Romans 3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God
Ephesians 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
1 John 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.
1 John 5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe in God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given of His Son.
1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
John Piper, "God is the Gospel"
People can hear the gospel preached, or read it in their Bibles, and
not see the final aim of the gospel that makes the good news good.
What makes all the events of Good Friday and Easter and all the
promises they secure good news is that they lead us to God. “Christ
also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he
might bring us to God” (1 Pet. 3:18). And when we get there, it is
God himself who will satisfy our souls forever. Everything else in the
gospel is meant to display God’s glory and remove every obstacle in
him (such as his wrath) and in us (such as our rebellion) so that we
can enjoy him forever. God is the gospel. That is, he is what makes
the good news good. Nothing less can make the gospel good news.
God is the final and highest gift that makes the good news good.
Until people use the gospel to get to God, they use it wrongly.
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