Well I think your claims that the Gospel is not ALL of God's WORD and not in the OLD TESTAMENT as you claim has been shown to be a false one through the scriptures in the last post don't you?
Let's look at more of the scriptures. Maybe you can address this post and all the scriptures in them showing that ALL OF GOD'S WORD is the Gospel and not just some of it as you claim.
The death, buriel and ressurrection of JESUS is indeed the foundation of the Gospel but according to the scriptures the Gospel is ALL THE WORD OF GOD, not just some of it.
The Gospel is JESUS <Jesus means Savior;
John 1:29>
and JESUS is THE WORD OF GOD (
John 1:1-14; 17:17; 14:6)
. THE WORD OF GOD is the GOSPEL BECAUSE BY FAITH IT IS OUR SAVIOR and this the IS GOOD NEWS to those who BELIEVE. (
John 1:1-14;
John 1:29;
John 17:17; 14:6;
Matthew 4:4)
The death, burial and resurrection of JESUS is the foundation of the Gospel that all the law and the prophets in the WORD of GOD points to. Let's look at some more scriptures showing that it is ALL OF God's WORD (JESUS) that is the Gospel not just some of it.
The Gospel means; G2098 εὐαγγέλιον euaggelion (ev-an-ğe'-liy-on) n. a good message; Good news).
Ok I think most know that the word Gospel means good news or a good message. So if you only believe that the Gospel is the death burial and resurrection of Christ,
how do you harmonize the following scriptures......
After Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.....
MARK 1:15 [15], And saying, The time is fulfilled, and
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.
Jesus is ONLY JUST STARTING HIS MINISTRY and has NOT DIED, has not been buried and if he has not died and not been buried he certainly has not been resurrected. Yet here
we have Jesus BEGINNING his MINISTRY and preaching the GOSPEL
and again..................
MARK 8:35 [35], For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but WHOSOEVER SHALL LOSE HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE AND THE
GOSPELS, THE SAME SHALL SAVE IT.
Well here we have it again the Gospel is being preached BEFORE the death of Jesus and again......
MATTHEW 4:23 [23], And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and
PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Seems like Matthew and Mark both agree that Jesus is preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom before the death of Jesus...
MATTHEW 9:35 [35], And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and
PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Yep Jesus still going about everywhere preaching the Gospel. His whole Ministry
BEFORE His DEATH was preaching the
GOSPEL..
MATTHEW 11:4-5 [4], Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: [5], The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and
THE POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.
and again..............
MATTHEW 24:14 [14], And this
GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Yep Jesus is still preaching the Gospel before His Death and Resurrection. Mathew and Mark both agree.....
Luke talks about Jesus in the Synagogue.....
LUKE 7:22 [22], Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor
THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED.
Yep Matthew, Mark and Luke all agree the Gospel was being preached BEFORE the DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS.......
LUKE 20:1 [1], And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he
taught the people in the temple, and PREACHED THE GOSPEL, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
Yep there goes Jesus again teaching the people in the temple and preaching the GOSPEL before the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.....
So ok lets bring it all together............
The
Good New (
Gospel) is
JESUS and Jesus is the
WORD OF GOD. It is the
WORD OF GOD THAT IS THE GOSPEL that we are to
BELIEVE IN AND LIVE BY *
MATTHEW 4:4;
John 1-1-4;
John 3:16. Why do you say it is a "works based doctrine" when we have to
BELIEVE EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD? It is by GRACE that we are SAVED <HOW?> THROUGH FAITH and NOT of your selves it is a GIFT of GOD and NOT of WORKS LEST ANY MAN should boast.
Now if you do not know what the GOSPEL is how can you preach it to others? Man does not live by bread alone but by EVERY WORD that proceeds out of the MOUTH of GOD.
