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“Use this page to describe your company's mission and goals.”

I left this up because I thought it was appropriate. For note, I didn’t even really notice it until right now, which is like several days after I prepped it for design. Make of that what you will.

Currently, I can describe three dimensions of my mission and goals.

  1. To spread the Gospel

  2. To help prepare the world for the imminent return of Christ and all associated events

  3. Whatever else he tells me to do

THE GOSPEL IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE IN HUMAN HISTORY

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?????

The Gospel is the single most important message in human history, given to us directly by Christ Jesus, and passed along to us through thr generations through his SPIRIT and his CHURCH. In that order.

Let’s start with the WORD-both the word “Gospel” itself, and what the WORD has to say about the Gospel.

From Mirriam-Webster:

gospel

1 of 2

noun

gos·​pel ˈgä-spəl 

Synonyms of gospel

1aoften Gospel : the message concerning Christ, the kingdom of God, and salvation

b Gospel : one of the first four New Testament books telling of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

also: a similar apocryphal (see apocrypha sense 2) book

c: an interpretation of the Christian message

the social gospel

2

Gospel : a lection (see lection sense 1) from one of the New Testament Gospels

3

: the message or teachings of a religious teacher

4

: something accepted or promoted as infallible (see infallible sense 1) truth or as a guiding principle or doctrine

took her words as gospel

spreading the gospel of conservation—R. M. Hodesh

5

: gospel music

From Gotquestions.org:

The word gospel literally means “good news” and occurs 93 times in the Bible, exclusively in the New Testament. In Greek, it is the word euaggelion, from which we get our English words evangelist, evangel, and evangelical. The gospel is, broadly speaking, the whole of Scripture; more narrowly, the gospel is the good news concerning Christ and the way of salvation.

From Ligonier.com:

The gospel is the good news about the death and resurrection of Jesus for the salvation of God’s people. In Scripture, the word gospel is sometimes used to refer to the historical fulfillment of the Old Testament promises and sometimes to the proclamation of that message in the New Testament. The gospel is the central message of the covenant of grace, and the gospel was first pronounced to Adam and Eve in the garden after they fell when God promised that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent (Gen. 3:15).

From the Gospel Coalition: The gospel is good news—the good news of what God has done in Jesus Christ.

From Catholic Answers:

“The Gospel”

“Christians talk a lot about the gospel, but what actually is it?

An easy answer is that the gospel is the “good news.” That’s what the Greek and Hebrew terms translated gospel mean, and we even get the English word gospel from roots that mean “good news.”

So far, so good. But what actually is the good news that the gospel contains? What is it, specifically?

That’s where things get fuzzy, and the truth is that Christians don’t have a single, clear definition for what the gospel is. In reality, there are several different uses for the term, and they can vary from one group of Christians to another.”

I believe the Gospel can be summerized as:

JESUS CHRIST.

THE CROSS.

WHAT HE DID.

WHY HE DID IT.

THE RESULTS OF THAT WORK. WHICH ARE ETERNAL AND IRREVERSABLE.

WHAT IS OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE GOSPEL?

WE ARE REDEEMED BY THE GOSPEL WHEN WE BELIEVE THE GOSPEL AND THEN WE ARE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.

And what does the word say about the Gospel:

Matthew 28:18-20 “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.’” (NIV)

Romans 1:16
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.

Romans 10:9-13
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 16:15
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

Acts 2:38
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

1 John 4:9-10
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Luke 24:45-49
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 8:24
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.

John 5:39-40
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

John 3:17
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.

Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 Peter 3:18-22
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Ephesians 1:13-14
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And as organized by New Start Discipleship , here’s a list of 89 times the specific term Gospel appears in the Bible:

https://www.newstartdiscipleship.com/post/all-89-times-the-word-gospel-appears-in-the-new-testament-esv


Matthew

  1. Matthew 4:23: "And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people."

  2. Matthew 9:35: "And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction."

  3. Matthew 11:5: "The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them."

  4. Matthew 24:14: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

  5. Matthew 26:13: "Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."'


Mark

  1. Mark 1:1: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

  2. Mark 1:14: "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God."

  3. Mark 1:15: "And saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.'"

  4. Mark 8:35: "For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it."

  5. Mark 10:29: "Jesus said, 'Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel.'"

  6. Mark 13:10: "And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations."

  7. Mark 14:9: "And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."

  8. Mark 16:15: "And he said to them, 'Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.'"


Luke

  1. Luke 4:18: "'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.'"

  2. Luke 7:22: "And he answered them, 'Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.'"

  3. Luke 9:6: "And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere."

  4. Luke 20:1: "One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up."


Acts

  1. Acts 15:7: "And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, 'Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.'"

