The document discusses the gospel message found throughout the Bible. It describes how the gospel is presented with one unified theme across 66 books, written over 1500 years in 3 languages on 3 continents. The gospel's central message is that all have sinned and fallen short of God's holiness, but God provided a way of salvation through the blood of Christ, who lived a sinless life and died as the perfect sacrifice to pay the penalty for sin. The document explains how believers must respond to the gospel through faith, which involves repentance from sin and baptism to be united with Christ's death and receive forgiveness and new life.

2. An Amazing Book
66 books
40 men
3 languages
Over 1500 years
Written on 3 continents
ONE UNIFIED THEME:

3. The Gospel
“And He said to them, „Go
into all the world and
preach the gospel to every
creature.‟”
--Mark 16:15

4. An Important Message
Romans 1:16
The Gospel
God’s
Power
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for
it is the power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes”

5. The Gospel: An Important
Message
“Jesus will come “in flaming fire,
8 dealing out retribution to those
who do not know God and to
those who do not obey the
gospel of our Lord Jesus.”
Seriousness of -2 Thessalonians
obeying the gospel 1:7-9

6. A Serious Warning…To
Christians
“But even if we, or an angel from
heaven, should preach to you a gospel
contrary to what we have preached to
you, he is to be accursed !”
-Galatians 1:8

7. THE 1 GOSPEL
How can I be certain?
Where would we start?

8. Our OT “Tutor”
Old Testament
Galatians 3:24
“Therefore the Law has
become our tutor to lead JUSTIFIED
us to Christ, so that we BY
may be justified by faith.” FAITH

9. Why Did God Create Man?
"The God who made the world and all things in it, since
He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in
temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human
hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself
gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and
He made from one man every nation of mankind to live
on all the face of the earth, having determined their
appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might
that they would seek God, if perhaps they might
grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from
each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist”
us
Acts 17:24-28

10. This is the message we have heard from Him
and announce to you, that God is Light, and
in Him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:5
GOD IS HOLY
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in
wickedness; No evil dwells with You.
Psalms 5:4

11. God’s holiness is demonstrated in His
justice and love toward His creation.
“Righteousness and justice
are the foundation of Your
throne;
Love and faithfulness go
before You”
Psalm
89:14

12. God’s Demand
“Thus you are to be holy to Me,
for I the LORD am holy.”
We must be holy to have a
relationship with God
Is this possible?

13. Sin causes man to
be separated from God!
“your iniquities have made a
separation between you and
your God” -Isaiah 59:2
SPIRITUAL
DEATH
“And you were dead in your trespasses and sins” -Eph 2:1
“the wages of sin is death” -Romans 6:23

15. God’s Justice Demands a Price
“without the shedding
of blood there can be
no remission of sins.”
no remission of sins
Hebrews 9:22
A death must occur for
sin to be removed

16. A Desperate Situation
We find ourselves in a very
desperate situation:
We have broken the laws of the God
of the universe, this has separated us
from a Holy God, and the sentence of
death hangs over our head by a just
God! We cannot pay this price
ourselves!

17. But God… (Ephesians 2:4)
God loves us and helps to pay
the price for sin through His
Grace and Mercy
God gives us God does not
what we don’t give us what
deserve we truly
deserve

18. God’s Grace and Mercy
God allows the price to be paid by an
innocent representative
“for it is on this day
that atonement shall
be made for you to
cleanse you; you will
be clean from all your Animal sacrifices
sins before the made atonement
LORD.” for sin
Leviticus 16:30

19. Blood Pays the Price
BLOOD REPRESENTS
LIFE
Innocent ATONES FOR SINNER
LIFE
Innocent RECIEVES THE Guilty
PENALTY OF
LIFE LIFE
“without shedding of blood there is no remission”
-Hebrews 9:22

20. What Made Sacrifice Work?
Just the act of sacrifice?
Was it good enough just to believe in
animal sacrifice?
What made it effective?

