“THE SIMPLE GOSPEL!”

“THE SIMPLE GOSPEL!”

“Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely!” (Rev. 22:17).

“The command to preach the Gospel to every creature implied that it was adapted to the comprehension of every creature. As the great mass of mankind are incapable of comprehending abstruse and mysterious subjects, the primitive Gospel must have been, therefore, something extremely simple in its statement and evident in its nature.”
(Robert Richardson)

“Gospel” means “good news.” Now if the good news of salvation and eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ is so difficult to understand that only a select few can do so, then it decidedly is not good news!
But the message of Christ is one that can be comprehended by all people—people of every race, language, culture, and nation; persons of all ages; those who are well-educated, those who are illiterate. Anyone who can understand love can understand the Gospel! How glad we are that it is just this way! Everyone who wants to be saved can be saved! How wonderful the ways of God! Full of power, wisdom, and deep knowledge, yet so simple that even the simplest can hear, believe, repent, be baptized, and be saved!
I like to read and enjoy dabbling in the writings of theologians and scholars on occasion, older writers and more recent ones. One thing constantly amazes me—the ability of most theologians and philosophers to complicate the simple and obscure the plain! They love to redefine terms and make up new words. They are experts at employing technical jargon. It almost appears that, beyond playing with divine themes and reinventing ancient ideas, most theologians are really only trying to impress people with their skills. At best, the wise men of this world merely entertain us. When we wish to feed our souls and win the lost for Jesus, we turn directly to the Holy Bible and the simple Gospel!
The simplicity of the Gospel! The simplicity of Jesus Christ! How we love it!


Larry Atkin, Preacher