  2. Acts 20:24: "But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God."


Romans

  1. Romans 1:1: "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God."

  2. Romans 1:9: "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you."

  3. Romans 1:16: "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."

  4. Romans 2:16: "On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus."

  5. Romans 10:16: "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?'"

  6. Romans 11:28: "As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers."

  7. Romans 15:16: "To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit."

  8. Romans 15:19: "By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ."

  9. Romans 15:20: "And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation."

  10. Romans 16:25: "Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages."

1 Corinthians

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:15: "For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel."

  2. 1 Corinthians 9:12: "If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ."

  3. 1 Corinthians 9:14: "In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel."

  4. 1 Corinthians 9:16: "For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!"

  5. 1 Corinthians 9:18: "What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel."

  6. 1 Corinthians 9:23: "I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings."

  7. 1 Corinthians 15:1: "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand."

  8. 1 Corinthians 15:2: "And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain."

2 Corinthians

  1. 2 Corinthians 2:12: "When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord."

  2. 2 Corinthians 4:3: "And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing."

  3. 2 Corinthians 4:4: "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

  4. 2 Corinthians 8:18: "With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel."

  5. 2 Corinthians 9:13: "By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others."

  6. 2 Corinthians 10:14: "For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ."

  7. 2 Corinthians 10:16: "So that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence."

  8. 2 Corinthians 11:4: "For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough."

  9. 2 Corinthians 11:7: "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?"

Galatians

  1. Galatians 1:6: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel."

  2. Galatians 1:7: "Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ."

  3. Galatians 1:8: "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed."

  4. Galatians 1:9: "As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed."

  5. Galatians 1:11: "For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel."

  6. Galatians 2:2: "I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain."

  7. Galatians 2:5: "To them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you."

  8. Galatians 2:7: "On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised."

  9. Galatians 2:14: "But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, 'If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?'"

  10. Galatians 3:8: "And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'In you shall all the nations be blessed.'"

  11. Galatians 4:13: "You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first."

Ephesians

  1. Ephesians 1:13: "In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit."

  2. Ephesians 3:6: "This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel."

  3. Ephesians 6:15: "And, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace."

  4. Ephesians 6:19: "And also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel."

Philippians

  1. Philippians 1:5: "Because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now."

  2. Philippians 1:7: "It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel."

  3. Philippians 1:12: "I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel."

  4. Philippians 1:16: "The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel."

  5. Philippians 1:27: "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel."

  6. Philippians 2:22: "But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel."

  7. Philippians 4:3: "Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life."

  8. Philippians 4:15: "And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only."

Colossians

  1. Colossians 1:5: "Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel."

  2. Colossians 1:6: "Which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth."

  3. Colossians 1:23: "If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister."

1 Thessalonians

  1. 1 Thessalonians 1:5: "Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake."

  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:2: "But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict."

  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:4: "But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts."

  4. 1 Thessalonians 2:8: "So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us."

  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:9: "For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God."

  6. 1 Thessalonians 3:2: "And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith."

2 Thessalonians

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:8: "In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus."

  2. 2 Thessalonians 2:14: "To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."

1 Timothy

  1. 1 Timothy 1:11: "In accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted."

2 Timothy

  1. 2 Timothy 1:8: "Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God."

  2. 2 Timothy 1:10: "And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel."

  3. 2 Timothy 2:8: "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel."

Philemon

  1. Philemon 1:13: "I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel."

1 Peter

  1. 1 Peter 1:12: "It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look."

  2. 1 Peter 1:25: "But the word of the Lord remains forever.' And this word is the good news that was preached to you."

  3. 1 Peter 4:6: "For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does."

Revelation

  1. Revelation 14:6: "Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people."

This completes the list of every occurrence of the word "Gospel" in the New Testament in the ESV translation. These passages can be useful for studying the biblical concept of the Gospel in the Scripture.

Nothing I have to say could be more inportant to the Gospel or contribute anything more of value than the scriptures that are already written and that the vast majority of the world currently has access to.