THERE IS NO BETTER GOSPEL

Charles Spurgeon’s grandfather, who was also a pastor, said of his grandson, “He may preach the gospel better than I can, but he cannot preach a better gospel.” Spurgeon denied that he could preach the gospel better than his grandfather, but he agreed that there is no better gospel to preach.

I whole heartedly agree. There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s electing love that declares God chose to save sinners who could not and would not ever do anything to deserve it. There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s love for sinners that declares God set His love on sinners who never would have loved Him unless God first loved them. There is no better gospel than the gospel of substitution where the Son of God took the place of sinners and suffered and died in their place. There is no better gospel than the gospel of redemption in the blood of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shed His blood to fully pay the sin debt of a sinful people, who were the enemies of God. There is no better gospel than the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace to sinners that declares God saved a people with no help from them or their works, and God gives His salvation to them freely (without any condition they must meet). There is no better gospel than the gospel of Christ the successful Savior of sinners that declares the Lord Jesus Christ didn’t “try” to save anyone. Christ the Savior came to save the elect people the Father gave Him to save and that is exactly what He did.

Different men may be more or less gifted to preach the gospel than others, but I intend to hear them as support them as long as they preach THE gospel because the blessing is not in the man preaching. The blessing is in the glorious Savior who he preaches.

Pastor

Adam, the First and the Second

We fell in the first Adam through no fault of our own, we rise in the second Adam through no merit of our own, so we rise in the same manner as we fell, only in a different person. It is in the Free Grace of God that we are taken back into His favor.

I wish we could understand that just as we were condemned in Adam and came under the just sentence of death, if we believe in the Lord Jesus, we shall be cleansed from our many offenses, and God will look on us as perfectly just in Christ Jesus. We shall by faith have peace with God and there shall be good reason for peace, for everything which made God angry with us shall have been put away, and we will be able with confidence to say, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.”

Even if the devil was base enough to fabricate a charge against the believer, yet we could say, “It is God that justifieth who is He that condemneth?” Since Christ has died and risen again, and now sits at the right hand of God and makes intercession for us, what judgment have we to fear? Glory to God for that free gift (Romans 8)!

Scott Richardson

I am not satisfied with anything that has my fingerprints on it. I can only find satisfaction in that which God finds satisfaction in. “He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied.” God is completely satisfied with the work of His Son. He is perfectly satisfied with all for whom Christ died! Christ is satisfied with what He did in their behalf. That is why He sat down at the right hand of God. He left nothing undone! The Spirit is satisfied with the work of the Son. “By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof also the Holy Ghost is a witness to us.” If the Father, Son, and Spirit are completely satisfied with what Christ did, I am too!

Pastor Todd Nibert

If the triune God is pleased to visit us with the power and presence of his Spirit, revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, his dear Son, to our hearts in all the fulness of his redemptive glory through the preaching of the gospel, we will worship him in Spirit and in truth. Our worship depends upon God’s revelation of himself.