Category: Study

This is an overview of the Good News (i.e. Gospel) of salvation in Jesus God’s Anointed Son.

This document is divided into the following short sections:

— Jesus is God
— Jesus died for our sins
— Jesus was buried in a grave
— Jesus was raised from the dead and given new life
— We were dead in our trespasses and sins
— No one comes to Father but by Jesus
— We believe into Jesus
— We died with Him
— We are buried with Him
— We are raised with Him
— We ascended into heaven with Him
— Walk in Him
— We are new creatures in Christ Jesus: God’s children
— The gift of the Holy Spirit

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>>>Jesus is God

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
—John 1:1

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
—John 1:14

But as many as received Him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name
—John 1:12

>>>Jesus died for our sins

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to Him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
—John 1:29

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures
—1 Corinthians 15:3

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
—1 Corinthians 15:4

>>>Jesus was buried in a grave

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures
—1 Corinthians 15:3

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
—1 Corinthians 15:4

>>>Jesus was raised from the dead and given new life

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
—Acts 2:32

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over Him!
—Romans 6:9

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
—1 Corinthians 6:14

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
—1 Corinthians 15:4

>>>We were dead in our trespasses and sins, and on our way to eternal separation from God and all goodness

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins
—Ephesians 2:1

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience
—Ephesians 2:2

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
—Ephesians 2:3

>>>No one comes to Father but by Jesus

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
—John 14:6

>>>We believe into Jesus – He is our ark – our shelter/protection

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes into Him, should have eternal life; and I will raise Him up at the last day.”
—John 6:40

>>>We died with Him

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
—Colossians 3:3

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him;
—Romans 6:8

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over Him!
—Romans 6:9

you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world
—Colossians 2:20

>>>We are buried with Him

having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
—Colossians 2:12

>>>We are raised with Him

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
—Ephesians 2:5,6

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
—Colossians 3:1

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
—Colossians 3:2

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
—Colossians 3:3

>>>We ascended into heaven with Him

and raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
—Ephesians 2:6

>>>Walk in Him

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. -Colossians 2:7
—Colossians 2:6

Live for something so much more than this short life and this dying / suffering world.

>>>We are new creatures in Christ Jesus: God’s children

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
—2 Corinthians 5:17

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
—Galatians 6:15

>>>The gift of the Holy Spirit

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
—Acts 2:38