The Gospel

 BAD NEWS:

We are all sinners. 

(Romans 3:23) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."

We all deserve death as payment for our sins.

(Romans 6:23)"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

We are separated from God in our sins.

(Colossians 1:21) Left in our sins we are alienated from God.

We are His enemies.

(Romans 5:10) For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

GOOD NEWS: 

Christ died for sinners.

(Romans 5:8)"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Salvation is a gift of God:

(Romans 6:23)"but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 

We must confess Jesus is Lord, we must believe with our heart:

(Romans 10:9)"that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." 

We must make our appeal to be saved to Jesus Christ:

(Romans 10:13) "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 

We are made righteous in Jesus Christ through faith:

(Romans 5:1) "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." 

In Christ we will never be condemned for our sins:

(Romans 8:1) "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." 

Being in Christ we have the promises of God:

(Romans 8:38-39) "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

We must be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  He is our righteousness.  

(2 Corinthians 5:20-21)  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be recofnciled to God.  He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

GOSPEL VERSES: 

Mark 10:45: “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 

Romans 5:8: God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:23: The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

2 Corinthians 5:21: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 8:9: You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

1 Timothy 1:15: The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

1 John 4:10: In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Revelation 5:9: “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.”