, and hope of this gospel is a supreme privilege and blessing. It is also an abiding obligation, for the Great Commission of Jesus Christ still stands: proclaim the gospel everywhere, he said, teaching, baptizing, and making disciples. Saving and snatching them out of the fire, and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Jude 1:23

■  By embracing the following declaration we affirm our commitment to being about our father's business and with it our allegiance to  Jesus Christ himself, to the gospel itself, and to each other as fellow evangelical believers.

The Good News Of The Gospel 

The gospel of Jesus Christ which God sets forth in the infallible Scriptures combines Jesus’ own declaration of the present reality of the kingdom of God with the apostles’ account of the person, place, and work of Christ, and how sinful humans benefit from it. The Patristic Rule of Faith, the historic creeds, the Reformation confessions, and the doctrinal bases of later evangelical bodies all witness to the substance of this biblical message.

The heart of the gospel is that our holy, loving Creator, confronted with human hostility and rebellion, has chosen in his own freedom and faithfulness to become our holy, loving Redeemer and Restorer. The Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world (1 John 4:14): it is through his one and only begotten son that God’s one and only plan of salvation are implemented. So Peter announced: ‘Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). And Christ himself taught: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

Through the gospel we learn that we human beings, who were made for fellowship with God, are by nature—that is, ‘in Adam’ (1 Cor. 15:22)—dead in sin, unresponsive to and separated from our maker. We are constantly twisting his truth, breaking his law, belittling his goals and standards, and offending his holiness by our unholiness so that we truly are ‘without hope and without God in the world’ (Rom. 1:18–32, 3:9–20; Eph. 2:1–3, 12). Yet God in grace took the initiative to reconcile us to himself through the sinless life and vicarious death of his beloved Son (Eph. 2:4–10; Rom. 3:21–24).

The Father sent the Son to free us from the dominion of sin and Satan, and to make us God’s children and friends. Jesus paid our penalty in our place on his cross, satisfying the retributive demands of divine justice by shedding his blood in sacrifice and so making the possible justification for all who trust in him (Rom. 3:25–26). The Bible describes this mighty substitutionary transaction as the achieving of ransom, reconciliation, redemption, propitiation, and conquest of evil powers according to (Matt. 20:28; 2 Cor. 5:18–21; Rom. 3:23–25; John 12:31; Col. 2:15). It secures for us a restored relationship with God that brings pardon and peace, acceptance and access, and adoption into God’s family (Col. 1:20, 2:13–14; Rom. 5:1–2; Gal. 4:4–7; 1 Pet. 3:18). The faith in God and in Christ to which the gospel calls us is a trustful outgoing of our hearts to lay hold of these promised and proffered benefits.

This gospel further proclaims the bodily resurrection, ascension, and enthronement of Jesus as evidence of the efficacy of his once-for-all sacrifice for us, of the reality of his present personal ministry to us, and of the certainty of his future return (1 Cor. 15; Heb. 1:1–4, 2:1–18, 4:14–16, 7:1–10:25). In the life of faith as the gospel presents it, us believers are united with our risen Lord Jesus Christ, communing with him, and looking to him in repentance and hope for empowerment through the Holy Spirit, so that henceforth we may not sin but serve him truly.

God’s justification of those who trust him, according to the gospel, is a decisive transition, here and now, from a state of condemnation and wrath because of our sins to one of acceptance and favour by virtue of Jesus’ flawless obedience culminating in his voluntary sin-bearing death. God ‘Justifies the wicked’ (ungodly: Rom. 4:5) by imputing (reckoning, crediting, counting, accounting) righteousness to them and ceasing to count their sins against them (Rom. 4:1–8). Sinners receive through faith in Christ alone ‘the gift of righteousness  according to (Rom. 1:17, 5:17; Phil. 3:9) and thus become ‘the righteousness of God’ in him who was ‘made sin’ for them (2 Cor. 5:21).

As our sins were reckoned to Christ, so Christ’s righteousness is reckoned to us. This is justified by the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. All we bring to the transaction is our belief in Jesus and our need. Our faith in the God who bestows it, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is itself the fruit of God’s grace. Faith links us savingly to Jesus, but inasmuch as it involves an acknowledgement that we have no merit of our own, it is confessedly not a meritorious work.

The gospel assures us that all who have entrusted their lives to Jesus Christ are born-again children of God (John 1:12), indwelt, empowered, and assured of their status and hope by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 7:6, 8:9–17). The moment we truly believe in Jesus Christ, the Father declares us righteous in him and begins conforming us to His likeness. Genuine faith acknowledges and depends upon Jesus as Lord and shows itself in growing obedience to the divine commands and laws, though this contributes nothing to the ground of our justification (James 2:14–26; Heb. 6:1–12).

By his sanctifying grace, Christ works within us through faith, renewing our fallen nature and leading us to real maturity, that measure of development which is meant by ‘the fullness of Christ’ according to (Eph. 4:13). The gospel calls us to live as obedient servants of Christ and as his emissaries in the world, doing justice, loving mercy, and helping all in need, thus seeking to bear witness to the kingdom of Christ. At death, Christ takes the believer to himself (Phil. 1:21) for unimaginable joy in the ceaseless worship of God (Rev. 22:1–5).

Salvation in its full sense is from the guilt of sin in the past, the power of sin in the present, and the presence of sin in the future. Thus, while in foretaste believers enjoy salvation now, they still await its fullness (Mark 14:61–62; Heb. 9:28). Salvation is the reality Of the Godhead, initiated by the Father, implemented by the Son, and applied by the Holy Spirit. It has a global dimension, for God’s plan is to save believers out of every tribe and tongue (Rev. 5:9) to be his church, new humanity, the people of God, the body and bride of Christ, and the community of the Holy Spirit. All the heirs of final salvation are called here and now to serve our Lord and each other in love, to share in the fellowship of Jesus’ sufferings, and to work together to make Christ known to the whole world.

We learn from the gospel that, as all have sinned and have fallen short of his glory., all who do not receive  Jesus Christ will be judged according to their just deserts as measured by God’s holy law, and face eternal retributive and eternal punishment in the lake of fire. 

Matthew:23 King James Version

Romans 10:13

King James Version 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

We truly Love you with all our heart and want all to be saved. We put this all together so you will get the truth just as We have recieved. Christian Brother and Sister should stand in the gap for one another as we are commanded. Please pray for O1W2G.