Week #7: The Heart of the Gospel

Presupposed Truths (Week #1)

1. God has specifically revealed Himself through His Word (Hebrews 1:1).
2. The Lordship of God over all – “He rules everything” (I Cor. 5:18)
3. God is a redeeming God, actively seeking to save through Christ.
4. God is Triune, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, redemptively active.
5. Man is sinful and must respond to God’s salvation in faith, obedience, worship, praise and service.

What is the Gospel?

Gospel means good news.

The Biblical Story – “meta” or “grand” narrative

Genesis 1:26 – 2:3
Revelation 21:22 – 22:5
Describe the situation in thee passages?
Describe the relationship between Creator & creation in each situation?
Therefore, is the Bible a continuous story of harmony & provision between Creator & Creation?

Atonement
What does atonement mean and/or look like?
Can you spell pr…?
When you make a mistake, what do/can you do about it?
How do you ask for forgiveness?
How do you measure restitution?
How do you pay God back for a wasted life?
What is a fundamental problem the Gospel solves?

Leviticus 17:11 says, “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make
atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.”

Leviticus 4
How is this passage representative of the entire Old Testament religious system?
If you sin & offer a sacrifice, did you break or keep the law?
Day of Atonement, Leviticus 16:6-10, 20-22
Does the New Testament affirm, imply, and/or ascribe a sacrificial religious system?
John 1:29, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
Hebrews 2:14-17
Romans 3:21-26
1 John 2:1-2
1 John 4:8-10

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J.I. Packer says, “The wrath of God is as personal, and as potent, as his Love; and, just as the blood-
shedding of the Lord Jesus was the direct manifesting of his Father’s love toward us, so it was the
direct averting of his Father’s wrath against us.” (Knowing God, pg 184)

The Gospel tells us that our Creator has become our Redeemer, (Packer, Knowing God, pg 189)
Sin brings death, James 1:13-15 & Ephesians 2:1-5
Jesus is obedient unto death, Philippians 2:5-8
Redemption brings…
Reconciliation: Romans 5:10-11 & 2 Corinthians 5:18-20
Forgiveness: Ephesians 1:7-8 & Colossians 1:13-14
Justification: Romans 3:24 & 5:16
Peace: Romans 5:1 & Colossians 1:19-20

What marks a life of enmity (no peace) with God?

Psalm 73:3-12
Luke 16:19-26

What marks a life of peace with God and a life filled with the peace of God?
John 14:25-27
Galatians 5:16-23
Matthew 5:9
1 Timothy 6:6

Which marks best describe your life?

“The peace of God, then, primarily and fundamentally, is a new relationship of forgiveness and
acceptance – and the source from which it flows is propitiation” (Packer, Knowing God, pg 196)

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