The Gospel

Creation and Fall:

God created the world and humanity in a state of perfect relationship with Him. However, through Adam's disobedience, sin entered the world, leading to the Fall and separating humanity from God (Genesis 3).

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Sin:  

Sin is lawlessness or the breaking of God's will. All the bad one does.

1 John 3:4: "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." 

 

Grace:  

This is underserved love and kindness shown by God when sending Jesus to die for sinners.  Grace is getting what we don't deserve.

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Romans 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

 

Regeneration: 

This is being born again; born of the Spirit. Renewal. Rebirth.

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John 1: 13-14 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

 

Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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John 3:1-36 (v5) Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

 

Titus 3:1-5 (v5) He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.

 

Repentance: 

Changing how you act and think about sin due to remorse and Godly sorrow, then turning to God; choosing to do it God’s way.

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2 Corinthians 7:9-11 Now I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants his people to have, so you were not harmed by us in any way. For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death. Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right.

 

Faith: 

This comes from God as a gift. It allows the believer to depend on Jesus to keep them secure through their daily lives. Faith is also a belief in the finished work of Jesus’ sacrifice as the only means of salvation. 

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John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

 

Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

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1 Peter 1:1:  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ:

 

Ephesians 2:9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

 

2 Timothy 1: 12-13  For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

 

Propitiation: 

Jesus taking on our sins and becoming the object of God’s wrath so that our sin will be removed.

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1 John 1-2  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

 

Expiation: 

This is God removing man’s filthiness. God’s act of legally making up for humanity’s sin. God removes our sin by his death. 

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Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

 

Redemption: 

Being delivered as a result of payment. The Christian is delivered from the wrath of God which includes sin and death.

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1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 

 

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 1 Corinthians 7:23;

 

Reconciliation: 

God and man being reunited in peace.

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Romans 5:8- 10 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

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Justification: 

How humanity is made righteous for a holy God. You are declared righteous.

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Romans 3:23-28 (NLT) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

 

Adoption: 

The legal and permeant transfer of a believer into God’s family securing of all rights, responsibilities, filiation, and inheritances of the Father.

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Ephesians 1:4-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

 

Romans 8:15 'For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"'

 

Romans 9:4-5 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. [This now belongs to all those who believe]

 

Imputation: 

God accepting Jesus’ work on the cross as a substitute instead of us. God then takes this credit, and applies all that Jesus earned to the unbeliever; this includes all heavenly riches and righteousness. 

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Romans 5:17-18 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

 

Sanctification: 

The process by which God keeps believers holy and the effort of the believer’s strive towards holiness; it is a continual washing. Once sanctification is complete then the believer isperfected, that will not happen until after glorification. The inward process of being made righteous.

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Ephesians 4:23-24 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

 

1 Thessalonians 4:7  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.  God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.

 

Glorification: 

This is the final work that God does with the believer. God takes away our physical bodies and grants us glorified bodies.

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1 Corinthians 15: 42-54 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

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Union with Christ Union means you are in Christ and Christ is in you (John 6:56; John 15:4-7; 1 John 4:13). 

 

We have been justified and sanctified by being unionized with Christ. Therefore, justification and sanctification come from union with Christ. Union with Christ says that we take part in all that Christ is; we take part in His death, and we take part in His glory; we take part in his suffering, and we take part in his conquering; we take part in all that Christ fulfills. 

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Colossians 2:6-10 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

 

1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

 

Romans 6:1-14 (v.3-4) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

 

1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

 

Galatians 3:26-28 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.