This is the gospel.

I was thinking about the gospel. I think, from observation and personal experience, that all too often we look at the gospel, and we know it has is the power of salvation to any and all who believe but we almost trivialize it after we're saved as if it's lost its power since we have obtained salvation. This i believe to be a tragic mistake. The gospel should be a great cause of joy to the believers, and it should be one of the ways that our love and holy affections for Christ are birthed and grown. The gospel is a means to bring us to humility and magnify the glory and love of Christ. The gospel can be a source of encouragement when we fall and a strength when we are tempted. Why is it that we overlook it so much? I've read on multiple occasions from multiple people (Jerry Bridges comes to mind first off) who have written that we should preach the gospel to ourselves daily. I decided to write out the gospel. Feel free to change the name when you read, comment, or give concerns about things i omit or include that you see as problematic. Bear with my words, and may God guide them and bless them.


John. You have read that God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son that whosoever, that means you John, that believes will have eternal life and escape the due punishment for their sins. Yes, you are indeed a great sinner, born into an inherited sin nature that has killed your soul, blinded your eyes, deafened your ears, hardened your heart, leaving you dead and hateful towards God, unable to love Him, unable to change, and unable to desire anything pleasing to Him. This sin effects every part of your life, and anything you do that is not for the glory of God is in fact sinful, which means that since you don't desire God and are an enemy of God, everything you do is sinful and further blinding you and hardening your heart. This leaves you as an object of God's wrath, deserving hell, leaving you at enmity towards God, who hates everything tainted by sin. His hatred is not bad, for it is rooted in His righteousness and justice and holiness. He cannot look upon anything tainted by sin with a pleased affection, or even apathy. His holiness burns against such things. You will justly be sentenced to an eternity in hell, having the wrath of a righteous and holy God poured upon you. You will lash out in hatred and agony, but the wrath will never stop, the pain will never cease. This is where you are found before you accept Christ. Every person who is born of the flesh, save Christ Himself who was born of immaculate conception without imputed sin, is born drenched in sin, and can do no good, nothing to please God. Therefor all mankind is born an object of God's wrath. Who then can be saved? With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. God, being so rich in love, grace, and mercy sent His son to come down and in an act of propitiation to lay down His life on behalf of anyone who hears the call of God and responds. How can someone respond if they're blind and deaf? The call goes out to the entire world, and it goes with the power of Holy Spirit that has the power to replace our heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh, to give us sight and hearing to accept the gospel, to give us a new spirit that is alive and full of holy affections and desires to know and follow God. This is the call of God. He saw you in your despair and your sin, and He felt compassion for you. His only begotten Son was sent down to earth to become a man, live a sinless life and then lay down His life to appease the wrath of God so that a loving God could save a wretched sinner and still be holy and just! Oh so great a love, that when we were worthless and deserved death The Loving One made a way for us to be reconciled as sons and daughters and be washed clean of our sin! He loves us so much that He sacrificed His son on our behalf and if only you will hear and believe you will be saved not because of who you are, but because of who He is. You're a sinner, so great a sinner. He is Love, oh so great a love it is! And so the call goes out: "Turn from your sin, the punishment has been paid for all who hear and who repent and believe"! John, that is the gospel...while you were yet a sinner, Christ lay down His life, his invaluable life, to save a sinner like you for it is by grace you have been saved!