What About the Gospel? (Conclusion)

"The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed."  - Harry Ironside

For these last several weeks we've had a lot of information laid out before us pertaining to the gospel. Our focus has been trained specifically on: "What is it?" and "Whose is it?"

Keeping in mind that we have only lightly touched this topic, what we will attempt to accomplish here today is  provide a proper closure to our previous discussions. Given the breadth of the gospel, it is only natural that certain questions should arise.

Who is adequate enough for these things? Better yet, who is up to the task foreshadowed by these signs and titles? If the deepest earthly wisdom is clearly expressed in the division of legal and judicial functions; in dividing among many what would be beyond the energy and ability of one, what mere human could combine all that has been conveyed by these names?

It is without a doubt impossible. Just their application alone rules out any possible idea of mere humanity. The necessity of a divine person to undertake this trust would be apparent from the nature of the trust itself, even if it wasn't specifically included, that this gospel is the gospel of the Son of God.

That is, the Son of God, not merely as a creation, object of affection, or a subject of adoption, but as a partaker of his nature, one with him in spirit and substance, equal in power and glory. This is the last detail included in the description of the gospel.

Not in the weakened, diluted sense in which it might be called heresy, but rather that in which the unbelieving Jews themselves attached to the expressions when they charged our Lord with blasphemy, for calling God his father, therefore making himself equal with God (John 10:25-33).

It is good news, from God to man, of deliverance from suffering and sin. The good news of a Savior, a prophet, a priest, and of a king. Not human, but divine, the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

In closing, we have seen in our study of the gospel that it is good news, from God to man, of deliverance from suffering and sin. The good news of a Savior, a prophet, a priest, and of a king. Not human, but divine, the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Amen.

Scripture: 1 John 5:20; 1 Timothy 2:5; John 14:10; John 1:1; Colossians 1:17

Prayer: May the life of the Lord Jesus, and the love of God the Father, and the companionship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, amen.

May the Lord bless!

Shawna