A Brief Gospel Presentation With Texts

By John Orlando

The Bible teaches that the Triune God of the Bible (Matt 28:19) created man in His image (Gen 1:27), and held out to man the promise of everlasting communion with God upon the condition of personal, perpetual, and perfect obedience to His Law (Gen 2:9, 17; Rom 10:5).

Our first parents, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God (Gen 3:6,7), and as a result sin and death entered the world and everyone that has been born after Adam and Eve has inherited both the guilt of that first sin (Rom 5:12, 19), as well as a corrupt sin nature (Gen 6:5; Rom 3:10-19; Eph 2:1-3). Man is thus a sinner both by nature (Psalm 51:5) and by his own personal sins that he commits in thought, word, and deed (Matt 15:19, James 1:14-15).

All people are thus separated and alienated from God (Gen 3:8, Col 1:21) and stand condemned before God because of their sin (Rom 5:18). The Scriptures proclaim, “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), and “the wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23).

God though in His mercy (Rom 9:15-16) sent His Son, Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man (John 1:1, 14), to save sinners by being their substitute (Gal 3:13). Jesus obeyed God’s Law perfectly where we never could (Rom 8:7; Gal 2:16; Gal 4:4), died on the cross to pay the full penalty for sins (1 Pet 2:24), and rose bodily from the grave to secure a place in Heaven as an absolutely free gift for all who turn from their sins and trust and rest in Christ alone by His grace alone (Rom 4:25; Rom 6:23; Acts 20:21; Eph 2:8-9).

When a person, by God's grace and Spirit alone (Rom 2:29; Titus 3:5-7), trusts in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation, God pardons that person of all of their sins, past, present, and future (Col 1:13-14; Psalm 103:12; John 6:47), and He declares them as righteous forever because of the the perfect righteousness and full satisfaction of Christ which is imputed to them (Rom. 4:6-8; 5:17-19).

A person then who turns from their sins and trusts in Jesus Christ alone for salvation can know for certain that they will go to Heaven when they die (1 John 5:13) because of the perfect life and death of the risen and ascended Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for His people (Heb 7:25).