This website is dedicated to providing the truth of the gospel and God’s plan of salvation for us today. The gospel known as the gospel of the grace of God is God’s plan of salvation for us today. This gospel is recorded for us in I Corinthians 15:1-4. Salvation is only available through belief of this gospel. This website provides the truth that there are two gospels recorded in the New Testament.
The Two Gospels
There are two gospels recorded in the New Testament. These gospels are (1) the gospel of the kingdom and (2) the gospel of the grace of God. The gospel of the kingdom was for the Jews, who are God’s chosen people. The promise of this gospel for the Jews is of an eternal earthly kingdom with Jesus Christ ruling over the nation of Israel as their King.
The gospel of the grace of God promises an eternal abode in heaven for those who believe the gospel of the grace of God. God gave this gospel to the entire world when the Jews rejected the gospel of the kingdom when they stoned Stephen to death as recorded in Acts Chapter 7. At that time, God paused the gospel of the kingdom and gave the gospel of the grace of God to the entire world.
The Gospel of the Grace of God
The gospel of the grace of God is the gospel of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recorded in I Corinthians 15:1-4. When by faith we believe that Jesus 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 we are then saved for all eternity.
I Corinthians 15:1-4
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
In the verses above, Paul tells us that the Corinthians believed the gospel as Paul presented it to them, and thus they were saved. They believed that Christ died for their sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Therefore they did not believe in vain.
As we can see, salvation is by faith alone and does not include any works on our part. Anything that we add to the gospel (God’s plan of salvation) becomes a false gospel and therefore is an affront to Jesus Christ and His death on the cross. In effect, if we add to the gospel, then we are saying that Christ was wrong, when on the cross He said – it is finished (John 19:30). By adding to the gospel, we are in effect saying that we are the ones that will finish the work that Christ started on the cross.
The Ministry of Reconciliation
Our Apostle Paul tells us in II Timothy 2:15 that we are to rightly divide the word of truth. In Ephesians 1:13-14 Paul tells us that the word of truth is the gospel of our salvation, and that when we believe the gospel of our salvation, that we are then sealed by the Holy Spirit until we are redeemed by Jesus Christ.
In II Corinthians 5:17-21 Paul tells us who are saved by our belief of the gospel of the grace of God and that we are to be ambassadors for Christ and share the Ministry of Reconciliation. The Ministry of Reconciliation is the ministry that teaches that God was in Christ on the cross, reconciling the world unto Himself and does not impute our trespasses (sins) against us. We are to be reconciled to God by believing the gospel of the grace of God.
II Corinthians 5:17-21
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.