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Thoughts of...The Gospel Truth
Have you ever heard the phrase, “It’s the Gospel truth,”? I’ve heard it when somebody makes a statement that is questioned by another. “It’s the Gospel truth” is an assertion of veracity that declares a statement made is as true as the Gospel.
Spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the Gospel truth is:
That’s Good News! It’s so good because Adam and Eve disobeyed the word of God and died spiritually, no longer able to walk with God in the cool of the day in His garden. The fall of man began when Eve was deceived by the craftiest of all God’s creatures, the devil. The fruit of deception was the curse of God upon the devil, the man, the woman, the earth, and the whole creation. For her role in the deception, the woman heard the curse,
Bad news! But the good news was that Adam and Eve were not ushered out of God’s garden until they had received God’s promise of Good News, The Seed of the Woman, through Whom God would cover man’s sin and restore man’s spiritual life. God’s promise is trustworthy.
To put one’s trust in the promise of God requires faith. Faith is hearing, believing, obeying, and waiting for the promise to be delivered. God’s timing is not our timing. Naturally impatient, man’s timing is “Now!” But God acts in the fullness of time, at the perfect time. I’m sure Adam and Eve wanted the promise of God to be delivered immediately if not sooner. But they had to have faith in God, they had to wait. Almost two thousand years later God promised Abraham that the Seed of the Woman would come through him and Abraham believed God.
The promise of Good News was subsequently given Isaac, Jacob, Judah, and David. At the perfect time, before which all men of faith had waited for the promise to be delivered,
God the Son, The promised Seed of the Woman, did not come to fallen man with conquering majesty and glory but with absolute humility. He came not to destroy the Law of God but to perfectly keep it for us. When it was time to “go public,” The Messiah was introduced by a voice crying in the wilderness,
and baptized by him, to fulfill all righteousness.
Jesus Christ then set out to reveal God to man, to speak the words of the Father, to do the will of the Father, to shepherd the flock that had no shepherds, to die on a cross, to be buried, and to rise again on the third day. God the Creator came personally into His creation to pay the price for man’s sins and to restore man’s spiritual life. That’s the Gospel truth! This way-beyond-Good News was neatly summarized by the Apostle Paul in
The fruit of belief in the Good News, whereby we are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise unto the day of redemption of the purchased possession, is regeneration, renewing, and reconciliation.
By grace though faith, the Redeemed also have peace with God and the peace of God.
However, if, upon hearing the Good News, we believe it and receive the gifts of God, our lives must be governed by the Gospel Truth. We must live and share the Gospel.
To recap, man disobeyed God and lost his spiritual life. The eternal God became man to defeat spiritual death and to give His Life to whosoever would believe in Him. But woe to those who minimize or ignore this Good News!
It’s the Gospel truth.
Pastor Doug
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