Can the Gospel Be Defined?

Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Saved from what?... Ignorance!... They are so busy with their own works of the law, blinded trying to be saved, not knowing that they already are saved!... No one that has a zeal of God, is eternally lost... God Sovereign Grace through the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ has already been satisfied and these are heaven bound children of God... Brother Glen

 

Amen!

10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 2 Tim 1

The gospel is the message of life and immortality, not the means. It's sheep food.

 

That is true but your forgetting the living which is... Brother Glen

 

...you lost me brother, what am I forgetting?

 

One is pen and ink... The other is flesh and blood... Timely/Eternal!... Are you still lost?... That's the way I see it... Brother Glen

 

Shhh... It's a secret... Brother Glen

 

LOL, can the Calvinist posters define the gospel? Nope

Since God desires all people to be saved, He did not render a significant segment of humanity unable to obtain salvation. Yes He hardened the hearts of a few, as described in scripture, to facilitate the spread of the gospel message to non-Jews, or for a specific purpose (Judas) but the claim all the lost are unable to seek God and trust in Christ is false.

 

So is the good news the Kingdom or the King?... Don't worry about getting in Jon, the King choses only royalty... Brother Glen

1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

 

It wasn't the message that saved you but the messenger... It's called Amazing Grace... Is that explanation enough?... Hint... Hint!... Brother Glen

 

The gospel is the "good news" of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that BELIEVES.. (Romans 1:16) To "believe" the gospel is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation.

 

It's good news. Good news brings joy. Joy of the LORD is our strength. Thus, the gospel is sheep food.

Feed My lambs...tend My sheep...feed My sheep... Jn 21:15-17

28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood. Acts 20

1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock. `1 Pet 5

 

It's like a multiple faceted gem. Pick a facet to peer into.

And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people. Mt 4:23

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mk 1:1

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 1 Tim 1:11

But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24

For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1 Pet 4:17

but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision Gal 2:7

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 2 Thess 3:8

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 1 Cor 9:12

The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it. Lu 16:16

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. 2 Cor 4:4

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, Eph 1:13

and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Eph 6:15

yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man`s foundation; Ro 15:20

 

It's certainly not confined to 2-3 cherry-picked sentences.

27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
32 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? Lu 24

39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; Jn 5