SHAI LINNE, TED HAGGARD, AND LORDSHIP SALVATION, JOHN PIPER
WEBLOGS, BLOGGERS
Part One

There are a few who might be saying, "what does Pastor Charles think about the current trend in our Christian Church Culture." I did say a few! But they are very important people.

I said to Charity, "I might be dangerous today, if I were the pastor/.teacher at some Fundamentalist, or Evangelical church." It’s been ten years since I was at FBC, five years since I was at my last pastorate, and a few years since my last staff position. And all this was before my experience of the Internet, and before blogging or weblog.

How would I today use blogging as a means of communicating with the membership and the community?

WHAT IS A BLOGGER?
Blogger.(someone who maintains a weblog) A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Which is why if you were to go to my first posts, or thread, you would have to go back to August 07, 2006, some seventy posts back.

Online diaries and journals went from 100 in 1997 to 50 million in December 2005.
The term "blog" is a contraction of "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Thus in August 07 2006 I started my first blog "GROW BY LEARNING."

The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier —— specifically permalinks, blogrolls and TrackBacks. This, together with weblog search engines enabled bloggers to track the threads that connected them to others with similar interests.

Bloggers began to provide nearly-instant commentary on televised events, creating a secondary meaning of the word "blogging": to simultaneously transcribe and editorialize speeches and events shown on television. (For example: Tim C is blogging live from the 4theGospel event . Real time commentary. It’s sometimes referred to as "liveblogging." You can learn live how the conference is going and what the speakers are teaching.

THE BENEFIT OF BLOGGERS

• Today I log on the Internet and hit a number of good blogs: Kinds of blogs:.
• Theological Bloggers: These are articles about theological positions "Lordship Salvation versus "Free Grace." "Doctrines of Grace."
• Personal Opinion Bloggers: Those who are not pastors but have a theological background
• Pastor/Teachers Bloogers: Those who deal with pastoral issues, preaching/teaching points of view.
• Various Bloggers: Political, Music, News
• Fundamentalist, Evangelistic, Church Ministry Bloggers.
  

EXAMPLE::

• "Old Testament scholar Dr. Eugene Merrill has written a new book that belongs on every pastor's bookshelf. In today's blog, Dr. Albert Mohler reviews "Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament." This came by way of e mail, and I just click over to the blog. Great.
• By now you have heard of the scandal involving Ted Haggard. Reaction to the news has ranged from sympathy to disgust, from support to condemnation. The media has dedicated a lot of attention to this story, though they seem to be writing about it as just another news story rather than something that is somehow bigger or more significant than any other story. Watchbloggers are out in force, like homeschool moms at a book sale, swarming and trampling. To this point I have refrained from mentioning the issue for reasons related primarily to my own lack of sanctification. But I feel now that I can speak out with some legitimacy
• "A Rugged Cross, a Glorious Gospel, and the Ted Haggard Scandal"
• Arminianism: Semi-Pelagianism? Phil Johnson’s web site
• The People Clapped, He Sat Down, and the Fundamentalists Went Wild. For those who have been following this, I want to provide a brief update. You others, read the original post first and then come up here for more!

Drafted by Charles E. Whisnant November 06 Proof-read by Charity 11 -7 Posted 11-07

FIVE ESSENTIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.

Our topic "What is at the heart of the Gospel."

Is the Gospel message just for unbelievers to hear? When someone says, "I go to a church where the preacher preach's the Gospel." What do they mean?

