The Gifts Of The Gospel

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit."
(1 Peter 3:18)

The gospel is the enjoyment of fellowship with God himself. This is made explicit here in 1 Peter 3:18 in the phrase “to bring you to God.”  All the other gifts of the gospel exist to make this one possible.

We are forgiven so that our guilt does not keep us away from God.
We are justified so that our condemnation does not keep us away from God.
We are given eternal life now, with new bodies in the resurrection, so that we have the capacities for enjoying God to the fullest.

Test your heart.
Why do you want forgiveness?
Why do you want to be justified?
Why do you want eternal life?
Is the decisive answer: "because I want to enjoy God"?

The gospel-love God gives is ultimately the gift of himself. This is what we were made for. This is what we lost in our sin. This is what Christ came to restore. Hallelujah, God bless

“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” (Psalm 16:11).

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