Understanding what the Gospel truly is!

[Brighthouse]

Over the past couple of weeks, and seeing also what brothers and sisters have been writing here,Holy Spirit has continued to press upon me the sincere desire to press upon myself and others the need to understand what this good news is about. I have seen examples from testimony's on here, and from some Bible studies conducted on here,so I would very much like to share with you some wisdom Holy Spirit showed me over this past week if you would be so kind. Let us start with Romans 1:16-17 "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.verse 17 For in it the righteousness of God is reveled from faith to faith;and it is written But the just shall live by faith."

To fully understand indeed what this good news is,let us now go to Galatians 1:3-10 note please verse 6! I am amazed that you( not you all for sure!!) are so quickly deserting Him who called you BY THE GRACE OF CHRIST!!! for a different gospel! I met a brother who visited our church yesterday and was dinging on luke 21:36 saying our church believes that if you do not pray for the second coming of Jesus you will never see it. I asked him where the grace of Christ is from just this one scripture? That your whole church would make up a body of believers based only upon this one verse?

To think your church and those in it are special to Jesus? When all of us are!( acts 10:34!!) He just left after this.Brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ,Jesus showed and spoke of his loving grace to all, at all times through his ministry,and those who walk with our Jesus are to do and say the same. We are a copy of things to come,a mirror to all to look upon to see our Jesus inside us.Many look to play Holy Spirit themselves by condemning others on there lifestyle or on there walk, and forget when we were that very same person!

I sure remember my lack! LOL I remember so I always, like you, all speak and do according to rom 12:3 Even as our Jesus did and spoke.To present any other Gospel other then this one has not only a curse to it,but a double curse!( gal 1:8-9) many men look to twist the Word of God to form there own works,and there own way to salvation for all of us.If we do not speak with grace to others( col 4:6)then how can we encourage another even as Jesus encouraged us! What fruit is born by judgement? In each of our Church"s there is room for judgement!( 1 peter 4:17-18)

So that when you go out from the church you can minister the wonderful grace of our Jesus upon those you meet outside of it. For any part of the body which is sick in the Church needs healing or else the rest of the body will sure suffer loss because of it. For each church in Revelation it is always GRACE and peace from the Father,Son,and Holy Ghost. The Gospel! The same Gospel we are to both live and preach! Before we leave each day from our house we are sure to look into our mirror at house to make adjustments to our self, for our self towards others,let us also check our Spirit in Christ by looking into the mirror of his Word to check our spirit out as well!( 2 cor 13:5)

To live the grace given us by our wonderful Jesus, and to extend this wonderful grace to others,for this is the true gospel in which we live.So now before I step outside to meet the day i check both mirrors! For our appearance on the outside can deceive unless we have checked our Spirit with Jesus on our inside. Do not allow yourself to be moved from this Gospel! For this Gospel of good news moves us from the old( do good get good, do bad get bad) to a most loving Jesus who is not angry anymore with his people,discipline yes,but not out of anger,but out of grace and love! To perfect us in him!!( Phil 1:6) To make us better so that we can present his true Gospel of good news, to all by our lives, and through his very words he gives us to speak!! amen! God Bless us all to remember! Because in the memory of saying and doing comes this word of thanks by our Jesus to all!!( 1 cor 1:4-7!!!) amen!!

 

[DHC]

The Gospel! The same Gospel we are to both live and preach!

To live the grace given us by our wonderful Jesus, and to extend this wonderful grace to others,for this is the true gospel in which we live.

Hello Brighthouse.

I agree whole-heartedly with you on the subject of primary importance and only true importance.

There is only one foundation within Christianity and that is Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ contains the power to save, and only this Gospel.

1 Corinthians 15:3-8
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised
on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to
the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most
of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then
to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

The first line contains the phrase 'of first importance' and rightly so.

The Bible of choice is irrevelant as everything else within the Bible bar 'Jesus Christ' and
the profound Gospel itself is superfluous. The testimony of the apostles were the very verses
above and that is the Gospel. If your Bible contains this Gospel then your Bible is valid.

If someone tells you they were baptized by so and so, or that their translation is the only
valid translation. They seek to create division with the assembly of Christ and their primary
testimony is not that of Jesus Christ. What comes out of the heart of any man reflects what is
within, if the testimony of Jesus is not front and center, be concerned.

 

[james1523]

"To live the grace given us by our wonderful Jesus, and to extend this wonderful grace to others,for this is the true gospel in which we live."

The gospel which the apostles preached was nothing more and nothing less than Christ crucified, the real and living Person that many of them had known in the flesh while on Earth, and that many knew as the Holy Spirit.

With this in mind, we may ask what is the grace of Christ? The grace of Christ is nothing more than the person and presence of the Holy Spirit.

Usually we define grace as a concept, a theory, a theology, which says it is when God treats us better than we deserve.

However grace is also our experience of the presence of God. It is by this grace which strengthened Paul when he had the thorny problem (2 Cor 12). When God says "my grace is sufficient", He means "my presence is sufficient".

Paul was not strengthened by a concept, a theology, or a doctrine, but by the very presence of the Holy Spirit.

Grace is God's presence manifested to us. Yet, even if we define grace as receiving something we don't deserve, what is the good something that God wants to give us? A new house, a car, a spouse, a job? Yes these are good gifts, but the ultimate good gift God wants to give us is Himself. :Luke 11:13. So therefore to receive God's grace, is to receive God Himself.

John 1:14 - Jesus is full of grace and truth.

When Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life" (Jn 14:6), He could also have said "I am the grace". In fact " I am the way, I am the truth, etc", is emphasis on the "I AM" - Jesus is "I AM" in the flesh, and for this reason He can be everything and anything to us, whether salvation, healing, encouragement, comfort, strength, whatever it may be.

The grace is none other than the presence of the Lord Himself aka the Holy Spirit.

Therefore to "live the grace" means to live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, which means the same as "abiding in the vine", or abiding in Him.

Salvation is one thing, but living that salvation out is another. In whom do we abide, in ourselves, or in God?

If we abide in ourselves, we cannot hope to preach the gospel effectively, because fruit only grows when the branch remains in the vine.

The gospel of Jesus Christ contains the power to save, because this gospel is the very person of Christ. We know that any lifeless thing, such as a doctrine, a philosophy, a method, or a program, cannot save.

Therefore we may say that the true Gospel is the presence of the true Christ who comes to save us. Anything other than the true living water is a vain, unworthy and unsatisfying substitute.

Throughout the history of Christianity, millions of people have been converted , some forcefully, some convincingly, to accept or affirm a particular doctrine, and because of meeting "man's requirements" these people are considered "saved".

However a mere doctrine, theology or philosophy cannot save, only when people encounter and accept the real and living Lord into their heart they are truly saved. This experience is an experience of God's grace.

 

[clark thompson]

Love of Jesus is what the gospel about. I like how Mel Gibson said it, the passion of Christ.