21. Faith Must Respond
Hebrews 11:6 demonstrates faith
Belief and Action
“And without faith it is impossible to
faith
please Him, for he who comes to God
must believe that He is and that He is a
rewarder of those who seek Him.”
seek Him

22. Old Testament Examples
By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice
-Heb 11:4
By faith Noah… in reverence prepared an ark for
the salvation of his household
-Heb 11:7
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed
by going out to a place which he was to receive
for an inheritance
-Heb 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered
By faith offered
up Isaac
-Heb 11:17

23. Belief alone? (James 2:14-26)
(v14) Can that type of faith save a man?
(v17) Faith without action is dead
(v18) Faith is shown by action
(v20) Faith without action is “useless”
(v21-23) Abraham’s faith was perfected by
belief working with his actions
(v24) Justified by action, not “faith alone”
(v26) Faith without action is dead
(v19) Devils are believers!
THERE ARE BELIEVERS IN HELL!

24. Animal Sacrifice in Leviticus 1
In the Old Testament the sinner
was active in the sacrifice of the
animal
He brought the animal to the
priest
He laid his hands on the head
of the animal
He killed the animal
The priest offered the animal as a
burnt offering
Leviticus 1:1-9

25. INNOCENT GUILTY
SANCTIFIED
The guilty paid the price or symbolically
died with the sacrifice

26. BLOOD ATONEMENT
(Innocent animal killed)
RESULTS IN
SANCTIFICATION
(Sins Removed – Made Holy)
RESULTS IN
JUSTIFICATION
(Penalty Removed)
RESULTS IN
RECONCILIATION
(Spiritual Relationship with a
Holy God Restored)

27. The OT “Tutor” Gal 3:24
LOVE SACRIFICE
SIN
GRACE
SANCTIFICATION
JUSTICE FAITH
MERCY HOLINESS
BLOOD
REPRESENTATIVE
ATONEMENT
DEATH

28. “Behold the
LAMB OF GOD
that
takes away
the sin of
the world”

29. Christ’s Blood in Prophecy
Isaiah 53
1400 BC 750 BC 0 AD 30 AD
Jesus’ Jesus’
First five Isaiah’s Birth Death
books of Prophecy
Bible written
written Over 700
years
before
Christ!

30. Christ’s Blood in Prophecy
Isaiah 53
“Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried”
(v4). “He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was
crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well -being fell
upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed” (v5). “The LORD
has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him” (v6). “He was cut
off out of the land of the living (death) for the transgression of my
people, to whom the stroke was due” (v8).
He is described as a lamb being led to slaughter (v7)
He is an offering for sin (v10)
“My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their
iniquities” (v11).

31. “You know that He appeared in order to take away sins;
and in Him there is no sin.”
there is no sin
“knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable
things like silver or gold from your futile way of life
inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood,
as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of
Christ.”
He died for you and me!

32. Accounts of Jesus’ Death
Jesus suffered terrible injustice:
• He was condemned to die as an
innocent man
• He was scourged, then crucified
• He was on the cross for many hours
before He breathed His last.
Matthew Mark Luke John
BUT THE STORY DOESN’T END THERE!

33. Jesus Defeated Sin & Death
He defeated sin and
the death that it
causes by the
resurrection
Without the
resurrection, Jesus’ “if Christ has not
death for our sins is been raised, your
meaningless (1 Cor. faith is worthless;
15.13-22) you are still in your
sins.”

