Free Podcast Downloads The Gospel Is a Person: Jesus Christ! One of the most important words in the Bible is the word, Gospel. The word gospel means “Good News.” Jesus came preaching the Good News, and the central point of this teaching is that Jesus is the Gospel. He is the Good News. Sometimes our focus is on what the good news of Jesus brings; He indeed brings health, healing, wholeness, prosperity, and sound relationships; all these things are important. However, if we miss the provider of all these things, Jesus, then we are pursuing what Jesus can provide rather than Jesus himself. You see, if you have Jesus, you have it all! Even the Pharisees and Scribes of Jesus' day missed who Jesus was. Because they were so focused on the promises of Abraham and Moses, they missed the one who would fulfill all of the scriptures. Jesus said to the Jewish leaders in John 5: 39, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of, Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.” While it is the “hand of God” that attracts us to Him, it is the “face of God” that produces the eternal relationship. Jesus makes it clear that we are to pursue Him and Him alone in John 14, Philip the Disciple asked Jesus to show Him the way, and Jesus replied in John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Then look at John 6:44, Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise Him up at the last day.” Nothing could be clearer: Jesus is the instrument God has used to bring salvation, healing, and hope to a lost and dying world.
