What is the Gospel?
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It might seem almost a work of supererogation to answer a question like this. We hear the word, “Gospel” used so many times. People talk of this and of that as being “as true as the Gospel,” and I often wonder what they really mean by it.
First I should like to indicate what it is not.
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What is the Gospel? - H. A. Ironside
What is the Gospel?
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).
It might seem almost a work of supererogation to answer a question like this. We hear the word, Gospel
used so many times. People talk of this and of that as being as true as the Gospel,
and I often wonder what they really mean by it.
First I should like to indicate what it is not.
THE GOSPEL IS...
Not The Bible
In the first place, the Gospel is not the Bible. Often when I inquire, What do you think the Gospel is?
people reply, Why, it is the Bible, and the Bible is the Word of God.
Undoubtedly the Bible is the Word of God, but there is a great deal in that Book that is not Gospel.
The wicked shall be turned into Hell with all the nations that forget God.
That is in the Bible, and it is terribly true; but it is not Gospel.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
That is in the Bible, but it is not the Gospel.
Our English word, gospel
just means the good spell,
and the word spell,
is the old Anglo-Saxon word for, tidings
, the good tidings, the good news. The original word translated. Gospel,
which we have taken over into the English with little alteration is the word, evangel,
and it has the same meaning, the good news. The Gospel is God’s good news for sinners. The Bible contains the Gospel, but there is a great