The Gospel is what God does for us and to us, not what we do since that is Law. The Gospel is about God dying on the cross that should have been our death and forgiving our sins. God gives us faith so that we might believe and have eternal life. For God so loved the world He gave his only begotten son that whosoever shall believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
the gospel is indeed that Christ became a man .. and he died on the cross for OUR sin and he lay in the ground three days and three nights and rose again from the dead that who ever believes on him will not perish but have eternal life .
the devils believe this is true also ..but are not saved because belief is not faith .
if i stand in the middle of a road and my friend says hey get off the road there is a bus coming .. i can fully
believe what he is saying ..but unless i ACT and DO what he is saying ..the bus will hit me .and all the belief in the world won't save me from the bus .
So it is wth the good news about eh lord jesus (the gospel) i can believe it but unless i act upon it ,it is of no use to me .
and the lord
Jesus said All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you and the very command that the gospel contains is
"Repent " thus
without repentance .. salvation cannot occur . God cannot contradict himself nor lie .
the gospel is a message from the father telling men to repent of sin . the first time it was sent they beheaded john the baptist -a wicked act done by king herod becaseu JOhn told him to repent of marrying the kings brothers wife .
The next time this message from the father was declared .the one preaching it was put to death on a cross by those who hated that very message . the next time it was declared openly those who believed
and obeyed it were saved and those who refused to repent ..put stephen to death .
repentance is not a work to achieve .. it is an obedience which appropriates the death and resurrection upon ones own life and it is offered by the grace of God who is under no obligation to offer it .if we then turn back to sin we not serve the flesh and produce works of unrightousness unto death but we twice insult the goodness of God . and if we deserved and were under death before he offered his grace ..how much more so will we be if we rebel against his grace so freely offered and refuse to repent .
(and i am aware that ,as is the case so often . you perceive sin to be many things it is not and to not be many things it is . )
