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| What does the gospel do? |
What does the gospel do? People give various answers; I read one here:
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the page.) Mr. Washer says, and many believe the same that the "gospel
does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to, but as our life."
THAT IS, "the gospel calls us to receive
Christ as our life."
REALLY? What happens when you receive Christ
as your life?
The gospel is the good news of what God has
done for His elect; the gospel calls His children (i.e. those elect whom God
has effectually called out of their native state of sin and death to that of
grace and salvation in Christ) to believe the truth of their salvation in Jesus
Christ, which was freely and sovereignly bestowed upon them when they were in
their native state of sin and death.
They have been given eternal life in Jesus
Christ, and they are called to believe the truth of their salvation.
To all others, the gospel is foolishness.
Eph 1
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that
ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
The gospel announces the grace of God that
has accomplished the salvation for His elect, calling those to whom the
salvation has been APPLIED personally, to believe on their Saviour Jesus
Christ, teaching them...
Titus 2
11 For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous
of good works.