John Piper addressed this subject in his message
Why Expositional Preaching is Particularly Glorifying to God

• The gospel is a message about historical events: the life and death and resurrection of Christ——summoning us to open them with thorough expositions of texts.
• · The gospel is a message about what those events achieved before we experienced anything or even existed: the completion of perfect obedience, the payment for ours sins, the removal of the wrath of God, the installation of Jesus as the crucified and risen Messiah and king of the universe, the disarming of the rulers and authorities, the destruction of death——all of these summoning us to open them with thorough expositions of texts.
• · The gospel is a message about the transfer of these achievements from Christ to particular persons through our union with Christ by faith alone apart from works——which summons us to open for our people the nature and dynamics of faith by the exposition of dozens of texts.
• · The gospel is a message about the good things that are now true about us as the achievement of the cross is applied to us in Christ: that God is only merciful to us now instead of wrathful (propitiation), that we are counted righteous in Christ now (justification), that we are freed now from the guilt and power of sin (redemption), that we are positionally and progressively made holy (sanctification)——all of which summons us to open these glorious realities for our people week after week with thorough expositions of texts.
• · And finally the gospel is a message about the glorious God himself as our final, eternal, all-satisfying Treasure. "We . . . rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation"" (Romans 5:11). The gospel we preach is ""the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God." If our gospel stops short of this goal——enjoying God himself, not just his gifts of forgiveness and rescue from hell and eternal life——then we are not preaching ""the gospel of the glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). Our ultimate goal is knowing and enjoying God. As we saw in the beginning of this chapter, that is why we were created——that God might share with us the knowledge and enjoyment of himself. This is what it means for him to love us. This is what the cross ultimately obtained for us. And this too, by every text of Scripture——all of it inspired by God to awaken hope in his glory7——calls for the richest exposition that our people may be fed the best and highest food of heaven.

The Gospel message is about God's good news about how He is able to redeem the lost. What I have learned is the Gospel message includes the total story of how God accomplished this great salvation.

WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL

part five
How the Gospel is Applied to Us

We use the term "redemption" to express salvation. That is, one becomes a Believer, a Christian, is born again. So how is "redemption" applied in the life of an individual? We use the term "ordo salutis" (the way of salvation) which is the process by which an unsaved person becomes saved. We are not going to address this topic here, but have in other papers. But Romans 8:28-30 gives us the process by which a person becomes a Christian.

Why is the Gospel so important to preach? Because we see that all human beings are incapable of entering into the kingdom of God on their own – that is, for us it is impossible to merit our own salvation. We are wholly dependent upon the graciousness of our God for our salvation in every step along the process described in Romans 8.

We learn that the Christian life is not of "putting confidence in the flesh" (Phil 3:3) or seeking to "establish our own righteousness" (Rom 10:3-4) Rather it is about dependence upon the merits of Christ in accomplishing our salvation through His active and passive obedience. And that is in the story of the Gospel.

Preaching the Gospel? It’s the Christian Life. It’s both about redemption, the saving of us as individuals (Romans 8:1-17) but also about the redemption of those in the world (Rom 8:18-25)
Our salvation is in light of a greater story......the work of God throughout history to redeem the elect.

"Preaching the Gospel" then is the way in which we communicate the work of Christ to others, so that the story of their lives might be found within the grand story of God’s redemption.

• We read the story of those who were saved........from Noah, David, Abraham, Joel, Jeremiah, and then Matthew, Paul, and then Martin Luther, and Charles Spurgeon, and then Michael Nunnenkamp, Beverly Frye, and Brett and Laura Busby and Kay........ Alan and Toni Barnhart, etc.
• These and other Christians become included in a grand narrative in which our lives tell the story of His glory and His redemption. Rather than our own abilities and efforts to rise above our circumstances to establish a righteousness of our own. "Gospel-centered living" then is the way life looks when lived inside the kingdom of God - that upside down kingdom in which "the first will be last and the last will be first," the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Mk 10:45.)
  
  

May I come to a conclusion: Generally when we think of the Gospel, we think how individuals can get right with God and get saved. The term is "redemption applied."