34. INNOCENT GUILTY
SANCTIFIED
The guilty paid the price or symbolically
died with the sacrifice

35. We must die with our
innocent representative to
have our sins forgiven!
“For if we have become united with Him in the
likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in
the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this,
that our old self was crucified with Him, in order
that our body of sin might be done away with, so
that we would no longer be slaves to sin”

36. He Himself bore
our sins in His body
on the cross
so that we might
INNOCENT die to sin GUILTY CRUCIFIED
SANCTIFIED
W/ CHRIST
We need to pay the price or
symbolically die with our sacrifice

37. New Testament terminology identifying
the point when one is forgiven:
…If we died with Him we shall also live with Him
2 Timothy 2:11
Now if we died with Christ we believe we will
also live with Him.
Romans 6:8
…for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3
I have been crucified with Christ…
Galatians 2:20

38. Our sins can not
and will not be forgiven
UNLESS:
We have died with Christ
We have been united with Christ in His death
We have been crucified with Christ
We have died to sin
We must be united with the death of Christ,
for “without the shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness of sins.”

39. When does God say that I am:
Dead to sin?
Freed from sin?
Dying with Christ?
Crucified with Christ?
United with Christ in His death?
We need God’s answer!
He gives it in Romans 6

40. ROMANS 6
“What shall we say then? Are we to
continue in sin so that grace may
increase? 2 May it never be! How
shall we who died to sin still live in
it?” v1-2
“They died to sin.” …. How?/When?

41. “Or do you not know that all of us who
have been baptized into Christ Jesus
baptized into Christ Jesus
have been baptized into His death? v3
baptized into His death

42. 4Therefore we have been buried with
buried with
Him through baptism into death so
Him through baptism into death,
that as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, so we
too might walk in newness of life.” (6:4)
newness of life

43. “For if we have become
if
united with Him
unitedwith Him in the
likeness of His death,
certainly we shall also be in
the likeness of His
resurrection” (6:5)

44. “knowing this, that our
old self was crucified
crucified
with Him
with Him, in order that
our body of sin might
body of sin might
be done away with
with,”
(6:6)

45. “so that we would no
longer be slaves to sin, for
he who has died is freed
freed
sin
from sin.” (6:6-7)

46. “Now if we have died with
died with
Christ
Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with Him, 9 knowing
that Christ, having been raised
from the dead, is never to die
again; death no longer is
master over Him. (6:8-9)

47. 10 For the death that He
died to sin
died, He died to sin once for
all; but the life that He lives,
He lives to God. 11 Even so
consider yourselves to be
dead to sin but alive to God
sin,
in Christ Jesus” (6:10-11)

48. “Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body so that you
obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on
presenting the members of your
body to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness; but present
yourselves to God as those alive
from the dead, and your members
as instruments of righteousness
to God. (6:12-13)

49. “But thanks be to God that
though you were slaves of sin,
obedient from the
you became obedient from the
heart to that form of teaching
to which you were committed,
18 and having been freed from
sin (v7), you became slaves of
righteousness.”

50. For you are all sons of God through
through
faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you
faith For as many
as were baptized into Christ have put on
Christ. --Galatians 3:26-27
buried with Him in baptism, in which you
also were raised with Him through faith
through faith
in the working of God, who raised Him
God
from the dead --Colossians 2:12

51. But now having been
freed from sin (v7) and
enslaved to God (v16),
you derive your benefit,
resulting in
sanctification
sanctification, and the
outcome, eternal life.
(6:22)

52. For the wages of sin
is death, but the
gift of God is
eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

53. Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:12 By our faith (Col 2:12)
Romans 6:5

55. Acts 2: The 1st Gospel Sermon
When Peter preached to the crowd on
the day of Pentecost, they believed
the gospel and were convicted of
their sin.
They asked the Apostles:
“Men and Brethren,
What shall we do?” (Acts 2:37)
How did Peter answer this
question?

56. Did Peter answer by saying..
DIFFERENT
Do? There is GOSPELS
nothing you can
do! Christ did it
all!
Accept Jesus
into your
heart.
Just believe.
Pray the
Call out Jesus’ sinners prayer.
name.

