Saying the gospel is just ‘Good News,’ could be the biggest understatement in the history of understatements

When we accurately identify what the gospel truly is, we honestly couldn’t come up with enough words to express what it means.

Here are just a few of the 1339 synonyms for Greatest I found at Thesaurus.com: Complete, entire, perfect, outright, foremost, highest, preeminent & finished.

According to the Bible, the good news about Jesus means the forgiveness of our sins to all who believe.

In Acts 10:43 Peter tells a crowd some ‘good news’ about Jesus when he said, “All the prophets testify about Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”

1 John 4:10 says, “This is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”

Titus 3:4-6 says, “When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

In Romans 10:9-11 Paul says, “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

It’s my prayer that if you have yet to say “Yes” to Jesus and have not accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, that you would consider the truths found in God’s Word and do what Paul said at the end of 2 Corinthians 6:2, “Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.”