What is the Gospel?

Course XVIII: What Is The Gospel

Class instruction:

Look at the video, read the content and answer the questions about the content.  You will receive a score upon completion.  It is not timed.  Answer at your own pace.

 

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The Good News of Jesus Christ is explained in Luke 4:

Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power.  Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region.  He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.  When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boy hood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him.  He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come."

The Good News of Jesus Christ comes from the word:

The Strong's Concordance number 2097 states that the word euaggelízō (from 2095 /eú, "good, well" and angellō, "announce, herald") – properly, proclaim "the good message" (good news). In the NT, 2097 (euaggelízō) refers to sharing the full Gospel of Christ – literally, "gospelizing" that announces the complete message of "the good news" (the Lord's glad tidings).

We use the word Gospel, which means good news.  There are other references to the good news in the New Testament. One is the Good News of the Kingdom of God.  The context of this term is connected to Jesus casting out spirits, healing sickness and oppression.  There is a reference to the gospel of salvation.

The Father sent Jesus to save the lost.  The first Adam was created out of the Earth to exist as a type of Jesus.  The natural has to exist first and then the spiritual.  The first Adam caused all to be transgressors and the second Adam caused all that would believe all to be righteous.

Jesus came to proclaim:

Abundance in spirit

Freedom from bondage

Spiritual eyes of understanding

Removal of oppression

Acceptable year of the Lord

God wipes away every obligation and restores all things.  Jesus did this on the cross.  Adam believed the lie and the Devil became His father.  Jesus lived a sinless life in obedience to the Father.

Adam's eyes were opened to know good and evil through transgression.  Jesus came to open our eyes to the truth in Revelation.  Adam's transgression brought death.  Jesus bore our sin paying the penalty of death.

Jesus obedience brought forth life.  Adam was cursed, the animals were cursed and the ground was cursed.  Jesus bore the curse on the cross.

Jesus fulfilled the Law and triumphed over the devil.  The accuser was cast out of Heaven.  Jesus came to life again conquering death as the first fruits of the resurrection of the dead for those of us that believe to follow through faith. Jesus states that all authority has been given to Me in Heaven, Earth and under the Earth.  Behold I give authority to believers to cast out devil, tread upon serpents and to be my witnesses.

What is Evangelism?

Evangelism is the announcement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Strong’s Word Study:

"evangelize"– properly, an "evangelist"; someone with a vocational calling from God to announce the good news of the Gospel (Ephesians 4:11). Every Christian is called to share the Gospel, but "an evangelist" does so preaching the full message of Christ's salvation.

There are three aspects to evangelizing: