What is the Gospel? It's that the love and acceptance and forgiveness and freedom you've longed for you already have - it was given to you in Jesus by grace. He took all the evil in us that was holding us down onto Himself and in so doing, brought us back to God. We are forgiven. There is no barrier between us and God, nothing keeping us from relationship with Him. He has always loved us, and He's taken away what was keeping us from enjoying that love.
The good news is called the gospel of GRACE - it's about how God freely forgave us by Jesus' death on the cross, how the work to take away our sins is FINISHED and now God is offering us a wonderful gift - the LIFE of Jesus! Free for the taking! He puts it in our hands and we simply believe it is ours! That is what it means to receive the gift of eternal life by faith!
We are loved and accepted and forgiven for free, without earning it, without any doing on our part! Without having to stress over how to get rid of our sins or "get forgiven," since our sins were taken away (wiped out) at the cross. God says He's not counting the sins of the world against them. We have all been reconciled to God through the death of His Son! So that we can have His very Life within us for all eternity, in the perfect intimacy of loving union! Believe it! That's the gospel according to Jesus!
God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation....God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Co. 5:19, 21)
With love,
