THE GOSPEL OF GOD

The gospel that declares how God can be just and still justify sinners must be of God and cannot be of man. The gospel OF God is the gospel that tells men OF God, who God is and how God saves sinners. Man could not have devised such a glorious gospel.

• The gospel declares the wisdom of God. Man is too ignorant to devise such a gospel.
• The gospel declares the love of God. The carnal mind is enmity against God (Rom 8:7). Man is too hateful to devise such a loving gospel.
• The gospel declares the mercy and grace of God to sinners. Fallen man is far too legalistic to show mercy or grace to anyone.
• The gospel declares an eternal salvation for sinners in the Lord Jesus Christ. Man is blind so he is too short sighted to devise an eternal salvation.

Man left to his own devises will devise many different ways of salvation but every one of those ways will not save, but bring eternal death (Prov 14:12). Thank God He sends His preachers to declare to sinners the gospel of God (Rom 1:1, I Thes 2:8).

No man or woman ever had a nobler challenge or a higher privilege than to bring up a child for God; and whenever we slight that privilege or neglect that ministry for anything else, we live to mourn it in heartache and grief.

Vance Havner

Men have been told over and over again that God loves them. I would ask you what good does the love of God do you? Does it make you desire to live to His glory, or cause you to call on Him daily, or attend a place where the gospel is preached? Do you ever even think about the love of God? Does God enter your thoughts at all? When God loves a sinner He does something effectual for that sinner; In the time of love I passed by thee and said unto thee live I said live (Ezek.16:5-8). He loved Jacob before he was born; he had not done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand. The same thing will happen to Gods elect that happened to Paul, hear his words; When it pleased God who separated me from my mothers womb, and called me by His grace to reveal His Son in me (Gal. 1:15). In love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will(Eph.1: 4-5) The average person absolutely doesn’t care at all about the love of God, and to be told over and over again that God loves them is obscene. God loves his elect and he will manifest his love to them in time. If you would take a close look into God’s Word you would see that no one told men indiscriminately that God loves them. Those to whom the love of God was manifested were overwhelmed by the truth that God loved them, and had always loved them, with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:30). Men today are not enthralled with the love of God, it is just ho-hum, so what else is new

Pastor Don Bell

We may as well think of finding snow on the bosom of the sun, or paradise in hell, as to think of finding, elsewhere than in Christ, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. As Pharaoh said to the famished multitudes that cried to him for bread, “Go to Joseph, he has all the corn;” so perishing sinners are sent to be blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

William Jay

THAT WHICH I DESIRE ABOVE ALL THINGS

1. To forever behold the face of our Lord!
2. To forever know that I am His and He is mine!
3. To forever dwell in His presence!
4. To forever be conformed to His likeness!