GOSPEL, what is it?

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What is “The Gospel?”

I’ve been making an intentional listen to speakers that “preach the gospel.”

There is one pastor in town I am acquainted with who definitely does not “preach the gospel”. To him, from his speech and actions, kind and compassionate social help is the gospel.

I’m also a great fan of unapologetic Dr Voddie Bauchman. If you know him, you get it, the gospel.

So I’m asking “the average dick n sally”, here,
What is The Gospel and are we compelled to do something with it? If compelled, what compels you?

Your turn :woman_dancing:t3:

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I don’t know about Dr. Bauchman. But I like ths sound of that first person you mentioned. Sounds amazing and on point.

Sounds Christ like to me. Helping others in need. Feeding the hungry. Speaking to and meeting the need. Healing, guiding, being in community.

Showing the unconditional love of God rather than expressing a false conditional love which exchanges good deeds in order to push the agenda of a purely conditional transactional love.

Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself focussed. Which is what Christ taught. A love which leads others to change their hearts and chase after the God that can soothe their souls and give them peace. The God who saves. Hosanna.

Not into judgy types at all. Those who live and breathe hell fire and damnation as if they are demons getting drunk on human suffering?

You know the kind…Those demons who spurn the kindness of God as ignorance, who spit in the face of children after beating them mercilessly to break them?

The kind who plead for money while cursing the sinner of the week?

The kind who form cults that tell people to jump through hoop after hoop after hoop in order to controll them. Like telling women that they must wear their hair and dresses long, and always be quiet and submissive to the man of the house? Or say its okay to take child brides, or multiple wives?

No, I like it when the Good News actually inspires Salvation, a change of heart, Joy, Celebration, and Freedom from slavery to the dark impulses that run this world which focusses on debt collection and bank accounts rather than forgiveness and healing and the well being of people.

But that is just me.

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Hi,
Gospel means “good news.”

The gospel in a nutshell is this:

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

That’s it.

Paul put it this way when writing to the Ephesians:

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.

You cannot go wrong with either answer.

Blessings

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As Joe has said the gospel is the good news that Jesus saves us from the consequences of our sin and restores our relationship with God.
What are we to do with it? Tell others.
Why. Matt28 the great commission and because we are to love others as we love ourselves. How loving is not telling those facing Gods judgement.
Social action, again if someone is in need of help we should help them.
Often a persons worries and problems distract them from giving the gospel their attention.
Love is not a fluffy feeling but a driving force for action.

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The Gospel is the good news that God, in His love and mercy, has made a way for sinners to be reconciled to Him through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All people have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and the just penalty for sin is death. Yet God, in His grace, sent His Son Jesus, who is fully God and fully man, to live a sinless life and to willingly die on the cross as a substitute for sinners. Through His sacrificial death, Jesus bore the wrath of God that we deserved, and through His resurrection, He triumphed over sin and death, offering eternal life to all who repent and believe in Him. This salvation is not earned by works but is received by faith alone in Christ alone. Those who trust in Him are forgiven, made right with God, and adopted into His family, with the hope of eternal life in His presence.

P.S. I love listening to Dr Voddie Bauchman.

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Welcome to our forums David!!

Your response in fully complete. The Gospel, yes it is the good news. Do we share it?

Once we realize what Christ has done for us, His love and the good new should compel us to tell other.

Scripture says the love of God constraints me.

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I do for sure share it as often as I can. If someone is a true believer they can’t help but share it.

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What a truly excellent post! Thanks so much for posting it!

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Bachman has a way of telling the TRUTH

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The Good News is the way Jesus liked to present it, and there is no better Good News! A heart filled with Love is a heart close to God, and a direct result of true repentance! Sharing the Gospel is a combination of loving and explaining, and increases as we decrease! We should be easily-identifiable in a good way!

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Welcome to the Forum paradiser!

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Blessings: after reading responses concerning the gospel I felt the need to respond. The gospel was planned long before Adam & Eve (Galatians Ch. 4) The gospel was revealed to Paul to preach it first by the Holy Spirit and then the mysteries. The gospel:Christ died for out sins according to the scriptures, He was buried and rose again the third day….1st Corinthians 15:1-

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Easter Sunday I found this clip where Voddie Bachman gives text to THE GOSPEL.
I could not find his long version of the sermon.

Enjoy: https://fb.watch/z4-wrJqO7_/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

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The Gospel is literally the Good News.

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Greetings

The Gospel is Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth B.I.B.L.E
The Gospel is the Mind of Christ

The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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In Revelation 1:1 (NKJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants–things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John.

Chapter one . the priesthood of Christ Jesus

Chapter 2-3 . The church and the church age

Chapter 4: The transition from church to tribulation

Chapter 5 – 18. the seven years tribulation

Chapter 19 -20 . Christ returns to ring 1,000 years complete 7,0000 give or take

Chapter 21- 22. The new earth and the new Jerusalem

Chapter the six one and four breaking of the seven seals scroll.

Chapter 6 through 17 initiation tribulation judgments the latter half of the 42 months

Chapter 11 18 the judgment seat of Christ

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

That is the good news.

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The Biblical Gospel is very simple:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
King James Version
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures
The DEATH / BURIAL and RESURRECECTION of Jesus Christ.
We MUST not only believe the Gospel, but it MUST be applied to our lives…
We DIE with Him in Repentance / We are BURIED with HIM (not them) in water BAPTISM and walk in the newness of life (the New Birth) by the power of His RESURRECTING power of the Holy Ghost.
Romans 6:3-5
King James Version
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Jesus’ last words after His DEATH / BURIAL and RESURRECTION, just before He ascended back up to heaven:
Luke 24:45-49
King James Version
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these things.

49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Peter preached the 1st message to Jesus’ new Testament Church and instructed the Jews on what to do…[notice Peter preached exactly what Jesus told him to preach]

Acts 2:36-38

King James Version

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.