1. The Gospel is not about you being so valuable to God that He would save you.
There is none righteous, not even one. (Romans 3:10b)
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
At the right time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6b)
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8b)
“Jesus didn’t die for us because we were worth dying for. He died for us because that’s what unconditional love does.”
2. The Gospel is not about you earning Heaven by the things you do and don’t do.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” (John 19:30)
3. The Gospel is not about you being happy.
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. (Philippians 3:10)
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. (Hebrews 11:37-38)
4. The Gospel is not about you not having any more problems.
In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33b)
5. The Gospel is not about you attaining your “dream destiny.”
6. The Gospel is not about you becoming rich / getting a hundred-fold increase on your tithe (giving to get is the height of selfishness).
7. The Gospel is not about you needing to help God reach the world. (If God needed help, He wouldn’t be God.)
8. The Gospel is not about you being a restored apostle or prophet after the likes of Peter and Paul or Elijah and Elisha.
Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone. (Ephesians 2:20)
“Nowhere in the New Testament after the replacement of Judas is any attention given to a so-called apostolic succession.”
The Assemblies of God and the NAR
9. The Gospel is not about you establishing the kingdom of God on earth so that Jesus can return.
Dominionism, Kingdom Now, Christian Reconstructionism
10. The Gospel is not about anything else other than Christ dying on the cross and rising from the dead on the third day for the forgiveness of your sins.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mark 16:15)
They went out and preached that men should repent. (Mark 6:12)
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