Hi mailmandan,
How are you? Yes you did. It was a good post. I got that you said the Gospel is the “Good New” of the death, burial and resurrection of the Kingdom. Did you have a read of the scripture I sent you in post 608. I was asking you to consider these scriptures because they are all saying the Gospel is being preached before the death, burial and resurrection by Jesus while he was alive after the baptism of John. Anyhow I gave the answer in Post 619 if your interested.
God bless
1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the
gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: 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.
This is the gospel that we are to BELIEVE (Romans 1:16) in order to be saved. Not simply believe "mental assent" that the death, burial and resurrection of Christ "happened" (even the demons believe that) but
believe/trust/rely in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation.
Prior to Paul preaching the gospel of grace (which was a mystery until it was later revealed - Romans 16:25; Ephesians 6:19); Jesus Christ sent the twelve to preach only to Israel in Matthew 10:5-7, "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is at hand." The disciples were specifically told to go only to the people of Israel, and they were not preaching about the death, burial, and resurrection.
In Luke 18:31, we read - Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32
He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."
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The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
Mark 1:14-15 records, "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." This gospel of the kingdom which Jesus Christ preached was same message that John the Baptist preached: "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say,
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17).
The gospel is included in the word of God, yet the gospel is not simply defined as the entire word of God. The Bible is God's written word and Jesus is the Living Word. You said,
"the Word of God is the Gospel and we are to live by every Word of it." It sounds to me like you are peddling a "works based" false gospel, which would explain your obsession with keeping the Sabbath day.