The Glorious Gospel

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. - 1 Timothy 1:11

    Glorious means wonderful, magnificent, splendid. To me, these adjectives seem much too weak to describe the Gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ. To the sinful soul (namely mine), who has been brought to the Lamb of God, forgiven all sin, clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and accepted by God the Father into his everlasting Kingdom, there is no mind to comprehend, or tongue to tell, of the glory and preciousness of the Gospel of the blessed God!

    The glorious gospel reveals four great truths from which all truth springs, and are vital in the begetting of spiritual life in the hearts of chosen sinners:

    1. Who God is. God the Father, in the Trinity of his sacred persons, is God Almighty in his glorious attributes and infinite being. He is the one God of heaven, earth and all places, unto whom all men, angels, powers, and principalities are subject. He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent!

    2. Who Jesus Christ the Lord is. He is God Incarnate. He is the God-man in whom all the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily. He is he who was made flesh and dwelt among us; full of grace and truth; full of truth to reveal God; full of grace to redeem his people; separate from sinners; in whom is no sin; he who is now seated in the throne of God; ruling and reigning for his church, as their Great High Priest and intercessor.

    3. The sinfulness and depravity of the human heart. All men are spiritually dead by nature. Man by his first birth is a God hater and a rebel. There is not one spark of spiritual life inside or outside mankind. Man has no ability to do anything to commend himself to God; neither does he have the desire to do so. His mind, heart and ways are against God. Man is a sinner against God Almighty.

    4. Salvation is by the purpose, grace and power of God; manifested and wrought in the person and work of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and revealed to his people by the preaching of the Gospel. Christ’s sheep are totally, fully, completely, and finally saved by the grace of God apart from any works of man—by grace are you saved (Eph 2:8).

    I believe this is the glorious gospel of the blessed God. It is more wonderful than words can describe, to those who know Him.