57. Peter’s answer...
Peter said to them,
"Repent, and each of
you be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of
your sins; and you will The
receive the gift of the
GOSPEL
Holy Spirit
RESPONSE

58. The Samaritans 8:5-13
“Philip went down to the city of Where did the Samaritans
Samaria and began proclaiming
hear about their need
Christ to them. 6 The crowds
with one accord were giving to be baptized?
attention to what was said by
Philip, as they heard and saw
the signs which he was Water baptism was part of
performing. 7 For in the case of the gospel that Philip
many who had unclean spirits,
preached to the Samaritans
they were coming out of them
shouting with a loud voice; and
many who had been paralyzed The Samaritans believed
and lame were healed. 8 So
there was much rejoicing in and were baptized, just as
that city… 12 whenthey believed
when they believed Jesus commanded in the
Philip preaching the good news Great Commission
about the kingdom of God and
the name of Jesus Christ, they “He who believes and is
baptized
were being baptized, men and baptized shall be saved”
women alike.” Mark 16:16

59. Ethiopian Eunuch 8:35-39
“Then Philip opened his mouth, and
beginning from this Scripture he Where did the
preached Jesus to him. 36 As they eunuch hear about
went along the road they came to
some water; and the eunuch said,
his need to be
"Look! Water! What prevents me
"Look! Water! What prevents me baptized?
from being baptized?“ 37 [And Philip
from being baptized?”
said, "If you believe with all your
heart, you may." And he answered
and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God."] 38 And he Baptism is a burial
ordered the chariot to stop; and they (cf Rom 6; Col 2)
water,
both went down into the water
Philip as well as the eunuch, and he
baptized him. 39When they came up
When they came up
out of the water the Spirit of the
water,
Lord snatched Philip away; and the When did the
eunuch no longer saw him, but went
on his way rejoicing.”
eunuch rejoice?

60. Paul’s conversion: Acts 9 & 22
When were Paul’s sins forgiven?
• Believed -
“What shall I do,...”
• Confessed -
“What shall I do, Lord?”
• Obeyed –
“Get up and go into Damascus”
• Fasted –
“three days… and neither ate nor drank”
• Prayed –
“for he is praying”
Healed–
Repentance
Miraculous healing of his blindness
PLUS…

61. Paul’s conversion: Acts 9 & 22
Paul’s sins were not washed away by his
belief, his repentance,
or his prayers. He still needed to be
washed in the blood of Christ
He was told by Ananias what
he needed to do in Acts 22:16
“Now why do you delay? Get
up and be baptized, and
wash away your sins”

62. Jesus’ Teaching Matthew 28:19-20
How does this text teach disciples are
made?
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations,baptizing them in the name of the
baptizing them
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that II
teaching them to observe all that
commanded you and lo, I am with you
commanded you;
always , even to the end of the age."
Can someone leave one of these out
if they want to be a disciple?

63. Jesus’ Teaching Belief
Mark 16:15-16 Baptism
Saved

64. Jesus’ Teaching
John 3:5
John 3:3, 5;
2 Cor 5:17
Jesus is saying the
same thing that
Romans 6 teaches

65. Jesus’ Teaching
But when the kindness of God our Savior “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He one is born ofofwater and the
born water
saved us, not on the basis of deeds which Spirit he cannot enter into the
we have done in righteousness, but kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)
according to His mercy, by the washing of
washing of
regeneration and renewing by the Holy
regeneration Christ loved the church and gave
Spirit himself up for her, 26 that he
-Titus 3:4-5 might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of
water… (Eph 5:25-26)
“Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins” (Acts 22:16).
wash
“but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the
washed
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor 6:10-11).

66. Irenaeus wrote in 120-205 AD:
"As we are lepers in sin, we are made clean
from our old transgressions by means of
the sacred water and the invocation of
the Lord. We are thus spiritually
regenerated as newborn infants, even as
the Lord has declared: 'Except a man be
born again through water and the Spirit,
born again through water and the Spirit,
he shall not enter into the kingdom ofof
he shall not enter into the kingdom
heaven.'" (Irenaeus, "Fragments From
heaven.'"
Lost Writings", no. 34, Ante-Nicene
Fathers, vol. 1, pg. 574)
What was the main proof text
early Christians used for
baptism?

