GOSPEL

By David Maas
{GOOD NEWS}

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  1. For All Nations - (The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is a message of hope for all nations and men) - {PDF Copy}
  2. The Word of the Son - (Hebrews 1:1-3 - God’s final complete “word” has been “spoken” in His Son. All previous “words” were partial, preparatory, and incomplete) - {PDF Copy}
  3. The Commencement of the Good News of the Kingdom - (The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus constitute nothing less than the beginning of the promised New Creation of God) - {PDF Copy}
  4. The Message of the Gospel - (The church is called to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God in every inhabited corner of the earth) - {PDF Copy}
  5. Heirs of the Covenant - (With the ascension of Jesus, the gift of the Spirit arrived with blessings for all believers – The promise of Abraham) - {PDF Copy}
  6. Demonstration of His Righteousness - (The “righteousness of God” refers not to an absolute moral standard but to the faithfulness of God to His promises) - {PDF Copy}
  7. Neither Jew nor Greek - (To return to the custodianship of the Law would mean to erect again the divisions between Jewish and Gentile believers) - {PDF Copy}
  8. Rescuing Us from Wrath - (1 Thessalonians 1:5-10 - Even now, Jesus is “rescuing” his people from the future “wrath” of God) - {PDF Copy}
  9. Incomparable New Covenant - (In his death, Jesus inaugurated the promised and vastly superior new covenant, rendering the old one obsolete) - {PDF}
  10. Rescued from this Evil Age - {PDF Copy} - (Paul anchored all that God has done in the past Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which inaugurated the messianic age)

{THE SPIRIT}
  1. The Fulfillment of the Feast - (Acts 2:1-4 -The long-anticipated time of fulfillment arrived in Jesus with the gift of the Spirit) - {PDF Copy}
  2. Pentecost and the Last Days - (The outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost signaled the arrival of the last days, the age of fulfillment) - {PDF Copy}
  3. New Covenant - New Creation - (The promises to Abraham find their fulfillment in the New Covenant in Jesus and the New Creation) - {PDF Copy}
  4. Abraham and the New Covenant - (With the ascension of Jesus, the gift of the Spirit arrived with blessings for all believers – The promise of Abraham) - {PDF Copy}
  5. The Quickening Spirit - (There is no life without the Spirit of God, for it is His Spirit that creates, animates, sustains, and restores all life, and now, only through Jesus) - {PDF Copy}
  6. In the Last Days - (The outpouring of the Spirit on Pentecost signaled the arrival of the last days, just as prophesied by Joel) - {PDF Copy}

{NEW COVENANT}

  1. Spirit, New Covenant, and New Creation - (The Gift of the Spirit is a sign of the New Covenant and a foretaste of the New Creation) - {PDF Copy}
  2. Neither Jew nor Gentile - (Galatians 3:26-29 - To return to the custodianship of the Law would mean to erect again the divisions between Jewish and Gentile believers) - {PDF Copy}
  3. Incomparable New Covenant - (In his death, Jesus inaugurated the promised and vastly superior new covenant, rendering the old one obsolete) - {PDF}

{NEW CREATION}
  1. Beginning of the Creation - (Revelation looks forward to the reign of Jesus in the New Creation, a reality inaugurated by his Death and Resurrection) - {PDF Copy}
  2. New Heavens and Earth - (The arrival of Jesus in glory will usher in the Day of the Lord, the final judgment, and the New Creation) - {PDF Copy}
  3. The City of Abraham - (New Jerusalem is populated in fulfillment of the promise to Abraham to “bless all nations” in the Promised Land) - {PDF Copy}
  4. Redemption of the Nations - (The nations and the kings of the earth are found in the New Jerusalem) - {PDF Copy}

Photo by Sean O. on Unsplash
North Shore, Waialua, Hawaii, by Sean O. on Unsplash