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The Gospel is the good news telling what God has accomplished for you, for me, and for all people by the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus.

Many people know the biographical details of Jesus’ life – that He came to this earth 2,000 years ago, that He was born in Bethlehem grew up in Nazareth and died in Jerusalem but they do not realize what His death, and resurrection for HAS ACCOMPLISHED for us.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” (John 3:16-17)

When Jesus died on Calvary in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago He bore the guilt and shame and the sin of the whole world and of the Adam man.

When He arose three days later, He overcame sin, sickness and death demonstrating His victory over Satan and the failure and sinfulness of our adamic nature.

It Is Finished

The prophets – especially the prophet Isaiah – foretold this event.

They saw this work of Jesus, the Messiah before it happened. (All we like sheep have gone astray have turned everyone to His own and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6-7))
The gospels describe it as it happened.
The proclamation of the Gospel in the Book of Acts and the apostles’ letters explains exactly what was been accomplished for each one of us.
“God was in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5:17-21)

This means that God has only two sorts of people on the earth: those whose sins He has Atoned for (paid for) and those who KNOW IT & put their faith in it.

We Receive A New Spirit

The gospel not only announces that Jesus has borne our guilt on the Cross but it also announces that He came to give us a New Spirit and a New Life. He came to extract the corrupt part of our nature (the adamic man) and replace it with His Spirit. – His Life.

Inside every person there is a corrupt element (our fallen adamic nature) that produces envy, lust, jealousy, greed etc. This corrupt part of our nature has come down to us through our genetic inheritance all the way back to Adam through whom sin came into the world.

“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” (Mark 7:21-23)

God promised to remedy this problem: “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.” (Ezekiel 36:26-27)

Jesus went further than paying the price of our sin. He also came to give everyone who comes to Him a new heart and a new spirit. (New life) – if we turn to Him, admit our need of Him and receive. He takes out our heart of stone (the corrupt side of our nature) and replaces it with His own Spirit.

God wants everyone to be “born from above” and to receive the Spirit of God as our ‘new ‘engine for living.’ Our spirit comes alive and joined with His Spirit and our ‘antennae’ for communication with heaven is reconnected.

That’s why Jesus on the day of the resurrection to His said to His followers, “Receive the Hoy Spirit’ and His followers in turn invite all men to do likewise.

Receive A New Nature (Life) And A New Spirit.

One Thing More Is Needed – Our Response

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, [a] says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jer. 31:31-34)