Jesus's ministry started since he was a child but more so after the Baptism of John and his temptation in the wilderness where he soon after started preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and
REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND! (
MATTHEW 4:17; 23; 9:35; 11:5; 24:14; 26:16)
Did you know that the Gospel was being preached
BEFORE the NEW Testament scriptures (
Hebrews 4:2)? The
GOSPEL is indeed JESUS; the
Word of God and
he is the good news of the Old and NEW Testament scripture that we are to
BELIEVE and FOLLOW.
The Gospel is JESUS <Jesus means Savior;
JOHN 1:29>
and JESUS is THE WORD OF GOD (
JOHN 1:1-14; 17:17; 14:6)
. THE WORD OF GOD is the GOSPEL BECAUSE BY FAITH IT IS OUR SAVIOR and this the IS GOOD NEWS to those who BELIEVE. (
John 1:1-14;
John 1:29;
John 17:17; 14:6;
Matthew 4:4)
MARK 1:1 The beginning of the
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST; THE SON OF GOD <the WORD OF GOD;
John 1:1-14; 17:17; 14:6>
THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT....
GALATIANS 3:8 [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.
Yep once again seems like Abraham had the Gospel in his day in the OLD Testament well before Mt Sinai...
Luke 4:17-19 [17], And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Esaias. And when h
e had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
[18], The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
HE HAS ANNOTATED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, [19], To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Well it seems like
Isaiah from the OLD TESTAMENT knew about the Gospel (
Isaiah 52:7 pointing to Jesus in
Luke 7:22) so the Gospel indeed was being preached BEFORE the DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS even in the OLD TESTAMENT.......
The Gospel was preached to God's people leaving Egypt...
Context...
HEBREWS 3:7-19
[7], Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
[8], Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness:
[9], When
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
[10], Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
[11], So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
[12],
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
[13], But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
[14], For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end;
[15], While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
[16], For some, when they had heard, did provoke:
howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
[17], But with whom was he grieved forty years?
was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
[18], And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
[19], So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Continuing...
HEBREWS 4:1-4
[1], Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
[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.
[3], For
we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
[4],
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
In summary....
* The "GOSPEL" meaning is simply "Good News"
* The "GOSPEL" was being preached in the OLD TESTAMENT as well as the NEW TESTAMENT scriptures
* JESUS preached the "GOSPEL" BEFORE his death buriel and resurrection
The "Gospel" (good news) is
EVERY Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God and it is God's Word that we are to live by and have life (
Matthew 4:4). The "Gospel" was being preached
before the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus (e.g.
Mark 1:15; 8:35;
Matthew 4:23;
Matthew 9:35; 11:5; 24:14;
Luke 4:18; 7:22; 20:11)
The Good New (Gospel) is indeed Jesus, His life, death, resurrection and new administration as our great high priest, but Jesus is the Word of God.
The Gospel is the WORD OF GOD and it is the
WORD OF GOD that we are to BELIEVE and live by. (
Matthew 4:4;
John 1-1-4;
John 3:16).
If we are
NOT BELIEVING and LIVING by the WORD OF GOD we have yet to experience
God's GRACE through FAITH, because
OBEDIENCE is the FRUIT of FAITH. If their is
NO FRUIT you are still in your SINS and do not know him who LOVES ALL (
1 John 3:3-10;
James 2:18; 20; 26;
Hebrews 10:26-27; 6:4-8).
Can you see your error hear brother. Even a correct understanding of
HEBREWS 4 connects to a correct understanding of what the Gospel is and as the scriptures show above
The Gospel is JESUS <Jesus means Savior;
John 1:29>
and JESUS is THE WORD OF GOD (
John 1:1-14; 17:17; 14:6)
. THE WORD OF GOD is the GOSPEL BECAUSE BY FAITH IT IS OUR SAVIOR and this the IS GOOD NEWS to those who BELIEVE. (
John 1:1-14;
John 1:29;
John 17:17; 14:6;
Matthew 4:4)
Hope this helps
I already brought it all together in post #157. What you brought together through flawed semantics and flawed logic and flawed hermeneutics is a "different" gospel of "works salvation."
