Gospel

also known as: the Good News, Good Message

The word “Gospel” is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means “God’s spell,” i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell,” i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek word evangelion, i.e., “good message.”

It denotes…

1. “The welcome intelligence of salvation to man as preached by our Lord and his followers.”

2. “It was afterwards transitively applied to each of the four histories of our Lord’s life, published by those who are therefore called “evangelists,” writers of the history of the gospel (the evangelion).”

3. “The term is often used to express collectively the gospel doctrines; and ‘preaching the gospel’ is often used to include not only the proclaiming of the good tidings, but the teaching of men how to avail themselves of the offer of salvation, the declaring of all the truths, precepts, promises, and threatenings of Christianity.” It is termed “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24), “the gospel of the kingdom” (Matthew 4:23), “the gospel of Christ” (Romans 1:16), “the gospel of peace” (Ephesians 6:15), “the glorious gospel,” “the everlasting gospel,” “the gospel of salvation” (Ephesians 1:13).

ALSO SEE:

• assurance
• atonement
• Christ
• death
• eternal death
• eternal life
• faith
• fall of man
• The Final Judgment
• forgiveness of sin
• good works
• The Gospels
• grace
• means of grace
• salvation by grace alone, not your efforts (a difference between Biblical Christianity and teachings common in the Roman Catholic church)—Go
• Heaven
• Hell
• intercession of Christ
• imputation
• justice of God
• justification
• Kingdom of God
• law
• The Ten Commandments
• punishment
• propitiation
• reconciliation
• redemption
• redeemer
• regeneration
• repentance
• sanctification
• savior
• salvation
• salvation, assurance of
• sin
• The Way