67. Tertullian also wrote,
"The prescript is laid down that 'without
baptism, salvation is attainable by
baptism, salvation is attainable by
none' chiefly on the ground of that
declaration of the Lord, who says,
'Unless one be born of water, he hath
not life.'" (On Baptism, Ante-Nicene
Fathers, vol. 3, pg. 674-675)

68. 1 Peter 3:21- Baptism & the
Flood of Noah
“who once were disobedient, when the
patience of God kept waiting in the days of
Noah, during the construction of the ark, in
which a few, that is, eight persons, were
brought safely through the water .
21 Corresponding to that, baptism now
saves you —not the removal of dirt from the
flesh, but an appeal to God for a good
conscience— through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ
Christ”

69. baptism now saves you—not the removal of
but an appeal to God for
dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for
a good conscience (1 Peter 3:21)
Hebrews 9:14; 10:22
“how much more will the blood of
Christ… cleanse your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God” 9:14
“let us draw near with a sincere heart in
full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
and our bodies washed with pure water.”
and our bodies washed with pure water

70. Colossians 2:11-13
“and in Him you were also circumcised
with a circumcision made without
hands, in the removal of the body of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
Christ
12 having been buried with Him in
baptism, in which you were also raised
baptism, in which you were also raised
up with Him through faith in the
working of God, who raised Him from the
dead. 13 When you were dead in your
transgressions and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, He made you alive together
with Him, having forgiven us all our
transgressions”
transgressions

71. Ephesians 2:4-6
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
great love with which He loved us, 5 even when
transgressions, made us
we were dead in our transgressions made us
alive together with Christ (by grace you have
been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and
seated us with Him in the heavenly places in
Christ Jesus”
12having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you
were also raised up with Him through faith in the working
of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you were
dead in your transgressions
dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having
He made you alive together with Him
forgiven us all our transgressions” Col 2:12-13

72. Barnabas wrote in 70 AD:
“Blessed are they who, placing their
trust in the cross, have gone down into
the water; for, says He, they shall
receive their reward in due time...we
indeed descend into the water full of
sins and defilement, but come up,
bearing fruit in our heart, having the
fear [of God] and trust in Jesus in our
spirit.” (The Early Church Fathers:
Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1, The
Epistle of Barnabas 11:114-16)

73. In 140-230 AD, Tertullian wrote,
"Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by
washing away the sins of our early blindness, we
washing away the sins of our early blindness, we
are set free and admitted into eternal life... a viper
are set free and admitted into eternal life...
of the Cainite heresy, lately conversant in this
quarter, has carried away a great number with her
most venomous doctrine, making it her first aim to
making it her first aim to
destroy baptism Which is quite in accordance with
destroy baptism.
nature; for vipers and asps and serpents
themselves generally do affect arid and waterless
places. (On Baptism, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3,
pg. 669.)
Tertullian is combating a false doctrine that
was denying the importance of baptism!

74. Plan of Great Early
Redemption Commission Acts Epistles Church
Following What Christ We see the Followed by Which we see
the death, commanded in apostles what the taught and
burial, and the Great carrying out apostles practiced by
resurrection Commission… in the book of taught in the the early
of Christ in (Matthew 28, Mark Acts… epistles… Christians
the plan of 16) (chs 2, 9, 22) (Rom 6, Col 2,
redemption Gal 3)
we see…

75. Summary of Study
God wants a relationship with YOU!
Sin gets in the way
You deserve death for disobeying God
God gives you a way to pay that price:
Jesus Christ
He died for your sins so you could be
sanctified!
Will you obey the gospel?

76. Why do you delay? Arise
and be baptized, and wash
away your sins
Acts 22:16
Do you want to die
with Christ?