Well the story of Jesus in history is "redemption accomplished." i.e. what we must believe in order to be saved. And the story of Jesus is how our redemption was accomplished by the work and words of Jesus Christ. It’s the story of how God is redeeming a people for Himself to live in His New Heaven and New Earth. It’s the story of the glory of God. I think that we should put the emphasis on :"redemption accomplished"

You know the Gospel is not just for unbelievers. Paul found it necessary to preach the Gospel to the church at Rome. (Rom 1;15) Paul said "be reconciled to God" in 2 Corin 5:20. The problem with every being, Christian or non-Christian, is sin. The only solution for the problem of sin is the Gospel. Therefore every Christian’s conversation ought to be a gospel-centered conversation.

Really, Christians need to evangelize each other as much as the lost. All of us, even as Christians, tend to get lost in our own stories and become blind to the grander story of God’s redemption.

We all get lost in our circumstances and seek to establish idols in our hearts in place of the living and true God. We anguish and seek to find ways to hide our pain and make life seem "okay" rather than trust in Christ.

Drafted by Charles E. Whisnant, July 10, 2006 Proof-read by Charity November 01, 2006
Posted November 04, 06 2006

• Repentance is not incidental to the gospel. What is the gospel, after all, but a call to repentance (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30)? In other words, it demands that sinners make a change—stop going one way and turn around to go the other (1 Thess. 1:9). Paul’s evangelistic invitations always demanded repentance: "God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent" (Acts 17:30). Here’s how Paul described His own ministry and message: "I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision, but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance"" (Acts 26:19–20, emphasis added). Repentance is what leads to life (Acts 11:18) and to the knowledge of the truth (2 Tim. 2:25). Thus salvation is impossible apart from repentance. John MacArthur
  

HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AMEN

He is the First and Last,The Beginning and the End!
He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all!He is the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times.He always was, He always is, and He always will be ...unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone!

He was bruised and brought healing!He was pierced and eased pain!He was persecuted and brought freedom!He was dead and brought life!He is risen and brings power!He reigns and brings Peace!The world can't understand him,The armies can't defeat Him,

The schools can't explain Him, and The leaders can't ignore Him.
Herod couldn't kill Him, The Pharisees couldn't confuse Him, and The people couldn't hold Him!

Nero couldn't crush Him, Hitler couldn't silence Him,The New Age can't replace Him, and "Oprah" can't explain Him away!
He is light, love, longevity, and Lord.He is goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, and God.He is Holy, Righteous, mighty, powerful, and pure.

His ways are right,His word is eternal,His will is unchanging, and His mind is on me.He is my Savior,He is my guide, and He is my peace!He is my Joy,He is my comfort,He is my Lord, and He rules my life!
I serve Him because His bond is love,His burden is light, and His goal for me is abundant life.

I follow Him because He is the wisdom of the wise,the power of the powerful, the ancient of days, the ruler of rulers, the leader of leaders, the overseer of the overcomers, and is to come.

And if that seems impressive to you, try this for size.
His goal is a relationship with ME!

He will never leave me,never forsake me,never mislead me,never forget me,never overlook me andnever cancel my appointment in His appointment book!

When I fall, He lifts me up!When I fail, He forgives!When I am weak, He is strong!When I am lost, He is the way!When I am afraid, He is my courage!When I stumble, He steadies me!

When I am hurt, He heals me!When I am broken, He mends me!When I am blind, He leads me!When I am hungry, He feeds me!

When I face trials, He is with me!When I face persecution, He shields me!When I face problems, He comforts me!When I face loss, He provides for me!When I face Death, He carries me Home!

He is everything for everybody everywhere, every time, and every way.
He is God, He is faithful. I am His, and He is mine!
My Father in heaven can whip the father of this world.So, if you're wondering why I feel so secure, understand this...
He said it and that settles it.God is in control, I am on His side,and that means all is well with my soul.

