Topical Studies: Spirit and Soul and Body (1 Thess 5:23)

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--Ohio Grace Bible Church led by Pastor Steve Yoak (they also have a youtube channel): http://ohiogracebible.com/

---------------------------------- THE GOSPEL FOR TODAY -----------------------

The gospel is the Lord Jesus Christ's good news. What is needed (for us today) is the good news that applies for us today. We need the gospel by which we are saved, and not another gospel for another day and age, nor another chapter and verse created to be the gospel.

If you are "church hunting" or part of one now, and you do not see the verses about to be mentioned as The Gospel for today? You may want to ask why that is. HERE is the Gospel:

"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"

(1 Corinthians 15:1-4) KJV

Clearly, this is the gospel "by which ye are saved". It is that "Christ died for our sins"...."and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures". Which means....you won't be finding your salvation...your "way into heaven" in John 3:16 nor in Romans 10:9-10, nor in Acts 2:38, nor in Ezek 33:11, nor in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 is the clearest place in the bible that lays out God's good news to us plainly and simply and explicitly. It's all that Christ did, and nothing...absolutely nothing that you think you can do to "earn" your way into heaven.

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" - Romans 3:10

Our works are not even considered when it comes to "going to heaven". They can't be. There is no such thing for believers today as a "salvation process" in which you are "earning your salvation" or you have "lost your salvation once you had it".

Once you trust the gospel, by faith, "ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" - Colossians 2:10

Once we're saved, "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself." - 2 Timothy 2:13