Gospel 101. Is the gospel the same as the popular Christian religion we see in practice today?
By: Dami Osh
Tags: Gospel, Good News, Truth, Bible, Salvation

What is the gospel and what is it not?

Going straight to the point, the gospel is not that God was angry, we apologized( “God I’m sorry, forgive me my sins” ) then he said ok, don’t do it again. The gospel is not a second chance to live a holy life. If it was, we’d need more than a zillion chances.

A Gospel means a good news meant to incite a rejoicing in you. The gospel (good news) is that we were dead and God made us alive forever.

How were we dead? We didn’t have God living inside of us.

How does God live inside a man? God lives inside a man through his spirit called the Holy Spirit.

God made a promise that he would pour out his spirit upon all flesh(old, young, rich, poor). Joel 2:28 “ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh….”.

To believe that the holy spirit is now available for reception is to believe that Christ ascended because apostle John records in John‬ ‭7:39‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ that “.. this He (Jesus) spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him (Jesus) would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

Jesus is glorified when he ascended and sat at the right hand of the Father (God).

To believe that Christ ascended is to:

First believe he was conceived by the Holy Ghost (Someone who’s born of God has life. He was the only man that had life, that had God living inside of him and he gave it up when he died).

Secondly, believe he died to pay our debt(yes we have debt, “the wages of sin is death”, we were meant to die eternally for not having God living inside us. But he paid the price for us).

Finally, believe that he was buried and God raised him up from the dead that we all that have joint baptism in his death may all receive newness of life through him by faith.

That’s the gospel my lovely people.

The gospel is not mere going to church every Sunday neither is it obeying the 10 commandments or keeping the mosaic law. The latter is Christian religion.

Truth be told, nothing can ever reconcile us with God except Christ. Not our sobering or our zealousness. Only faith that God through Christ has forgiven us all our sins and reconciled us to himself permanently.

Do you know that all the atrocities we commit against ourselves and our neighbors stem from God’s absence in us including physical death, sicknesses, diseases, possession by evil spirits.

In essence, we rise above those atrocities and bondages when we allow God live inside of us. This is true joy 🤩. You receive a new nature, a new heart, a new spirit. The almighty God’s own spirit living in you! You’re reborn of the spirit by faith.

That is salvation! That is the gospel!!💃Once you believe all these, you’re saved. You have a new spirit.

Afterwards, we need to grow in God’s spirit which we received. This is crucial because it’s a new spirit. Our mind doesn’t know/ understand anything about it. That’s why we renew our mind by praying and studying God’s word(the Bible). More so, we grow into what God has called us to be.

More on the above later…

Love y’all,

DamiOsh.