Everyday is a blessing for GOD Is!
I love the Lord and thank Him for all that He has done in my life;

WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL?

part four

Part Two of this lesson

I taught at First Baptist Church in Altoona, Kansas 2006

While these verses speak of Israel’s deliverance from exile, (Isaiah 52:1-6). The greater aspect of this text is speaking to the New Testament when we see it fulfilled in the redemption which shall be accomplished by Jesus Christ who has become our Kinsman-Redeemer by means of His incarnation and His atonement.

In the NT note Mark’s remarks about the Gospel.

Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel <2098> of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

Is this the gospel of Jesus Christ, or the gospel about Jesus Christ, or the gospel that Jesus Christ preached? Well, Mark is recounting the story of Jesus Christ preaching the gospel about Himself.

Note the work "The beginning of the gospel". When was the beginning of the gospel? Now here is where I want to study a little deeper and have a greater understanding. Reading this text, it would seem at first glance that the beginning of the gospel begins at the beginning of Mark.

Note Mark 1:2 Mark quotes from Isaiah 40:3. It seems then that the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is as it is written in Isaiah the prophet.

The ongoing story in which the Gospel of Mark is located.....has its roots in divine promises of liberation of Israel from bondage of exile as this is related by the prophet Isaiah..
The hope that Isaiah gave the people in Isaiah 40 was hope of deliverance from the bondage of exile. This was not only from the current exile that Israel was in but a real exile from the bondage that would take place through the work of Jesus Christ in His life, death and resurrection, whereby He inaugurated the kingdom of God, which we live with the hope of His return, when He will fully bring about the New Heaven and New Earth. Believers can partially experience that reality in the church today as members of the "new creation" 2 Cor 5:17.

• Tim Keller says in his paper "What is the Gospel?"
  "The Gospel is that Jesus died and rose for us. If the historical events of His life did not happen, then Christianity does not ‘work’. For the good news is that God has entered the human ‘now’ (history) with the life of the world to come."
  Thus the Gospel is the life of Jesus Christ, lived, on our behalf, both in His active and passive obedience, including His death, resurrection, ascension and session at the right hand of God Himself.

So Tim Keller says, "The term gospel" and Jesus Christ are treated as synonymous. To declare the gospel and to declare Jesus is the same thing." "Jesus does not bring the gospel - He is the gospel—because the gospel is that God has broken into history and accomplished everything necessary for our salvation."

Now you will note also that the gospel is often referred to as "the gospel of the kingdom" (Luke 16:15, Matt 4:23 and 24:14) The gospel is the message about the Kingdom of God entering into this world through the ministry of Jesus Christ on our behalf.
Then the question becomes, how does one enter into this kingdom:?

• Matthew 18:3? And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  How do I become a part of the new creation?
• 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  What must I do to be saved?
• Ac 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
• Well the answer: "Repent and believe the gospel". Mark 1:15.

So the question we bring up is this:
How does the Gospel become real in our lives? i..e. The topic of redemption applied.

The application next:

Drafted by Charles E. Whisnant, June 2006 First Baptist Church, Altoona, Kansas Approved by Charity Whisnant, November 01 06 Posted Nov 04 2006

WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL?

part three

INTRODUCTION:

Having listed the verses that mention the word GOSPEL in the last two articles we know ome to the topic: WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?

The gospel that is introduced to unbelievers has eternal consequences. If it is the true gospel, it can direct men and women into the everlasting kingdom. If it is a debauched message, it can give unsaved people misleading hope while bequeathing them to eternal damnation.

While I love theology, and study the doctrines of God this issue is not for us only. This is an issue that every solitary pastor/teacher and lay individual must understand in order that the gospel may be appropriately announced.

It doesn’t matter if you are a quote "Fundamentalist", "Evangelical", "Independent", or any of the other brands of religion, you need to know how to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the unsaved.

• Mark 1:1 ¶ The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Romans 15:19 I have fully preached the gospel of Christ; 2 Corinthians for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord, 2 Corinthians 10:14: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ: Philippians 1:27 ¶ Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ:
• The gospel that Jesus Christ proclaimed was a call to discipleship, a call to follow Him in submissive obedience, not just a plea to make a decision or pray a prayer.

