The Gospel - God's Work on My Behalf (Reflection)

You have read the bad news honestly. Now read what God did about it. This is the rest of the excerpt from Milton Vincent's A Gospel Primer for Christians, the section entitled God's Work on My Behalf. Read it slowly, and let it be your own confession of the gospel.

God's Work on My Behalf

16 However, what I could not do, God did, and in doing it, He did it all, sending His own Son into the world to die on the cross for my sins, thereby showing me unfathomable love. 17 God loved me so much that He was willing to suffer the loss of His Son, and even more amazingly, He was willing to allow His Son to suffer the loss of Him at the cross. 18 Jesus loved me so much that He was willing to lay down His life for me. No one could ever love me more or better than Jesus. 19 On the third day after Jesus' death, God raised Him from the dead, thereby announcing that His death was completely sufficient to atone for every sin that I have or will commit throughout my lifetime. 20 God then exalted Christ to His own right hand, where Christ now reigns from on high, granting salvation and forgiveness to all who call on Him by faith.

(Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God's Love, Focus Publishing, 2008, pp. 60-61.)