What is the Core Message of the Gospel?

1. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? Gen 12:1-3 “Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you; And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.’”

2. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? Gal 3:8 “The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.”

3. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? Rom 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”

4. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? 1 Cor 15:1-3 “Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”

5. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? 1 Cor 2:2 “For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”

6. What is the Core Message of the Gospel? • Simple to understand, not simple to accept: • 1 Cor 1:23 • “but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,”

7. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

8. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation: • From spiritual and eternal death 2 Thess 1:8-9 “dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power”

9. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation: • From spiritual and eternal death Eph 2:1-3 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”

10. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • From spiritual and eternal death • We need rescuing Gal 2:21 “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

11. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • From spiritual and eternal death • The cross symbolizes our weakness, Christ’s power: 2 Cor 13:4 “For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.”

12. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: 1 Cor 2:2 “For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified”

13. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: Eph 1:6,12,14 “to the praise of the gloryof His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved….to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory….who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.”

14. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: Col 1:16-18 “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.”

15. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: Jn 9:3 “Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.”

16. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: Jn 11:4 “But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”

17. What are the Implications of This Core Message? • Our salvation • Christ’s glorification: Col 3.3 “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God”

18. Jesus Christ and Him Crucified: Our salvation for Christ’s glory.