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?

part one

(This lesson was taught at the First Baptist Church, Altoona, Kansas 2006)

I believe the Gospel's Work has produced the saving work of God in the lives

of many who came to FBC 1980-1996

What is the Gospel? Just ask the typical American fundamentalist the question. Here is what you are likely to hear: "Believe in your heart that Jesus died for your sins and you will be saved." You will hear: "I want to go to a church that the preacher will preach the Gospel?" Now these are those who have been saved for years. So why do they want to go to a church that will preach the gospel?

Well this study has led me to research the question: What is the Gospel? I looked at my "Online Bible disk" to view the verses on "gospel." (The last two articles)

• Note the book of Mark: and Jesus summarizes His preaching while on this earth:
• Mark 1:14-15 "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."

"Repent and believe the gospel?" Does Jesus here say "Repent and believe in Jesus?" What Jesus was saying is that people ought to repent and believe the gospel that "the time is fulfilled" and "the kingdom of God is near." In other words , when Jesus preached the gospel, He was preaching "the gospel of the kingdom." Note

• Matthew 24:14 And this gospel <2098> of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come
  

Jesus was saying then, that the gospel is preaching the kingdom of Christ, kingdom of God (in other verses) which was breaking into this present world through the life, death, resurrection and ascension of the Messiah. The gospel, then, is the message of the Kingdom. Repenting and believing is the means by which we are included in the gospel story of God’s work throughout history.

God is redeeming for Himself a people out of a fallen world: we enter into the gospel story by grace through faith alone.

• Paul points out in Romans 1:1-6
  "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: 6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:"

Here in the text, the gospel is the work of the Son. A descendent of David, and installed as King -Son of God - by being raised from the dead. His reign as king was vindicated by the resurrection, and his kingdom is justified as the rightful Israel. As a result of this Gospel story, we are "called to belong to Jesus Christ.

Here is an interesting thought. We think of the Gospel as "the way of salvation." John Murray in his book "Redemption Accomplished and Applied, gives us this idea: He used the term "redemption accomplished’ to refer to the work of Jesus Christ in history to purchase our salvation. What I have being learning is "the history of salvation" which is called historia salutis. — what has God done objectively throughout Biblical history to accomplish the redemption of the world and of His people. The historical history of salvation is found in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Starting from Genesis 3:15 " And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

The term "redemption applied" Murray is referring to how the redemption purchased by Christ becomes real in the life of the believer.

The Theologians have also called this the "way of salvation" (ordo salutis) i.e. the order of how God subjectively saves us in our individuals lives. This study has been a part of my study for several years now.

Would you say, that what you have heard the most about what the Gospel is has been "The Gospel is repent and believe and be baptized." Right.
What I have been learning is that the Gospel has several aspects. The term "historia salutis" Latin for "the history of salvation." The term describes the gospel as the work of God in history to redeem God’s people for Himself. The word "gospel" literally, "good news" appears first in the OT in Isaiah 52:7

• " How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!"

This text Isaiah’s prophecy looked forward to the time when the Messiah would lead His people out of exile in Babylon into a restored kingdom of Israel. The context of this gospel, good news message as described by Isaiah is "Your God reigneth!"

• Ps 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
• Ro 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Drafted by Charles E. Whisnant July 2006 Proof read by Charity November 01, 06 Posted 11-03-

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL

Part Two Scriptural References

Scriptures: Next What is the Gospel? How are we to preach the Gospel?

Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
1 Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
2 Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
2 Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Ephesians 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,
Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Ephesians 6:19 ¶ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Philippians 1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Philippians 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Philippians 1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Philippians 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippians 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our8 brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thessalonians 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust
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2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
Philemon 1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
1 Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Revelation 14:6 ¶ And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Drafted by Charles E. Whisnant, Posted On November 02, 2006 Blog No. 80

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