The gospel is not a human plan for reaching up to God, but a divine plan for reaching down to man. ---- John Blanchard
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 (I John 4:9-10).
The gospel. "The gospel" does not mean my being born again or experiencing conversion, making a decision or being transformed within. Rather, the gospel is that "He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification" (Romans 4:25). The good news is about what happened to Christ because of my failures to believe enough, to obey enough, to serve enough, and to love enough. -- Michael Horton.
[Abraham] ....gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness. Bu the words it was counted to him were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification (Romans 4:21-25).
A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle to the glory of God: Tell Me the Old, Old Story. Katherine Hankey, 1866.
