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  WHAT IS THE GOSPEL？
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the universal relevance of the Gospel
for every human being, highlighting the simplicity and power of the
message that needs to be shared with people from all cultures. It
focuses on the foundational truths of humanity's sinfulness inherited
from Adam and the redemption brought by Jesus Christ through His perfect
obedience, stressing the need to proclaim this message without excessive
contextualization but with a mind-blowing impact on all worldviews.

Duration: 3:40 Topics: "Universal Gospel", "Redemption through Christ"
Scripture References: Romans 5:12, Romans 5:18, Romans 3:23, John 3:16, Acts 1:8

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This sermon emphasizes the universal relevance of the Gospel for every
human being, highlighting the simplicity and power of the message that
needs to be shared with people from all cultures. It focuses on the
foundational truths of humanity's sinfulness inherited from Adam and the
redemption brought by Jesus Christ through His perfect obedience,
stressing the need to proclaim this message without excessive
contextualization but with a mind-blowing impact on all worldviews.

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CONTENT
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This is the Gospel. It's not the only way to talk about the Gospel. It's
just the way Paul's talking about it here.

Our job as believers, among many other jobs, but ultimately, is to
spread the Gospel to everybody who doesn't know the Gospel, all the
people groups of the world. This is called missions, if you cross
cultures, to try to get the news to them. Now, what's the news? Now, the
reason I'm asking this is because so many people make missions so
complicated.

Endless discussions of contextualization, and way over the top, in my
judgment, on some of them. Now, picture this way of thinking about the
Gospel. The first thing we see here is that it is universally and
absolutely relevant for every human being on the planet, no exceptions,
with barely any contextualization.

There was an Adam, you say to somebody who doesn't know. What is Adam?
The very first human being. You are a descendant from him.

He sinned, you're dead because of his sins. That is understandable. You
may not agree with it, but you can say, as a human, you inherited that.

The reason he died is because he sinned. You're a sinner. You're all
going to die.

Second stage in the Gospel presentation. The Son of God is like that
Adam. He came to start a new humanity by rescuing people from this old
humanity, and he came into the world, and he never sinned like your and
my forefathers sinned.

Never. Perfect obedience. We will one day stand with him before an
infinitely holy God to face him because we've all sinned.

His righteousness was performed in order that you might be counted as
obedient and righteous and perfect through faith in him. So just as you
were united to Adam and died because of his sin, you may be united to
Christ and live because of his obedience. That word must be told
everywhere with barely any contextualization.

You've got to learn the language, man, father, origin. It'll blow their
worldview out of the water, of course, just like it blows your worldview
out of the water. We think, well, we white folks, Americans, been here
300 years and absorbed Puritanism, that we got the worldview, figured
out our brain set in America just fits perfectly with this book, it's
just like a hat.

Wrong. This book blows American brains and every other culture, and our
job is to say it because every human being you meet is in chapter 5.
Your family is in chapter 5. Your kids are in chapter 5. Your parents,
your colleagues at work are in chapter 5. Every human you see on the
street is in chapter 5, and the same truth is true about every one of
them, and the same gospel applies to every one of them, and it isn't
complicated. It's just mind-blowing.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/KHy_fLI5aLw.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-piper/what-is-the-gospel/
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