The Gospel Jesus Preached Is Different than What Most Have Been Taught

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:51:02 +0000

Before Jesus was crucified and resurrected, He went around preaching a message from God—a message of good news. Yet, that message is very different from what many have heard today!
What was the good news Jesus proclaimed? Did He only preach about His coming sacrifice for the world? Was He telling people to just accept Him in their heart?
Did He simply tell people to believe in Him? Or was it far more than that? What was the gospel Jesus preached?
In this video we'll answer that question straight from the pages of the Bible!
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First, let's answer an important question.
Does it make a difference to God whether or not we adhere strictly to the same Gospel that Jesus and His Apostles preached?
Well, the Bible says it does!
After Jesus's death and resurrection, He appeared to His disciples and told them to "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned" (Mark 16:15-16)
Our salvation depends on our willingness to accept & believe in the TRUE gospel—the same Gospel that Jesus preached and told His disciples to preach!
This is why the Apostle Paul strongly warned the Corinthian brethren to not put up with a "different gospel" (2 Cor. 11:4)
And in his epistle to the Galatians he pronounced a double curse, saying, "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed." (Gal. 1:8-9)
From the first century until now, false ministers have preached, in Paul’s words, "a different gospel, which is not another" (Gal. 1:6-7). They have spread a false gospel ignoring the very message that Jesus plainly preached.
So, the Bible tells Christians to be aware, and to follow the true gospel preached by Jesus and His Apostles.
Now, what was the gospel Jesus preached?
The most familiar aspect of His message is probably summed up in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
And the fact that He came to earth to suffer the penalty of death for us and actually save us from death, we should be thankful for with our entire being.
We don’t deserve it and we could never repay it.
It was done through His profound grace.
But this aspect of the gospel is actually only a small part of a much larger message that He preached.
[But this is just one aspect of the Gospel He preached. Here’s how the Bible and Jesus described His Gospel.]
The message He preached was the Gospel of the coming Kingdom of God.
So, we’ll see how the Bible describes what He preached.
Mark 1:14 clearly explains, "Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."
And in Matthew 4:23 we read, "...Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom...."
Later, in Matthew 9:35 we see again, "... Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom...."
Scripture after scripture shows Jesus preached the gospel of the coming Kingdom of God. His message was good news about a new world order. It was about the government of God coming to earth.
Jesus, Himself, even said this was a major reason for His ministry:
"And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them; but He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent." (Luke 4:42-43)
Further, "...It came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him...." (Luke 8:1)
The Bible clearly shows that Jesus’s message & ministry focused on the coming Kingdom of God to this earth.
This is why He consistently taught about the Kingdom.
He told His disciples to "...seek first the kingdom of God...." (Matthew 6:33)
He taught many parables where He compared the kingdom to a mustard seed, leaven, treasure hidden in a field, a pearl of great price, and a wheat field. (All of these are in Matt. 13. As we list them on screen we may want to give the verse beside each example, but I left them out here.)
He spoke on many occasions about who will enter this kingdom (Mark 10:14-15, Mark 10:23-25; Matt 21:31; Luke 7:28; Luke 13:28)
He even gave signs showing when the kingdom is close to its arrival (Luke 21:31; Matt. 24:33)