God is not expecting people to come up with repentance and faith in Christ ‘by themselves’, because ‘by themselves’ is the very condition that they are perishing from.

What would that look like, if we gave the same grace to the stranger, as we do to our own children.

The Gospel is not good advice, it is good news and there is a profound difference between the two.

• Good News is the news of something that has already happened, that benefits me.

• Good advice can only be about something that hasn’t happened yet, but might happen, ….if I follow the advice.

Can you see then, that

• good news leaves your attention on what was done for you, but

• good advice leaves your attention on yourself; your ability to follow the advice, but salvation is not of yourself.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Advice, leaves your hope on yourself.

"Hear the voice of the Spirit, to a church waiting for a better day.

Do not receive the grace of God in vain, for I heard you. I helped you and I tell you, “now is the time of God's favour, now is the day of salvation. (2Cor 6:2).

The Kingdom of God only manifests on this earth, when God’s people operate by the knowledge of what NOW IS, not the knowledge of what MIGHT BE. For the Kingdom of the Son, is the realm of what NOW IS."

"Don’t let some fiery passionate preacher on repentance, simply lead you back to eat of the self-effort tree, rather than to partake of the Tree of life.

How do you know if that is what has been happening in your life?

No matter how many times you hear the Gospel, you can’t seem to help hearing it as good advice, not good news."

"Doing all the right things is not the way into the right life; God’s life for you. Such a belief has left many people very religious all their lives and yet they have ended up bitter and alone because their faith was actually in what they were doing for God, rather than in what He had done for them. They had been living on good advice, not good news. One is earthly food and the other heavenly food. Earthly food can never satisfy. Within a day you are hungry again. The last thing you need today is more good advice. You need good news, heavenly food!

“Man cannot live on bread alone, but on every word that keeps proceeding from the mouth of the Father.”

Without a revelation, that we are the habitation OF God, we will always be waiting for a visitation FROM God.

When you cannot see what God has done, you will spend your life grasping for something better.

Here is the Gospel.

There is nothing better, than Christ in you, the hope of glory.

To see that we have already been blessed in the spiritual realm with every spiritual blessing in Christ, brings an end to grasping and an entering into, the rest of being whom God has made us to be, sons of God and co-heirs with Christ.

Faith, the capacity, to live from our union with Him, comes by hearing this gospel, (that’s Rom 10:17 ‘faith comes by hearing’) so what are you hearing and so believing about you and Him?

• Is it the unchanging, eternal, timeless Gospel, a message that never changes in any year, because it points to Him who never changes and the sufficiency of His work?

• Or is it a message that seems to change every week because it is pointing to us and what we need to do and when you are pointed to yourself, there always seems to be no end to what you need to do.

In other words, are you hearing the gospel as good news or as good advice?

Are you hearing the Gospel on earth, as it is in heaven?

"What is the Gospel?

If believers are living shrunken lives, it is for one reason and one reason only. Honey, we shrunk the gospel.!

And when you shrink the gospel, you shrink the kids.

"God is not good to you because you are good.

He is good to you because He is good and to be persuaded of just how good He is, is to be set free from the self-centred religious life that can never please God, for He has always known, what so many of us are only now glimpsing for the first time; the self-life can only ever produce a self-ish life."